The Story:
Birthdays are always filled with presents and cake. But what sort of cake do you like to have on your big day? I grew up thinking that yellow cake and chocolate frosting was the dream combo. But since I bake all the time now, cake has sort of lost it’s special feeling. But I still wanted something chocolate and something I could stick a candle in! So…brownies. A big, thick, fudgey brownie did just the trick. And to make it a little extra, chocolate chips and the top layer swirled with strawberry cream cheese. Mmmm….
Smuckers sent me a package with some jams and preserves to use and I went for the strawberry preserve for this recipe. It’s a whole lot easier than going to get fresh or frozen berries and having to chop them up and puree them down. I just pop off
the jam lid, take a big scoop out and stir it on it. Perfection.
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And what early (or maybe late) birthday gift does Smuckers have for one of you lucky readers? A $100 gift card to Walmart and a birthday package of Smuckers Products!
Just comment below telling me what your dream birthday cake is to enter!
Giveaway open until 2/26/13
Strawberry Cream Cheese Swirl
Ingredients
Brownies: (Or you can make from a box)
- 1/2 C. butter melted
- 1 C. sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/3 C. cocoa powder unsweetened
- 1/2 C. flour
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 2/3 C. mini chocolate chips
Strawberry Cream Cheese Swirl:
- 6 oz. cream cheese
- 1/3 C. strawberry
- 1/4 C. sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease brownie pan.
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2. If you are using a box brownie mix, prepare according to box directions and skip to step 6
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3. Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract.
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4. In a separate bowl combine cocoa powder, flour, salt and baking soda.
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5. Combine the dry ingredients with the butter/egg mixture and stir by hand until smooth.
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6. Fold in mini chocolate chips.
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7. Pour 3/4 of the batter into the pan.
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8. Filling: combine all ingredients and mix until smooth (If there are a few chunks its okay).
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9. Pour filling over batter, then pour remaining batter on top.
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10. Use a knife to swirl filling into the batter.
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11. Bake for 20-50 minutes, depending on how thick your brownies are and how fudgey you want them to turn out.
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12. Let cool and devour.
German chocolate, triple layer, coconut pecan frosting……..YUM!!!
I love Barbara Mandell’s Pig-picking cake. It is filled with mandarin oranges, golden yellow cake, and a luscious filling. I found this recipe in a magazine and make itfor every special occasion.
I have always been one for anything chocolate 🙂 But my favorite would have to be a “Better than whatever”/ “Better than Robert Redford”. It has many names, but whatever you call it, you can’t go wrong with german chocolate and caramel. 🙂
Italian sweet cream!! Delish!
mine would be a vanilla cake filled with fresh strawberries & bananas covered in whipped cream with chocolate shavings on top 🙂
Reese’s Peanut butter Cup Cake!
These look delicious! I love the strawberry swirl on top too! My favorite birthday cake would have to be a dense chocolate cake with caramel and Snickers throughout!
My grandmother’s recipe for Lazy Dazy cake is my absolute favorite for my birthday, although I will gladly take any cake I don’t bake myself!
My dream birthday cake is chocolate on chocolate- the more chocolate the better!
Memories of Coconut Cake with Marshmallow frosting and loads of coconut! Yum!
vanilla cake, chocolate frosting with mini chocolate chips
My dream birthday cake is chocolate strawberry.
My dream birthday cake, is my husband making it….I always have to make my own cake or cupcakes…..but I do enjoy it though, I get the flavor I like!! 🙂
Definately vanilla cake with whipped frosting topped with some strawberries … yum!
I’ve always loved yellow cake & chocolate buttercream(and always will). But currently my dream bday cake would be white cake, berry filling & vanilla buttercream-mmm!
Something with strawberries cream cheese and walnuts. My favorite cake is carrot cake
My dream birthday cake would be lots and lots of Peanut Butter and Chocolate with Peanut Buttercreme frosting….
My dream birthday cake is white velvet cake (the best!!) with raspberry filling and either vanilla or white chocolate buttercream. 🙂 mmmm
What is white velvet cake?! I must know… 😉
I agree with Sheryl – What is White Velvet Cake???
My fav birthday cake would have to be a pina colada cake with the pineapple and coconut…mmmm and rum lol …it has a whipped cream type of frosting with more coconut, rum and pineapple.. Making me hungry thinking about it …Might have to go bake one 😀 The brownie recipe looks awesome too! Thanks
My dream birthday cake is the black walnut cake my granny used to make. It has a creamy black walnut icing and is topped with black walnut chips. YUM!
My birthday is complete with just a GOOD piece of chocolate cake with chocolate icing! 🙂
My favorite cake ever is pineapple upside down cake!!! But I would love to have a lemon cake with a lemon cream cheese frosting!!!
Anything chocolate! Cake, pie, cupcake, brownies – it doesn’t matter as long as chocolate is the main ingredient.
If I were to choose my dream birthday cake for myself, it would have to be a banana cake (flecked with pecans), filled with a layer of cream cheese frosting and glazed strawberries, frosted with vanilla bean buttercream. It’s not your typical cake, and hard to find unless you bite the bullet and make it yourself. Most cakeries will try to go the route of Banana bread as the cake (which is far too dense/heavy) and it loses something in the translation. But when it’s done right, it’s incredible!
A chocolate mint cake with green frosting, since my birthday is on St. Patrick’s Day gotta go with something green 🙂
Carrot cake or anything with Oreos. Your cupcake decorating is impressive and I loved your video on decorating cupcakes. It was super helpful!
