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Continuing with the theme of “Back to School” for our cookbook giveaway, today we’re giving away a sweet little History lesson with Vintage Cakes, a cookbook of recipes for cakes from recent and sometimes distant past…
How to Enter this Cookbook Giveaway
- Leave a comment with your favorite kind of cake! Basic Chocolate Birthday Cake? Airy Angel Food Cake? Pineapple Upside Down Cake?!?! Don’t worry if you don’t eat cake (like me), just make something up. It doesn’t matter what you say, as this is a random drawing, but it does matter that you do comment with something.
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You have until Thursday September13, 2012 at 5 PM PST to comment. Everyone is welcome to comment to enter, but we can only ship this stuff in the U.S. (So if you’re outside the US and win, you just need to provide us with a US mailing address to send!)
Good luck!
(And by the way, in case anyone is wondering, even though “I don’t always eat cake,” when I do, it’s always rich chocolate layer cake with chocolate ganache filling and super thick chocolate frosting!)
More Photos of Vintage Cakes:
Lovelight Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Whipped Cream
Lemon Queen Cupcakes
Kentucky Bourbon Bundt Cake (!!!)
Info About the Author (from the publisher):
“Each recipe in Vintage Cakes is a confectionary stroll down memory lane. After sifting through her treasure trove of cookbooks and recipe cards, master baker and author Julie Richardson selected the most inventive, surprising, and just plain delicious cakes she could find. The result is a delightful and delectable time capsule of American baking, with recipes spanning a century.
Each cake has been expertly tested and retooled using the best ingredients and most up-to-date techniques. With precise and careful guidance, Richardson guides home bakers—whether total beginners or seasoned cooks—toward picture-perfect meringues, extra-creamy frostings, and lighter-than-air chiffons.
A few of the dreamy cakes that await: a chocolatey Texas Sheet Cake as large and abundant as its namesake state, the boozy Not for Children Gingerbread Bundt cake, and the sublime Lovelight Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Whipped Cream. With recipes to make Betty Crocker proud, these nostalgic and foolproof sweets rekindle our love affair with cakes.”
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I love a good, old fashioned white birthday cake — with an ultra-fluffy buttercream. I want to go and make that right now. While donning a frilly apron.
When I was a kid, I used to love those vanilla ice cream cakes with strawberry filling and vanilla frosting. They’d have to be refrigerated so when we ate them, they’d be so cold that you can barely tell which part is cake and which is frosting. Thinking of it still brings back memories of childhood. Yum!
as a southern girl,i love a made from scratch HummingBird Cake….its not very figure friendly but its amazingly good and sweet and its the best thing when youre with family
I love German chocolate cake!
Strawberry shortcake :9
Moi? I’m huge on strawberry chiffon cake, filled with fresh strawberries and iced simply in whipped cream. Heavenly.
just plain yellow or vanilla cake with a classic chocolate frosting will do..
My favorite vintage cake is Butternut Pound Cake. It’s hard to get the vanilla butternut flavoring but it’s so worth it!
My favor cake is the German Chocolate Cake. The first time I ever have a slice of this wonderful cake, I was about 8 years old. I still remember the day. I am now *~?^&*# and have three grand children. All three of them love German Chocolate cake. Now I have a reason to make it more often.
chocolate cake with ganache icing.
I’m a sucker for a good carrot cake. I don’t know if it’s the cream cheese frosting or the spicy sweetness of the cake, I just know that I love that combination.
Chocolate
My mom’s yogurt cake! :)
This is a toss up for me between carrot cake and boozy bundt cakes – rum, whiskey, amaretto, whatever works!
Chocolate cake with white buttercream!
Carrot Cake!
Any kind of lemon layer cake!
My favorite cake for my birthday has always been chocolate cake with chocolate frosting! Yummy!
Fluffy yellow cake with chocolate frosting and LOTS of pink frosting flowers!
I can’t get enough angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream…
Coconut Cream Pie Cake!!!! <33
Boston Cream Pie!
Red Velvet EVERYWHERE
Milkyway cake. As soon as I found out those existed, I made one and ate it.
