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Billie’s Italian Cream Cake from The Pioneer Woman + Giveaway {Winners Announced!}

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The winners of the signed copies of The Pioneer Woman’s new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier are:

#1082 Gretchen: “My favorite is German Chocolate Cake with Carmel Coconut Frosting.”

#246 Kate W.: “birthday cake!”

#895 Christine: “Any cake with a lot of delicious frosting!!”

Congratulations to the winners! You will be also be notified via email.

It was so much fun reading all of your favourite cakes–I even learned of a few that I’d never heard of before!

See you tomorrow morning with a new post and another exciting giveaway!

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The Pioneer Woman Giveaway:

source: thepioneerwoman.com

Did I mention how excited I am that Ree’s (aka The Pioneer Woman) new cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier is finally released? Well, I sincerely am. And that she’s going to be sending a signed copy to 3 of my lucky readers? This means a lot to me because Ree and I go way back, even if she doesn’t know this. I discovered her back in 2008 when I innocently Googled “cinnamon rolls recipe.” I came across this post and that was that. I felt instantly connected with her, as though we were going to be friends. Forever. Not in like an SWF way, but just in your standard I-want-to-move-into-her-ranch-and-be-best-buds-for-life kind of way. I became an avid reader of her blog, and I can say that she is one of the reasons that I blog today. Come to think of it, before that serendipitous day, I didn’t even know what a blog was. So that’s what makes this recipe and giveaway the perfect theme for my 100th blog post!

So I’ve been whipping up recipes from her blog and her first book for several years now, and I can honestly tell you that any recipe I have ever made (and made and made) has been incredible and loved by all. I’m not sure if I’ve ever told you this, but I was never much of a cook before she came along. Gasp! Truthfully, I now enjoy cooking and trying new savoury recipes, but I just didn’t have a lot of experience with it, or much extra time (layer cake, anyone?). After discovering Ree and her simple-but-scrumptious recipes loaded with step-by-step photos and instructions, I fell in love with cooking, and I make the time. Thank goodness, because it turns out man cannot live on cake alone–particularly men who don’t like cake. (Hi honey!)

Several weeks ago I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of her new book (and signed with a sweet note, no less–thank you, Ree!). As is everything she does, it’s warm, humourous and filled with irresistible recipes, photos and glimpses into her life on the ranch. I have had a chance to try many of the recipes in the book, including Fig-Prosciutto Pizza (fancy & fabulous), Rigatoni & Meatballs (I was so proud of myself), Steakhouse Pizza (crowd-pleaser), Brie Stuffed Mushrooms (delightful), and more. But, as much as Ree can rock the savoury, she also rocks the sweet–sweets of all kinds, including cake. So when I was trying to decide which dessert to try from her new book, I knew instantly: Billie’s Italian Cream Cake. I’ve been dreaming about this cake since she shared it on her site a few years ago, and I knew it was meant to be. Ree explains that Billie is a friend from church, who brought this cake over one Fourth of July and shared the recipe with her, and trust me, if you haven’t made this recipe already,  you’ll soon thank Billie. And Ree. And me?

Billie's Italian Cream Cake via Sweetapolita

So, yep–I made it. I knew this was going to be amazing for a few reasons (and not just because Grant calls me “Billy” and is of Italian descent). First off, is it just me, or is every recipe that comes from church-going women or church cookbooks not the yummiest ever? And secondly, moist buttermilk cake layers sandwiched between and smothered in whipped coconutty, pecan cream cheese frosting? Nah, I’ll pass. As if! Maybe on opposite day, as Ree would say. This cake is homespun temptation at its best. (And everyone knows I have minimal ability to resist temptation of this magnitude.)

Billie's Italian Cream Cake via Sweetapolita
Yum x infinity.

So, if sharing such a delightful and decadent cake wasn’t enough, as I mentioned, Ree is going to personally sign and send 3 super lucky Sweetapolita readers a copy of her fabulous new book, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier!

Here are the details and how to enter (and this could not be easier, guys):

1. Leave a comment and tell me, “What’s your favourite cake?”

This giveaway is now closed. Winners will be posted here on the blog and notified by email. ♥

UPDATED 04/22: 2. Contest now ends April 22nd, 2012 at MIDNIGHT (EST) and winners will be selected using random.org and notified by email and announced here on the blog. You must leave a valid email address (will not be displayed) in your entry. *I’ve extended the entry deadline until midnight to offer more time for those who couldn’t get onto the site during the day today (Sunday).

3. One entry per person, please. *Your comment may take a few moments to appear.

4. Prizes courtesy of Ree, The Pioneer Woman.

Good luck!

And here’s this amazing recipe, shared with permission from Ree. I have included weight measurements along with a few notes from yours truly:

Billie’s Italian Cream Cake          {click to print}

 

 

 

 

from the book The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier
Ingredients

For the cake:

5 eggs, separated (then brought to room temperature)

1/2 cup (1 stick/114 g/4 oz) unsalted butter, softened

1 cup (237 mL) vegetable oil

1 cup (200 g/7 oz) granulated sugar

1 tablespoon (15 mL) pure vanilla extract

1 cup (100 g/3.5 oz) sweetened flaked coconut

2 cups (260 g/9 oz) all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon (5 g) baking soda

1 teaspoon (5 g) baking powder

1 cup (237 mL) buttermilk (or 1 cup milk mixed with 1 teaspoon white vinegar), at room temperature

For the icing:

Two 8-ounce packages cream cheese

1/2 cup (1 stick/114 g/4 oz) unsalted butter, softened

2 teaspoons (10 mL) pure vanilla extract

2 pounds (1 kg) powdered sugar

1 cup (110 g/4 oz) chopped pecans

1 cup (100 g/3.5 oz) sweetened flaked coconut

Method

For the cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans (from Sweetapolita: I used three 8-inch round pans) or 2 quarter sheet pans, or one 9 x 12-inch pan.

2. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until they’re stiff. Transfer them to another bowl, and then clean the mixing bowl and beater.

3. Combine the butter, vegetable oil, and granulated sugar in the mixing bowl and mix until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add the egg yolks and vanilla and beat until smooth.

4. Add the coconut and beat to combine.

5. Combine the flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a medium bowl, and then add to the mixer bowl, alternating with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Mix for a few seconds between each addition.

6. Add the stiff egg whites by gently folding into the mixture by hand until they’re incorporated.

7. Divide the batter among the pans and spread it out evenly. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 15-18 minutes.

8. Let cool on wire rack for about 10 minutes in pans, and then turn out onto the wire rack to cool completely.

For the icing:

1. Combine the cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer (can use whisk or paddle attachment) until very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

2. Add 3/4 cup of the chopped pecans and all of the coconut and mix until combined.

Assembly

1. If using round cake layers, stack them onto desired cake plate or board with generous amount of filling between each layer. If using the quarter sheet pans, cut them in half lengthwise, resulting in 4 rectangular layers, and spread a generous amount of filling between each layer.

2. Cover the stacked cake with the remaining icing and top with remaining chopped pecans.

Store leftovers in the fridge.

Sweetapolita’s Notes:

  • I used three 8-inch round cake pans (rather than 9-inch) for a slightly thicker cake layer.
  • I added 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the batter and a pinch of salt to the icing.
  • This cake is amazing day 1, 2, and likely for several more. Keep covered and refrigerated and bring to room temperature if you’re serving leftovers. The oil in the cake keeps it super moist, even in the fridge. The cream cheese in the frosting is why it should be kept refrigerated.
  • This recipe is now in my top 5 best-loved cakes, so you can imagine how yummy it is!

Good luck & enjoy!

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Comments

    • My Favorite cake is Bannana Walnut ! Yum !

      I recently madw meatball recipe from Ree’s Pioneer Woman.
      they came out great , My husband loved them .
      Thanks!

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    • My favorite is the lemon chiffon cake. We love anything with lemon and this recipe tops them all! There are so many that are so easy and so tasty it was hard to pick just one favorite.

