If you read this site, it's likely you're already living the sweet life; but today, life is about to get sweeter still. Why so? Well, we've decided to give away a Cakespy original mini watercolor painting to one lucky reader! Like whoa!
How can you put your name in the running? It's easy! All you need to do is this:
- To satisfy our nosy tendencies (we are spies, after all), fill out the below Cake Poll! You can leave your responses in the comment section, or send your responses via email to jessieoleson@gmail.com.
- At 12pm PST on Sunday, February 24, the Cake Poll will be closed. The winner will be chosen at random, not based on their responses. The original will then be shipped to the lucky winner within 48 hours, via the most economical method.
As for our fine print: The results of this poll will be used for entertainment and Cake Gumshoeing purposes only; we may summarize the results of this poll in upcoming posts. Your private information will not be shared with any outside parties. Also, we've elected to leave the cake poll open to all US Territories, Canada and abroad--so even overseas cake enthusiasts can take part! *As for the prize itself, it is the miniature framed painting pictured at the top and to the left; no substitutions are allowed. - Where did you grow up? Where do you live now?
- What were some of the special cakes from your childhood (a Birthday cake? Grandma's German Chocolate? Or perhaps something from the local bakery or supermarket? Anything goes for us as long as it was special to you.)?
- Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes? No judgments, we promise.
- If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be?
- On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting? 50/50? 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting? 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting? Other?
- How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes?
- What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes?
- Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad?
In the meantime, have a very sweet weekend!
95 comments:
Me first! Natalie @ cisforcucpake@gmail.com
1. I grew up in beautiful, sunny Joliet, IL. Home of Statesville Prison where John Wayne Gacy was executed. I've been a Chicagoan for 10 years.
2. My mom used to make Better Than Sex Cake for my birthday- German chocolate cake with holes poked in it, filled with caramel sauce and topped with whipped cream and crushed Heath bars. She called it "Better Than a Handshake Cake" until I was like, 16 years old.
3. I would say 5 times a week.
4. Lemon cupcakes with lemon frosting, It would be refreshing, and I'd fight off scurvy!
5. I like equal parts cake and frosting.
6. I don't like straight mix, but if you add some stuff to it it can be pretty close to homemade.
7. It's hard to be stressed out or mad when you're eating cake.
8. I just ate bad cake on Friday, it was really dry and virtually flavorless. Like dry bread with frosting on it.
1. I grew up in the East Bay and still live there today (san francisco bay area)
2. Angel food cake
3. 1-2 times a week.
4. poundcake
5. 2/3 cake
6. I think the cake mix is fine, but I can't stand the frosting.
7. It's the perfect dessert!
8. dry, not enough frosting, no flavor
Okay, that watercolor is MINE!! (Setting intentions right now as I type. . . ). Fabulous idea for a contest.
1) Grew up in Montreal, Quebec; now live in Toronto, Ontario (both in Canada)
2) Birthday cakes made and decorated by my aunt, the caterer; my mother's mile-high chiffon cake (just because it was her signature)
3) I don't eat cake per se very often, maybe once a month, cupcakes even less. Now, cookies, brownies, squares. . . that's a different story ;) .
4) Chocolate fudge layer cake with vanilla cream filling and chocolate frosting. What can I say; I'm a purist.
5) 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting sounds ideal.
6) Used to love 'em, now I hate 'em. After consuming home-made for most of my life, the mixes now taste devoid of flavor and way too airy in texture.
7) The first bite--that winning combo of moist, light cake and heavier, sweet, gooey frosting. . . always puts a smile on my face.
8) Bad cake = no chocolate. Apart from that, anything that's too heavy or wet inside, ie underbaked or under-leavened.
1. My childhood was in Texas, everything else after New York!
2. My Grandma's Red Velvet cake and my other Grandma's Upside down Pineapple
3. Probably 2-3 times a month, its hard when your boyfriend doesn't like sweets!
4. Defintely Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting!
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. They're great when you're crunched for time and you modify them
7. They're oh so tasty!
8. Totally! A really dry, tasteless cake! And equally bad frosting!
1. I grew up in PA, and I live in PA now. I spent 10 years in the south in between though.
2. I always asked for lemon meringue pie for birthdays. I just always loved it. 2nd was ice cream cake with the fake chocolate crunchie things inside, not the real cake. Mmm, thats good stuff.
3. Too much. I can't say its every week. But at the end of the month, when we are baking to find a Cupcake Hero winner, its non-stop cupcake tasting. Pure gluttony I tell you.
4. What came to mind first was my fav cupcake from Dozen. A raspberry zinger. Which is yellow cake, filled with raspberry preserves and topped with raspberry frosting and coconut. YUM! Sooo good.
5. Im going to say 2/3 to 1/3.
6. I loathe box mixes. No matter how you dress them up, it still tastes like box mix.
7. Getting frosting on my nose.
8. Its hard to have a bad cupcake. My 2 turn offs are super dry cake and overly sickening sweet frosting.
1. I grew up in Massachusetts, on the border of New Hampshire. Now, I live about 20 minutes away from the house I grew up in.
2. I loved those boxed cake mixes with the blue and pink swirls. I think they were my birthday cake pretty much every year!
3. Right now I have cake, cupcakes and cookies hanging around, I eat them all too much.
4. The fudgiest chocolate cake I could get my hands on
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. I'm not a fan, unless it's funfetti or that swirly cake mix I was talking about before I will always choose homemade
7. How happy my belly is after
8. Dry cakes!
1. Grew up in Peotone, IL - not that far from Joliet..*S* Live in Chicago now.
2. Angel food cake made with a doz. real eggs from the henhouse. Aunt Marian's chocolate cake that uses sour milk.
3. Not nearly as often as I'd like.
4. The above mentioned chocolate cake, with fluffy chocolate frosting.
5. 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting.
6. No mixes for me.
7. Two things: a glass of milk with the cake, and the afterglow.
8. Cake too dry, frosting too heavy.
1. Grew up in New Mexico, now live in Utah
2. My favorite growing up was cherry chip cake (my mom always made her cakes from boxes) with fluffy frosting (aka 7-minute frosting)
3. Lately, it's been weekly! Usually once or twice a month, though.
4. Chocolate
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. I like them better from scratch,, but I grew up on the boxed kind!