I love Portuguese Orange Cake! Citrusy and delicious!
chocolate torte with ganache with fresh strawberries and cream :)
Red Velvet!
red velvet cake with cream cheese frostinggggg
cheeeesecaaaake!
Oreo cheesecake!
mmm…guava cake!
My wife’s homemade Devil’s Food Cake with chocolate ganache.
Deep dark moist chocolate cake.
love strawberry shortcake
I love a chocolate sour-cream cake, bundt style with chocolate chips!!
Something citrus-y…lemon chiffon or flourless orange cake.
My favorite of all time is certainly German Chocolate (with carrot cake as a close runner up).
I love a buttermilk chocolate cake with a chocolate fudge frosting or a Carmel cake with Carmel frosting.
Moist rich ‘Lemon’ cake with whipped icing
any day any time anywhere any place..
I love me some good old-fashioned dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache. Plot twist: One day I made one and threw in some hazelnut praline in between the layers. It was the happiest day of my life.
Coconut cake with toasted marshmallow frosting! YUM
Ice Cream Cake!
I love chocolate cake. Plain and simple but dense and dark. Thats my kind of cake :)
Peach and plum cake cockaigne from The Joy of Cooking
Mint chocolate ice cream cake!
Victoria sponge.
For me it has to be my mom’s Graham Cracker Cake with real vanilla whipped cream!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s the BEST CAKE EVER!!!!!! It also brings back great memories of days gone by.
I love gingerbread! Especially at this time of year.
I love boston creme pie. That totally counts as a cake, right?
red velvet, with cream cheese frosting…heck yeah
My favorite cake is chocolate layer cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.
I adore carrot cake with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting!!!
It’s a tie between pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate stout cake with chocolate ganache!
I absolutely love a good Chocolate Cake filled with a soft Dulce de Leche Cheesecake layer and a light Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream frosting. *.*
I love a good chocolate raspberry cake!
Dark chocolate cake with vanilla coconut frosting….mmm
Jack Daniel’s Pound Cake (with a chocolate swirl if I’m feeling decadent, which is usually) in a bundt pan with a whiskey caramel glaze or chocolate ganache.
chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!!!!!!
I still can’t compete with the basic chocolate/chocolate my grandma would make for birthdays. I know it was from a box, but she always made it special.
yellow cake. with chocolate icing! Every birthday :)
I love, love, love my mother’s pumpkin cheesecake! (And I’m also a sucker for a good old-fashioned angel food cake!)
Well, I’ll take any type of cake but I love death by chocolate cake or ( a good) red velvet!
I love chocolate pound cake & red velvet Cake with butter cream .
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
Sour Cream Pound Cake – still made by my Mom in the Bundt pan she’s been using since the 1970′s…there’s nothing better.
Cake to me is extra special cuz if you only knew my Cake nightmares 8).
If you did a timeline of my BD cakes from infancy to my old age now what you would see are cakes baked for HOURS and never completely baked, to angel food cakes with so many holes it couldn’t stand up straight. That said my grandpa’s CRUMBY Banana cake, which never made it out of his brain onto paper will always be my favorite. That said Grandma’s Dafodil cake was always a wonderful surprise….
Rainbow cake with buttercream frosting!
I am a cake love. German chocolate cake is my number one love.
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Dark chocolate cake with ganache!
Carrot Cake!
cheesecake!
I love ice-cream cakes with some kind of berry filling.
CARROT cake! soooo delish!
Yellow cake with chocolate buttercream!
I make a chocolate cake with beets that is so delicious and moist. Love it!!
Red Velvet Cake!
My favorite is definitely red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting! So delicious!
Coconut cake!!
My very favorite cake is Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Guinness Cake. I make it every chance I get to!
My All Time favorite vintage cake is Almond Crunch Cake. It brings back such warm happy memories :D
Lemon cake with mascarpone frosting!
Chocolate angel food cake with chocolate whipped cream frosting. Yum :)
Red velvet
Marble cake is my favorite with cream cheese frosting. Warm from the oven…yum
Dark,spicy and moist Gingerbread!
