Comments on: Friday Fun Thread: Happy Birthday Cake

By: PhDork

PhDork — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:22:10 +0000

Waltzing Matilda, my mom made me a Cookie Monster cake with googly ping-pong ball eyes, too! …Except it was for my 16th birthday. And although I don’t make/eat them anymore (gelatin, boo!), those Jell-O cakes were the shit. Esp. the lemon ones. They’d get that crackly glaze on the top and have spikes of mega-flavor. Om nom nom nom.

By: Spark

Spark — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:27:37 +0000

What, no bacon cake??
Does molten chocolate cake (the kind with liquid chocolate in the center) count? Because I could live on that, for like three days until my heart stopped. Or carrot cake or red velvet or anything with cream cheese frosting. Or coffee cake. I’m also sentimental for anything Entenmann’s and the chocolate chip loaf served at every spark-ly holiday dinner.

By: Rachel_in_WY

Rachel_in_WY — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:02:22 +0000

Oh, and if you ever wander into Laramie WY, head over to Sweet Melissa’s Vegetarian Cafe and order the carrot cake. Unreal. (And shortening free. Yay!)

By: Rachel_in_WY

Rachel_in_WY — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:58:08 +0000

We were given a bottle of amaretto a few years ago, and it sat on the shelf for like two years. I finally got sick of it sitting there and launched a quest to find the best way to use a giant bottle of amaretto. Three attempts later I had developed a really easy and super-moist chocolate amaretto bundt cake with amaretto glaze and sliced almonds sprinkled all over it. Now my friends are addicted to it, and I’m the default cake-baker for everybody’s birthday party, which doesn’t seem entirely fair. But at least it doesn’t have all the hyrogenated oils in it that most bakery cakes have. I cringe at the thought of it when I watch everyone eat bakery cakes or cake-mix cakes.

By: tallgirl-in-heels

tallgirl-in-heels — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:52:56 +0000

When my siblings and I were little my mom would make us these elaborately decorated, 3D cut-out cakes for our b-days: trains, spaceships, butterflies, you name it. So my best cake memories aren’t related to flavor, they’re related to shape. Maybe that’s why I enjoy all those cake decorating shows on food t.v. so much. I like the artistry of cakes more than I like eating them.

That said, I will be trying this recipe this evening: http://www.ehow.com/how_4821704_cake-delicious-moist-cake-recipe.html

By: WaltzingMatilda

WaltzingMatilda — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:40:20 +0000

A GREAT summer cake – Jell-O poke cake. You basically bake a regular yellow cake. Poke holes in it and pour liquid Jell-O all over it so it soaks in. Shove it in the fridge for the usual Jell-O period or overnight. Take it out. “Frost” it with Cool Whip. Serve chilled.

Un-freaking-believable.

By: WaltzingMatilda

WaltzingMatilda — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:37:06 +0000

My favorite cake memories all trace back to my mum. She is a home ec teacher and a kick ass baker.

When I was little she made a birthday cake for me and my little brother (he’s exactly 2 years younger than me). It was Cookie Monster. She painstakingly decorated a homemade cake with little blue homemade frosting drops and somehow made the googly eyes we loved. I loved her frosting bag – I thought it was magical. I couldn’t even believe how she fit Cookie Monster in the bag.

Best cake ever.

By: Penny_Esq

Penny_Esq — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:25:47 +0000

My mom made me a chocolate espresso cake with chocolate mascarpone frosting a couple weeks ago for my birthday. AMAZING.

I would take an Anabolic Ding-Dong solely for its name, but I cannot imagine what a mint-wasabi cream filling would taste like. Who comes up with these things, anyway? Like, “I think what would make this chocolate mint raspberry whipped cream dessert better is wasabi. Definitely needs some wasabi.” I am humbled and awed.

By: JetGirl

JetGirl — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:18:29 +0000

It’s supposed to get into the 90s where I live today, but I plan to bake a birthday cake for my husband. Three layer devil’s food with vanilla cream cheese frosting.

By: PhDork

PhDork — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:58:35 +0000

I am a pie fan, but cake has it’s well-deserved place, too. Not your standard bakery cakes, though. And sugar-lard frosting makes me want to hurl. My favorite is probably my mom’s (which was my grandma’s) pound cake recipe. Dense and buttery, not too sweet.

On our recent trip, the Dude and I shared a dessert called the Anabolic Ding-Dong: a chocolate mini-cake with a mint-wasabi cream fillilng, garnished w/ whipped cream and fresh raspberries. Pretty amazing.

vickimae–plz to send/post the recipe for that frozen lemonade/creamcheese thing. Drooooool.