7. There's not a bad part!
8. As long as it tastes decent, I'll eat it! I don't like dry, though.
Too much fun!! Here's my answers...
1. Grew up in Houston and live in Houston (though had a 7 year hiatus in Colorado)
2. My mom made me the cookie monster cake using one of those wilton pans, it was so awesome, and blue!!
3. Probably at least several times a month
4. This might be boring... chocolate cupcake with coffee buttercream frosting
5. 3/4 cake 1/4 frosting
6. I would only use a mix when I'm in a pinch, otherwise homemade is the way to go!
7. knowing that they're vegan (at least the ones I eat) so I can eat as many as I want!
8. There are definitely bad cakes/cupcakes... these would be those that are hard as rocks, stick to your mouth, or yucky frosting.
1) I grew up in Amorebieta (Spain) outside of Bilbao and I live in Jupiter, Florida now.
2) Apple tart with a warm apricot glaze was my favorite. My grandfather used to make it in our families pastry shop.
3) I don't eat much of either to be honest. I taste what I make but small bites. Maybe twice a week?
4) Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse and fresh raspberries!! Yes, yes, yes!!
5) 2/3 cake and 1/3 icing
6) Some of them taste good and are light but I can't eat them because when I read the list of ingredients I start to hyperventilate! I like Namaste's gluten free, dairy free mix actually.
7) Sharing it with others.
8) Oh yes!!! Too dry, too crumbly, not soaked with a syrup...
This is so much fun!!!
1. I grew up in Saginaw, Michigan and am still here
2. I always remember the cakes my mom used to get from a local bakery that had red buttercream roses with the fake silver leaves on them. I loved those cakes and the funny thing is , they were made by the grandfather of my future husband!
3. I actually don't eat it that often considering how much I make.
4. Anything chocolate, gotta have chocolate!
5. Can I say 100% frosting? Lol! Just kidding! It would have to be 60/40 frosting to cake, at least!
6. I like either. I used to make all my cakes/cupcakes only from mixes but I have branched out and now make almost exclusively from scratch.
7. The fact that they usually accompany a great gathering of people I love!
8. Definitely! Undercooked, way dried out, or bad frosting!
I love filling out polls.:)Anyway, here is mine:
1. I grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Now I live in Pullman, WA, USA.
2. I had this awesome cake from a bakery for my 5th birthday. It had some neat decoration of sweet peas on it in pink. And my dress was also in pink, I felt like a princess.
3. 2/3 times a month at least.
4. Devil's Food...cake or cupcake, with Chocolate Ganache Topping...mmmmm.
5. I would say 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting.
6. Not bad...if you tweak a little, like adding some ingredients or flavor.
7. Having the feeling of falling in love!!
8. Oh yeah...overcooked, dry, too crumbly, bland etc.
1. I grew up in Ernakulum a city in Kerela State in S.India.
Now i live in Belgium
2.Birthdays were always celebrated with home made Payasam ( Kheer) it is a indian dessert.
3. When ever i get a chance. I never buy them from shops, if i eat them it is always home made.
4. Rich Chocolate cup cake with rich chocolate creamy frosting.
You know you are making me hungry thinkin about it.
5.1/4 frosting. I like to taste my cake too.
6. I have never bought these mixes as i think why spend so much money of you can just make the mix with fresh ingridients.
7. Can i say eating them :-) and licking the frosting
8. Oh yeah to dry, too sweet, etc.
1. St. Rose, LA...now live in the next town of Destrehan, LA (both near NOLA)
2. Strawberry filled white cake was my favorite!!!
3. About 2-3 times/month (depending on bday/holiday season...I need to have a reason to indulge!!)
4. Strawberry filled white cake :) still a favorite!
5. Probably 3/4 cake 1/4 frosting
6. They are OK...I'll eat them but homemade is just that much better!!
7. Sponginess and moistness...it needs those two components!
8. Dry cake....too dense cake...it needs to be light feeling!
1. I grew up in Modesto, CA. I now live in San Francisco.
2. Being that my parents were Portuguese immigrants we didn’t each much cake. If I was having friends over for a birthday, mom would make yellow cake mix with a lemon glaze. My favorite sweet treat was cream puffs with vanilla pudding inside.
3. Once a week…if I’m lucky.
4. Chocolate cupcake with whipped cream frosting.
5. 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting
6. They can be pretty moist and delicious, but nothing beats homemade with love.
7. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside…very comforting.
8. Yes, definitely! I do not like dry, tasteless cupcakes. I’m not a fan of really cold cupcakes either.
whoo hoo - I love contests! And one that involves a Cakespy original is even better!
1. Grew up in Central PA and now live in Central NJ
2. My mom used to make Texas sheet cake and a striped pudding cake (take yellow cake, poke with holes, pour pudding into holes - voila!). She also made a killer angel food cake with strawberry icing.
3. I eat cake/cupcakes pretty frequently. I'm getting ready to open my own bakeshop in the next few weeks and I'm heavy into recipe testing.
4. I'd probably go with a coconut layer cake or vanilla cupcakes with either milk chocolate or vanilla frosting. What can I say? I dig the classics!
5. My ideal ratio is 50/50 but I won't kick a 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting cupcake out of bed.
6. I'm not a fan of mixes - I strongly believe you can put together an easy and great tasting scratch cake in the same amount of time.
7. Let's face it - the best things about eating cake or cupcakes are the yummy sugar highs and the warm fuzzy feelings of nostalgia you get with each bite.
8. A bad cake is a dry, flavorless cake. Life is too short to eat bad cake.
1. I grew up in Mpls/St. Paul, and then Davenport, IA (the glamour!) Now I live in suburban Chicago.
2. Coca-cola cake was my mom's specialty.
3. I eat cake at birthdays, and cupcakes when I'm at a bakery that has "good" ones. (sometimes, I'll bake cupcakes, but I'd rather not have 12 staring me down)
4. vanilla cake/vanilla buttercream frosting.
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting .... but I love frosting.
6. mixes are fine, but I'd prefer not.
7. The best thing? the sweetness of the frosting melting in your mouth.
8. Yucky frosting can ruin a cake.
Oh, I actually have strong feelings about some of these!