Chocolate with my mom’s homemade fluffy white frosting!
Rum cake! Rum Cake! RUM cake!!!
My moms fresh apple cake or my red velvet cake. Cake is one of the things I can alter easily to meet my food allergy requirements.
Carrot cake!
Any cake… But lately I’ve been craving chocolate and fruits, so for my bday I made from scratch chocolate hazelnut apricot cake with whipped cream frosting, so as of a couple of weeks ago, this is my favourite. The best ever.
Bill Knapps Celebration cake, without a doubt!
Rose Cardamom!
Coconut cake with coconut cream filling and meringue frosting!
chocolate cake, yummy.
I absolutely love the Sour Cream-Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting and Chocolate-Peanut Butter Glaze from Sky High Cakes. I love making it too; it’s so simple and easy to put it all together :]
Dark chocolate stout cake with Bailey’s buttercream frosting. Best birthday cake I ever baked for myself :)
i adore carrot!
I love Apple cake!
I love to mix recipes and one of my favorite combinations is a Death by Chocolate sour cream bundt cake with a Kahlua/creme de cacao glaze!
French apple cake!
My favourite cake is earl grey tea mousse cake. Soft, fluffy & scrumptious :)
Pound cake with lemon glaze!
Strawberry shortcake OR Angelfood with Raspberry sauce
Flo Braker’s buttermilk cake, hands down.
Spice cake with maple frosting.
Yellow cake with chocolate sour cream frosting!
Moist chocolate chunk cake with creamy, fluffy, white coconut filling, and a coconut 7-minute frosting, completed with flaked coconut covering the outside. Bea-ute-ee-ful.
Hmm… Can I have twooo favorites? Maybe not technically, but I’m doing it! Angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream and pound cake with lemon pudding :).
I like baking my own cake for my birthday (it’s the one day I can bake whatever *I* want) – I love a nice lemon cake with a tart lemon glaze. Maybe a few strawberries on the side.
Really I have to choose 1? I used to like the simplicity of angel food cake, but I have stated that I would marry the man who made me some version of chocolate and bourbon (perhaps an Irish trifecta)
definitely carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
Chocolate. With Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting :-)
Italian Whip Cream Cake with Fresh Fruit Filling. Yummmmmmm!
I love anything lemony or citrusy myself, but my specialty is moist, light, yummy vegan cupcakes of all kinds.
Probably the goat cheese cake my friend made with a fig topping. it was a amazing.
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
I love german chocolate cake! <3
Carrot cake with walnuts, cinnamon and cardamom and twice the ordinary amount of lime and vanilla cream cheese icing
Carrot cake. Thanks!
Nothing like a chocolate truffle cake. But I love pancake cake.. I made it once with raspberries and grand marnier whipped cream. It was so good and perfect for a rainy summer day (and we have a lot of those in Denmark :p)
simple but sweet! red velvet rocks!
My favorite is chocolate cake with a raspberry filling and maybe some ganache as well
My absolute favourite cake is the chocolate mint roll cake they are absolutely amazing i love them every time i make the cake i fall in love with it again and again and again but i also absolutely love the all Lemon cake.
Oh my, pick one flavor? I do love red velvet, but mostly for its cream cheese frosting. Even better, mush it into a cake ball & coat in white chocolate.
I love German chocolate cake…even though there is no way coconut has anything to do with Germany…
My favorite cake? Ugh, that’s hard! I had a particularly delicious lemon poppyseed vegan cake at a bakery in NYC that I really liked, but I guess I’d ultimately go for a rich chocolate cake with ganache and chocolate mousse filling. Dreamy.
Cheesecake！！！I love cheesecake so much, but I love any buttery cake .
Oooh… maybe it’s nostalgia but the thought of fluffy chocolate cake with creamy frosting I got as kid for my birthday has yet to be topped.
Fave cake (lately) is banana cake with caramel frosting.
Mango filled vanilla cake with Asian buttercream =]
Lemon poppy seed cake
A simple, classic, dense Pound cake. Or a Carrot cake with lots of raisins, nuts, coconuts, chunky grated carrots with creamcheese frosting!
