Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never been a big cake person, but I love pies. The last few years I’ve just gone for the frozen Edwards chocolate creme pie. They’re easy, affordable, and are a happy food that makes me smile.

I'm dreaming of peanut butter pie...

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Anonymous wrote:Fresh fruit

I bet you are really fun.

I used to work with her. On her in birthday, when I brought a cake, she just had the fresh fruit topping. Lactose intolerant, but ate yogurt for breakfast everyday?

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Ice cream cake (with no actual cake). Preferably from Bruster's. I am but a big actual cake person.

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The pistachio cake from shotted coffee is the most perfect tasting cake I have ever had. It’s amazing. I don’t think they make a full cake and i’m the only one who likes it in my family so Always get just the single serving for my birthday. I would much rather a small serving of an absolute delicious dessert than an entire cake/pie of something that is good but not great.

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I like nothing bundt cakes or this year for the first time I'm trying a Mile High Chocolate pie from livin the pie life. I've got it in the freezer.

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Opera cake! Patisserie Poupon makes a good one.

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Anonymous wrote:Lately it's been Baked & Wired coconut cupcakes. DH gets them when he is in DC and we freeze them for birthdays and holidays.
But in my 20s it was carrot cake.
When I was a kid it was white cake with vanilla frosting and chocolate ice cream.

+1 to Baked & Wired coconut cupcakes!

I normally don’t go for “fancy” cupcakes, but Baked & Wired’s cupcakes are incredible.

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Anonymous wrote:The pistachio cake from shotted coffee is the most perfect tasting cake I have ever had. It’s amazing. I don’t think they make a full cake and i’m the only one who likes it in my family so Always get just the single serving for my birthday. I would much rather a small serving of an absolute delicious dessert than an entire cake/pie of something that is good but not great.

I am usually a from scratch baking person but I had a relative that used to make the pistachio pudding tunnel cake that was popular in the 70s/80s and it was so good.

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I adore good cakes and every year my family buys me the worst cakes, just truly inedible. I don’t know why they don’t go to the bakery where I buy cakes or just make one from an easy recipe. I think this year I need to get on the ball and just go buy my own cake.

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Do I have to pick just one?

In order, it would probably be: tiramisu, triple chocolate mousse cake, then a lemon curd cheesecake.

One I made recently, a “magic” chocolate flan cake, might just rise up into my Top 3 — just a perfect mix of a chocolate cake base with a creamy flan layer, topped with a caramel sauce to drizzle over the side. It was shockingly easy to make.

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tres leches cake with fruit on top. I have made a pineapple upsidedown tres leches cake before and really enjoyed that.

or brownie ice cream sundaes. Usually I like my brownies on the fudgy side, but for a sundae I'd go with them being more cakey.

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Carrot cake or cheesecake.

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I am usually a from scratch baking person but I had a relative that used to make the pistachio pudding tunnel cake that was popular in the 70s/80s and it was so good.

Oooh what is pistachio pudding tunnel cake? I googled it but just got a bunch of pistachio cake recipes that looked pretty normal. No mentions of a tunnel?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I am usually a from scratch baking person but I had a relative that used to make the pistachio pudding tunnel cake that was popular in the 70s/80s and it was so good.

Oooh what is pistachio pudding tunnel cake? I googled it but just got a bunch of pistachio cake recipes that looked pretty normal. No mentions of a tunnel?

Maybe PP meant bundt cake?

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Chocolate ganache cake or chocolate raspberry cake .. both made by dh.