1. Grew up in Connecticut, now live in NYC.
2. Cupcakes were, and still are, my favorite.
3. Hmmm... Probably about once a month, usually when I am baking for a party. BUT almost every time I have something special to celebrate, I'll buy a little cupcake from Magnolia, Crumb or Amy's to mark the occasion!
4. Plain vanilla cupcake with an extremely thick portion of super sweet buttercream frosting, preferrably pink!
5. 50/50, or maybe even 75% frosting! I've been known to discard the bottom of the cupcake on occasion, or leave bites of plain cake behind after eating off all the frosting. :-)
6. Actually, I don't completely mind them if I'm looking to save time -- they are pretty foolproof, and I like to start with a simple yellow cake mix and turn it into something fun, like rose-shaped cupcakes or petit fours!
7. THE FROSTING!
8. Yes -- for me, a very low frosting to cake ration makes it bad, but dried out cake is the absolute WORST.
Man... now I want a cupcake! Perhaps I should celebrate my engagement with a little cake tonight... :-)
1. I grow up in St-Simon, Québec on a farm. Now I live on Vancouver Island, BC.
2. I loved my mom Queen Elizabeth cake.
3. I eat cake on special occasions and cupcakes every 2 wks.
4. On a desert island I would love a carrot cake with thick cream cheese on top.
5. On cupcakes I love 2/3 cake and 1/3 of frosting.
6. I don't want to buy any cake mixes. Life is too short.
7. I love eating cakes and cupcakes because I love sweets. I also like to bake and share with my family the good food I make.
8. Bad cake! you must be kidding.
1. I grew up in a small town in southern Illinois and now live near Chicago.
2. I have always really loved carrot cake (mostly because of the icing) and any type of Birthday cake. I love birthday cake because it involves a celebration and usually a cake with really fun icing.
3. At least once a week.
4. A red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing.
5. 50/50
6. I am fine with cake mixes.
7. I like that you get the supersweet icing and the not as sweet cake combination in every bite.
8. Yes, any cake with nuts or coconut seems bad to me. Obviously, a very person choice.They are both a texture thing for me. I like cake and cupcakes to be smooth and creamy.
1. I grew up in Red Bank, NJ, Safety Harbor, FL, and Millersville, MD. I am currently living in Baltimore.
2. My grandmother use to make a lamb cake every Eater and my brother and I would fight over who got the head.
3. At least once a week, the more I eat the more I run.
4. Chocolate cake, vanilla icing, it’s a classic!
5. ¾ cake. ¼ frosting
6. They have there time and place
7. Feeling like a kid again
8. Yes, I have had many dry and tasteless cakes.
I grew up in Southern California, The "OC," And I still live there now.
My grandmother's chocolate Texas Sheet Cake was very special to me growing up. She made it for every occasion. Unfortunately, her recipe was lost during her move to a new house 6 years ago, and no recipe we've tried since can replicate it.
How often do I eat cake? Good Lord, at least 3 times a week. I'm constantly trying new cupcake recipes and my (unfortunate) coworkers always get the left-overs after I've, ahem, "tested" them.
If I were stranded on a desert island, I'd have a box of Pina Colada Cupcakes with Coconut Rum frosting. Not because they'd fit right in with the tropical island theme, but because they're just so damn good.
It's all about the frosting. The more, the better. (Think about it- have you ever seen anyone eat a cupcake from the bottom up? No, and there's a reason why.)
I've used sevral recipes from the Cake Mix Doctor, and I must admit, they're not bad. They're great when you don't have a lot of time on your hands and in fact, one of my go-to chocolate cupcake recipes uses a box mix.
The best thing about eating cake or cupcakes? You can't stop yourself from smiling. Have you ever seen someone with a cupcake frowning? No.
Is there a such thing as a bad cake? Trust me, you don't want to know of the horrors my oven has turned out. I'm talking Oh-my-God-is-that-a-cake-or-did-someone-eat-a-bag-of-Cheetos-and-vomit-in-a-cake-pan kind of bad.
OH! I thought I am going to see a cake here!!;D
Lat's see:
1. India and now in USA.
2. Plain Jane Vanilla cake with butter cream frosting.
3. once in two weeks, may be.
4. White or yellow moist, soft Vanilla cake please!
5. 3/4 cake, 1/4 Frosting.
6. Like Duncan Hines brand, mixes are convenient, never say no but made from scratch cake tastes way better!:)
7. Taking big bite into cake and frosting at the same time, no licking! Feels like B'day!:D
8. All dry and crumbly cakes are bad to me unless they are supposed to be crumbly!!
Enjoy the weekend. In my next post at FH, will post a beautiful "Shahi" Indian dish. Do you know what Shahi is? If not, just gave you something to do this weekend!:)
1. My formative years were in Ohio, but I've lived in Georgia for most of my life.
2. I don't knw if I really have a stand-out cake, but one of my fondest memories is knowing that, when I visited my grandmother's house in the summer, there would be at least 2 cakes on the dining room table at all times during my stay. There were always cakes and cupcakes to nibble on. Always. She's the reason I bake.
3. Probably once every 2 weeks for most of the year and several times a week around holidays (and my birthday, of course).
4. On a desert island... probably my grandmother's "sunshine cake" (a white/yellow vanilla cake with just a bare hint of orange) in cupcake form with a light buttercream frosting.
5. 2/3 cake to 1/3 icing sounds like a good ratio to me.
6. I don't have an issue with mixes - they can save a lot of time and you can always jazz them up.
7. Cutting another slice or getting another cupcake! It's really just a small piece of heaven.
8. Cakes that are too spiced, too dry, and icing that is either too sweet, not sweet enough, or runny.
1. Grew up in sunny southern California. Now in freezing Milwaukee, WI.
2. Cherry-Chocolate cake, it is a box of chocolate cake where the oil and water(?) is replaced with a can of cherry pie filling. Also, stripe-it-rich cake. Remember that? Where you poked holes in a sheet cake and then filled with pudding?
3. As often as possible and not nearly enough!
4. Twinkie-like cake!
5. 1/3 frosting to cake or less if cake is REALLY flavorful.
6. It is a decent jumping point but should never be relied upon as the whole recipe. EMBELLISH!
7. How cute they are!
8. dry texture, bad flavor, crisco-like frosting.
