My mom always made Boston cream pie/cake for special occasions and I have mastered a gf version. Lots of nostalgia for that one, but I love carrot cake if it has walnuts, and anything lemon or raspberry. My DiL makes the most amazing white velvet cake with raspberry filling
I’ll also add that while I love banana bread, H will not eat it. Banana CAKE in a sheet pan (so thin) with white frosting? He will gobble that up! I admit that I love it too.
Cake leftovers? I cut into small pieces, individually wrap in Saran and then put in a ziploc bag or container and freeze. Good as new when I thaw it and hits the sweet tooth spot when I need it!
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I do that with brownies. Even a partial thawed brownie is delicious.
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My favorite is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. It can’t be “spicy” and it has to be moist.
Sometimes red velvet with cream cheese frosting is good.
The chocolate mouse cake rectangular cake at Costco is pretty good for a “store bought” cake.
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Next to your hotel in Santa Barbara is a bakery Jeannine’s. They make pretty good cakes. I think you can buy by the slice.
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There is a cake in the Flour cookbook that is a lemon raspberry cake with lemon curd and raspberries between the layers and frosted with lemon buttercream that is so good! I have made it a few times, it’s quite the undertaking but worth it!
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I make a fabulous carrot cake (no pineapple or raisins) with a very decadent cream cheese frosting. I also make various chocolate cakes - my favorite is a triple chocolate Bundt cake. GD loves to bake cakes, so we bake cakes often, but we typically bake a white cake with egg whites (she enjoys separating the eggs & likes to use food color to fancy up her white cake).
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I love a good moist Bundt cake! I think my husband married me because of the tunnel of fudge Bundt cake I made him lol
Does anyone remember making a Seven-Up (yes, the soda) Bundt cake??
I like all cake. No one has mentioned German chocolate cake, one of my favorites.
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I pretty much like all cakes, but my favorite is German Chocolate cake with the coconut pecan icing. (@deb922) Been my fave since I was a kid and used to make the box mix version all the time when I was teenager at home. Second favorite is coconut cake.
I prefer making cakes in 9x13 pans instead of layer cakes. They’re easier to store, especially if you have pan with snap on top. (which I do.) I like cupcakes too, and I have been know to stop by the cupcake shop to bring home a half dozen just because. (A half dozen means one for everyone in the household.) My favorite is vanilla cake with chocolate frosting–the one kind they don’t make –it’s special order only. Bummer.
I like angel food cake, even plain. And chiffon cake (esp lemon). Pineapple/pear/peach upside down cakes. And I found a recipe for something from my childhood recently– a tunnel of fudge cake. (We think alike @abasket!) It doesn’t use a boxed mix. It’s s from scratch version. I may make it for the grands this summer.
Sour cream coffee cake w/ a ribbon of cinnamon streusel filling made in bundt pan is another favorite. (But for breakfast)
Although, I’m not picky about cakes, I am about icing. Cannot stand canned frosting from the supermarket. I make homemade American buttercream instead of buying canned frosting. I’ve made Swiss and Italian buttercreams but those are too much work and mess for anything except very special occasion cakes.
I also bake muffins, brownies, blondies, various kinds of cookies regularly. I did even when I lived alone. Kept 3 or 4 cookies/bars/muffins for myself and shared the rest with friends and neighbors. Now I bake for the family or for the nightshift nursing staff at D1’s hospital who are soooooo very appreciative of whatever I send—even Rice Krispie treats (made with browned butter for more mature tastes).
I make homemade cinnamon buns (yeast version) w/fluffy cream cheese frosting every few months for my oldest grandchild because she adores them.
As for Costco cakes— alas! The nearest Costco is 45 minutes away. Not happening, especially since there’s a really good BakeShop (for cupcakes!) less than 10 minutes away.
And still closer than the Costco is a German bread & pastries bakery and 2 blocks past that is pie shop that sells fruit pies, cream pies, pot pies, quiches, plus cookies, scones and cinnamon buns.
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Cake leftovers? I cut into small pieces, individually wrap in Saran and then put in a ziploc bag or container and freeze. Good as new when I thaw it and hits the sweet tooth spot when I need it!
What is a cake leftover, lol? (Raised with, raised, men. No cake leftovers here)
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Our wedding cake was a white cake with chocolate whipped cream an pd fresh strawberry filling. White whipped cream frosting. Sad to say the local bakery closed down too many years ago.
Still my fav. Pineapple upside down, and Ghirardelli chocolate cocoa powder homemade cakes are right up there as well.
Lemon (or various citrus) Chiffon is my favorite cake. I like angel food cake, but hate having to figure out what to do with the leftover yolks. Lemon Chiffon uses all the eggs and has citrus to give some sharpness. It’s not overly sweet. Sometimes I will do a lemon glaze on it or just dust with powdered sugar.
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Leftover yolks go into cream pies, custards/puddings and pastry cream. (Husband , kids and me all love chocolate pudding.)
I usually have lots of leftover egg whites which I save in a freezer container and when I’ve saved up a dozen so, I make angel food cake.
BTW, you can freeze eggs yolks to use later in sweet or savory recipes. After separating eggs, whisk the yolks until well blended. To prevent curdling after thawing, add 1/8th tsp salt for every 4 yolks before freezing or add 1.5 tsp sugar or corn syrup per 4 yolks if you plan to use for sweet projects. Freeze in small containers or in an ice cube tray (1 cube = 1 egg yolk)
I think we need recipe links on this thread!
I love to bake & make some pretty good cakes.
I love chocolate/chocolate if there is vanilla ice cream
We make a killer carrot cake
There is a lemon blackberry bundt cake that is amazing, though fiddly
And a peanut butter sheet cake, yummm for peanut butter fans.
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We don’t do dairy-based things in our house, so a lot of cream stuff just doesn’t work for us. Husband can’t tolerate dairy. We use cheese and butter as a condiment for those who like it. Never have cow’s milk in the house. I have made angel food cake and used the yolks to make a non-dairy creme pat type thing to serve with it, but I really prefer the lemon chiffon cake’s texture and taste.
My now-deceased aunt used to make a killer caramel cake. Her grandson had the bakers use her recipe to make his grooms cake when he got married. It was incredible!
My mother made this Ski Cake when I was a kid and it became my favorite. I haven’t had it in years – this thread inspired me to make it again.
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I’d like to try German Chocolate Cake again.
When I was growing up, an elderly family friend make it her life’s mission to make a German chocolate cake for all her friends and family. There were 6 family members in my family - that is 5 too many German chocolate cakes!
I think I’d appreciate it more now.
The 7-Up cake I mentioned above:
https://www.allrecipes.com/best-7up-bundt-cake-recipe-11721276
My mom liked to try out different cakes. One involved miniature milky way bars and the cake ended up weighing over ten pounds. That was a one time only! My sister loved Coca-Cola cake, so of course Mom frequently made that. I personally like angel food cake with a thin glaze made of confectioner’s sugar, milk, butter and vanilla. Hummingbird cake and coconut cake are also a top pick. At one point I had a copy of “The Cake Bible” but it vanished during one of our moves. I couldn’t afford all the ingredients I would have needed to make the cakes at the time, but it was fun to think about!
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Those chocolate lava cakes are great. We called them bleeding brownies 
I am a chocoholic. I will eat yellow cake if there is chocolate buttercream frosting on it, but otherwise just give me something chocolate. Do not waste a second putting angel food cake in front of me no matter what you dump on top Of it. It will go untouched (unless it has chocolate sauce- I might lick that).
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