Anonymous
Post 09/10/2025 14:40     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Simple vanilla flavored cheesecake with strawberry or cherry topping.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2025 09:07     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Ice cream. Cake and pie don’t really do it for me.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2025 09:04     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
I do not like desserts, but if I had to pick it would be a Paris Brest or a St Honore.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 21:29     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:DH makes me a delicious carrot cake. I make him an ice cream cake. And I make DS a milk chocolate chip cookie cake.


What’s your ice cream cake recipe?
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:54     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:My mom's chocolate cake with chocolate icing and a homemade marshmallow middle layer with pecans. She has passed away now, and I've never made it for myself.


My mother's homemade chocolate cake with homemade chocolate icing. I have had it every year since I was 3, and I'm 53 now. My mother still makes it for me (and for my wife, daughter, and sister, too). When she's no longer able, my daughter will take over (and I'll make it for her). She's had it every year of her life, too.

My wife makes the best banana pudding around - she makes me that for Father's day.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:54     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A local (non DC) bakery makes this chocolate hazelnut fancy torte dealie. Its like 8 different layers of various things, but it all reminds me of a fererro rocher. One of the layers is like a crispy thin piece that is like the crispy layer of the rocher. Ugh its so delicious. My bday is at the end of the month and I already know this is on its way

It's pricey for the size, but its so rich I only eat a little at a time and it lasts a while.


Les Delices has something like that I think. That's a pretty standard offering at French bakeries, I think.

I looked that up and it does look similar, just not as fancy or beautiful. Bet it tastes delicious though! Choc hazelnut is one of my top favorite flavors.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:50     Subject: Re:Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
A slice of the chocolate mousse cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. It’s so wrong and yet so right.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:48     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Our family tradition is fudgy the whale.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:43     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My mom's chocolate cake with chocolate icing and a homemade marshmallow middle layer with pecans. She has passed away now, and I've never made it for myself.


My God -- that sounds amazing. If you can find the recipe, please post!

I love so many types of different delicious cakes. The NY Times has a delicious one they posted a while ago that was a pecan coconut cake. This is one of the best cakes I have ever made -- it does take a minute to make though.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019330-dolester-miles-coconut-pecan-cake


It was from Southern Living, and I have it somewhere. Unfortunately, it isn't online. Will look!
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:23     Subject: Re:Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Honestly, my favorite type of cake would probably be crab cakes. So crab cakes and strawberry shortcake— with the biscuit type of shortcakes and whipped cream would be my favorite cakes AND my favorite dessert.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:20     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:My mom's chocolate cake with chocolate icing and a homemade marshmallow middle layer with pecans. She has passed away now, and I've never made it for myself.


My God -- that sounds amazing. If you can find the recipe, please post!

I love so many types of different delicious cakes. The NY Times has a delicious one they posted a while ago that was a pecan coconut cake. This is one of the best cakes I have ever made -- it does take a minute to make though.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019330-dolester-miles-coconut-pecan-cake
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:18     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:A local (non DC) bakery makes this chocolate hazelnut fancy torte dealie. Its like 8 different layers of various things, but it all reminds me of a fererro rocher. One of the layers is like a crispy thin piece that is like the crispy layer of the rocher. Ugh its so delicious. My bday is at the end of the month and I already know this is on its way

It's pricey for the size, but its so rich I only eat a little at a time and it lasts a while.


Les Delices has something like that I think. That's a pretty standard offering at French bakeries, I think.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:16     Subject: Re:Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:I used to really LOVE cannolis. To the point I said when I got married I wouldn't want a wedding cake, but just for everyone to get a cannoli. But I've never been married and now am a little eh on them.

The best cake I ever ate was at my brother's bar mitzvah at a country club in Woodbury, New York. No idea what type it was. I'll never taste it again. A couple of years ago I had carrot cake for the first time and thought I'd hate it, but kind of loved it. So now carrot cake is my new favorite.


You might like cannoli cake. I love cannolis in theory but I find that almost every place makes the shells too far in advance and they are gross and stale. Cannoli cake is a light sponge cake filled with the cannoli cream and frosted. It is so light and fluffy.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:16     Subject: Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
DH makes me a delicious carrot cake. I make him an ice cream cake. And I make DS a milk chocolate chip cookie cake.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 13:14     Subject: Re:Favorite cake or other dessert on your birthday!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I used to really LOVE cannolis. To the point I said when I got married I wouldn't want a wedding cake, but just for everyone to get a cannoli. But I've never been married and now am a little eh on them.

The best cake I ever ate was at my brother's bar mitzvah at a country club in Woodbury, New York. No idea what type it was. I'll never taste it again. A couple of years ago I had carrot cake for the first time and thought I'd hate it, but kind of loved it. So now carrot cake is my new favorite.


Have you heard of the cannoli bar/stations at weddings? Or a roving cannoli server? They pipe in the cream right there and add your favorite toppings to the edge. If you do get married, I think you should do this if you don’t, well then throw yourself a kick ass party at some point and do this—it sounds so fun and delicious! Even if it’s not your current favorite dessert. That’s my two cents from an internet stranger 😁


Thanks for the idea, Internet Stranger. If I do throw a cannoli cart party, you are definitely invited!