1. I grew in the suburbs of Boston, MA. I now live in Brooklyn, NY.
2. My favorite cake for my birthdays when I was a kid has to be ice cream cake.
3. Maybe once a month.
4. Green Tea (Matcha) Cake
5. I think that frosting can be too sweet sometimes, so prefer more cake with a light frosting. Unless it's whipped cream frosting.
6. I think they can be okay, but I prefer to make all my cakes from scratch.
7. The best thing about eating cake is drinking it with a tall glass of cold milk.
8. A bad cake is dry and the frosting is too sweet.
1. I grew up in Illinois and Southern Utah. I live in Las Vegas now.
2. My special cakes were a lemon cake on my birthday each year. It was from a box, but it was the special flavor just for me.
3. A couple times a week, but that's because my friend just opened her cupcake bakery. I'm sampling everything. My consumption should slow down (if I'm being responsible!)
4. Without a doubt, lemon.
5. 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting.
6. I used to be 100% fine with them, since it was all I knew. But after being exposed to real, from-scratch cupcakes, I don't need the boxed kind.
7. The fact that a cupcake is an individual dessert, just for me! It's not some chunk of a bigger group dessert, somehow that feels more special.
8. Unfortunately, yes there is a bad cake. I can't handle it when a cake is really dry.
1) I grew up in Pearl River, NY which is about 30min away from NYC. Now I am living in Wappingers Falls, NY.
2) There are 2 special cakes my mom used to make for passover...one was a flourless chocolate cake and the other was a cheesecake. She always made this for the sedar and served it with a raspberry sauce and homemade whipped cream. My sister and I loved it becausee there was always leftovers and we would eat that for breakfast for the rest of the week.
3) I don't eat cake as often as I would like...maybe 2 times a month. Of course more during the holiday/birthday times of the year. If I had my way it would be every day!
4) I am boring but I could never get sick of eating Chocolate cake with vanilla frosting...oh I want some right now!
5)It depends on my mood but I would say the average for me is 2/3 cake and 1/3 frosting.
6)I am ok with it but I do think homemade is just as easy as a mix to make.
7)I think the best thing about eating a cupcake is the portion size...one is just a perfect little snack and having more is just fun! The best thing about eating cake is there is lots more where that slice came from.
8) Unfortunately yes there is such a thing as a bad cake but that doesn't mean I will stop eating it. I think the worst is when it is too dry or too sweet and doesn't have any taste. Also when people try to put to much flavor into a cake and you can't figure out what it is suppose to be.
1. Where did you grow up? Where do you live now? I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, but I now go to school in (and am soon moving to) Northeastern Iowa.
2. What were some of the special cakes from your childhood (a Birthday cake? Grandma's German Chocolate? Or perhaps something from the local bakery or supermarket? Anything goes for us as long as it was special to you.)? : When I was really young, what mattered to me was how cool my cake looked, and my mom would always do cool cakes that I requested for my birthday. Later on, though, my favorite cake became my Great Grandma's homemade chocolate cake - I think I only had the real thing once, and though I have the recipe, my family tells me no one else has been able to exactly recreate it.
3. Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes? No judgments, we promise. Oh gosh, probably only once a month.
4. If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be? CHOCOLATE
5. On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting? 50/50? 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting? 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting? Other? 3/4 cake , 1/4 frosting - Even if the frosting is amazing, it's still only there to compliment the cake; and chances are, if it's a really good frosting, you couldn't stand much more than that anyways!
6. How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes? They can actually be very good when made from a good mix, and really helped get me into baking when I was just starting out.
7. What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes? Licking the frosting off the top before you eat it XD
8. Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad? YES. I have failed time and time again at making pineapple upside down cake - it always comes out in this dense, mushy goo.
1. I grew up in the Philippines and I currently live in Israel. Really far! :)
2. I guess my most special cake was my 7th bday chocolate cake. That was also my last bday with my dad. (Hehe, it's not as dramatic as it sounds! LOL)
3. I'm a new baker (started only October last year) and I practically bake everytime I'm running out of cupcakes/cakes. I eat it for breakfast with coffee and share it with my Israeli officemates.
4. It will be a Butter Cake, with White Chocolate Ganache frosting.
5. For me it should be 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting. The frosting should not overpower the cake!
6. I have never tried one, but I do keep a recipe called "scratch cake with box qualities" from baking.911. I can't find a cake mix here in Israel with instructions written in English so I haven't tried it yet. I would like to try it though, for experimentation purposes.
7. The best thing about cakes and cupcakes is the happiness that it brings to people. For a baker like me, the joy and satisfaction that it brings its during creation, and the burst of wonderful flavors that brings warmth to anyone eating it!
8. No matter how good a baker is or how a recipe had been tried and tested, the law of averages catches up. All sorts of problems come up on a bad day - dry cakes, sunken middle, too sweet, soggy, crusty and all other stuff! However, there is no such thing as a bad cake, it's just a bad baking day. :)
1. I grew up and still live in a small town just outside New Orleans.
2. I really looked forward to Turtle Cake during the holidays and Doberge Cake for birthdays.
3. Probably about once a month, on average. I lean more towards cookies, but cake is beginning to edge in there.
4. Doberge cake, easily.
5. I'm going to say 69% cake, 30% frosting, 1% sprinkles.
6. Well, I'm the baker in the house, so I think that mixes take all the fun out of it! They aren't nearly as tasty either, but I don't judge them too harshly.
7. Comfort, albeit temporary.
8. Oh yeah. I think cake is more susceptible to badness than most other baked goods. The worst thing is bad frosting, as I'm in the 'cake is a vehicle for frosting' camp.
1. Grew up in Southern California and am now living in Utah.
2. I was more of a cheesecake kid and my mom made killer strawberry cheesecake. A special cake that didn't get made very often was guava cake- yum!
3. I eat cake or cupcakes a few times a month.
4. Pumpkin spice with cream cheese frosting.
5. 2/3 cake 1/3 frosting
6. Some mixes are better than others, but homemade is usually the best.
7. Cupcakes are cute and I can eat one (or 2 or 3) w/o feeling guilty.
8. Not a big fan of dry or crusty cake. Or cake w/ too much frosting (I know- sacrilege, but I think there is such a thing).
