I am building my cake business with a nostaglic concept. That's actually part of the name and I was wondering what type of cake did you just love growing up or miss having around? My favorite was Red Velvet, I actually began making them myself because I could never find one without nuts in it.



Tamara (The Cake-Mama)
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Yellow cake with lemon filling and chocolate frosting. Also, strawberry shortcake, if that counts.

I always liked a dark chocolate cake with a buttercream icing. I remember sneaking into the kitchen with a fork to steal bites out of it.

Darci

Mine was always a good scratch carrot cake, with a delicious cream cheese icing. Just talking about it makes my mouth water. My Mom always made the best carrot cakes.

Wilma

Mine was an Egg Sponge, you know the fatless ones, just sugar, eggs and flour. With fresh cream and mandarin orange filling and a good shaking of icing sugar on the top.

Still is my favourite, mind you most cakes come a close second these days, lol.

Mine was definitely angel food cake with strawberry glaze icing drizzled over it. That brings back memories...

Another vote for angel food cake here...with fresh strawberries, fresh blueberries and fresh whipped non-sweetened whipped cream...heaven. Either that or strawberry shortcake every year on my birthday menu!!

When I was growing up, I always helped my mom bake the family birthday cakes. Here were some favorites:

My moms was always german chocolate with the coconut/pecan frosting.

My brothers was Vanilla cake with vanilla pudding frosting (pudding mixed with whipped cream).

My cousin's was red velvet, and her sister's yellow cake with choc bc (made only with butter..no shortening!!) with m&m's on it. Their mom's was frozen turtle cheesecake.

My dad's and grandpa's was DQ ice cream cake
and my grandma's was carrot cake (the really chunky, super moist kind) with cream cheese frosting.

Hope those family favorites help.

Rainbow cake!!!!

It's a white cake that you bake and cool, then poke holes into it ALL OVER with fork tines. Then you mix up a batch of jello (we usually did strawberry) and pour it all over the whole cake. Put it in the fridge till the jello sets up and ice it with TONS of Cool Whip. We used a whole tub for a 9x13 cake. I made it once as a two-layer 8in round and it was delish!

Well I hate to admit it but I loved the white cake with rainbow chips, made from a boxed mix with the canned rainbow chip frosting!

Pretty sad huh? Looking back now I feel sorry for my mom who always wanted to make me a great cake and had to go with my standard boxed choice!

Peanut Butter! Peanut Butter! P Peanut Butter!

My mom used to make this packet mix that I'd die to see in the store again. It was chocolate cake and then there was a second packet inside that had a coconut creamy filling/mix. Cake was made in a bundt pan and you'd layer the chocolate then a ring of the coconut filling then the rest of the chocolate batter on top. The chocolate would bake up like a regular cake but the coconut layer would stay real moist and almost gooey. It was so good! Never have been able to find a recipe that duplicated it. Mmmm, I can almost taste it!

~Nicole

My dad made the best German Chocolate cake...to this day, I always ask my DH to get it for me for my birthday and he has brought home some great german chocolate cake, but none of them have ever been as good as the one's my dad made!

My grandma's chocolate angle food cake with wipped chocolate icing. Just thinking about it makes me hungry.

Tamara, I think that is a great idea for your cake business. People will take a bite of your cakes and be transported back to their childhoods!

My favorite birthday cake growing up was a strawberry cake with the strawberry frosting. Brings back memories! Good luck!

ANGEL FOOD! mmmmm

Mine is either a Carvel Ice Cream Cake or a Chocolate Chip Cookie cake.

My Mom used to make a recipe that we called 'Crazy Cake'. It was from WWII and was designed for baking with rations. It's been a long time and I can't remember if it used eggs or not, or even sugar.....all I do remember is it was a real treat, maybe just because of the name!

My mom used to make a bunny cake using two 9" rounds and cutting ears from one round - leaving a bow tie shape for his bow tie. She would put the ears and bow tie on the round and it looked like a bunny. She would ice it with fluffy white icing (sometimes cocount too) and then use licorice for his whiskers and round candies to decorate his bowtie. I loved all the candy! (This was about 25 years ago before shaped cakes were very advanced)

I loved my mother's chocolate cake with mocha icing. The cake was probably boxed but she always made the icing from scratch.

I still love it, but I am about the only one in my family that will eat the mocha. Nobody else likes coffee. So I never make it.

