What's your cake eating style? (with poll)

[GundamW]

I rarely eat the frosting. Usually I'll eat the cake and leave all the frosting behind. I have NEVER eaten a cake with good frosting.

Same. The cake frosting is usually too sweet.
Fresh creme cakes, on the other hand, I finish them easily.

 

[Leros]

Do people actually do #3?

I used to date a girl who did this. She'd put her cake in a bowl and cover it with milk. Always weirded me out.

 

[Newbian]

Usually I get both at the same time but if I got a corner or a side piece I tend to take a bit less cake from the other sides so I get enough cake for the extra frosting otherwise all you are getting is just frosting and that tends to be to sweet without cake with it.

 

[Joseph F]

I don't always eat cake, but when I do, I scoop about half of the icing off of the top and discard it.

 

[Cheesetogo]

I rarely eat the frosting. Usually I'll eat the cake and leave all the frosting behind. I have NEVER eaten a cake with good frosting.

The worse are those chocolate filled cakes with frosting that tastes nothing like chocolate. It tastes more like spit with rotten in it.

How can you live in NYC and never have eaten good frosting? Go to a bakery!

 

[ElFenix]

Same. The cake frosting is usually too sweet.
Fresh creme cakes, on the other hand, I finish them easily.

this * over 9000

 

[zerocool84]

I rarely eat the frosting. Usually I'll eat the cake and leave all the frosting behind. I have NEVER eaten a cake with good frosting.

Same here as well. I hate frosting. They're all too sweet.

 

[n7]

@ the frosting-haters: GTFO ...the whole reason to eat cake is for the icing/frosting.

I save it till last, after eating the cake part usually.

 

[Brigandier]

Cake is cereal.

 

[BoomerD]

Depends on the cake. My wife makes a fabulous applesauce cake that gets NO frosting...at the most, a light dusting with confectioner's sugar.

Carrot cake, which is supposed to have a cream cheese frosting, is also best without any frosting...or just a bit of confectioner's sugar.

The "run of the mill" cake needs a bit of frosting, (homemade, not store-bought, not "butter cream," not "crap-in-a-can.")

 

[Mike Gayner]

Carrot cake, which is supposed to have a cream cheese frosting, is also best without any frosting...or just a bit of confectioner's sugar.

Wrong.

 

[bignateyk]

Pick all the frosting off cause its usually nasty, then eat part of the cake only to remember how much cake sucks, then throw the rest away.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Other: Scrape 90% of frosting off, then eat cake.

 

[Ghiddy]

Cut generous piece fro middle of cake.
Fill in empty space with paper towels, then cover with frosting to remove evidence of cake eating.
Enjoy cake.

 

[nageov3t]

Do people actually do #3?

once in awhile, typically because the cake is dry.

but generally speaking, I prefer to eat the cake and icing simultaneously.

 

[Taughnter]

How can you live in NYC and never have eaten good frosting? Go to a bakery!

I worked in a bakery in NJ (about .5 miles out of NYC) when I was younger. I also largely don't like typical layer cakes or the accompanying frosting. Why? Well it's just a matter of the ingredients. Your typical layer cake has yellow or chocolate cake (generally three or more 'slices'), one or more types of filling: fruit (fresh or pie-filling type), custard, chocolate, whipped cream and a topping is usually chocolate/fudge, whipped cream, or butter cream.

Now the key here is that many bakeries don't use butter or any dairy in the butter cream so that it lasts longer with minimal refrigeration....same goes for the fudge. Non-dairy fudge can still be pretty good, but non-dairy butter cream is essentially shortening (crisco), sweetener, and food coloring. If made properly butter cream can be awesome and if the right level of care is not taken, it can be gross. At least in my case, I've eaten the wrong kind of frosting so many times that I have to really be in the mood for cake to be able to eat more than a bite or two of it. That's not to say that there are no bakeries out there that can "get it right", but not your average store bought cake and a lot of bakeries.

You've got a similar battle with the fillings. Depending on what type they use, you can basically end up with a weak version of a pie. IMHO, pie crust is far superior to what most bakeries use as the base for their cakes and they generally use the exact same stuff as filling. Now, give me a whipped cream frosted cake with custard and fresh fruit and that I will get excited about.

When I do eat cake, I try to get every part (cake, filling, frosting) in each bite.

 

[Scotteq]

Both, usually - But I dislike very thick/sweet butter cream frostings.



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(1) Bake a Pie


(2) Pour a layer of cake batter into a large baking pan

(3) Drop the Pie into the baking pan

(4) Cover with the rest of the pie with cake batter.

(5) Bake the cake


Highly recommend Spice Cake with an Apple Pie in it.

 

[KeithTalent]

Same here as well. I hate frosting. They're all too sweet.

A proper buttercream icing is not too sweet, it should be buttery and somewhat sweet. A nice Italian buttercream is the only way to go if I am going to actually eat cake.

KT

 

[sandorski]

Icing made with Shortening can be ok if it is used sparingly. Unfortunately Bakeries tend to use copious amounts that make Cakes nasty. Whipped Cream based Icing is awesome though. The Icing used on a Torte is the best IMO, I think it's a combo of Butter and Whipped Cream, but I'm not sure of it. Whenever I make Cake I don't bother with Icing, just too lazy.

 

[Jeff7]

Remove all frosting and eat it first.
The cake then goes into a glass of milk until it's nice and saturated.

 

[sonicdrummer20]

Pie is the one true dessert cake is for pussies.

 

[Saint Nick]

Submerge. Not surprised I'm the only one who does this.

 

[dank69]

Eat box of cake mix first followed by a can of frosting.

 

[darkewaffle]

Normally just the cake since most frosting is disgusting.

 

[six26]

I like to let it dry out and get a bit crusty THEN pour a couple pints of whole milk over the top.