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    • I have a hard time not loving all cake :), but my favorite of all is a moist strawberry cake with fresh strawberry buttercream! Yumm!

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    • So far my favorite cake is Rosie’s Fluffy White Cake…..i’ve brought it to work the past 3 weeks it’ s shockingly good!!!!

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    • My favorite cake is caramel cake. Mmmm.
      I love Ree and her blog. I would love to get my hands on her new cookbook.

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    • My favorite cake is one my husband made not too long ago. Tourteau de chevre, a goat cheese cake from Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table. DELISH!!!

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    • Since I’m a Florida girl, I would have to say my Great Granny’s home made Orange pound cake with an Orange glaze that was just out of this world is by far my favorite. However seeing the Italian cream cake recipe above I may very well have a new favorite…

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    • German Chocolate cake with (my Mom’s recipe) HOMEMADE coconut pecan frosting, and an extra portion of frosting on top!

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    • My fav cake is my Mom’s 4 layer Hummingbird Cake! Yummy…nuts, coconut, moist white cake, maraschino cherries, pineapple…

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    • My favorite is my Mom’s 4 layer hummingbird cake…moist white cake, with egg of white frosting, coconut, pineapple, nuts, and maraschino cherries…

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    • I never “met” a cake I didn’t like; but my all-time favorite is my momma’s German Chocolate Cake with the pecan cococonut frosting!

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    • For years (and I do mean YEARS) my Mother made me my favorite Pineapple Upside Down cake for my birthday She never needed to ask, she just knew what I wanted. I recently made Ree’s (or should I say Billie’s) Italian Cream Cake and fell in love! This cake partnered with Ree’s fabulous Iced Coffee recipe has left me wanting nothing else to conquer my sweet obsession.

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    • My favorite cake is my grandmother’s 3 layer coconut cake with sliced bananas between the layers. Doesn’t get any better than this! Love your site and I’ve been following Ree for 2 or 3 years…she’s one inspiring woman!

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  2. This cake looks amazing. I can’t wait to have an occasion to try it. I am also a huge fan of Ree and the Pioneer Woman blog and agree that all of her recipes are delicious. Trying to decide on my favorite cake is a little difficult because it depends on the day, my mood, etc., but given that it is warm and springy here I have to go with a genoise cake filled with berries and a light custard, frosted with whipped cream and topped with more berries.

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  8. hi! Is this contest worldwide or not? Just in case it is, my favourite cake is a good, rich chocolate cake with a rich milk chocolate ganache on top :)

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  12. Wow! That Italian Cream Cake looks dreamy. My all-time favorite (and “go to” recipe for pot luck desserts) is Strawberry Cake.

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  13. My favorite cake is French Silk Pie cake… It is a chocolate cake with French silk pie filling as icing… Yum! Although, your campfire cake is right up there :) Have a great day!

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  22. My favorite is the Hummingbird Cake that came out in the Southern Living Magazine over 25 years ago! It’s similar to this one.

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  23. My favourite cake is a White Russian cake. It’s basically derived from the cocktail recipe. I make it for my man’s birthday every year (and a few other occasions, it’s requested often!)

    Of course, I found it online. http://userealbutter.com/2011/06/28/white-russian-cake-recipe/ The only change I made was that I used really syrup-y preserved cherries from Europe instead of the fresh ones. You should give it a try!

    This Italian Cream Cake looks divine; I’m surely making one soon. Yum!

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  25. My mom’s Apple Crumble Cake. In the past year I’ve rediscovered my love for baking, and I’ve been baking so so much, and maybe 1/2 of the new things I try are from your blog! But I guess it’s nostalgia. All those memories that a freshly baked Apple Crumble Cake of happy childhood days… Can’t be beat. Even now in my 20s, I still sneak into the kitchen and nick off a crumble or two ever so expertly, you can’t tell that I’ve been near it at all! ; )

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  26. Love love love your site. My all time favorite: is strawberry shortcake. Oh gosh i’m salivating thinking about it. x

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  27. Prune Cake stuffed full with chopped nuts & seeds of all kinds… Moist, delicious and healthy, like it might be a ginormous Vitamin! :-)

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  28. THIS is my favorite cake! My mom made her aunt’s recipe of Italian Cream Cake for my birthday and then again for my fiancé’s birthday, and I got totally addicted! I love it, and PW’s version as executed by your gorgeous self looks pretty darn fantastic!

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  30. hi rosie! thanks for the awesome blog – love reading your posts!

    my fav cake is carrot loaded with nuts and golden raisins, and topped with luscious cream cheese frosting! thanks! :o)

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  33. When I was growing up, I was all about German Chocolate. Now I still love chocolate, but in the form of ganache and cream cheese…basically the more fat and calories, the better!

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  36. My favorite cake (so cruel to choose just one!) is a Hummingbird cake. Fell in love with it last year, when I made an 8-layer masterpiece for my family reunion. Yum!

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  37. Ooh this is going right on my to-do list! My favourite cake is Red Velvet. No, Victoria Sponge. No, Chocolate w Raspberry Jam. No… aargh… I love all and any cake :)

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  38. mmmm ese pastel debe ser super delicioso… estoy loca por hacerlo..!!! mi pastel favorito es el PASTEL RELLENO DE MERMELADA DE PETALOS DE ROSAS ROJAS Y CREMA CHANTILLY, DECORADO CON PETALOS DE ROSAS CRISTALIZADOS!!!! MMM ME FACINA, SOBRE TODO EL AROMA QUE TIENE Y LA SUTILESA DE SU SABOR ES UN PASTEL TOTALMENTE FEMENINO PARA CONSENTIR A UNA MUJER..MMMMMMM..!!!!

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  44. OMG…so excited for Ree’s new cookbook. Would LOVE to win a signed copy!!!

    My favorite cake, by far, would be a loaded carrot cake slathered with cream cheese frosting and toasted pecans :)

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  47. Wow, that looks amazing! My favourite cake would have to be the one bowl chocolate cake my mum’s been making forever for our birthdays — topped with decadent ganache it isn’t fancy but it just doesn’t get any better!

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  53. OMG…so difficult to choose a favorite cuz I never met a cake I didn’t like!
    My favorite of all is a simple devils food cake with lots of vanilla frosting…yum yum yum :}

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  56. My favorite cake has and will always be: vanilla cake with homemade chocolate fudge frosting — Classic, delicious, and worth every calorie!

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  58. This looks like the best thing I will have ever tasted. I just bought the cookbook for my mom for mother’s day…and now wishing I got one for myself too! Yum.

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  63. My favorite cake is carrot cake, though I think it’s probably more about the cream cheese frosting than anything else.

    Cheers :D

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  64. Hi Rosie,
    My favorite cake is chocolate with warm chocolate ganache poured all over it. Oh my it sooooo good.

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  69. I don’t really have a favourite cake, but this cakes looks like it might be. It looks and sounds like it’s to die for.

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  71. When I was really young my sister made “dirt cake” for my birthday. She put it in a pot and stuck fake plants in it, it was great! All my friends were shocked when I took a spoon full of “dirt” and ate it :D

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  73. I have 3 favorites. My original favorite has always been red velvet with white chocolate cream cheese frosting and blackberries. Then I found your blog, and your fluffy white cake with vanilla bean frosting, and I have dreams about it. It was so delicious. I also make a lemon scented roasted blueberry cake with lemon curd filling and basil Swiss meringue buttercream. It’s light and summery, which I love and it’s popular everywhere I take it, especially in cupcake form.

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  75. I don’t know that I have ever met a cake I didn’t like, but my all time favorite is strawberry with strawberry frosting. I can’t wait to make this Italian Cream Cake; the best part will be that hubs doesn’t like shredded coconut – more for me! ;)
    I love Ree’s blog and recipes. Would be so excited if I won.

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  76. I love the Princess torte and also plain white cake topped with a fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting. Now my mouth is watering.

