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What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

ECBG — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:46:20 GMT

I always asked for the same thing from our large hometown bakery.

Chocolate (two layer) cake, white icing, blue roses.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

qualitygal — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:48:33 GMT

If cakes were made, good old mom did it. We didn't do parties, or make a big deal out of it. Not that I recall. I don't recall ever having a party. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

FlyersGirl — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:49:31 GMT

I was born on Halloween so I always received (and wanted) a Halloween themed cake. Yellow cake with chocolate icing and lots of "spooky" decorations.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

ECBG — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:51:57 GMT

@FlyersGirl wrote:
I was born on Halloween so I always received (and wanted) a Halloween themed cake. Yellow cake with chocolate icing and lots of "spooky" decorations.

@FlyersGirl HOW unique!!!!!

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

on the bay — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:57:41 GMT

@ECBG -

What a lovely post!

@qualitygal -that is so sad!

Here are mine-

coconut cake.

and my aunt always made us a white cake with all kinds of different colored specks in the cake! I think it was angel food. I always thought that was the most amazing thing.

Now, it is my daughters white cupcakes with white frosting. She is such a great gourmet cook but these are made from box and the icing from the can And that is just the way I like it! No fru fru ingredients or fluff or designer things, just give me icing from the can and the cake from the box lol!

I don't know why.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

jeanlake — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:58:29 GMT

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

qualitygal — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:11:44 GMT

My folks probably convinced me that Halloween was my treat day. (10 days later). LOL

Back to add: mom made cupcakes and the whole class shared that for birthdays. I almost forgot that. LOL

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

nana59 — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:00:10 GMT

@FlyersGirl wrote:
I was born on Halloween so I always received (and wanted) a Halloween themed cake. Yellow cake with chocolate icing and lots of "spooky" decorations.

my favorite day of the year! i'm so envious!!

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

Tinkrbl44 — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:03:58 GMT

Well, my go-to cake was always Carrot Cake ... or German Chocolate .... more for the coconut frosting than the chocolate.

However, somewhere along the way, I had a piece of a Boston Cream Pie cake .... yellow with good quality pudding and a chocolate frosting ..... and I had a few of those, too.

I liked the idea of taking a week or so to decide what the upcoming cake would be. It was a big decision for me.

Always with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, of course.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

Travone — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:04:05 GMT

Mom always made the birthday cakes. Didn't matter what flavor of cake as long as it had her buttercream frosting on it.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

azgal — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:05:30 GMT

It was an icebox cake made with graham crackers spread with cream whipped with Ghirardelli cocoa.

I far as I know it was my grandmother's recipe. It's now four generations that love it for a birthday cake. Sometimes they choose something else but most of the time the family wants this.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

FastDogWalker2 — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:06:06 GMT

From our local bakery - yellow cake, buttercream frosting and yellow roses!

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

qualitygal — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:07:33 GMT

@on the bay I don't feel I ever missed anything. So no problem.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

ECBG — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:08:31 GMT

@jeanlake wrote:

@jeanlake THAT! LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!!

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

FastDogWalker2 — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:09:35 GMT

@on the bay My DH is the same - he must have Pillsbury chocolate cake with Pillsbury vanilla frosting. He likes me to decorate it with A LOT of colorful nonnonpareils. It's his fave!

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I am still oxox — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:12:13 GMT

From a bakery named Sherblooms which I think was on 167 street near Yankee Stadium, typical birthday cake, whote frosting with pink roses, mmm I can still taste it

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

Peaches McPhee — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:14:47 GMT

Ice cream cake!

Chocolate on the bottom, vanilla on the top, and that yummy crunchy chocolate stuff in the middle.

I still love it!

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

GenXmuse — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:20:08 GMT

White cake with white frosting. One year I got a cake with a Barbie style doll in it and her dress was the cake. Ice cream cake is a favorite too.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

marky — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:25:31 GMT

@GenXmuse wrote:
White cake with white frosting. One year I got a cake with a Barbie style doll in it and her dress was the cake. Ice cream cake is a favorite too.

Re: What Was Your Favorite Birthday Cake Growing Up?

Dinaki — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:26:53 GMT

I cant recall someone offering me birthday cakes when I was small.

At age 7, my mom sent me to a Swiss boarding shool.

At age 14, I came back to Addis Abeba and few weeks later my arrival, a coup d' etat formed and we had to flee the country with one suitcase each!

So no, I dont recall birthday parties and birthday cakes as child.