My goodness! These bring back memories. Only problem is that part of them I remember from not my childhood but my early adulthood. Guess that means I'm getting old. My son loved the jello cake that smgaluv tells about. My daughter, like me, loves chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream icing. I can remember the first time I used Crisco in my chocolate icing instead of oleo or butter. I was a teenager and I got rave reviews! I just experimented because my aunt used Crisco in her decorator icing. After I was older I started putting butter flavoring in it. I remember making the bunny cake dydemus liked when I was a teenager.

Triplemom, I have a recipe for an eggless, butterless, milkless cake that might be like the Crazy Cake. It is in my grandma's old cookbook and was used during rationing. If you'd like the recipe PM me and I'll give it to you.

My worst memory of a cake was when my mom made one for my Brownie meeting at Valentines Day. She made 7 minute icing and it turned to sugar and she had put those little candy hearts on it.. Was horrible. Another girl brought one and it was a tall chocolate heart shaped cake with fluffy chocolate icing trimmed in pink. Everyone raved about it and wouldn't eat my cake. I cried all the way home that day. My mom was a terrific cook but worked long hours and just didn't have time for baking all the things I volunteered her for. My kids got even with me by volunteering me all the time.

AngelFood cake with either fresh strawberries or with icing. Yummy! It is still my favorite.

Mine was...is...devils food, moist with a whipped cream filling with toffe crumbled in the filling and topped with vanilla buttercream icicng----mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........Yuuuuuuuuuummm!!!

I can't really remeber a favorite, I just loved Choc. period!

Mom used to always make me a strawberry shortcake for my b-day when I was older. I remember it was just mine!

There was a lady that lived down the street and she entertained alot. She used to bring us down all the desserts that were left over. Sounds weird but it fits, trust me. ANYWAY, she made the two best desserts ever. Gosh, I was little than but I THINK one was like a dense bundt cake, half yellow half choc, with a drizzle of choc glaze. The other was, gosh I can't even describe it but it was torted, had crusty layers made of some sorta nuts, whipped icing and raspberry sauce. If that sounds familiar to anyone reading, please let me know what ya think it might have been.

I think I have a cookbook with some recipes that sound similar to that raspberry stuff. I'll go take a look...

funny, but I don't remember many cakes growing up, and what few I do, I made! and the one I remember the most was a from scratch german chocolate w/ from scratch pecan/coconut frosting.

Mom wasn't "in" to cakes, tho' she could make a scratch angel food and did the box mix bundt w/ tunnel of coconut (and homemade egg noodles and taffy.) She was more in to cookies.

Her forte tho' was pies. We did't get cake for b-days, it was a pie.

Here's one:

Raspberry Dessert

1 cube butter
1 1/2 cups flour
6 oz. cream cheese, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cube margarine (yes, it calls for butter AND margarine! lol)
1/2 cup chopped nuts, such as walnuts
1 3 oz. package raspberry jello
1 cup boiling water
2 pkgs. frozen raspberries
1 medium container Cool Whip

Cut butter into flour and press into bottom of a 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 350º for 30 minutes and let cool. Blend cream cheese, sugar, and margarine and spread on cool crust. Sprinkle with nuts. Dissolve Jello in boiling water and add berries. Cool until syrup-like and pour over cream cheese and nuts. Set in fridge until firm. Spread Cool Whip on top when ready to serve.

OR

Raspberry Fluff

1/2 cup margarine
1 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Mix together and bake on a cookie sheet for 10 minutes in a 350º oven. Cool and crumble.

1 10 oz. package frozen raspberries (do not thaw)
2 egg whites
1 cup sugar
1/2 pt whipping cream, whipped
1 pkg. Dream Whip, prepared according to package directions.

In larger mixer bowl, beat the two egg whites on high speed. When they begin to thicken, add the 1 cup sugar alternately with the raspberries, a little at a time. Beat 13 to 15 minutes, until very stiff and high. Fold in the 1/2 pint of whipping cream and the Dream Whip. Place 1/2 of crumbs on bottom of 9x13 pan. Put whipped filling on top of crumbs, then remaining crumbs on top. Cover with foil and put in freezer.

[I suppose you could use pasturized egg whites for safety]

Pineapple upsidedown cake!!! Also, plain ol' yellow cake with chocolate icing. I want some right now!

Mmm, My two favorites were white cake frosted with frozen raspberries mixed into real whiped cream! SOOO GOOD! The other was Pineapple upsidedown cake. All made from scratch!