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  77. My favorite cake is tied. I really enjoy the Campfire Delight cake but I only make it as cupcakes because I’m better at that. My favorite cake that I have ever eaten was made by my sister for Mother’s Day, it was a rich chocolate cake with strawberries throughout it and a chocolate ganache covering it…I don’t know where she go the recipe but it was divine.

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  79. Hershey’s Deep Dark Chocolate Cake is my favourite – so easy and so good. We’ve been enjoying it for years.

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  80. Deep dark chocolate cake filled with dark chocolate mousse! This with homemade hot cocoa, and woweee, I’m in my version of heaven!

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  84. OK, not to be a suck-up or anything, but ever since I made your Campfire Delight cake I get nothing but requests for it…or the cupcake version.
    It is the best ever, in my opinion.
    P.s. I made the cupcakes on Monday…again:).

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  92. My fav cake is your Rich and Ruffled Cake!! I made a pink ruffled rainbow layer cake! I love this newest one of yours as well. I <3 Ree and I <3 Sweetapolita:)

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  97. I love all types of cake depending on my mood and season but one of my all time favorites is my grandmother’s carrot cake.

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  99. My fav cake used to be vanilla with vanilla buttercream, but I must be finally growing up b/c I now LOVE lemon cake with raspberry filling and a light lemon buttercream icing. Mmmmm! Great, now I want cake!

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  101. My favorite cake is the one I haven’t tried yet, like this one. I’ve always wanted to make an Italian cream cake, but didn’t know which of my collected recipes to try first. Looks like I just found the perfect one!

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  104. My all-time favourite cake has to be Guinness cake with cream cheese icing. It’s a dark, dense, moist, incredibly fudgy wedge of chocolate cake (with a very subtle Guinness tang) topped with a thick, fluffy white layer of cream cheese icing (made with whipping cream, ever so decadent!). It makes me very, very happy.
    This is the ultimate celebration cake in my family, and friends beg me to bring it to birthdays, brunches, parties etc.
    Om nom nom, cake!

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  105. I love many cakes, but my favorite is white cake with white frosting. The kind they used to serve at weddings. yum :-D

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  106. My favorite would have to be a rich chocolate cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream. Yum!

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  107. I have never made one but, Coconut Cake is my favorite…hands down!!! It just takes me far far away (like somewhere exotic).

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  109. My fav cake is yellow with chocolate frosting! I taught myself to make it many years ago. But, I’ve never had Italian Cream Cake! Sweetapolita & Pioneer Woman have helped me try new and harder recipes and I can’t wait to try this one! Thanks for the inspiration and lessons!

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  111. Wow, this looks amazing! German Chocolate has always been my favorite, so this cake is right up my alley! :-)

    Thank you Rosie, you are awesome!

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  116. Last week my mum dropped round with a bag of guavas, I was inspired! I made a lemon almond polenta cake with a guava syrup. We ate it with homemade Greek honey yogurt! My new favorite!!!

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  117. Hi Rosie! I’ve been a fan of yours for so long and I love this chance for a giveaway! My favorite cake is also from a church-lady inspirational source, my grandma! It’s called Texas Sheet Cake. It’s a thin, super chocolatey delight :)

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  120. My favorite cake is a New Orlean’s classic, a Doberge (7 thin layers of yellow cake with custard filling, a chocolate frosting and ganache coating), from the famous Gambino’s bakery. I would love for you to make one for a post, the only recipe I have found is the New Orleans Times Picayne original recipe & it is quite dated!

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  122. My favorite cake is a very fluffy and moist cake filled with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, covered in whipped cream and meringues. Yum!

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  123. My favourite cake is Marjolane cake! And it has been way too long since I have had it come to think of it! LoL
    Thank you for this delicious recipe :)

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  125. I’m with the humming bird people. Of course, I’ll never say no to chocolate, carrot, red velvet and on and on.

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  129. my favorite is cheesecake. a creamy and simple one, just whisking eggs with cheese, bake on a tart base, and then pour sour cream with sugar on top. ummm.

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  130. My favorite cake is Red Velvet Cake – always my birthday request. My second is a Tiramsu cheesecake – YUM!

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  134. My favorite cake–of yours–is the Autumn Delight Cake, which I’ve been dying to make since you posted it! It will happen…though possibly not until next autumn… :)

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  135. My favourite cake is the Triple-Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake! Just made it for my mum’s birthday yesterday and it was most definitely the best cake any of us had ever eaten!!

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  138. Rosie- this looks so good! My favorite cake since childhood is white wedding cake and really all white cake with white frosting, as a kid I would even eat the cake mix dry out of the box with a spoon. I have learned how to bake my own from scratch now that I like even better, but definitely have lots of memories of simple white cake and white frosting as a child.

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  140. My favorite cake is German chocolate cake because I love coconut, pecans and chocolate. I am going to make Billie’s Italian cream cake! It looks delicious.

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  142. My new favorite cake actually happens to be your Strawberry cake and I have been converted to your whipped frosting in any flavor and have passed on the addiction to my friends. :o) Thanks Rosie, now, to think of an excuse for making this cake and those cinnamon rolls. MMmmmmmmm.

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  143. This cake looks amazing, but my all time favorite cake is chocolate with cream cheese frosting; sometimes with pecans thrown in there. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  144. Although I am not a huge fan of cake…but will always eat it if its around… I did make Ree’s Strawberry Shortcake Cake a few years ago and THAT is now my favorite cake ever!

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  146. Looks delicious Rosie! I am an avid reader of Ree’s blog and that is how I came across yours when you submitted your beautiful cake photo. I love your site and the photography – it is always crisp, clean and deliciously stunning. My favourite cake is carrot cake with cream cheese icing – is just screams spring! Can’t wait to make this one as well – it looks delectable!

    Thanks Rosie!
    Jo-Ann

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  151. My favorite cake is a toss between Red Velvet and Carrot Cake1 If it has cream cheese icing, count me in!

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  152. So hard to pick just 1……but i would have to say my favorite cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting!!

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  153. My favorite is chocolate cake, with my new favorite chocolate frosting that’s made with melted dark chocolate. Delicious!!

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  154. Im so excited about this giveaway! Her cinnamon rolls were the first thing i tried from her blog and they are delicious!!! My favorite cake is your sky high hummingbird cake. I can practically make it in my sleep and its what every single one of my family members request it for birthdays now!!!

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  158. Love Ree, too! She’s one of a kind and a very generous person. I think each and every one of her readers loves her too, she’s that special!

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  160. My favorite cake is Ree’s Strawberry Shortcake Cake …. oh my goodness! I’ve been dying to get my hands on this cookbook … I’ve been an avid follower of hers for quite some time as well!

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  163. My favorite cake at the moment (it tends to change with new recipes that I find) is salted caramel filled chocolate cake with caramel butter cream frosting. Mmmm perfect combination of salty and sweet!

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  166. This looks so exciting! I have an Italian Cream Cake recipe that I love, but I can’t wait to try this one :)

    My favourite cake… Hm. It really depends on my mood, I think. But I currently just love the Reine de Saba cake from Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” It’s so creamy and chocolate-almond-y that is just perfect for almost any occasion.

    Thanks for sharing with us!

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  167. I’m a little boring, but I could eat chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream for the rest of my life!

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  168. Your cake looks positively delicious! I’m a big fan of Ree’s. Last fall, just shortly after I found your blog, I discovered a copy of her first book on a date with my husband, at the Canadian National Exhibition. I’d never heard of Ree before so I decided to look up her blog. I’ve been a huge fan ever since and like you, I felt inspired to start blogging too. My favourite cake … it’s impossible to choose. I’m a cake girl and I love ’em all!

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  171. That cake looks like it could be my NEW favorite!!! So yummy-looking. But, for now, my favorite is a refrigerator coconut cake, or chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting . . . or any cake I guess. :) Thanks for posting the recipe!

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  174. I love red velvet cake, but then there’s a chocolate pear cake I made that was pretty amazing. But how can I leave out chocolate?!? Vanilla, that’s my final answer. Wait…

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  177. Thanks for the great post Rosie! Ive been dreaming about purchasing Ree’s book for a while now and would love to have a copy! As for my favourite cake…I love maple cake with walnuts and maple buttercream. It’s so tasty…an sentimental for me as it was the flavor of my wedding cake!

