What is your favorite birthday cake?

[mysteryowl]

I have a friend with a birthday and I want to make a cake from scratch.

Thanks!

[surrealAmerican]

1. generally something involving chocolate and raspberries ...

... but that's just me. What does your friend like?

[mysteryowl]

3. Yes, that is one approach. Thanks

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Vanilla cake with vanilla icing topped with coconut shreds

Say what you want, it is vanilla and it is sweet!

[Intractable]

4. Don't make something that looks or tastes like "birthday cake."

Bake a real cake with actual flavors!

They can taste the "love" if you make that an ingredient. Sounds like you will.

[mysteryowl]

6. Maybe a fun shape?

Maybe a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting in the shape of a carrot.

[Intractable]

8. Something not white!

[mysteryowl]

12. Like a strawberry cake?

This process is helping me get creative.

Thanks DU

[some_of_us_are_sane]

5. Devil's food with buttercream icing

YUM!!!

[mysteryowl]

7. Yum

"Devil's food cake" is used both to describe a moist, dark, cake with an intense chocolate flavour.

[Wonder Why]

9. Pumpkin and Licorice Ice Cream cake with dark chocolate and caramel. with a cherry on top, of course.

[mysteryowl]

10. Wow, that is elaborate.

[Wonder Why]

15. It's elaborate when you add the pecans, Reese's Pieces, marshmallows, Jelly Bellies and other goodies.

But I like my cake too plain for that.

[mysteryowl]

17. OH WOW!

[Lochloosa]

11. Who doesn't love a Carrot Cake....

[hedda_foil]

13. My all time BEST birthday cake!

3 layers of lemon cake filled with lemon curd and raspberry French buttercream, with white icing and lots of frosting flowers! Yum!

[mysteryowl]

18. Fantastic!

[electric_blue68]

20. I'm a the darker-the-chocolate the better cake lover, but this sounds quite fun, except how....

does the raspberry and French buttercream "mesh" togther taste wise?

[hedda_foil]

32. It's sublime -- especially with the lemon.

[electric_blue68]

33. Interesting! Not sure I've ever had French...

buttercream. I do like raspberries, and lemon.

[applegrove]

14. My aunt made a great zucchini chocolate cake. My mom

made a chocolate cake with oatmeal in it for all our birthdays. Both were delicious. I don't have either recipe but you can probably find them online with ratings for how much they were liked. The Oatmeal Chocolate cake was from Nova Scotia. It was my mom's Aunt Frances'.

[mercuryblues]

16. Red velvet

I also like chocolate cake with peanutbutter frosting.

[Diamond_Dog]

19. You can't go wrong with chocolate cake and chocolate frosting ...

[debm55]

21. I like a chocolate and raspberry torte.

[Fla Dem]

22. Cherry Nut Cake. My mom made one for me every birthday as I was growing up.

It was a New England specialty.

Click on link for pictures and Recipe.

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[mysteryowl]

24. Yum

[electric_blue68]

23. My sis for a bunch of years made "ugly" cakes that were fun...

Basically a white cake usually 2 or 3 layers but each with a different colored food dye, and the icing would be yet another color! 😄

So let's say - cake layers - orange, yellow, blue and purple frosting!

Haven't thought of those in decades.
What would it more fun/funny if cooking times compatible one lemon cake layer but colored blue!

Anyway, chocolate, carrot, cocconut, or lemon would be my favorites (with chocolate way ahead of the others). Although chocolate coconut combo sounds yummy; I love the Mounds candy bar.

Have fun what you bake! 🎂 👍

[mysteryowl]

25. That is really fun! Thanks

[electric_blue68]

26. YW! 👍

I'll tell her. She'll probably get a kick that I remembered.

[HappyH]

27. chocolate cheesecake with cherry or raspberry topping

Not very difficult to make. My wife bakes one for me every year.

[mysteryowl]

28. Yum

[Enter stage left]

29. That would be the one on my 21st birthday...

Damned if I remember what it was, but it was my favorite!

[Eugene]

30. yellow cake with orange frosting

or chocolate cake with chocolate frosting (easier to get)

[Zackzzzz]

31. Ice Cream Cake Roll

[Tree Lady]

34. My favorite is Boston Cream Pie

Basically yellow cake, cut in half with custard inside and dark chocolate frosting a bit thinner than regular frosting on top.

You can make all of it by scratch.