Oh my gosh, I’m stuck between choosing a favourite one out of the many much loved cakes on my list!! Hmm, a light, fluffy sponge cake with jam and cream?? Or maybe a Tiramisu sponge cake? Or a moist chocolate cake with smooth, rich, chocolate frosting? Or perhaps a rich, gooey, fudgey, chocolatey brownie….
Chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Every time.
I like all cake but I really like Texas Sheet Cake, no nuts.
Love any citrus based cakes. Hard to choose just one but my favorites are lemon and clementine cakes
It’s gotta be a moist chocolate cake (who can resists chocolate?)!
I love pound cake!
“Death by Chocolate” Cake *drools* what death should taste like.
i love quince cake and everyone have ever try by me it have the same opinion!
:)
For my mum’s last birthday, I made a blueberry lemon curd cake iced with blueberry meyer lemon marmalade icing. It was just divine and has become my new favorite!
I love Black Forest Cake!
Philadelphia Style Butter Cake!!!
Lately, it’s been “boy bait” over top any kind of fresh fruit I can lay my hands on–but blueberries are a perennial favorite!
Yellow cake with chocolate icing!
I LOOOOOOVE GOEY DRIZZLED LEMON ICING ON LEMON CAKE….sooo LIGHT and YUMMY!!!!
German Chocolate Cake all the way!
love swedish meringue torte topped with strawberries and fresh whipping cream!
Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting!
vanilla bean angel food cake with buttercream and sprinkles!
Red velvet cake with a really rich cream cheese-based frosting!
Oh my, orange chocolate cakes definitely are my favorite!
My own German Chocolate Cake.
Japanese-style castella is my current favorite! It’s very good with vanilla ice cream.
Vanilla cake with Vanilla Buttercream. Either that or a cranberry coffee cake thing my husband makes me make for him at least once a month.
Basic yellow two layer with vanilla cloudburst frosting.
I saw this book at the store after hearing about it before it came out, and I couldn’t help but stand in the cookbook aisle and look through the whole thing. It’s a beautiful book, and the cakes tempt even me, a generally non-cake person.
My favorite cakes have fruit, a thin glaze, maybe a hint of lemon, and little fuss in their appearance.
I realize this makes me sound oh so tacky, but my mom always made me strawberry cake from the box for my birthdays (originally I liked it because it’s pink) and it became a sort of tradition. She would hilariously decorate the outside with fresh strawberries and I thought it was the fanciest cake in the world!
My favorite has to be homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Nothing tops it!
Chocolate Cake!!
I love Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cake.
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Ice cream cake! If i have to pick an actual cake, it would be texas sheet cake warm from the oven with chocolate frosting and those round colorful sprinkles on top.
I have always loved a rich creamy carrot cake… bunch of nuts,carrots, cream cheese frosting, yummy!!! But after living a few years in NYC, I always think about Red Velvet. On my list as well.
My favorite is almond cake with butter cream icing and real strawberries for the filling! Yummmy!!
Tres leches cake!
My favorite is a Chocolate Sheet Cake. Chocolate & nuts, yum!
Angel Food Cake with Strawberries and Cream
I love carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!
guinness chocolate cake!
As a child it was plain chocolate bundt cake, but as I’ve grown it’s changed to angel food.
Red Velvet Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting!
Chocolate souffle cupcakes with espresso buttercream.
Hummingbird Cake
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting… divine!
I think I’d have to chose lemon layer cake. Oh man it’s good!
My mom’s applesauce cake.
Lemon cake with cream cheese frosting and raspberry filling!
I just love lemon layer cake. No wait, strawberry pink lady cake with real strawberry buttercream. Oh! Or how about chocolate cake with vanilla bean frosting?! Honestly, as long as it’s cake and it’s homemade, it’s all good.
The birthday cake I request every year from a little bakery in Queens, NY. White cake with cannoli cream filling and chocolate fudge frosting. Heaven.