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  178. Hard choice ! I would have to go with Hummingbird Cake ! But that might change after making this one ! Will let you know :)

    Love from the Netherlands

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  180. My favourite cake is my Great Auntie Fran’s carrot cake with cream cheese icing. It’s a family recipe that has been passed down from generation to generation and has finally made it to me!

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  181. Oooooh….tough decision on the cake. Towards the top would be carrot cake, red velvet & hummingbird cake. But hands down, my favorite would be a chocolate Pistachio bundt cake my mom used to make all the time growing up. Soooo good!!

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  183. bacardi’s rum cake with coconut frosting is my favorite, but billie’s italian cream cake looks like it’s going to move into the first place slot…

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  184. my fave cake is one that my sister in law had at her baby shower made by her friend. It was a toffeelike one with cake crumb & other goodies!

    I luv sweetpolita. Thx for the opp to win a great book.

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  187. I’ve been meaning for months now to delve deeper into Ree’s blog – what a wonderful reminder!

    As for my favourite cake… it sounds so obvious (and far more specific than most people’s!) but it can only be your own Campfire Delight cake. I made it the day before my other half got sick and was off his food so ended up having to eat the whole thing myself (over a fortnight, I’m not that greedy!). I don’t think there are many cakes that I could finish all by myself and then want to make again immediately!

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  188. QUESTION: I just baked this cake, it from the little piece I tried it is very promising! The cake shrank all around maybe 1/2 inch, is it normal?

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  190. Probably blueberry sour cream cake :-) (though my chocolate brownie cake with white chocolate buttercream and nutella ganache is a close second)

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  192. I make a lemon cake with lemon curd filling topped with cream cheese frosting that is my absolute favorite!

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  193. Passionfruit sponge cake! Delicate sponge cake filled with whipped cream and tangy sweet passionfruit icing !! DELISH!

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  194. Boston cream pie! Light sponge cake with tons of vanilla pastry cream and super dark chocolate ganache… sigh.

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  198. Hi! My favorite cake is Tres leches…

    (Your fondant cakes are such an inspiration! you have such good taste)

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  200. My favorite cake is a coconut cake…but not just any coconut cake! It has to be my great aunt’s recipe. My mother used to make it and now I’ve taken it over. Thin layers of yellow cake with the coconut sugar and sour cream mixture between. It is absolutely amazing!

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  211. My favorite cake is my mom’s “coffee crunch cake” recipe. It basically consists of a devil’s food cake, coffee whipped cream frosting, and a homemade coffee candy crunch topping. It’s amaaaaaaaaaazing! :)

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  212. I have had this on my list of things to bake. Looks so good! My favorite cake is definitely yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Classic.

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  214. My very favorite cake is white almond cake with a raspberry filling, frosted with a white chocolate ganache. Thank you for sharing this recipe, I have a freezer full of pecans looking for a place to go (besides pecan pie, pecan apple cheesecake, pecan coffee cake, pecan shortbread…..).

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  215. Peach Cake! Pillsbury used to have a cake mix for it that was incredible, but they discontinued it years ago. I have not yet been able to recreate it.

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  216. Today – my favorite cake is a strawberry layer cake with whipped strawberry frosting (yours from 8.25.11) because it’s waiting to be photographed and eaten this evening!!!

    Usually my favorite cake is anything dark-double-or-ultimate chocolate with chocolate frosting – martha’s fudge frosting is a go-to for this household :o)

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  221. Chocolate Buttermilk… with caramel layered between layers and… hmm not sure my fav icing. Maybe caramel buttercream? Or peanut butter?

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  223. I’ve never met a cake i didn’t like:)I love all cake so it’s hard to choose a favourite.But at the top of the list is strawberry cake with strawberry cream frosting

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  224. Opera cake! I’ve never made it myself though, I have to wait for the days when my favourite French bakery makes it. There’s a recipe on Epicurious I’ve been too scared to try – want to test it out for me?

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  227. I must admit that, even if I adore chocolate -really, I do!- my favourite cake is a vanilla bean one, with vanilla bean frosting. Or just the cake. Or just the frosting, it doesn’t matter! Anyway, I don’t know if international readers can participate, but I’ll try anyways! >:D Ree’s book… come to mama!

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  228. My favorite cake is any chocolate cake with lots of vanilla buttercream icing. I just love the two flavors together!

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  229. mmmmm soo hard to choose….I think my favorites are stawberries & cream and dark (very dark) chocolate with salted caramel filling. This one looks so moist and delicious, I will add it to my “to bake list” (don’t ask how long it is…)

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  230. My favorite cake is definitely Coca-Cola Cake! Moist fluffy chocolate cake with rich chocolatey pecan frosting? Southern cooking at its finest!

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  232. I am so excited to try this recipe, thank you for sharing. I too, love the Pioneer Woman’s blog. She is fabulous.
    My favorite cake is flourless chocolate cake. YUM!

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  233. Good Lord Rosie!! You are killing me with this one. Love how rustic it looks.
    I love a moist/fluffy chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing. So simple and so delic :D
    Congrats on your 100th post. Love ya!

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  235. My favorite cake is pavlova. You just can’t go wrong with meringue, whip cream, and fresh fruit in my book. Yum!!

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  241. My favorite cake happens to be your carrot cake with pineapples. I make it every birthday since I’ve discovered it, and it never fails to be amazing!

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  244. My favorite cake is a homemade Caramel Cake. A
    Southern favorite and a tricky frosting to master! Divine!!

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  248. I love your blog. I love so many of your treats, my favorite is the fluffy vanilla cake with the vanilla bean frosting. Thanks for keeping me inspired.

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  249. My, oh my! This sounds like one luscious cake. I’m most certainly going to have to try it! But in reality, my favorite cake has always been an orange carrot cake. It is super moist, loaded with flavor, and when you top it with that luscious cream cheese frosting…um,um, um!!! But I’m always trying new recipes for everyone else in my family and to satisfy my “adventurous” side. Sure would love to win Ree’s newest book. I watch her show all the time.

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  250. My favourite cake is still your chocolate and salty caramel cake. So good, I always shamelessly lick my plate!

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  254. I’m getting married next month and am making my own wedding cake…after trying so many, my favorite is a rich vanilla bean one with homemade lemon curd filling and swiss buttercream icing….so delicious!

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  260. Hmmmm… It’s hard – so many favorites! But I think it would have to be chocolate – and when I say chocolate, I mean very rich chocolaty chocolate with very chocolaty chocolate frosting. My son has dubbed this “Traditional Holiday Chocolate Cake” because it’s what he wants for every occasion!

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  261. My favourite cake is my mom’s dark chocolate layer cake with chocolate peppermint buttercream. She used to ask her great-grandmother to make it for her own birthday, and now she makes it for me!

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  262. I love every cake I’ve ever eaten! But my favorite cake is probably strawberry with cream cheese icing. YUM!

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  265. Actually, THIS cake is my current favorite cake! I have been making this cake for a little more than a year for friends and they have all loved it also. I use glazed walnuts for a little extra crunch. You did a great review of the cake, but you didn’t mention the crunch that comes from sugaring the layers before baking. This cake is amazing. Thanks Rosie, thanks Ree, thanks Billie!

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  267. Hi!! I love all kinds of cakes, but one that generally drive me crazy is Charlotte, loaded with fresh fruits; it’s delicious and have the right balance of sweet. Also the other one that i adore is the Tres Leches with Italian meringue frosting YUMMY!!!

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  268. My favorite cake has always been Red Velvet! I know it’s pretty common now, but I’m very picky about it and the frosting that goes with it…settling for the typical cream cheese is not for me! And, in fact, I have tried the recipe that Ree posted on her website and it’s amazing!

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  269. Devil’s Food Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Frosting! Thank you for the opportunity to win this cookbook! Big fan of Pioneer Woman, also!