Whoot! This is fun.
1. I grew up and currently live in Southern Missouri.
2. Cake mix. White, usually. My mom would make a simple frosting, and decorate it for the 4th of July.
3. Once every 2 weeks.
4. Dark chocolate fudge cake with a dark chocolate ganache.
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. If I have to bake a large amount, say like a baby shower, I would probably use cake mix.
I prefer from scratch, though. I can taste the sodium and chemicals in the mixes.
7. For me, it's the ultimate dessert. I prefer cake over any baked good. I especially enjoy a good frosting or ganache.
8. Yes! DRY!
aww this is cute! :)
1. I grew up mostly in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, where I still live, but in my very early childhood I spent a couple years flitting through Korea and Essex, Vermont.
2. My mother would always make me her specialty cream cake every birthday. It's a simple butter yellow recipe with mandarin oranges from a can [including the syrup] and walnut chunks and almond slices. She would top it with homemade whipped cream with shredded coconut on the sides, berries and peaches on the top, and dusted with sweet cocoa.
3. I usually only have cake on birthdays or holidays or special occasions, but they tend to pop up a lot, so I would say maybe once a month.
4. This is an absolutely ridiculous question [only one type???], but I would have to say my mother's cream cake from my childhood, with an addition of a few chocolate layers in between (:
5. I don't like there to be too much frosting. Usually when i make cakes, I like to frost my cakes with homemade whipped cream. I would have to say about 1:3 ratio?
6. Mixes aren't too bad, but there's something sweeter and more comforting about cakes from scratch.
7. There's always something comforting about cakes. The smell, the warmth, the sweetness, and especially the moment you might be enjoying with someone as you eat it.
8. I think the worst case scenario concerning cakes is if it is in excess in any way. Too sweet, too bland, too thick, too dry, etc. Usually, I don't like those giant impersonal cakes at little kids birthday parties because they're overly sugary and don't really represent the flavor. And I don't consider ice cream cakes to be cakes, but those are pretty bad too.
1. Where did you grow up? Where do you live now? I grew up in and currently live in Baltimore.
2. Hot milk cake, sour cream cake.
3. At least once a month, hopefully more often.
4. I like dark chocolate cakes with cream cheese icing.
5. 2/3 cake 1/3 icing. I hate when there is so much icing it gets on my nose.
6. Ick. Why bother? Making form scratch takes like 5 minutes longer and tastes better.
7. It always feels like a special occasion when you eat a cupcake!
8. Yes there is-one with a dried out cake or coarse crumb, crusty icing. Shortening use!
1. Where did you grow up? Where do you live now? I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and now live in suburbs of Akron, OH.
2. What were some of the special cakes from your childhood (a Birthday cake? Grandma's German Chocolate? Or perhaps something from the local bakery or supermarket? Anything goes for us as long as it was special to you.)? Hands down, an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen! Nothing beat the fudge layer with the crunchies!
3. Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes? No judgments, we promise. Probably about once a month.
4. If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be? Cheesecake! Does that count? It has "cake" in the word ;-)
5. On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting? 50/50? 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting? 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting? Other? About 50/50.
6. How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes? They're okay, I don't hate, but I prefer homemade :)
7. What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes? The frosting!
8. Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad? I've yet to have a bad cake!
1. Where did you grow up? Georgia
Where do you live now? Georgia
2. What were some of the special cakes from your childhood? A plain and simple yellow cake with chocolate frosting
3. Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes? about every other week
4. If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be? Red velvet cake balls
5. On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting? If the cake is good, 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting?
6. How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes? If I use them, I'll usually add pudding mixes or sour cream to them to make them taste better
7. What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes? It makes me feel like it's a special day.
8. Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad? Yes, if it's too dry.
1. Where did you grow up? Where do you live now?
Fremont, CA, I now live in San Francisco.
2. What were some of the special cakes from your childhood (a Birthday cake? Grandma's German Chocolate? Or perhaps something from the local bakery or supermarket? Anything goes for us as long as it was special to you.)?
My mother was a cake decorator, so it was more about the designs on top for a long time! I remember My Little Pony cakes, a giant sneaker, NTOKB! haha. Later in life it was Angel Food Cake with frosting!
3. Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes? No judgments, we promise.
Once a week? That doesn't include all the cookies & other sweets, eek!
4. If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be?
Ooh yikes.. vanilla / vanilla? If done well, I LOVE it. I could also throw down on something with caramel or peanut butter.
5. On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting? 50/50? 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting? 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting? Other?
I'm a frosting girl, but I'll say 50/50!
6. How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes?
NO, thank you!
7. What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes?
Deliciousness! haha.
8. Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad?
HELL YES! Dense, dry, flavorless, bad frosting, you name it, I'm a hater! haaaa.
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1. I grew up in what some hip kids may call the "dirty dirty" AKA: from Dothan, Alabama to Savannah/Atlanta Georgia. I finally escaped the south when I decided to move out here... being Berkeley/Oakland, California. Hallelujah, eh?!
2. I would have to say the most special, though not all the time my favorite, revolved around the coconut. My grandparents live in the Bahamas, and my Gram used to always make cakes, pies, bread, EVERYTHING with fresh coconut. Then, back in the states, my mom would use good ol' pre-shaven packaged coconut flakes + a certain brand of cream of coconut that she doesn't allow me to say out loud. Gotta love the "secrets".
3. I used to eat them every day. Now? Because I sometimes am a health freak, eating organic free range happy crappy foods (I blame my environment), I MAKE the lovely things... then I pawn them off on friends and co-workers, or use them to decorate my house, in cake stands, of course. Sad, isn't it?!
4. Simple: Red velvet with cream cheese icing. God, I love that stuff.
5. 11/16 cake to 5/16 frosting... carb crazy here.
6. I think the history behind the pre-packaged cake mix is interesting... it started this whole revolution. I'm no one to judge, but I will admit... I think birthdays were taken to a whole new level at the invention of Funfetti.
