As a child, what was your favorite type of birthday cake

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[Mimivillager]

My Mama always made me a fresh coconut cake. A white cake with freshly grated coconut out of a coconut shell. She put the coconut milk in the cake too and it was so moist and delicious. This year I found coconut cake at a small café in Mount Dora and bought a piece . It was good but just not the same. And, of course, the coconut was not grated.

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[gocubsgo]

The new bakery opening in Wildwood will be able to recreate those birthday cakes. Call them and describe to them what your cake was as a child and they can make it again for you.

[Northstar]

My Grandmother would make me a Strawberry Short Cake for my Birthday...Yummmm.....

[kittygilchrist]

Anything with my name on it.

[DandyGirl]

I always requested and got devil's food cake with white fluffy icing. I've got a birthday coming up in a couple weeks.....just might have to make one for myself!

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[Midvale]

My mom would make me a home made Boston Cream Pie!

[jean1954]

When you were a child, did you have any special requests for your birthday cake each year????

My husband always wanted a home made peanut butter cake with peanut butter icing.

I always was given a bakery cake....butter cream icing with beautiful "roses" all around the top.....

We're doing the annual birthday cake routine, as we do each summer, for all the grandchildren , during our two week beach vacation in Maine.....

The "little ones" LOVE the candles........this year I got tons of candles to put on top of the cake; just to see their faces as the candles are lit is priceless.

My mother would make me a homemade cherry cake with cherry frosting baked in a heart-shaped cake pan. I always thought it was so special to have a heart-shaped cake.

[Villages PL]

My first birthday cake was when I was 2 years old. My aunt offered to bring a cake for the occasion. My mother told her it would be best to not put icing on the cake because all the kids at the party would be very young, like me. But my aunt, a sugar addict, just couldn't help herself and brought a cake loaded with icing. My mother gave me a piece of cake and said, "try it, if you don't like the icing I'll take it off." I took one taste and hated it, so my mother removed all the icing. The cake itself was okay (in a weird sort of way).

[mac9]

Never did much like the cake, but butter cream icing is wonderful. Always wanted a "cake" that is just the butter cream icing!

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[patfla06]

My Mom always made me a homemade yellow cake with chocolate icing -
still one of my favorites today.

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[Schaumburger]

I was lucky enough to be present for each of my niece's first birthday parties. One my great delights was seeing them eat their first birthday cakes! And get the cake and ice cream all over their little faces LOL.

I still can't get used to seeing my 22 year old niece drinking a beer at family gatherings...it was just yesterday I was pushing her in a stroller and changing her diaper...

And one of my favorite birthday cakes as a child was the pineapple upside down cake when I turned 10. Yummy!

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[zcaveman]

Chocolate with chocolate icing. My mother made the best.

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[rayschic]

My favorite was Strawberry Shortcake from Ebbinger's Bakery.

[CFrance]

I used to make my husband (slim and trim) a four-layer Italian "tiramasu" cake drizzled with rum syrup and filled with raspberry jam and some kind of filling with those candied citrus fruit thingies used at Christmas. Forget what the frosting was. It took all day, and this was back when we had two little boys five years apart who were always running around nipping at each other and my ankles.

Then he quit smoking, gained weight, and he went on the Atkins diet, so carbs were out. He's maintaned the 50-lb weight loss for 30 years, so maybe I should consider making one again. I still have the recipe book... somewhere!

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[CFrance]

The most delicious cake of all........I love tiramisu...which means "Pick me up" in Italian. Can't find them up here. That must have been a project filled with love........

Ferrara's Bakery in Little Italy, New York City does have them.
They also have canoli cakes. We order them both for the holidays....along with the mini chocolate covered canoli.
They arrive frozen.

But nothing beats home made. I used to make regular rum cakes with Baccardi rum.......but never attempt tiramisu. If you find your recipe, I'd appreciate having it. A very delicate flavor, for sure.

I will be able to unpack that box in a few weeks and get you the recipe. The box is buried right now, waiting for some cabinetry to be installed. It's an old book from the '70s.

Maybe I'll make another one for DH!

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[CaptJohn]

After those recipies above I hate to say!
I had Mother make me angel food cakes until she started making a great, moist carrot cake. Then it was my favorite (and still is, if made moist).

[mentoj]

Carvel ice cream cake!!! :BigApplause:

[Villages PL]

Are you for real ?????????????????????

Yes, I'm afraid so.

I understand not overloading a child of one, two or three with sugary sweets, but all little ones enjoy their first, second, etc. b.day cakes. I know some do cry......

I just thought it was all very strange; I wondered what the purpose of it was. A birthday party? What's a birthday? At two years old, time doesn't exist. So what's the purpose of it? (I better not say what I really think about the purpose of it.)

You remember your second birthday????? Perhaps your mom retold the story to you.

No, she never did tell that story and I don't think I ever told her that I remembered it. I wish I had told her.

Most childrens' memories begin around age 4...???
Perhaps age 3 at the earliest.

Wait 'til you hear this: My first memory goes back to before I was one year old. And my mother wouldn't have told me this because it wouldn't have been anything special to her. But it was special to me and that's why I remembered it. It goes like this:

I remember the layout of the kitchen and it was the kitchen of a house I only lived in up to the age of one. That's why I know about how old I was. My mother had put me in a high-chair. Quite possibly it was going to be the first time she would feed me baby food from a jar, but I can't be sure about that.
Well, I remember feeling very hungry and I couldn't wait. So I started making a comotion. She was about to open one of the kitchen cabnets to get the baby food jars. And when I made the comotion, she turned around and scolded me. She said, "just be patient, I'm going as fast as I can." (It didn't seem that way to me.)

So, finally, it was time to eat. There were two jars. She opened one and with a little baby-spoon she put some food in my mouth. It surprised me because it tasted bitter. I pushed it out of my mouth and it ran down my chin. She expressed her displeasure and told me that I had to eat it. (That's when she got an idea.) She said, "this other jar is apple sauce and tastes good. But you have to eat the vegetables first in order to get the apple sauce." Believe it or not, I understood every word she said and I proceeded to eat the vegetables. End of story.

That was my first lesson in nutrition: Vegetables come first because they are the most important part of the meal. You can't just eat what you like the most. But I do like vegetables now, even the "bitter" ones.

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