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

[Anonymous]

Like the person from the UK, these are all cakes to me, apart from the last one, which is chocolate cake. I’m French. We have a LOT more variety of cakes, and they don’t look all the same.

[Anonymous]

Would never call yellow cake a vanilla cake.

And, yes, when I was a child, a yellow cake with chocolate icing was a chocolate cake. Chocolate with chocolate was Devil's Food. Don't know if it was regional or family.

Yellow with chocolate is still my favorite most of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. cake
2. cake
3. chocolate cake
Devils food cake is something else.
-- from NC and would be unhappy if I asked for chocolate cake and got anything other than no. 3.

Why are 1 and 2 just "cake." That seems to be asking for confusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

No, thats called carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

No one with real taste would call the abomination that is carrot cake the best. Cream cheese frosting should be outlawed.

First of all, how dare you

+1 the nerve of that guy

[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.

By chance is your family from West Virginia? The only people I’ve heard refer to cake that way are from WV, and Baltimore has a lot of WV transplants from a generation or 2 ago at least.

[Anonymous]

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

I’m with you if the frosting is 7 minute icing.

[Anonymous]

Nasty sheet cakes? Doesn't matter the flavors.

[Anonymous]

1. White
2. Fool's chocolate
3. Chocolate

- SoCal

[Anonymous]

What the heck? I have never given thought to names for these basic cakes. I was expecting to read descriptions of some unique types of cakes!

[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.

Vanilla cake with vanilla frosting
Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting
Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting

Born in Chicago, moved to DC at age 10, lived here since.