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Music 🎵 Cake, the pastry

Do you like cake, the pastry?

  • LP is gonna shank 'burb fixer for sure for this poll mocking her poll

    Votes: 4 36.4%

  • Hell yes give me all the cake!

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Only as fancy cupcakes from a food truck

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wait, is this some kind of euphemism?

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • C is for cookie, that's good enough for me

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • Shut your pie hole... wait... cake hole?

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • I have deep thoughts about a variety of pastries and baked goods I'd like to share below

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • I'm a damn commie that hates cake... wait... are commies cool right now? U.S. politics is weird

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    11
  • Poll closed .
Dessert cake is great, especially with an appropriate (aka large) cake to icing ratio.

Like ~3:1 or even 2:1.

Yum.
 
DVD said:
Desert cake is not as good.
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My weakness is
Dr. Bird Cake - banana-pineapple - no frosting.
blueberry muffins

grew up on
blueberry buckle - coffee cake
yellow cake with chocolate frosting
 
Wellesley Fudge Cake was the go-to birthday cake when I was growing up.

I make mostly chocolate cakes, usually picking my recipe based on what form of chocolate I have kicking around. I'm partial to buttercream frosting, though my recent review of icing recipes reveals that many books see this as the "lazy" alternative to fancier boiled icings that involve the use of a candy thermometer.
 
The chocolate cake/frosting on the Hershey chocolate powder box is the best and easiest cake ever

I also make a blitz-kuchen which is good - you can rev it up with lemon, orange or almond or just leave it as a simple vanilla cake - as they say in the German neighborhoods in Brazil, cafe und kuchen

I like red velvet cake but I am a snob about it and only like the original recipe from I think the Ritz in NY and not grocery store cake - the story goes the baker was let go and as revenge, he published the well guarded secret recipe for his red velvet cake in the NY Times - that's the best recipe ever - it is more involved with the whole folding in thing, but it is worth the effort to do it right

one bowl cake recipes are so easy and great so you never need a box mix, just don't do it

...and additionally, the best cake euphuism was done by none other than the B-52's - it's one of my favorite songs of theirs -

 
I always think I'm going to like cake more than I actually do. But a piece here and there is always lovely. I agree - not too much frosting, but just enough.

I do the Hershey's chocolate cake a lot when I make them, but I can make almost any flavor. I'm not a big fan of lemon desserts in general, but lemon cake with raspberry frosting is delicious in the spring/summer.

I think I'm going to make PeachFuzz a lion cake for his second birthday in October (he's into a phase where he crawls around on the floor and roars like a lion and it's really cute even though he doesn't say any actual human words yet). I can't decide on flavors, though. I'm thinking maybe chocolate with peanut butter frosting as of right now... But I could also do a banana cake with peanut butter frosting...
 
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