What do you call these cakes and where are you from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) need more information. Like angel food cake? Coconut? Or do you mean yellow with white frosting?
2) Simply called "yellow cake with chocolate frosting"
3) chocolate cake

I would be angry with you if you referred to yellow cake with chocolate frosting, as "chocolate cake." That is so unkind.

- Fairfax County

+1 Montgomery County

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) vanilla cake
2) yellow cake
3) chocolate cake

How is there more than one way to answer this question?

+1. Devils Food is a specific kind of cake, not just chocolate.

California transplant to Fairfax

+10000

Another Baltimorean, sorry OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White cake
Yellow cake
Chocolate cake

Texas

Wow I have something in common with Texas! --Signed, New York

+1 Virginia!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White cake
Yellow cake
Chocolate cake

Texas

Wow I have something in common with Texas! --Signed, New York

+1 Virginia!

Yup, this for me too.

- grew up in western NY

[Anonymous]

1. Vanilla
2. Nasty
3. Chocolate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. A white cake with white frosting.
2. A yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
3. A chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.

I’m from Baltimore.
1. Vanilla cake
2. Chocolate cake
3. Devil’s food

2 is my favorite of the three, but people here don’t seem to have a specific name for it and they call 3 chocolate cake.

1. Depends on the type of cake. It wouldn’t make sense to call a white cake vanilla cake if it doesn’t contain vanilla.
2. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
3. Chocolate cake unless it actually is devil’s food cake.

[Anonymous]

The name of the cake describes the cake part, not the frosting. Calling yellow cake with chocolate frosting chocolate cake is just weird. And I lived in Baltimore for 10 years and didn't hear that.

1. White cake (with white frosting)
2. Yellow cake (with chocolate frosting)
3. Chocolate cake.

Note that not all white cakes are vanilla cakes. It depends on if any flavor has been added. Vanilla cake is white or yellow cake that is made with a discernible flavor of vanilla (preferably bean, but possibly extract).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The name of the cake describes the cake part, not the frosting. Calling yellow cake with chocolate frosting chocolate cake is just weird. And I lived in Baltimore for 10 years and didn't hear that.

1. White cake (with white frosting)
2. Yellow cake (with chocolate frosting)
3. Chocolate cake.

Note that not all white cakes are vanilla cakes. It depends on if any flavor has been added. Vanilla cake is white or yellow cake that is made with a discernible flavor of vanilla (preferably bean, but possibly extract).

Forgot to add: Originally from Pittsburgh (though high school). Spent 10 years in Baltimore. 26 years and counting in the DC suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White cake
Yellow cake
Chocolate cake

Texas

Wow I have something in common with Texas! --Signed, New York

+1 Virginia!

Yup, this for me too.

- grew up in western NY

Yeah, me too. Grew up in NoVA with parents from northern NJ (Chatham) and NY (Binghamton).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 Cake
2 Cake
3 Chocolate cake

From: UK

+1 St. Louis

[Anonymous]

You are nothing but a common demon if you try to pass off yellow cake with chocolate icing as chocolate cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I would be angry with you if you referred to yellow cake with chocolate frosting, as "chocolate cake." That is so unkind.

- Fairfax County

+1! - Pennsylvania

+1 - NJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad is from Baltimore and calls yellow cake w/chocolate icing “chocolate cake”. It confused my mother (from MI) for months when they were dating. He told her his favorite dessert was chocolate cake. She baked a couple of cakes and he wasn’t really into them. Finally they went to a picnic and my dad referred to a yellow cake as “chocolate cake” (while enthusiastically eating it). Mystery solved!

She was confused because he was mislabeling the cake.

[Anonymous]

I'm from Baltimore, and unless it's a very specific cake (red velvet, coconut cake, carrot cake) my family and I would always describe it like "yellow cake with chocolate icing". I have lived in MD my entire life within a reasonable distance to Baltimore (except for college) and never ONCE heard someone call a yellow cake with chocolate icing a chocolate cake.

[Anonymous]

Wait wait wait - where's the chocolate cake with vanilla frosting option? You know, the only cake actually worth eating??