I love all chocolate cakes. Chocolate souffle cake, chocolate cake with chocolate ganache frosting, chocolate lava cake with vanilla bean ice cream. I can’t decide which one I like best!
Apple pie. Simply the best!
CARROT CAKE!!! CREAM CHEESE FROSTING and lots of it!
Dark Chocolate Cake with a Equally Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
yellow cake with chocolate frosting– classic!
or, funfetti :)
I love chocolate cake with sea foam frosting.
Harvey Wallbanger Orange Bundt Cake.
I love love coconut cake. It’s unfailingly delicious, provides opportunities to try out many different frosting variations, AND the shredded coconut hides any flaws in my frosting application.
Lemon Curd Cake. Oh so yum in the tum.
My favorite cake is old fashion chocolate cake.
chocolate cake with fresh whip cream!
my favorite cake by far is my mama’s red velvet cake!
chocolate cake – chocolate icing – what more do you need?
Homemade Funfetti birthday cake!
This book looks delightful! I love tiramisu… best cake hands down!
I <3 mocha chiffon cake. Done right, it never gets dry, texture is light yet moist and the flavor is strong =)
I love German Chocolate Cake! the best!
Chocolate cake with salted caramel buttercream!
carrot cake
ice cream cake!
Red velvet cake!
german chocolate
I love Jell-O poke cake. Doesn’t get much better than that and you can play with the different flavors and colors
Chiffon cake!
chocolate and banana cake!
rich chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting:)
My favorite cake is an Ugly Duckling Pudding Cake. So good!
Texas chocolate cake with ooey gooey frosting!!
Waldorf Astoria Cake (a/k/a Red Velvet Cake). My aunt, who was a wonderful baker, gave me the recipe 52 years ago ! And it’s still my favorite !!!
My best friends carrot cake <3
Lemon Pound Cake is my favorite. Now I’m salivating.
I love a good ole’ chocolate cake with chocolate frosting!
Carrot Cake!
I love chocolate cake with a cream ganache but after seeing the beautiful bundt pan cake in the cook book, I remembered my love for a good sour cream pound cake also!
lemond pound cake. yum!
Carrot Cake with Creme Cheese Frosting!!!
Icebox cake!
I love Ice Cream cake!!!
Amaretto Pound Cake!
I’m a Celiac, so for years cake was a tough one for me. Recently I’ve gotten quite good at converting recipes from glutenful to gluten-free, so it’s been less of a problem. However I really don’t know the first thing about these vintage cake recipes and would love love love to be able to make my favorites, which include the GORGEOUS chocolate chiffon pictured above, and tiramisu.
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
This is silly, but my absolute FAVORITE cake is Pilsbury Funfetti cake!! I’d eat that over most gourmet cakes any day of the week : )
My favorite cake is carrot cake… With a huge cream cheese frosting layer of course :D
Cookies ‘n Cream Ice Cream Cake –what I always have as my birthday cake!
I love German Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake with coffee buttercream. Can’t be beat!
Chocolate Guinness cake
my mom’s red velvet cake made with buttercream frosting, kastella and the mugwort cake at the Korean market
chocolate cake
My mom’s ring of coconut fudge!! :)
chocolate lava cake
Mmmm… pineapple upside down cake… or maybe our family favorite: “Happy Cake” (yellow cake, vanilla pudding b/w the layers, chocolate frosting.)
Carrot cake made with walnuts and crushed pineapple (and without raisins) + cream cheese frosting = Breakfast, lunch, AND dinner
WHAT?!?! You don’t like cake?!?! I wrote the book on it. My favorite is the sheet cake from the grocery store. Yeah, I suck. But if I have to pick a real homemade cake, it’s the Silver Palate’s carrot cake. And if I pick a cake someone else made homemade, it’s the peanut butter chocolate layer cake at Clementine in Baltimore.
I LOVE CAKE!
Pound cake!
Rich, dense flourless chocolate cake or a super-tart lemon chiffon! My mouth is watering reading these responses!
Carrot Cake!
My favourite kind of cake is ‘zesty orange sponge’ with a bit of orange icing on top.
jello cake!