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  276. Looks absolutely delicious Rosie!! Anything with coconut is high on my list. With that said, my favourite cake still has to be my Mom’s Carrot cake with cream cheese and pineapple icing!! Absolutely yummy!!

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  278. Favorite is cake of profiteroles, but the mom version. Tiramisu too, mom version again.

    She bakes them in a way that they look like a layered cake. Soooo delicious!!!

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  279. A 3-way tie is what I came up with because I simply can not pick one…..Southern Red Velvet, Carrot Cake & German Chocolate,in no particular order, are all my faves. I’m hoping to add your Autumn Delight to my list; I just found your blog last week & I’m trying to hold out until the fall to make it, lol!

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  280. Rosie, my favorite cake is carrot cake and cream cheese icing. Has to be dense and studded with nuts, pineapple and coconut. Eaten cold. YUM!!

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  281. I love the Pioneer Woman! She is so inspiring and so are you! My favorite cake is chocolate of course, with lots and lots of chocolatey goodness

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  282. Hi Rosie! I’d have to say that I love any kind of rich, moist, chocolate cake! But other than chocolate cake, I think Red Velvet cake with white chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream is my favorite! BTW, I absolutely love your blog! I’m doing the rainbow cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday, I really hope it comes out as beautiful as yours!

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  283. My favorite cake is a cake my mom made back in the 1950’s. She called it a Jewish Coffee Cake. It was made in a bundt pan with wonderful fresh from scratch ingredients which included real sweet butter, sour cream, flour, eggs, etc with a chopped walnut, brown sugar middle layer and top. So delicious and so moist.
    I think that since mom is 88 and I am 66, it is time to get that recipe! ♥

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  286. I’m so excited to try out this recipe, it looks delish!

    My favourite cake has to be a light sponge cake with custard filling, whipped cream frosting and fruit on top!

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  288. Mmm my Dave cake and the one I’ve been craving to bake and enjoy since giving up baking and baked goods for lent is good old banana cake, moist and un iced, a lovely caramelized top, but be nice to stretch out and try a Choc ganache frosting. Thanks for the inspirational posts of cakes to try :)

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  289. Looks like it could quickly become one of my favorite cookbooks! I love ice cream cake… any flavor will do. ;-) Thanks for the chance to win Rosie!

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  290. I don’t know The Pioneer Woman much but that cake sure looks great! And that’s a tough question but I guess my favorite cake would be chocotorta. It’s a cake we make in my country, made with chocolate cookies layered with a mix of dulce de leche and cream cheese.

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  291. My favorite cake is my grandmother’s pineapple upside down cake baked in her cast iron skillet. The carmelized pineapple and cherries plus the crisp, buttery crust of the cake is just unforgetable.

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  292. Anything with lemon!!!!!! But after I try this recipe out- this may take first,,,,we shall see. And sure would LOVE to win that cookbook! Thanks for the chance- and thanks for sharing so much!

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  293. hmm…my favorite cake would have to be anything involving chocolate :) i’m so excited about this giveaway! i have ree’s other cookbook and would love to add this one to my shelf!

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  294. My favorite cake ever is a yellow butter cake with chocolate frosting. I wish I could say something more exciting but I can’t. It’s been my favorite flavor pairing since I was 4 and I’ll never go back.

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  296. Chocolate Cake with vanilla icing! Love the contrast.
    Thanks for this, I’m going to visit Rees blog!!

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  297. Angel food cake with 7 minute icing! Every person in my family has “their” cake that my mom makes for their birthday. She has made angel food cake for me since my first birthday! The Italian Cream cake looks amazing…might have to make this one as a cupcake too!

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  300. Ohhhhh…. well. What is my favorite cake, huh? Traditionally it has been a white cake with lemon curd filling, white mountain icing and covered with coconut…. but my tastes have expanded slightly. Now my answer would be…. any cake except red velvet. Ha. Thanks to both you and Ree for being such fine blogging babes and for the contest!

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  301. I don’t have cake often but when I do it’s usually wedding cake. It’s my favorite because it’s tasty and it’s always a happy day when I have it!

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  302. My husband absolutely loves apple coconut cake with a buttermilk glaze. So easy and moist!
    I just discovered your blog and love it!!!
    Thank you for sharing so many great recipes.

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  307. My new favorite cake is the one I made yesterday for a birthday. It was a raspberry cake with cooked meringue icing from Martha Stewart.
    Really turned out well.

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  311. Some might think I’m boring, but I love a good white cake with white frosting. Red Velvet comes in second.

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  312. Hi there,

    Quite simply, my favorite cake has always been a simple stawberry shortcake with loads of whipped cream and strawberries although your fluffy vanilla cake with your whipped vanilla frosting…OMG….my absolute fave!!

    This recipe looks amazing. How is it that I’m Italian and never attempted an “Italian Cream Cake”? LOL! Thanks for the recipe

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  313. My favourite cake is the fluffy vanilla cake! Although I am yet to master the fluffy texture, it tastes amazing just the same!

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  315. My favorite cake is lemon cake with lemon curd and lemon icing. The chocolate cake with dulce de leche mousse that I make is a close second.

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  321. My favorite cake is a good inside out German chocolate cake with chocolate ganache drizzled over the top so it goes over the edges into a delicious chocolate waterfall.

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  323. This cake looks and sounds delicious. I’ve been visiting Ree since 2009, she cracks me up with her prose. My favorite cake? At the moment it’s banana cake with Nutella buttercream and peanut butter frosting, something I made last year and still think about.

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  324. For me, cake is simply a vehicle for frosting!!!! My absolute favorite frosting is that super sickingly sweet frosting they serve at the bakery. Yum! I will eat that on any good, moist cake, but my favorite is chocolate!!!

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  330. My favorite cake is the one-bowl chocolate cake recipe I found right here on Sweetapolita! It’s my go-to, no-fail recipe.

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  333. ONE of my favourite cakes is Prince Albert Cake. My grandmother made this wonderful spice cake with raisons and a butter icing. so very yummy and my dad still loves it – and he is 91!!

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  337. My favorite cake is, without question, super moist carrot cake with fluffy cream cheese frosting. Made from an old family recipe of course.
    Love the Pioneer Woman, and this cake looks fabulous! I have pinned it, and will be giving it a try…

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  344. My favourite cake is a toss up between Chocolate Chai cake for my local baker or my mom’s Polish walnut cake with lemon icing – it’s so dense and decadent it takes 14 eggs!

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  346. My favorite cake of all time happens to be Italian Cream Cake…really! I have always been too intimidated to make it because it just seems so easy to get it wrong. But I think I will try this one. Thanks Sweeta!

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  347. My favorite cake is champagne cake! Made with pink champagne – it gives the cake and frosting a beautiful soft pink color!

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  349. My mums banana cake with coffee icing and sprinkled with walnuts. Perfect at anytime of the day as long as you have a cup of tea in hand!

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  353. Hi! I don’t know if the contest is open internationally but I’ll give it a try: my favourite cake is dark chocolate genoise filled with whipped cream, the combination is delicious (and we are not used to buttercream this side of Europe, too)
    xoxo (I luuuurve your blog)

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  354. My favorite cake is dark chocolate cake with rum custard filling and chocolate ganache frosting yummmy ;)
    Thank you for the giveaway …

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  358. My favourite cake changes as the season change. Currently I my favourite is Butterscotch Bananna Cake. It is so yum. I baked 2 just in the past week.

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  359. My favorite cake has to be carrot cake. Best ever was always made by my husband’s mother Louise. Although she is gone, the memories of that special cake she baked return whenever I have a slice….whether baked by me or anyone else for that matter…..

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  361. I love red velvet cake as well as tiramisu! My mum always bake either for my birthday :). I can’t wait to share Billie’s recipe with her!

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  362. My favorite cake is Pavlova with vanilla cream, strawberries and topped with vanilla whipped cream. Yummy :o)

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  363. My favourite is the pineapple cheesecake that mum has made since I was a kid…Now I love to make it!

