The Pink Champagne Cake at Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, CA.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't uniformally agree with the wedding cake...I have had some awful wedding cakes.

The prettier they are the worse they taste. This is fact.

Not true.

It is. I hate to break it to you, your perfectly smooth fondant cake was inedible.

I'm an eater. Not a baker.

I like fondant. Not everyone dies.

The best ever cake I had was at a wedding - it was this absolutely delicious Cranberry Orange White Chocolate cake and all 3 tiers of it were filled with the most amazing buttercream frosting... so light and fluffy!!

The Bride said it was from this place in Fairfax called Cupcake Novelties! So yummy!!

Anonymous wrote:The cake from the recipe on the back of the Hershey's cocoa can.

Yes! This is absolutely the best chocolate cake. Better than any we have had in restaurants or from bakeries. When I make it, it always gets rave reviews. It's incredibly moist.

The seven layer cake of my youth. Hard to find now.

I'm a huge fan of caramel, so cakes like this:

http://www.carolinescakes.com/7-Layer-Caramel-Cake/productinfo/CA/

are on my list

I've also had some amazing lemon cakes

+1 for Russian (Eastern European?) medovik!

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Anonymous wrote:I love the blue, yellow and pink celebration cake at Harris teeter. It's almond flavored and has about 8000 calories.

I love this too!

Sometimes I buy a slice, eat it in the car and throw everything away before I get home.

Saint Louis gooey butter cake.

Amazing on its own but even better slightly warm with vanilla ice cream.

I love all cake, but I made this Ina Garten coconut cake -the flavor of the cake...awesome!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/coconut-cake-recipe-1947027

Anonymous wrote:That's very difficult to say because I am sort of a cake slut and there have been hundreds if not thousands of cakes over the years, each very wonderful in their own way.

Yep, this.

mmmm, my grandmother used to make a "brown mountain" cake - both the cake and the icing were devilish hard to get right . . . and so, so good. i think everyone in the family has given up on the cake itself, since you can make a really damned good chocolate cake from a mix these days, but we still make the caramel icing. it is far and away my favorite thing.

but for prettier cakes, my own wedding cake - made by a woman in my hometown was possibly the best such thing i have ever tasted. fairly basic in presentation but just perfectly moist with perfect fluffy frosting.

i have some favorite less fussy cakes too. smitten kitchen's guinness cake is super easy. and a neighbor makes a chocolate rum cake that is ludicrously alcoholic and delicious. and she won't share the recipe.

What a great post!! My favorite is Burnt Almond Torte from Prantl's bakery in Pittsburgh. White cake with vanilla cream and crunchy sugary toasted almonds covering the top and sides. HEAVENLY!

White chocolate cake from Randolph in Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't uniformally agree with the wedding cake...I have had some awful wedding cakes.

The prettier they are the worse they taste. This is fact.

Not true.

It is. I hate to break it to you, your perfectly smooth fondant cake was inedible.