7. The frequent challenge of eating an entire cupcake in one shot. Oh yeah.
8. Yeah, they're called "low fat".
1. I grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, but now I live in Phoenix. I feel odd about this.
2. Typical cakes: a “Happy Day Cake” for my father’s birthday every year. It was white cake covered with a somewhat viscous, shiny white frosting and then dusted happily with fresh flake coconut! And then cake-mix cakes in a 9x13 glass Pyrex dish. Oh, and then the layer cakes I’d try to make twice a year or so.
3. I eat cake whenever possible. I just had my wedding cake try-out day, and it was glorious. Coffee cake, breakfast cake, 2:38p.m. cake, evening cake, Lost is almost on cake, yes.
4. If I were stranded and had to live on cake, I’d live on the cheesecake-flavored cake with chocolate cheesecake-flavored frosting my wedding cake maker makes because oooh lawd, child, that is some cake. It’s Cake. And it would remind me of happy days planning my wedding and eating cake. Love and cake. Love = Cake.
5. Ideal cake to frosting ratio is 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting. Provided it is good cake and good frosting. Otherwise, we must re-evaluate.
6. Cakes and cupcakes from mixes serve a purpose, like when you forget deodorant so when you’re in the restroom at say, school, or maybe a restaurant you dab some handsoap under your pits. You wash your hands again, of course, but cake from a mix is like that.
7. The best thing about eating cakes AND cupcakes is that first bite. And the last bite, when you’re really glad you got to have cake. That is how you experience true oneness with the universe.
8. A bad cake is one that someone else ate without giving me a piece. Then it must have been bad, and they were only trying to protect me, because no one could be that evil.
1. South Jersey, aaaand South Jersey
2. I remember the first time I was allowed to choose my birthday cake it was a monstrosity with cherry syrup, mint icing, and I can't even remember the cake type, just that it was grey. Ick
3. Not all that often, at most monthly I'd say.
4. Carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
5. I usually go for a middle piece of cake. It's evolved as I've aged: I started out NEEDING the corner piece, then I wanted a side piece, now I prefer the middle parts
6. They're alright by me, in general
7. The texture and how great milk goes with it
8. I don't think so, I really enjoyed that cake from #2 at the time (I doubt I would now). I mean, a cake can be ruined by improperly cooking it and all, but barring that, I'd say cake is good!
1. West Berlin, New Jersey--Los Angeles, California
2. Fudge Ribbon Cake (chocolate cake with a sweetened cream cheese riboon in the middle and a fudge style frosting)
Hot Milk Sponge (didn’t like it, but my grandmother made it a lot)
1234 Cake (same as above)
Peggy Lennon’s Christmas Cake
3. About twice a month. More often when possible.
4. Hershey’s Deep Dark Chocolate Cake (made with any cocoa other than Hershey’s) with vegan vanilla buttercream
5. 1/3 cake
6. I feel fine about them.
7. Cakes, typically, are not too sweet, unlike pie or pastry, and the sweetness can be adjusted according to the type and amount of frosting. Also, texture, the texture of cake is pleasing to me.
8. Bad cake is dry, flavorless or overly sweet.
Yay goodies!! :-)
1) I grew up in Southwest of France. Biarritz more exactly. I now live in New York City.
2) A special cake from my childhood was the Gateau Basque of course.
3) As much as i can! 2 or 3 times a year. :-)
4) That would be the mille-crepe cake from Lady M in NYC.
5) 1/4 frosting
6) I don't like the artificial taste of most cake mixes. But i'm picky! :-)
7) The pleasure. Feeling good.
8) I would say a really dry cake is a bad cake.
1. Grew up in Texas and other than a small stint in Louisiana and Kansas I have lived here for the majority of my life.
2. I remember three birthday cakes specifically. They were all done using special cake pans and they were Rageddy Ann, Holly Hobby and a Garfield the Cat birthday cakes. I also remember a wonderful plum cake that my Meemaw used to make on a regular basis. I would LOVE that recipe but have not been able to find it in all these years since she has passed.
3. I bake a cake about two times a month and sample cakes and cupcakes as we make them in school, too.
4. Something light with fruit on the side or on top with whipping cream. I do have a milk cake recipe I adore for this purpose.
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. I will do this in a pinch but prefer the homemade kind from classic recipes.
7. That perfect combination of cake and frosting doled into every single bite.
8. Not really fond of fruit cake! LOL All others will do nicely... :) as long as they are not dry and crumbly. I need a moist light cake.
1. I grew up in Seattle, Washington on Queen Anne Hill... my mom still lives up on Prospect street in a crazy-ass house! I live in Rio Rancho, New Mexico now.
2. My favorite cake, and STILL my favorite, it homemade POUND CAKE. I'm not much of a frosting girl...
3. I buy the kidlets sucky ones from Walmart prolly once a week because I'm too lazy to cook them, and there are no good bakeries in Rio Rancho :(
4. POUND CAKE! And any variant thereof... like a lemon tea cake with drizzly icing or an almondy heavy something cakeness...
5. Mostly cake, please. I'd like the icing on the side to dip my cupcake in, or drizzly on top.
6. Hmmm. I lived in England for 4 years and their cakes SUCKED and I would make boxed mixes from the commissary and the Brit ladies thought that I ROCKED. So mixes can be nice. I dunno... Is that bad?
7. A girlfriend brought over 4 'gourmet' cupcakes for 4 of us girlies to eat... they were all different flavors, so we cut them into 4 bite-sized pieces and shared and it was THE BEST! It was like wedding-cake tasting without the stress of a wedding. A 'round-the-world' cupcake bite would just rock my face off. Long story short, the best thing about cupcakes is SHARING!!
8. The cakes in the UK were really 'mealy' and yuck. And I've had STALE cupcakes - those are most definately bad.
**And this cake-loving Queen-Anner would LOVE to own a morsel of your art!! You guys are excellent :)
1) Manhattan and Connecticut. Philadelphia.
2)Mom made green birthday cakes with blue icing. White cake and icing, tinted with food coloring.
3)Not often enough! Twice or thrice a month.
4)White layer cake with dark chocolate frosting and violets pressed into the icing.
5) 3/4 cake, 1/4 icing.
6) Better than no cake or cupcakes but not as good as from scratch. Often mix cake made at home tastes better than bakery cakes. But again, not as good as from scratch.
7)Grounds you in the moment of deliciousness.
8) Yes. Stale is bad. Chemical aftertaste is bad. Things can go wrong in cake-ville.
