What is your very favorite Cake?  How often do you make it?

My two are #2. White cake with cream cheese Icing.  #1 is German chocolete upside-down cake.  My son's favorite saying: It will make your tongue slap your brain out.lol

My favorite cake recipe is "Deep Dark Chocolate Cake" which is or was on the side of the Hershey unsweetened cocoa can. It is so moist that you can skip the frosting if you want to. You add 1c. of boiling water to it, makes a 'soupy' batter but the results are great. (this is not a good recipe if you want to 'lick the beaters' like I do! Mmm, I love cake batter!)

chocolate frosting is a good choice but my favorite is homemade peanut butter frosting. (NOT the store kind) I never have been able to make mine as good as my Mom's....It is about 2c. peanut butter mixed with about 1/2 lb. powdered sugar & only about 1-2 T. of milk to thin it. Too much milk makes a difference. It is very physical stirring in all the p. sugar. That's why I hardly make it...But I do love it.

I have two favorites too.  One is Miracle Whip Chocolate Cake with chocolate frosting and the other one is Spice cake with a caramel frosting.

Roxann Hornik

one of my favorite cakes is.....

yellow cake mix, can of mandarin oranges mix together and bake

Frosting is cool whip, instant vanilla pudding mix and a can of crushed pineapple

mix together and frost cooled cake. refridgerate (or freeze & thaw 1 hour before serving)

cake is best served cold.

OMG PINE....I used to make that for hubby #1, it was his favorite.  You're right about the batter being soupy but when it's done it's like have a 'gooey ooey' middle...YUMMO. 

 As for picking favorites....First one is called a 'Casada Cake', it's a rich white cake (different seasonings) that has 3 layers, the first layer (or filling)  is a decadent chocolate/espresso filling and the second layer (filling) is that very similar to a canolli.  Then it's frosted with (of course a very rich) homemade frosting with real almond extract.  I think I just gained a few pounds writing that!  The second is a spring/summer time cake.  Alot of you know it as the "Jello Cake" with the whipped cream / Cool Whip frosting.  The flavors that are my fav are lime & raspberry....MMMMM.

Nicky what is an 'upside down' German cake...it sounds interesting and good too and I love that phrase about your tongue!  My goodness they all sound so dam good...do we really have to pick favorites?

For the German Chocolete upside-down cake You need:

1 German Chocolete cake mix,  mixed according to directions.*

8 oz. Cream Cheese   1 stick Margerine  1 lb. Confectioners sugar

1 C ea. fine ground pecans and cocoanut. ( original receipe calls for 1/2 C.  Some people want more some want less.  Adjust to taste)

Instructions:  In a mircowaveable bowl , one with a handle is better., cut cream cheese and Margerine in chunks,  zap 1 to2 minutes at a time stiring each cycle, until mix is completely melted leave in mircowave until needed to keep melted just before using zap a few mor secends to be sure it will pour.

In 9 X 11 Baking dish lined with foil or parchment or If you want to leave in pan,  omit lining,  spray with Pam.  Spread ground Pecans in pan,  Spread cocoanut on pecans.

Add prepared cake mix to baking pan and be sure it is level.  Be careful not to move pecans and cocoanut. 

Now comes the good part.  Stir sugar into cream mixture*,  Be sure it will "drizzle".  cover the top of unbaked cake with this mixture.  Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, or until it almost stopsshaking in the middle.  If you bake it until it is done like other cakes it may be dry around the edges.  For dark pan bake @325.  Good warm, Cold Or after  it has been frozen.  This is not a cake to make for looks.

*I use a hand mixer to mix both.  Just rinse beaters between.

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** An up-side-down cake is one with the top on the bottom.                                                                                                                                                                                            

I'm not Old, I've just been young for a very long time. Proverbs 3:5-6 Home; Taylorsville, Mississippi nicky's Photo Bucket

You're welcome Delilah and may I extend a warm welcome to you.....I haven't seen any other posts from you, are you 'new' or just 're-visiting'? 

 BTW  any pictures of those beautiful but also deliscious cakes?

Belle,

WOW! to say the least.  Your cakes are wonderful and fun.

Chocolate fudge cake w/ peanut butter buttercream is my new favorite cake. I recently made it for my son's 8th birthday. I made it look like a pizza. He had a make your own pizza party. The crust was the peanut butter buttercream, the sauce and pepperoni were red marshmallow fondant and the cheese was buttercream icing. This cake was awesome. I got so many compliments on it. Everyone thought I had it made professionally. I even put it in a pizza box tha I had my dad get froma local pizza place. It was so cute. All the recipes that I used for this cake were on wilton.com. Pictures of the cake are attatched.

For an everyday type cake I wouldn't do all the extra stuff. I would just make the peanut butter buttercream icing to top the chocolate fudge cake.

Pine,

There is a great peanut butter buttercream icing that is really easy to make at wilton.com. It is easy to stir and delicious. NO cooking, just mixing!

Those are so cute and very creative as well. If I had the ability to work with fondant, i'd probably  go one step further and make very skinny strips of green & yellow (peppers).

 I just found out that my son's best friends wife is a pro when using fondant, i'll have to pass this idea on to her if she ever needs to make a childs (or even adult) cake....now you know we're allowed to do this right....once you post an idea, it's 'up for grabs'