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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Who makes cakes? serious question. I make, maybe, one per year on DS birthday.

This is me too. Made one came from a TJs mix a year ago for DHs bday. Other than that last came was maybe a few years before? Have made cupcakes from scratch once or twice.

But we're more of an ice cream / cookie / pie family.[/quote]

I wrote the first PP and I realize now that it does sound snarky but I did not mean it to be so.   I must come from a culture that sees "cakes" as truly celebratory (wedding, birthday, Christmas stollen, first Communion) and such events arise pretty rarely.  So this question never comes up.   I never arrive home from work and think, 'aw what the heck, I feel like a triple-layer lemon cake with alternating raspberry and Bavarian creme filling.   Honey, [i]get out the mixer[/i]!   Whereas I might throw together 6 ingredients and make cookies for lunch boxes from time to time.   But we are not a have a cake on display on the cake stand on the kitchen island family ....

So back to my question ... I'm curious about who these men and women are who are making cakes from scratch.   Is the impetus really just to have dessert on hand, M-F?
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#1, what culture is that?  Sounds Catholic...Spanish?  I'm Italian-American and [i]we like some cakes[/i] (just not the traditional "chocolate cake with chocolate frosting" that springs to mind when people think "cake").  We like some cookies, too, but let's face it, most Italians buy their cookies (I'm not making sfogliatelle, pizzelles, or biscotti at home)!

#2, cookies are so much more fussy to make than cake...I'd rather make cake any day!  Seriously, if you're making something non-frosted (rosemary olive oil cake, pound cake, etc), it's easier than cookies by a factor of like 100, purely because there's no creaming and futzing around to keep the batter cool enough to get a good crumb.[/quote]

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