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  364. oh, I have a heck of a sweet tooth, so picking ONE favorite cake is really tough :-)

    My absolute favorite dessert is probably tiramisù, but I am very picky about it.
    I also love lemon merengue pie, and freshly made black forest cake.

    aaaah, don’t get me started!

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  366. Que emoción soy seguidora tuya y quiero ganarme el libro, mi pastel favorito es el de zanahoria con nueces, con cubierta de queso crema y ralladura de limón y el pastel de chocolate ! TODOS ! Me encantan

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  367. I love Dark Chocolate cake with very little frosting! Or banana cake or lemon cake. Strawberry cake is delicious too!

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  368. I love cake in general but if I had to choose my favorite it would be my chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream! A close second is my pina colada cake!

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  370. Okay, here’s the deal I just began baking cakes this year (with a goal to bake at least one magnificent cake a month), as a result I don’t feel justified to pick a “favorite” cake yet because there are still SO many out there to that I haven’t tasted yet! From the small assortment that I “have” tasted, however, I absolutely love chocolate cake (must be moist) with espresso drizzle (Sky High Cookbook!) and TONS of whipped cream on top!!! Cakes are just amazing in general. THANKS!

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  371. I love cake! Whatever cake I am eating is my favorite at that moment. I have seldom met a cake that I do not LOVE! Homemade are the best….:)

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  373. Love that cake! My fvorite cake is basic white cake with strawberry fluffy frosting! Yum! My mom made this for me every year for my birthday when I was a little girl! Great memories! Thanks for sharing!

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  374. This reminds me of my mom’s Lazy Daisy Oatmeal cake she used to make for church picnics! But my very favorite cake is my mom’s chocolate cake topped with thick chocolate frosting and preferably a pink buttercream rose.

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  376. I’m loving this cake cant wait to try it! My favorite cake has to be Vanilla Butter layer cake with vanilla buttercream! but love it with a chocolate buttercream too!love having coffee and cake with my gorgeous friends :)

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  377. my favorite is tiramisu’…but real italian tiramisu’ with savoiardi,mascarpone cheese,sugar,fresh eggs and a lot of strong coffee.DELICIOUS!

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  378. My all-time favorite cake is carrot cake…. although I think it is all about the cream cheese frosting! This cake looks delicious and I can’t wait to try it! Ree never disappoints! :)

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  379. O.K. so my favorite icing is cream cheese icing, I just love it and could eat it in spoonfuls! And pair it with carrot cake? The BEST. But this recipe from Ree could possibly put it in second place!

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  380. This cake looks delicious and the cookbook would be an awesome addition to my collection! I don’t have one specific favorite cake but a few that immediately come to mind are angel food cake, black forest torte (these used to be the two types of birthday cakes my Mom would make for me throughout the years) and I also love Tiramisu, yum! Thanks for the giveway, would love to win.

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  382. This is such an EASY answer! I have always loved cooking/baking but w/ a certain recipe I have become obsessed w/ cupcake and cake recipes and the need to make the kids a special treat to celebrate birthdays or holidays. I ordered 108 vanilla beans online (to split w/ a friend) due to this recipe and not kidding when I say I dream about this cake (especially the frosting). Thank you for sharing such awesome recipes and Ree as well :)
    Fluffy Vanilla Cake w/ Whipped Vanilla Bean Frosting
    https://sweetapolita.com/2011/07/fluffy-vanilla-cake-with-whipped-vanilla-bean-frosting/

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  384. Can I say it is my own Caramel, Brickle Cheesecake? If that doesn’t count I have a chocolate Chambourd cake that rocks too!

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  387. Normally I would say plain chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting (1-bowl chocolate cake and uncooked or “country” buttercream) is my favorite…because it’s true. But I recently made a double-chocolate orange cheesecake (crust was chocolate sandwich cookies, nuts, butter, and chocolate chips, first and last layers were a dark chocolate cheesecake, middle layer was a white chocolate orange cheesecake, and the top was finished with a grand marnier whipped cream, candied orange peel, and chocolate curls so pretty everyone thought I bought it) from a Bon Appetit recipe. Inasmuch as cheesecake is a cake, it’s potentially a new favorite cake. Which is to say, Mom’s cake still wins, but this one was pretty freaking awesome.

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  388. I will bury my face in a German chocolate cake although that Italian creme cake could easily climb its way to the top of my favorites list.

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  389. My all-time favorite cake to make for other people is Double Chocolate Layer Cake from Epicurious.com with chocolate buttercream and bittersweet chocolate ganache … maybe with chocolate covered strawberries on top.

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  392. My all-time fav is red velvet – in any form: cake, cupcakes, whoopie pies. I even have a recipe for red velvet cheesecake!

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  393. I love sweets, i love cakes and cupcakes… but if a have to choose one… Tiramisu is my choice!
    Maria de los A. Reina

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  396. My favorite cake is chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Boring, I know, but not if you LOVE chocolate!

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  397. I have yet to meet a cake that I don’t like…but my favorite kinds are those with fruit in the cake and icing. I love fresh summer berries in cake! Thanks for offering this great giveaway!

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  398. What a yummy looking cake and such a great giveaway! I love the Pioneer Woman’s recipes … everyone that I have tried has been such a success! My favorite cake is simply a fluffy vanilla cake filled with vanilla buttercream.

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  399. my favorite cake?! oy, that’s a hard one… um… does cheesecake count? and I FINALLY mastered the german chocolate cake topping this January. FINALLY! after many frustrating years. hallelujah for chocolate and coconut and nuts.

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  401. Chocolate cake – I really like your recipe that’s used in the Ruffled Celebration Cake, or my other go-to recipe is humbly called “The Perfect Chocolate Cake” from McCall’s cooking school (recipe cards that came in the mail…did anybody else do this in the 80’s?)

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  402. My favorite cake? I think that would have to be whatever is in front of me! If I had to narrow it down though, it would have to be an old fashioned southern Fresh Coconut Cake. Thanks for asking!

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  404. My favourite cake?? mmmhhh…it’s hard to choose between carrot cake, cheese cake, apple crumble and…well, yes, I think Sacher Torte. But I don’t know if it’s really known outside Europe. However, it’s typical from Wien and it is a chocolate cake, filled with apricot jam and covered with a chocolate ganache…delicious!

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  405. My fav is anything Chocolate! Ree was recently in my city for a book signing about 3 miles from me, but circumstances kept me from going to see her.

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  411. My favorite cake is my Grandma’s Italian Cream Cake!
    She’s been making it for my birthday every year for as
    long as I can remember! She’s still making it for me at
    95 years old! This years was the best yet!

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  413. Every Cake is my favorite. I love them all-except when the recipe goes horribly wrong for some reason. And I love baking them all. Just wish I had more time. But I seem to make my favorite the last cake I baked!!!! The last one I made was Lemon cake with white chocolate buttercream and lemon curd filling. Yum!

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  419. Yum! Thanks for sharing with us! I make cakes, but I’m not crazy about eating them.. My Banana’s Foster cake is a “I have to push the plate away so I don’t eat the whole thing” kinda cake, though :)

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  420. ohh my favorite cake is any cake moist and with the right balanced of sweetness and fillings.. but my Dominican cake yummm

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  421. As always at the end of your posts, I want to skip work and bake cake! My favorite cake is a chocolate sour cream cake with peanut butter cream cheese icing :) Yummy!

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  423. Boring but delicious, my favorite cake is vanilla with vanilla frosting. Usually I tint the frosting a fun color just so it doesn’t seem so…white! :) Thanks for the giveaway!

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  425. What a gorgeous cake, Rosie! And congratulations on your 100th blog post!!! I’ve been reading your blog for such a long time, and I say very honestly, that you were my inspiration for starting my own blog! So thank you for that! :) My favorite cake is your fluffy vanilla cake with whipped vanilla frosting. The most amazing cake I’ve had in my life… I think I need to make it again :)

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  427. My fave is Red Velvet cake with buttercream frosting. Just typing that makes me want to go make one!