1) Grew up in Pacifica, CA. I live in San Francisco now.
2) Special cake: Ensymada Pastry (Filipino dessert)
3) Though I LOVE LOVE LOVE sweets, I restrict my intake to about 1 per month.
4) Red Velvet Cupcakes (with extra chocolate)!!!!
5) 50/50 hahahaa
6) I prefer cakes from scratch.
7) Cupcakes -- practically bite size
8) NO such thing -- not in my book
1. I grew up in N. Florida (The South, U.S. of eh?), now I live in the beautiful Pacific North West in Portland, Or.
2. I remember thinking the Rainbow Bright cake I had on my 3rd birthday was pretty awesome. Also, my Grandma's Butternut cakes..mmmm.
3. I don't really keep track...just whenever the urge strikes!
4. Probably something semi-sweet rather than sickeningly sweet or super rich. I think they'd stay enjoyable longer that way.
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting.
6. I admit I cheat and use them sometimes...but I always tinker with them to make them better.
7.um...the eating of them! This question seems self-explanatory, haha!
8. I think they could be pretty terrible if along with the sweet goodness they came complete with eggshells and baker's hair.
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-Candice
1) I grew up in Sydney, Australia. I am now at law school in Boston.
2) My mother barely cooks, and definitely doesn't bake. My usual birthday cake was a frozen Sara Lee Black Forest Cake, which is a cake that is remarkably delicious when only half-thawed. (But only average, at best, when fully thawed.) I think it's something about the cherries.
3) About once every two weeks.
4) Lemon pound cake soaked in lemon glaze. Tangy and delicious, and it wards off scurvy, too!
5) It depends on the kind of frosting. If we're talking buttercream, or gooey chocolate, 1/3 frosting. If we're talking any other kind of frosting... someone else can have my frosting.
6) Mixes can be useful, particularly if you can make buttercream without a problem, but experience technical difficulties with white cake. *cough*
7) Second helpings.
8) I maintain that angel food cake is a dreadful creation. You say "ethereal," I say "sweetened sawdust."
1.Richmond; Fredericksburg/Richmond
2.My mom’s recipes for her Coconut Cake and her blue-ribbon winning Carrot Cake
3.Only on birthdays/holidays
4.Apple Cake with Caramel Glaze…mmm or Tres Leche Cake…mmm
5.2/3 Cake, 1/3 Frosting with a little extra frosting on the side
6.Cakes from mixes are fine. In fact some cakes from mixes I’ve had are actually better than cakes from scratch because the emulsifiers and assorted chemical things that are in the box mixes make the cake moister
7.Actually, I like pie better…
8.Dry Cake **Shudder**
1.Where did you grow up? Where do you live now? Louisiana, Virginia
2.What were some of the special cakes from your childhood? Homemade (by me) chocolate birthday cake for my birthdays, Nana's lemon layer cake, the other Gramma didn't bake, but always had Pepperidge Farms layer cakes in the freezer.
3. Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes? On average, once a week. When in NYC every day.
4. If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be? Chocolate cake with white buttercream icing.
5. On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting? 50/50? 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting? 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting? Other? 1/3 frosting to 2/3 cake
5. How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes? If they're tasty, I'm fine with it. No judgement.
6. What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes? Cake always loves me! No, really, it just makes me smile.
7. Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad? Is there such thing as bad sex? HA! I kid. The worst is a cake that's beautiful, but flavorless. Dry cake is pretty bad, too. Oh, and whipped cream icing, that's bad for cake.
1. Where did you grow up? Where do you live now? Knoxville,TN and I am still here in Knoxville, TN
2. What were some of the special cakes from your childhood (a Birthday cake? Grandma's German Chocolate? Or perhaps something from the local bakery or supermarket? Anything goes for us as long as it was special to you.)? I always wanted chocolate cake with chocolate icing..my mom always made them from a box and can icing.
3. Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes? Here lately 1-2 times a week.
4. If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be? I would have to say chocolate on chocolate!
5. On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting? 50/50? 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting? 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting? Other? I would have to say 50/50.
6. How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes? I would prefer to make them from scratch, but when you are in a hurry, boxes do just the trick.
7. What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes? Getting the icing all over your face like a kid again!
8. Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad? Dry cake, a bad tasting cake, and that sickening sweet from crisco and powdered sugar frosting.
This is so neat!! I can be reached at tiffanymichele@Optonline.net
1. I grew up and still live on Long Island, NY.
2. My mom made me a choo-choo train cake, a teddy bear cake and a Ms. PacMan cake for some of my birthdays. It was always a treat to wake up that morning and see what there was waiting for me.
3. At least once or twice a week.
4. Yellow cake, chocolate frosting (the fast fudge frosting recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook)
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. I don't think they're bad at all. There's a reason for progress.
7. The happy full feeling afterwards. Picture the cartoon where the dog goes up in the air by his ears and comes sailing down to the ground after eating a bone - that's how I feel after good cake.
8. Yes! The worst is dry diner cake that's been sitting in the display case too long.
Oohhh so fun! :)
1. In sunny Singapore and I am still living here now.
2. I love the soft chiffon pandan flavoured cake here in Singapore. I get them from the local bakeries.
3. I eat them at least 3 times a month during a busy school schedule. More often when I'm free with loads of time to bake.
4. Strawberry cheese cake. Yum-O.
5. 1/3 Frosting to 1 cake.
6. I use them for large portions and add my own touch to it with the frosting/icing. But as much as possible I bake from scratch.
7. Licking up the plate.
8. There's such cake, from a baker who is bad at learning. However if the baker is patient enough, there is no such thing as a bad cake. Sincerity is all that matters.
Where did you grow up? Where do you live now?
I grew up and still live in Redding Ca.
What were some of the special cakes from your childhood?
My mom made a choclate cake mix in a 9X13in pan and served it with hot fudge sauce she made. Then she would pour the rest on the left over cake and it would get kind of hard and sugary. I liked it best hot!
Presently, how often do you eat cake or cupcakes?
Wow, let me look back over my posts. 2 a month?
If you were stranded on a desert island and had to live on one type of cake or cupcake for the rest of your life...what type would it be?
chocolate chipotle cinnamon. I'm hooked on that flavor combo!