Rhubarb Cake is my favorite!
Sachertorte…always!
yummy angel food cake with strawberries and whip cream – my birthday cake growing up!
Humming Bird Cake!
I love chocolate cake!!!
From scratch Pineapple Upside Down Cake — my grandmother always made me one for my birthday and it was delicious!
Ice Cream Cake!
My favorite cake is German chocolate with Marachino cherries on top. I like it hot out of the oven!
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!
Fruit cake. No, not the 1/2 ton bricks that are regifted every holiday season (although do like those, too), but a white cake with real fruit between the layers and gently pressed into a light frosting. Any kind of soft fruit will do … bananas, kiwis, cherries, strawberries, and etc. Toss on a few shaved almonds for good measure and texture.
I have a special place in my heart for carrot cake (with cream cheese frosting, of course!) but lately I’ve been loving cakes with fresh fruit, like yeasted German plum cake, or apple cake.
I love angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream!
Chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake ! :)
Chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting
I’m a pineapple upside down cake fan made in a good old fashioned cast iron skillet. It’s gotta have the maraschino cherry inside the pineapple ring. Nothing better!
Old fashion white wedding cake. Oooooooh.
Any kind of cake with a layer of fruit and/or marzipan. YUMMMMMMM.
I adore german chocolate cake, the coconut pecan frosting is so rich and luscious!
Carrot Cake!
Ice cream cake — chocolate cake and strawberry ice cream.
BLACK FOREST CAKE.
When I was little I required one for every birthday. My mother thinks it’s hilarious that while all the other kids wanted ice cream cakes, I demanded a cake loaded with rum. But I like it for the cherries…and I freeze it a little bit so they’re crunchy :).
Strawberry shortcake!!! Yummmmmmm
Does cheesecake count?!
But the cake that has the most nostalgia with me is German chocolate. My mom’s favourite cake, and one that will always make me think of her.
I love homemade carrot cake with fresh grated ginger mixed in!
A Black Forest Cake all the way! I like to use some of the cherry juice when I bake items with cherries in it anyway and it makes it takes awesome! I am excited just to talk about cake :)
Mississippi Mud Cake!!
I love Red velvet cake,not the dry crumbly kind but soft moist kind,I can eat for breakfast,tea time and dinner too!
My husbands Grandmothers recipe for your basic pound cake. It reminds me of family reunions and cook outs.
My all time favorite cake is my Mum’s Banana Spice Cake. It is most and delicious with just the right balance of bananas, cinnamon, and cloves. And there is a yummy orange glaze which gets drizzled over the top. I always end up overeating with this cake, it is to die for!
*moist
I love a basic white or yellow cake with vanilla ice cream on top :)
Death by Chocolate. Because.. come on.. it’s chocolate!
My favorite is coconut cake!
German chocolate
Never met a cake I didn’t like!
Yellow layer cake with chocolate fudge icing.
German Chocolate bunt cake!
My grandma’s vanilla chiffon bundt cake, no frosting required!
My favorite kind of cake is vanilla with vanilla buttercream frosting!
Boston cream pie…I just love anything that has ganache involved !
My favorite is definitely my mom’s southern caramel cake. Yum!!
My whole family loves a basic chocolate bundt cake w/ chocolate ganache!
i’m feeling like gingerbread right now…with vanilla bean whipped cream..yep
German Chocolate Cake!
Pineapple upside down cake. Mmmmm.
I love a good chocolate chiffon cake with whipped mouse frosting or chocolate ganache!
Red velvet cake
Flourless Chocolate Cake!
I LOVE devil’s food cake… it’s great with ANY frosting! (or no frosting at all!)
Red velvet cake!
Tres Leches Cake or Coconut Cake
My favorite type of cake is my mom’s citrus rum cake with fresh whipped cream! Usually she won’t make it except at Christmas, but I have the recipe now so I might start making it every month. Mmmmmm!
Chocolate cake with fudge frosting!
peanut butter ice box cake
Vanilla cake with Vanilla Buttercream frosting topped with berries!!