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  429. The cake looks amazing! Congratulations on your 100th post!! You’ve become my go to person for cake ideas!! My favorite cake is a Black forest cake, I can eat it anytime, all 365 days!!

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  431. I never thought I was a cake lover, up until I really started baking myself. In fact, what I don’t like is traditional sugar-based buttercream. I love whipped cream and meringue frostings, and that completely transforms how I feel about cake! My favorite is probably carrot cake with a whipped or boiled frosting. :)

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  435. My favourite cake is Chocolate Cake!

    Your blog is inspirational, I enjoy reading your it. You are a talented baker, someday I am hoping to try your asparagus cake!

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  436. I love all cakes, but I’d have to say my favorite chocolate cake is from SmittenKitchen’s blog. It’s the one she for her father-in-law’s 60th birthday. It’s a rich chocolate cake with a light chocolate buttercream frosting. YUM!!!

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  437. My favorite cake is actually one of yours! I loved the Fluffy Vanilla Cake with Whipped Vanilla Bean Frosting! :)

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  438. My favorite cake is a dark chocolate cake with espresso buttercream. I think I’m going to make it tonight!!!

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  439. My favorite cake is anything that has chocolate..if I am at a party and the cake doesn’t have chocolate, I won’t eat it. Not worth the calories if there is no chocolate in it.

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  440. I used to think “anything chocolate” was my favorite but I recently made an 8 layer rainbow cake with lemon SMB and it rocked my world! The cake was so moist and I added a couple of layers of lemon curd to enhance the lemon flavor. I think it’s my new favorite!

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  442. My favorite cake is a dark chocolate bundt cake with chocolate chips in the batter and chocolate frosting w/ tons of sprinkles!

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  444. I can only pick one cake? That’s impossible. But I did make a fresh strawberry cake for my daughter’s birthday that was absolutely divine. So I’ll go with that. Thanks!

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  448. Um yum! That looks delish. My favorite cake has to be German chocolate! That’s my request rack year on my birthday;) ps I look forward to your posts and your beautiful photographs

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  452. My favorite cake could be as simple as a chocolate cake with yummy chocolate frosting but there are times that a white cake is sooo good. I guess it depends on the day.

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  454. Well, I love to bake, so it is tough to just choose one cake. A few years ago though, I had an Italian Cream cake in New York and was hooked. Pecans are my favorite nut and combined with a nice dense cake loaded with them and topped with cream cheese frosting with even more pecans? Well, you just can’t do much better. I am however a huge fan of Red Velvet, Carrot, German Chocolate, Black Forrest cake and Cassata cake…*sigh*. See what I mean, I am constantly trolling baking sites for my next favorite cake. ;0)

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  455. I have been wanting Ree’s book so badly! I love her recipes too, if you haven’t tried her pork chops and pineapple fried rice you must tonight! A signed copy of Ree’s cookbook would be so amazing. On to my favorite cake to enter, it’s got to taste delicious and decorated to cute with sprinkles, gorgeous frosting or tons of candles. I don’t mind if it’s chocolate or strawberry or anything in between as long as it’s yummy and beautiful!

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  457. Favorite cake is a toss-up between a good carrot cake (with lots of crushed pineapple) and a banana cake that I made once, and to this day cannot repeat.

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  458. I would have to say that a classic Black Forest cake . . . you know the kind, the one my girlfriend’s mom used to make . . . Kirsch-soaked sour cherries, and loads of fresh whipped cream slathering in, on and all over . . . that’s my all-time favourite cake!

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  460. I have been drooling on your site for awhile since a colleague introduced me to it…the recipes are amazing and your daughters are too cute. I will never turn down lemon cream cake with lemon frosting so that’s my favourite.

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  463. I WILL be trying this cake out this week! So, it may be my favorite by Friday, lol. But today I would have to go with a whipped cheesecake with strawberry compote. I cannot resist it.

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  468. My favorite cake isn’t much of a cake at all, more of a trifle I suppose, but as far back as I can remember, my mom made me dirt cake for my birthday and it holds a very special spot in my heart! So many birthday memories lie in that layered bowl of crushed oreos and pudding goodness!

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  469. my favorite cake would be this cake with fruits and…yeah i don`t know the name, since i`ve only found these at vietnamese bakeries. BUT THEY ARE DELICIOUS. it has a sponge layer, with this custard…and then this cripy thing…and fruits on top. YUM.

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  474. Red velvet cake, hands down. And with cream cheese frosting, not marshmallow. This is a debate that has gone in my family for years.

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  477. I made a browned butter vanilla cake with a dark chocolate meringue/buttercream/cloud confection and I wanted to shove my face into it and eat it all!!

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  479. It’s hard to pick one but I really love a dense Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake topped with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

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  481. For our birthday’s growing up my mother always made a rich dark chocolate cake (very similar to your chocolate cake) with mile high boiled icing (similar to a 7 min frosting, however, method slightly varies). The icing is not too sweet and very “meringue-ish”.

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  484. i really am an equal opportunity cake eater, but when you get right down to it, my favorite kind of cake is yellow with creamy chocolate frosting. to me it’s a classic- traditional and simple. when i make it i also ALWAYS throw on some rainbow jimmies!

    p.s. the way you feel about Ree and her blog is kinda how i feel since having recently discovered YOUR blog! [blushes a little.] :)

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  486. Gingerbread. No icing. Just a bit of powdered sugar. I could eat it every day! However, this cake is delicious. I’ve made it before. MMMM.

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  488. I just love all of your posts and recipes! I am actually making a combination of your cake and frosting recipes for my wedding cake, which also happens to be my favorite cake :)

    My favorite cake is the chocolate cake used in the inside out Neapolitan cake topped with American style strawberry buttercream frosting made with concentrated strawberry puree (recipe from the Cake Bible) and glazed with a dark chocolate ganache.

    Thanks for all the lovely pictures, recipes and stories. I love reading them all!

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  490. My favorite cake is a white chocolate almond cake with raspberry filling. I usually make it as a treat for friends who need a special something to cheer them up.

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  491. Rosie, I finally made your rainbow cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday last week. It was my first time working with fondant. It came out ok but think I need a little practice. Plus the doodle pens I used weren’t so great – I will use your recommendation from now on!! Needless to say, it is our new favorite cake as the cake was delightful and the buttercream was amazing. Thank you so much for the great idea. The 16 children we hosted were amazed when they saw the rainbow layers! The adults were pretty impressed as well. Take care. Jayne

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  493. Any cake with fruit filling, or coconut, or chocolate, or cinnamon, or caramel, or…. who am I kidding? I LOVE CAKE!

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  494. My favorite cake is Yogourt Cake. It’s more a pie than a cake, with a sweet shortcrust, an ever so thin layer of dark chocolate (plain crunchy dark chocolate), a thin layer of raspberry puree scattered with a few whole raspberries and ,finally, a thick layer of the most amazing yogourt mousse. I even had it as my wedding cake and it was a complete hit!!!

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  496. I absolutely love her chocolate sheet cake. I use it for everything (cake, cupcakes, laker cake, etc…)

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  498. Hands down vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing. Yum!! I love that you guys are blog friends, too cool! I totally want to move to her ranch and be bff too! Let’s bond over that…haha.

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  499. Our favorite cake that we make is our Tender White Cake that we got from the King Arthur Flour site. Tender and moist it is, with a very soft, fine crumb. The reason we like this cake so much is we take this recipe and add ingredients like vanilla beans, or almond butter, or raspberry puree or lemon juice and zest, and turn it into many different flavors of cake…all delicious and yet keeping the qualities we love of the original Tender White Cake! Our favorite flavor of cake to eat I would say is definitely anything chocolate!

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  500. Chocolate with vanilla or chocolate frosting, I am not picking. My favorite is a recipe I came across in high school.

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  501. Commercially speaking, I LOVE the Pink Champagne Cake from the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, CA. But, if I have to pick one that is homemade, it would be Fresh Lemon Cake that I am fond of making every Easter.

