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Without a doubt a many-layered caramel cake!
White with strawberry filling and vanilla ice cream. I’m feeling a need to bake coming on!
Hmmm… I can never turn down a big piece of homemade chocolate cake with vanilla frosting (if it’s colored purple it takes me back to my many birthdays of childhood), but then there’s Buckeye Cake. Chocolate and peanut butter are irresistable!
My absolute favorite is Mexican Tres Leches. It’s flavorful, rich, moist, yet somehow not too heavy or dense. It’s even better with a layer of fresh fruit like strawberries.
My favorite cake is boring, but delicious–a vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.
I am not a huge fan of cake, but I love Cook’s Country’s hot fudge pudding cake with all the gooey fudge in it that makes it like super-rich brownies. The perfect vehicle for ice cream of nearly any flavor!
Strawberry shortcake is my all-time favorite, with a great balance of lightness and decadence. However, reading the other comments, the Buckeye Cake sounds like pretty amazing!
I love Texas Sheet Cake!
Angel Food is my favorite–it’s my Mom’s favorite too.
It’s a tough call, but I LOVE a classic white cake flavored with plenty of almond extract. 2nd favorite is carrot cake!
Carrot Cake – hand’s down. No raisins!
German Chocolate… I love the coconut-pecan goodness.
In the 1980′s a dear friend in Carroll Co. MD told about how the farm families at the turn of the century would each hold parties during the Christmas season. The hosting family would set out as many as a dozen home made cakes, punch and homemade ice cream for the guests. Guests would bring other food and stronger drink. Music was provided by violin, piano and even Victrola. Everyone arrived by sleigh or buggy decked out with bells and greenery. Your party was judged by how much cake was eaten. Good strong coffee was also provided!
Black Forest Cake for me! But really any chocolate cake would be mighty fine to me (that blackout cake sure looks good…:) )
My favorite was my wedding cake, which I made myself. I used a dense white layer cake flavored with almond extract, and white Swiss butter cream. It was rainbow layers inside. It was so beautiful, and delicious!
Love this infographic! My favorite cake of all time is Tres Leches. It reminds me of growing up in Miami.
Angel Food Cake! A high, fluffy, vanilla-ee Angel Food cake with Seven Minute Frosting! Yummmmm!
My sister’s flourless dark chocolate cake! Divinely dense and chocolaty, dusted with powdered sugar, some raspberries scattered over and on the plate. Lovely!
That timeline of cakes is great! My favorite cake is a rich chocolate cake with ganache filling and a buttercream frosting. Chocolate all the way, of course!
Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, YUM!
I had an “italian creme cake” once, with scores of thin layers, and chocolate in between… I’ve been thinking about that cake for years!
Brown Mountain Caramel Cake! buttermilk cocoa cake & caramel frosting made with evaporated milk . . . . old fashioned southern cake
Dense hocolate cake with vanilla buttercream… I made this cake (frosted with an Obama logo) for a nomination party back in 2008 and it will forever be known as Obama Cake in our house!
Chocolate cake with a raspberry filling
Black Forest cake is one of my favorite
Boston Cream Pie. Love the irony of the name.
My favorite is Julia Child’s flourless chocolate cake. Heavenly!
Hot Milk Cake – an old family recipe passed down from my mother-in-law with thick caramel icing. Yum!
My birthday cake- I love it so much, it was our wedding cake too! Lemon cake, lemon curd filling, whipped cream style frosting. Usually with a mint garnish since I have a summer birthday. YUM.
It’s a layered and syrup-ed genoise cake with strawberry mousse filling. Very light, delicate, and delicious.
I always love a good key lime pie, lemon meringue, cherry or apple pie. But, non New York-style cheesecake is also delish.
Smith Island Cake didn’t become Maryland’s Official Dessert until 2008. The standard is about 10 pancake thin layers of yellow cake with a cooked fudge frosting between each. It’s totally yummy, if a bit rich, and there are many variations on the theme. I think my favorite is the lemon creme – yellow cake with lemon curd between the layers and a fluffy icing round the outside. Most people, who are familiar with the cake, slice thinner portions because of it’s richness.
The best cakes I ever tasted, were the date and nut cakes of the 50′s and 60′s. Can’t find any bakeries that make them any longer, or any recipes… Back then in our area most birthday cakes were made this way….ummmm..
love a classic yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Or angel food cake!
My favorite cake is one I make at Easter. It is a lemon cake, each layer split and spread with raspberry jam, lemon curd in between the two main layers, frosted with a lemon icing, dyed green, and covered with green sweetened coconut. Of course, I cover it with jelly beans and peeps and other Easter candies.
Chocolate cake with fudge icing has to be it…what’s better than chocolate and more of it?
My mom’s chocolate pound cake will always remain my favorite. Used to get one every year on my birthday.
Rhubarb cake, can’t be beat, so moist and tangy!
My favorite is Wacky Cake, or as my mom calls it, Three-Hole Cake, with chocolate buttercream frosting. YUM.
Definitely carrot cake! No raisins, yes pecans.
An amazing tiramisu cake from a local bakery near my home — one layer of chocolate espresso icing, one of mascarpone, and the entire cake is rimmed with lady finger cookies!
My wife’s family’s Hole-In-The-Middle cake. (refers to how it’s made, not a physical hole in the finished cake.)
My favorite was this chocolate caramel brownie cheesecake calorie bomb. It was AWESOME.
Nothing beats a good carrot cake, studded with walnuts, raisins, pineapple, and covered with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting.
My favorite cake is my mother’s Boston Cream “Pie” (cake)—there is no better cake in my world!!
My favorite cake was an almond cake my cousin in Italy made for us. I have the recipe, but it’s in grams, not ounces, and no one has successfully reproduced it so far. A similar one with a zabaglione is in The Silver Spoon.
Other than that unattainable cake, my favorite is my English grandmother’s friend’s blueberry cake, from about the 1860s.
Who doesn’t love cake? Sacher torte is always a treat.
I love yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
Lemon cake. Any kind of lemon cake – just give me that slightly tart taste and I’m in heaven.
German chocolate but any kind with chocolate is ok with me.
Boston Cream Pie! Wait Boston Cream Cake!
Coconut layer cake. I like them tall and creamy.
Nothing beats a rich, old school German chocolate cake.
My all-time favorite is vanilla cake with thick fudgy chocolate frosting. Don’t forget the scoop (or two) of vanilla ice cream!
Angel food cake (homemade, not from a box), with lemon curd filling and frosted with lightly sweetened whipped cream. A favourite birthday cake in our family!
My favorite is yellow cake and whipped topping icing covered in coconut.
My most favorite is a chocolate angel food cake from an old Fannie Farmer cook book we have laying about. DELICIOUS!!
We enjoyed hearing about everyone’s favorite cakes. Makes me want to get baking! Congratulations to our randomly selected giveway winner, andrewsteger (and to your wife for making such an inspiring cake!) Everyone, be sure to check out our newest giveaways at http://americastestkitchenfeed.com/topics/giveaway/.
Smith Island in not the only offshore inhabited Chesapeake Bay island-see Tangier Island.
Coconut cake. Rich, creamy, decadent and fabulous!
I’d say it’s a tie between a chocolate cake with chocolate and caramel filling and vanilla cake with fresh fruit and vanilla cream filling covered with meringue…mmmmmmmm