I am not sure if it is my FAVORITE cake, or not, but white cake with fluffy frosting, showered in coconut, definitely brings back a lot of memories. Every Easter we make one just as simple (and yet just as utterly delightful) as the year before–I am sure many can remember the stand-up bunny cake made from one, simple 8″ round pan! We reserve that recipe (white cake, fluffy frosting, and coconut) for this design, and this design only!
I love me some strawberry shortcake!
Cleveland Cassata cake!!!! white sponge cake filled with strawberries and custard!! :)
I have to say, strawberry cake with a lemon cream cheese icing sounds delicious right now. Especially if it was in bitesize form (aka mini cupcakes).
My great grandmother’s pound cake!
My favorite kind of cake is any bunt cake! I love the bunt cake pans, they are all so beautiful and unique and make the cakes look like a piece of tasty art.
Black Forest Cake!!
Mmm…can’t beat a perfect piece of creamy cheesecake with a salty graham cracker crust!
my favorite cake was my wedding cake: classic white, with a (real) white chocolate/whipped cream icing, layered with fresh berries – deeeeelish!
I love apricot pound cake. It’s especially good for dipping into fondue!
My favorite cake has to be my mother’s Flourless Chocolate Sin Cake! Oh. my. goodness.
Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting!
Fruit cake. Not fruitcake.
There’s something about a chocolate cake that feels like a treat – dark and moist please! If I’m making it myself, then there will be chocolate whipped cream filling and a dark chocolate ganache “seal”poured over the top and if it’s purchased, black forest is always a winner! (A little voice in my head is asking “what about brown sugar pound cake with maple glaze and choco chips?”) Sweet dilemmas :)
My favorite is pound cake with fresh strawberries and cream!
Love classic strawberry shortcake!
Pineapple upside down cake…like my great aunt used to make! :)
Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
Zucchini cake with chocolate frosting.
I am a sucker for any kind of chocolate cake but my favorite is chocolate fudge cake.
I love German Sweet Chocolate Cake!
butter cake with strawberry creme fraiche!
A light and fluffy vanilla chiffon with strawberries and whipped cream, perfection.
Chocolate cake with either chocolate buttercream or cream cheese icing.
Lemon cake with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream!
My mom’s sour cream chocolate chip cake! Probably counts as vintage too, given the appearance of the recipe card.
My favourite cake.. definitely cookies&cream cheesecake! And all white chocolate stuff.. :D
I love me some German Chocolate Cake, but my fiance doesn’t like coconut! :(
I used to hate carrot cake because it has “carrot” in the name…
As an adult I grew to love vegetables but still never gave carrot cake a fair try until our wedding when we had to choose the favors for our 4-tiered cake. My husband urged me to try a piece of carrot cake when we went in for cake tastings and it blew my mind.
I love carrot cake.
My favorite cake is carrot cake with cream cheese icing.
Always end up going back to Sponge cake!
I’d have to say Tres Leches. I LOVE the milky sweet goodness inside the cake. So yummy!
Brown sugar pound cake!!
Apple cake
orange tequila cake!
Chocolate banana cake!!!!!!!!!
Coconut macadamia nut cake. Yum!
I love chiffon cake, esp. lemon flavor.
Chocolate stout cake with chocolate buttercream. I make it for my fiance’s birthday every year.
My best friend’s version of deep dark chocolate cake. So moist and rich and really easy to whip together. It’s what everyone wants for their birthday cake!
My favourite cake is my grandmother’s cake…it’s one that she makes for birthdays…sponge cake sandwiches together with cream and topped with jell-o and fruit. Polish grandmothers are the best <3
I love carrot cake with pineapple instead of raisins.
Strawberry cake!
My grandmother’s apple cake. Mmmmm……
Carrot Cake with no raisins, and LOTS of creme cheese frosting!
Another vote for carrot cake here.
I love Banana Cake.
I love classic yellow cake with chocolate frosting!