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  502. My favorite cake is…

    A simple red velvet with cream-cheese frosting. It will be my wedding cake in just 6 short months :)

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  504. One of my favorite cakes is a cake called Amalgamation Cake. My husband’s grandmother from Mississippi used to make it. A very good cake!!

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  505. Cherry Chocolate Fudge cake… it is to DIE FOR! Chocolate cake with a can of cherry pie filling mixed in and baked and then a cooked chocolate frosting on top that ends up like fudge. My mom makes it and it is the only cake I really like. In fact, I think I need to call her and see if she’ll make me one right now! :)

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  507. When I was a kid, my sister and I made up a cake we called “Throw cake.” It was a white cake and we would ‘throw’ chocolate chips and pecan pieces in the cake. Some would sink down but most of it would sit on the top, I would smear the chocolate around to make a layer of ‘icing’.
    It’s still one of my favorites, since I don’t really like traditional frosting.

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  510. Almond cake, white icing, hopefully some sort of fruit filling: raspberry or strawberry would be awesome.

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  512. I’m partial to the asian style sponge cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. Something about it is so light and delish. BUT .. I did just make Colette Peter’s chocolate cake and it was pretty darn tasty. There are way WAY too many cakes to choose and .. OH .. I forgot about a Tres Leches cake. Ok. That’s my favorite. Definitely.

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  513. My favourite cake is cake. Mmmmm… cake.

    Carrot cake with maple cream cheese buttercream.

    Vanilla cupcakes with delicious perfect swirly frosting and sprinkles.

    Your Chocolate Fudge Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream blew my mind.

    And the dark chocolate and salted peanut butter icecream cake a friend made me a couple of years ago is a food memory I will carry to my grave.

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  518. My all time favorite cake is cannoli cake. The best place to get this is a small bakery in my husbands hometown- Smithtown, NY. It’s super moist, with just the right amount of cream and frosting. We save it for special occasions when we celebrate birthdays or anniversaries while visiting.

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  522. My favorite cake right now is the chocolate layer cake that was featured in food network magazine in the Feb. issue. It’s to die for. Two chocolate layers with a whipped chocolate ganache surrounded by homemade triple chocolate bark. I just discovered your blog and have already made several of your cakes. The chocolate cake with the strawberry buttercream was a hit at work. The next cake that I will make will be the choco choco cake.

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  525. German Chocolate Cake is hands down my favorite. A close second are buttermilk brownies (which PW calls “The Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever) made into mini cupcakes and topped with ganache.

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  528. My favourite cake is your Campfire delight cake. Marshmallow and Chocolate oh so good.
    P.S. your Blog is the most beautiful site I’ve ever seen thank you so much for such amazing inspiration for my culinary adventures!

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  530. Lately, my favorite cake seems to be whatever I have most recently made. I take cake or cupcakes to my co-workers every Thursday, so I am always looking for something new to get them excited about. So, I think I am going to try the Hummingbird cake recipe on this site because the description of the cake is just irresistible.

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  531. Cake is my favorite dessert so I’ve contemplated this question several times and I can never make up my mind. I adore basic white cake with vanilla buttercream. It was always my birthday cake growing up (usually tinted pink) so I have major fond memories tied to it. I also love my mom’s chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting. It’s the best chocolate cake I’ve ever had and it’s heaven!

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  533. Choosing a favourite cake is like choosing a favourite child for me. Right at this moment my favourite would be vanilla cake with strawberry cream filling and fabulous vanilla buttercream frosting.

    Love your blog! You are single-handedly responsible for the fifteen pounds I’ve put on… (Well, maybe I had something to do with it.)

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  540. My favorite cake is simple but so yummy although it has to be baked by either my Aunt Thelma or Aunt Melba. Pound Cake, no one can come close to making a pound cake like my 2 Aunts. Maybe it is the fact I have to go back home to Georgia for a slice but nothing warms my heart more than a slice of their pound cake. Aunt Melba’s is so moist and always served with a glass of milk. I can never have just one piece. Aunt Thelmas pound cake is found on her cake platter where I hardly ever put the lid back on. I pick apart the crust first and then finally have at least 2 pieces. They follow the same recipe but I swear each has their own special ingredient.

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  544. So many good cakes to choose from but after trying so many fancy and some not so fancy cakes I happen to really love battenberg cake lol I know it’s not like a huge cake but a dainty tea one but I love the jam and the marzipan it’s just so…. Well yummy lol! Well good luck everyone wish we all could win I’d love to win its my bday this month and I haven’t bought myself a new cookbook in ages!

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  546. My favorite cake is associated with my 95-year-old paternal grandmother, whom was also a church-going woman. She would bring this cake to church potluck every week along with her baked spaghetti. It was a buttery vanilla cake topped with a stick-to-your-teeth caramelized sugar glazed oozing over slices of pineapple. Yes, it’s good old fashioned Pineapple Upside-Down Cake… Yummm!!!

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  548. Hi there! Thanks for the giveaway. I’d have to say my favorite kind of cake is almond cake. A barely sweet, rich, moist slice of yellow cake made with ground almonds and almond extract, sans frosting. I eat way more cake than can be good for me and that’s the slice I always have room for.

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  551. My favorie cake is a Chocolate layer cake, with nutella whipped cream filling and chocolate sour cream frosting!

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  558. ONE favorite cake? What?! :) Seriously, that is an impossible question! I guess I would have to go with a super moist chocolate cake, with a not-too-sweet chocolate frosting.

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  563. Your petite ruffles cake is my fav one, from the way it taste to the way it looks.
    Check out my blog for my attempt of yr ruffles cake…

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  565. I’m a little fancy. My favorite cake of all time is Salted Caramel, chocolate cake with salted caramel and dark chocolate ganache.

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  566. My favorite is Carrot Cake! I love cream cheese frosting with pecans! My birthday is later this month so I can’t wait!! YUM!!!

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  570. My fav. cake is a simple home made “trini” styled fruit cake topped with buttercream cream frosting…will have you biting your fingers!!!

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  571. My favorite cake is either coconut cake or chocolate cake with whip cream. Yum!!! I might need to go bake a cake now.

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  572. Favorite cake?? All of them. Really though, chocolate on chocolate. Or carrot, covered in sweet cream cheese frosting with brown sugar and walnuts on top.

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  575. My favorite cake is Black Forest cake, but since I tried your extra dark chocolate cake with raspberry swiss meringue buttercream frosting and alternated the layers with white chocolate and dark chocolate ganache, I can’t decide which one I like better …..

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  579. It’s hard to choose a favorite cake, but my favorite Sweetapolita cake has been the campfire cake! That toasted mashmallow frosting is the bomb!

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  582. My favorite cake, bar none, is a nice yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Second would be a pistachio pudding cake made with white cake mix, a box of pistachio pudding, club soda, etc. Neither are very sophisticated, but definitely simple and of great comfort.

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  585. My favorite cake is chocolate with chocolate frosting!

    I have made Ree’s “My Favorite Meatloaf” and my daughter who does not like meatloaf loved it! She requests it again and again.

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  586. I heart Ree! And you Rosie! My favorite cake has to be lemon meringue pie, but only if it’s home made, preferably with meyer lemons. Then you can really taste the lemon.

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  589. I would say my favorite cake has to be BIRTHDAY CAKE! there is always such excitement and anticipation that comes along the day a birthday cake is to be made, and I personally love that first bite of a great moist cake with sweet icing! And it’s never really the same cake twice since you always come up with a better idea for the next one~

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  590. My favorite cake is Lemon Pound cake made with fresh lemons. My aunt Lois makes one that is incredible.

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  592. Beautiful Cake! I have to say my favorite cake would be a butter pecan cake with a cream cheese frosting. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! and I also LOVE the Pioneer Woman, anyone who doesn’t has got to be crazy right??

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  594. I have made this cake before and it is good. My favorite cake would have to be lemon cake with strawberry filling and lemon buttercream..Mmmmmmmm!!!!

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