On cupcakes, what is your ideal ratio of cake to frosting?
2/3-1/3
How do you feel about cakes or cupcakes from mixes?
O.K. buy me!
What's the best thing about eating cake or cupcakes?
The party in my mouth.
Is there a such thing as a bad cake? If so, what makes it bad
I just baked a bad cake. It was all eggy in the middle.
1. I grew up a bit of everywhere! Born in WI, 7 years in East TX, 2 in NC, and the last 16 north of KC, MO (where I presently reside with my hubby of 3 years)
2. My Granny makes an Apple-Stack cake (I promise to try to recreate it soon and link you on it b/c it's divine) It's yellow or white cake baked in 9" rounds thin like pancakes, then layered up with Apples or Applesauce that she cooks down with all sorts of different spiced until it's this great consistency, then she piles it all together..a day in the fridge and some ice cold milk, heaven.
3.Presently, I'm 7 mo pregnant, and where I probably SHOULDN'T be eating cake so much, I'm making cupcakes at least once a week. Did I mention I'm having a girl, and that print would be SOOOO cute in her bedroom? Hint hint!
4.ooh, hard one. I don't think I can really get tired of coconut cake, and hey..since I'm on an island..I could have fresh coconut!
5. 3/4 cake, 1/4 frosting. As much as I love frosting, I've only come across a couple that I can really do a 50/50 on. And of course different flavors of cupcakes need different icings..so it depends on that too. I'm more on the cake though.
6. I'm an equal opportunist. However, with that being said I've recently started making from scratch, and I really do think they taste better.
7.The texture euphoria. That great feeling you get in your mouth when the frosting hits the roof and the spongey/crumbling cake hits your tongue. Ahh...that gave me chills.
8. It's hard to make it bad, but it does happen sadly. Cake that is too dry, and frosting that is too heavy can really dampen the dream.
1. i grew up in Singapore and the Middle East...i was a Third Culture Kid...i'm living back in Ireland now.
2. my great aunt made the best gingerbread ever! i wouldn't even let her cool it properly before i started nagging her for a slice. my nana made fabulous rice pudding...you'd wake up in the middle of the night to eat it only it never lasted that long!
3. oh no!!! and now the truth shall set you free... twice a week...sometimes more...gulp!
4. caramel mudcake cupcakes with vanila buttercream icing
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. have never used them...i'm a make-it-from-scratch-kinda girl!
7. it's the perfect portion for one! you don't feel guilty for not wanting to share, you don't feel like you're over-eating, it's the perfect one-person sized helping!
8. not long ago someone brought to my house one of those frozen pie desserts from the supermarket and even though we followed instructions when baking it in the oven it just tasted...from a package.
1. Grew up in Fowler, Michigan and now live in San Jose, California
2. I can think of 3 memorable cakes. My mother's upside-down pineapple cake, moist and buttery. My mother's chocolate chocolate-chip cake with this creamy white icing. Third would be a chocolate cake with thick chocolate buttercream frosting from a local bakery.
3. I only have them once a month, but that's only due to self-retraint.
4. I love all sorts of fancy flavors, but there's something about a white cake with with frosting (i.e. like wedding cake) that is mellow and soothing.
5. 2/3 cake, 1/3 frosting
6. Mixes are quick, but often flavorless and with a different texture. Nothing compares to cakes/cupcakes made from scratch.
7. They make me happy. They are one of those foods that just relax me.
8. Yes. Frozen cakes from the grocery store are bad cakes. They are lifeless and the texture feels likes air (not cake)
*fingers crossed that I win*
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1. I grew up in Las Vegas. I now live in Salt Lake City.
2. My mom wasn't a great cook. So I learned to cook pretty young. Since I was old enough to bake, I was the resident cake maker/decorator. When I was 12 I made a cake for my dad with little penguins swimming and chilling on icebergs.
3. Oh, I probably eat cake every other week.
4. I love fancy cupcakes with interesting flavors. But if I could only eat one for the rest of my life, I'd choose chocolate with chocolate frosting.
5. I usually scrape off the frosting leaving just a small amount left on the cake.
6. I'm totally fine using a box mix, as long as you don't use oil and add something special to it.
7. Cake and cupcakes usually means a celebration of some sort. I love the idea of someone having a cake made especially for them.
8. I usually don't care for grocery store bought cakes.
Thanks for this...I needed to take my mind somewhere else today...
1. Northern Utah
2. I remember cute little ceramic knick knacks on my cakes as a child. I also remember grandma's pecan pie. No one could make it better. She is gone now and I have the recipe, but it just isn't ever as good.
3. At least three times a week. Mostly just taste testing before my cakes go out the door.
4. Lemon cake with vanilla custard filling and cream cheese icing. mmmmmmm....
5. Depends on the icing, but mostly I like just enough to keep the cupcake moist.
6. Love them! If you make them right that is. If you add certain ingredients and play with mixes a bit, they taste almost homemade and the mix can be your best friend in a fix!
7. As long as people keep eating cake, I stay in business. *grin*
8. Dry cake. Hate it! I would rather it be undercooked a bit than dry. There is nothing worse.
1. The awesome central coast of California and now the bay area of California.
2.Cherry cream cheese cake was always my birthday request...my mommy made it every time.
3.Not very often.
4.Cherry cream cheese cake.
5.1/4 frost to 3/4 cake.
6.Mixes are fine.
7.Diving into another world of pleasure.
8.Non-fluffy cake=bad cake.
1. I grew up in Massachusetts and still live there.
2. My mom baked constantly while I was growing up. I love anything she bakes. It's hard to pick one cake, but I loved how my brother and I could pick any cake that we wanted for our birthdays. I'm usually the type that says surprise me, but vanilla or chocolate with mocha frosting was always wonderful. Oh and I remember the first time I saw a marble cake I was so excited! Vanilla and chocolate in one cake! Could life be any sweeter?
3. It depends if it's a birthday month or not, but probably 4-5 times a month.
4. One type of cake or cupcake... That's a hard one. Maybe an Angel Food Cake? I think because it would be light and a desert island would be hot.
5. I think 1/4 frosting.
6. For me personally, I feel like I'm cheating if I bake from boxed mixes, but if other people are baking for me, I have no problem with i