What I've asked for since I was about 10 for my birthday is a rich, moist Devil's Food cake iced with whipped cream served with vanilla ice cream; got that from my dad's side of the family. A VERY close second is an Apricot Nectar cake mother used to make. Bringing up the rear is a well-made Carrot Cake. Been a while since I've had the birthday cake (don't really celebrate my birthday) and even longer since I've had mother's apricot cake...probably a couple of decades.

And I'm with Pipe Smoker...I've really lost my sweet tooth, so to have anything like this would be extremely rare.

German chocolate with carrot a close second.

That cake you posted bald1 is virtually identical to one my wife makes for occasions/events where she has the time and someone wants a really decadent chocolate. The richness and especially the icing can be almost too much. But not quite!

I'm not a big cake fan, but if forced to choose, it'd be something like a berry chantilly.

I'm more of a fruit pie/cobbler guy. Apple, cherry, blackberry, peach, key lime, etc.

I’m not big on cake, but on birthdays it’s pretty much mandatory. Simple angel food cake most often. If not that, then cherry cake or yellow cake with chocolate frosting.

German Chocolate.

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Originally posted by TMats:
I’m not big on cake, but on birthdays it’s pretty much mandatory. Simple angel food cake most often. If not that, then cherry cake or yellow cake with chocolate frosting.

I get birthday pie.
Salted caramel, green apple, pecan.
Labor of love, so I only get it once a year

"soggy chocolate" cake(a WWll recipe) with a white lemon frosting. It was our B'day cake growing up, and still my favorite even though I have not had one in years.

Not sure I can pick just one... but, one that does always appear near the top is Italian Cream or Coconut Cream.

Spice with homemade caramel frosting.

I'm really enjoying the responses here and find it interesting that some old time members who rarely post have also weighed in. Guess cake is indeed universal

Banana Cake with white butter frosting. My Mom made it, and my wife makes it from an old Betty Crocker cookbook from the 60"s.

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Ooooh,banana cake. Forgot about that one. I do like a good carrot cake though.

Carrot Cake from Bakers Square. Haven’t had it in awhile. Weighs about 10 lbs. Most cakes, if they’re moist, I like. Good carrot cake, I love.
That Apple Dapple looks tasty. Real tasty. My Mom made a hickory nut cake, a mayonnaise cake, and an apple spice cake that would make you hold you fork in stabbing mode if someone was going to take too big a piece.
Oh,,, I forgot about her German Chocolate and Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Boy she could cook and bake. I miss her, and the food she made.

Happy birthday cake fantacies bald1.

Growing up my standard was the typical angel
food homemade spec model.

Recent decades a diabetic version of carrot cake
using raisin, walnuts,shredded zuchinni in
a buttermilk sponge has served well. Frozen in 1#
loads, Handy for a little slice it replaces the exposure to
random pastry hell.

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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!

This….Absolutely, hands down!!! I currently live about a mile and a half from this place and I’m constantly fighting the urge to stop in. Just walking through the door and smelling those cakes is amazing. There is nothing else like it.

Pink champagne

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Originally posted by bald1:
I'm really enjoying the responses here and find it interesting that some old time members who rarely post have also weighed in. Guess cake is indeed universal

If you want to get people to talk, ask them their opinion or preferences, or about themselves.

Really like the chocolate cake recipe on the back of a Hershey's cocoa can.

First cake I can remember having for a birthday and still the best.

Carvel ice cream cake. I love the black crunchies in it.

Spice cake, took page 4 before someone else posted this. Mom's of course, with cream cheese frosting.