Favorite cake---- is the slice on the plate in front of me...... Beggars can not be choesy......... drill sgt.

Happy Birthday to the OP


meanwhile,

a local grocery chain had a copy of a local dept store cake,

basically a yellow cake with chocolate icing, but called a bar cake ,

about 8 or 9 layers, and retangular like a bar,

fudgy type icing and delicious,



my wife cannot have any, she is Gluten free, or as some say, Celiac, (legit, not fad)

I have learned to make a damn good GF cake and can make a Coconut cake that is better than most none GF cakes, so much so that I have been ordered to make one for several birthdays and events for the family

made the wife a pretty damn good Strawberry cake with Strawberry icing, that ws commadeered by the Sis in law, who is not GF a few weeks ago,


I need to look up the Bourbon cake mentioned, I have learned to make a helluva Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie,, but have not heard of a cake,,,,

Today is my wife’s birthday - she loves the blue ice cream cake from Cold Stone.

My fav is angelfood cake with strawberries

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Originally posted by PorterN:
Today is my wife’s birthday

Extend my warmest birthday wishes to her. A good friend's fiancé also has her birthday today. Nice to share the day

Favorite is Carrot cake from Gibson’s steakhouse in Chicago. Multiple layers and about 9-10 inches high. Unbelievably good.

speaking of cake

there is a hotel in Charleston SC that Southern Living or some such mag said was the best cake every years ago,

not sure if it still is, but last time we were there we had a slice, and it was delicious, (and I don't like Coconut cake,


it was tall, had some flake style coconut on it, but was actually damn good

Spice cake. My mother first served a spice cake at my fifth birthday. And that has been a favorite for almost 55 years. She was gifted the recipe book for the marriage. I don't remember if the book was Betty Crocker, or Better Homes & Gardens, or Good Housekeeping.

Red Velvet with a butter cream frosting

Lifelong Favorite: My Mom's lemonade cake. The corner pieces are heavenly as more lemonade soaks into them.

Since Moving to Texas Favorite: Tres Leches. There are several restaurants in the Houston Metropolitan Area with amazing Tres Leches (e.g. Churrascos).

Pink Champagne cake. A local sweets/cake shop makes it. Damn good. Red Velvet and German Chocolate are right up there as well.

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Originally posted by car541:
a good Tres Leches cake about 20 minutes after it was made.

Yes, tre leches are tricky. Can't eat it too soon. If it sits too long, you're eating cold porridge.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Lifelong Favorite: My Mom's lemonade cake. The corner pieces are heavenly as more lemonade soaks into them.

Since Moving to Texas Favorite: Tres Leches. There are several restaurants in the Houston Metropolitan Area with amazing Tres Leches (e.g. Churrascos).

Tres leches is probably my #2.
There's a little hole in the wall bakery on Louetta, just east of Stuebner, that has the best TL cake. Place literally just says 'Bakery' on the building.

I'm with V-Tail on this:

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Hummingbird Cake is my favorite. Followed closely by German Chocolate and lemon pound cake.

Happy Birthday, OP.

A good old-fashioned home-made with love and care fruit cake. The fruit cake slices we used to get in the early days of Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) wasn't too bad, all things considered.

My favorite is a carrot cake my mother makes...involves freshly grated carrots and is just sublime. So many delicious cakes listed that I actually want a slice of cake! The lemonade cake sounds amazing!

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
My grandmother used to bake a simple layer cake, three layers of a yellow cake, the cake layers separated by thick layers of a sort of fudgy chocolate, which was also applied generously to the top and sides.

Yellow cake with chocolate frosting has been my #1 since I was a little child. My wife has an excellent recipe from scratch, might get a taste perhaps once a year.

My favorite, hands down, with no exception is from a small bakery back home that is just shy of world famous.

https://www.boonzaaijerbakery.com/

Their cakes are absolutely amazing!!
https://www.boonzaaijerbakery....cialities/Cakes.aspx

No one has a party in SW Michigan without a Boonzaijer cake... no on.. ut ut... NO ONE!

My absolute favorite is old fashioned southern applesauce w/caramel icing. Black walnuts, raisins and the real caramel icing that takes about a half hour of stirring. Pretty much a thing of the past.

Pineapple upside down is a close 2nd along with Red Velvet w/butter cream icing or Carrot w/cream cheese icing.

Can't think of one properly made that I'd turn down.

Favorite is sour cream pound cake. Makes a great breakfast offering when toasted w butter.
MiL makes a killer carrot cake.
Billy