Bakers, what’s your favorite cake to make?
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Anonymous
| I’m looking for a great cake to make for my moms birthday. I usually make chocolate cake (from the Hershey’s box) so something different than your basic chocolate cake. I can handle recipes that require skill so don’t be shy. Im just really needing some inspiration! Please include links to recipes if possible. Thanks! |
Anonymous
| Are you looking for looks or taste? (My favorites aren’t always impressive looking) What is your mom’s personality like? Would she prefer fancy or fun? |
Anonymous
| My favorite is a simple everyday cake: Kyra’s hot milk sponge cake from a recipe by Nick Malgieri. It’s not a fancy celebration cake though. |
Anonymous
| A lemon or vanilla cake (I fake it with any kind of organic in a box that involves butter instead of oil), but into four layers with whipped cream frosting. |
Anonymous
| She’s not too picky at all! I bought a custom cake topper that I goes in the top on a long toothpick type thing so I don’t necessarily need to decorate but I was kind of hoping for a layer cake. |
Anonymous
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This is my favorite cake (with the caveat that I don't love super sweet stuff). I skip the ganache and serve with whipped cream:
https://leitesculinaria.com/3076/recipes-barefoot-contessa-orange-chocolate-chunk-cake.html |
Anonymous
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I love this almond cake: https://www.davidlebovitz.com/almond-cake-recipe/
Vanilla cupcakes with a dense crumb. Pretty easy to convert into a regular cake, two or one tier. It’s also fun to add sprinkles and make it funfetti. I do not care for the buttercream that accompanies the recipe, fwiw. https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/double_vanilla_cupcakes/ |
Anonymous
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Neither of these is fancy, but they’re so good. They’re both based on boxed cake mixes.
Gooey Butter Cake Combine and spread in 9x13 pan as crust: 1 box pound cake mix, 2 eggs, 1 stick melted butter. Mix together and spread over crust: 1 8-oz. pkg. softened cream cheese, 2 eggs, 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1 lb. box of powdered sugar (reserving 1/2 cup). Sprinkle reserved powdered sugar over cheese mixture. Bake 325-350 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Piña Colada Cake Bake white cake according to box directions. While still warm, poke holes all over cake. Pour over cake, 1 can cream of coconut and 1 can crushed pineapple. Chill. Spread Cool Whip on top. |
Anonymous
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Orange almond cake. Easy and can even do a few days ahead and it tastes better. I have cake stencils to make it a bit fancy but you can always use a doily.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/orange-almond-cake-recipe-1951718 |
Anonymous
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basque cake
boston cream pie Devil food cake with chocolate whipped cream filling and whipped fudge frosting |
Anonymous
| Homemade funfetti cake (from scratch white cake with sprinkles mixed in the batter) with swiss meringue buttercream frosting |
Anonymous
| Nigella’s Guinness cake with cream cheese frosting. |
Anonymous
| Black forest cake. |
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Love this cake and I think it's very seasonally appropriate right now:
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/4037-spice-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting (if you don't subscribe I'm sure you can find the recipe elsewhere online, I know it's also in the Test Kitchen's Family Baking Book if you happen to have that) A lot of spice cakes are too sweet or just don't have enough flavor, but I like this one so much that I might even prefer it to my carrot cake recipe (also ATK, also amazing, though). |
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