Chocolate cake with mocha frosting.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!!! XD
Classic vanilla pound cake for me, thanks
I absolutely love my nana’s recipe for chocolate sour cream cake… without the chocolate! I am too old for birthday cakes, I think, but my mom still makes me one every year with homemade whipped cream and fresh strawberries in the middle. Yum!
lemon chiffon cake with meringue frosting :)
I adore a good chocolate raspberry cake. Mmmm.
Dark chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream frosting.
Definitely a tie between an amazing angel food cake my mother used to make with ultra Light Mocha icing. Delicious! AND Red Velvet cake. Need I say more???? :-)
A white cake with whipped cream filling and homemade strawberry jam, frosted with strawberry meringue butter-cream.
White cake
I used to get an angel food cake with cream and peach slices between the slices every year for my birthday. The cake is covered with cream and the top are laid with a variety of glazed fruits. Ah~ memories.
cheesecake
Chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting
Chocolate Cake !
My birthday is tomorrow and I’ve been dreaming of a lemon cake with fresh raspberries and whipped cream! I’ll just have to wait until I get back home in October…
Love love love this book!
Chocolate beet cake is my newest favorite. But I’m always a sucker for limoncello cake with mascarpone lemon frosting
black forest cake!
I adore a red velvet cake with a bit of frosting or a classic chocolate cake with raspberry preserves in the middle!
I can’t decide between tiramisu and mocha cake — both are so delicious!
Tiramisu or Japanese Honey Castella Cake!
Ad Hoc at Home has an amazing grapefruit cake recipe that definitely tops my chart!
I think I’m starting to fall in love (again) with plain old vanilla with buttercream icing. But only good vanilla cake. And great icing.
Best cake combo, Devil’s food cake and cream cheese frosting! MMMMM…..Goood!
I was craving moon cakes for past week!! Immensely!!!
Now there is a cake cookbook giveaway contest!?!?!?! Can you say destiny??? ;D
I love both the lucious lemon cake with chocolate frosting and delectable coconut cake (called the “white mountain” cake in days gone by)!
Carrot Cake! And I soooo need that book.
Nothing for me but ice cream cake, thx
I do love a big slice of dark forest cake!
Pumpkin Spice cake with maple cream cheese frosting!
I love Marble cakes!
The kinds with minimal frosting :x
yum… pound cake [for example].
1st time on ur blog and so fell in love with it…A simple chocolate cake anyday :D
i would love tiramisu :)
Mississippi mud….not sure if that counts as vintage…
I love a lazy day cake. Plain white cake, a little dense, with a caramelized coconut topping. I think I’ll be making one today now, lol.
My favorite cake is yellow cake with a rich chocolate frosting…it tastes like being a kid.
I love simple yet classic yellow cake with chocolate frosting!
chocolate and yellow checkerboard cake with chocolate icing !
Gateau Africaine, every time.
chocolate
Buttermilk Cake with fresh berries :)
Chocolate with Peanut Butter frosting.
I have always loved a white cake with raspberry filling and topped with buttercream frosting mmm ^.^
coconut creme cake! j’aime les gateaus!
My current favorite is nutmeg spice cake with brown sugar buttercream– the cake I made for my wedding!
I love a chocolate praline cake with whipped cream.
Yellow cake with dark chocolate icing
Coconut pecan Cake , or Dark chocolate
I’ve always loved a simple yellow cake with chocolate frosting. When I was a kid my mother used to make it all the time. Simple and now I know affordable as well. Sometimes it would be in a Bundt cake or just sheet. Whichever way it was served…I loved it and still do. Oh and of course I loved licking the bowl :-)
I like any flavors of cake as long as the base is a sponge cake!
Cinnamon Roll Cake!
I die for an authentic Italian Cheesecake made with ricotta (no cream cheese) and a good liqueur baked into the mix.
Chocolate cake–the more moist, the better!
I love butter cake with buttercream frosting!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Flour-less Chocolate with raspberry truffle filling!
Definitely grapefruit cake.
OOooOoo… old cakes! Count me in.
caramel/chocolate cake… ohhh, i could have that with my coffee now
I love all kinds of cakes I’am a home baker
Vanilla cake with a super fluffy chocolate cream cheese frosting. Yumm!