My dream birthday cake is definitely homemade carrot or spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I love the mix of spicy and sweet. YUMMMM!
Basic chocolate with a mint frosting!! Mmmmmmm
My dream birthday cake is a lemon coconut cake with lemon filling and coconut buttercream toped with coconut flakes.
My dream cake is cheesecake!
White cake with coconut frosting is my favorite bithday cake
My favorite birthday cake would be a white chocolate raspberry cake. White chocolate cake with a great raspberry filling between layers, with a smooth white chocolate frosting. Yum! Do you have a recipe like this?
My BFF makes my birthday cake every year! It’s a chocolate pudding bunt with chocolate glaze and raspberries. Soooo delicious. 🙂
Oh my favorite cake is the yummy delicious chocolate layered cake from Magelby’s with raspberries and sauce! Would love one of these for my birthday.
Orange Chiffon Cake from Trefzger’s Baker in Peoria IL…hands down the best!!!
Cake doesn’t tickle my fancy as it does for the majority of people on their special day. My favorite? Warm berry cobbler with a dollup of vanilla frozen yogurt on top, please and thank you! If you can make a cake taste that good, then I may consider trying a little 🙂
Favorite Cake – German Chocolate – great for birthday or anytime.
I’m still attached to my child cake love of yellow cake amd a think fudgey chocolate frosting with lots of sprinkles. mmmmm….. perfect combo.
These brownies sound so delicious. Strawberry and chocolate is my one fruit and chocolate combo that I like. My perfect birthday cake would be a dark chocolate guinness cake with chocolate whiskey ganache filling and bailey’s irish cream buttercream!
My dream birthday cake would be chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting, and chocolate syrup! Anything chocolate and peanut butter that is 🙂
I can’t get enough of schmoo torte!
Orange Mandarin is my favorite birthday cake!
A moist coconut & chocolate cake with yourcupofcake’s chocolate buttercream frosting (topped with coconut powder).
I love a light white cake with strawberries and whipped cream frosting!
Yellow cake with a luscious mocha buttercream filling and a dark chocolate ganache on top!
I love a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream! That’s my favorite
Y favorite would have to be white cake with wedding cake frosting! Weddings alwaye have the best cake so I’ve found a recipe for it now 🙂
I would LOVE a chocolate cake with caramel and peanut filling, three layers, with peanut butter frosting and chocolate shavings on top with whipped cream!
Chocolate cake with dark chocolate frosting!
I would like a strawberry cake with vanilla frosting with two layers, and in between the layers would be some strawberry jam, and it would be topped with fresh strawberries.
My dream birthday cake, is one I didn’t have to bake myself. Since my son was born on my 29th birthday, I don’t get to pick the out the details anymore.
My dream birthday cake is cheesecake with chocolate ganache on top. Yum!
Ever since I was young, I’ve loved chocolate cake with white frosting. Since I’ve grown, I’ve learned mascarpone is my favorite! These brownies look yummy!
German chocolate cake is near perfection for me!
I’d want a cake made from your chocolate peanut butter cupcakes recipe. And the top would be covered with cut-up peanut butter cups!
I am old school…strawberry shortcake…brings back wonderful memories of home and friends. But I thank you Miss Lizzy for all the great combo’s you come up with. Keep up the good work and best wishes!
My perfect birthday cake would have to be an Italian cream cake…it’s hard to find a good one in New Mexico!
Ymmm. I think chocolate cake with a raspberry filling would be my preference.
I love an angel food cake with some strawberry whipped cream frosting! Yum!
My birthday cake from two years ago was dark chocolate with strawberry buttercream that tasted just like strawberry ice cream…it was amazing!!
Since my birthday is in the summer, Ice Cream cakes are great! I would also love to branch away from ice cream and go for a nice slice of a yummy white cake with chocolate buttercream frosting! Nothing gets better than that! Thank you for all of your great recipes! They are so good!
My dream bday cake would be a Reese’s cake!! I LOVE ME SOME REESE’S!!!
My dream birthday cake would be a Key Lime cake!!
I LOVE a cookies and cream cake! The crushed oreos with their frosting just adds the perfect creamy taste!
A Raspberry and Dark Chocolate Cake. Nom.
Tres Leches cake with Fresh Strawberry filling and a light buttercream.
my dream birthday cake is marble cake with cookie dough inside with a cheesecake flavored whipped cream icing.
Well…I never met a cake I didn’t like! I love them all.
Since my birthday is really next week I am thinking a cake that involves chocolate, cream cheese icing, (YUM) and raspberries. Maybe I’ll add some raspberry & strawberry compote in the middle. They might actually be in cupcake form though. I can’t wait to make them 🙂
My dream cake would include lots of peanut butter frosting – I love peanut butter so much I could probably survive on peanut butter alone! But for my dream cake, I would have a dark, rich fudge-like chocolate cake with alternating layers of peanut butter frosting. Homemade ganache on top would make it to die for!
A chocolate cake with whipped peanut butter frosting! Yum!
Your recipe for Butterfinger cupcakes made into a cake would be my dream birthday cake!
I love chocolate and peanut butter. Yum!
Chocolate! I love Chocolate cake, with rich chocolate frosting!
My absolute favorite is homemade red velvet cake (really dense and flavorful) and homemade cream cheese frosting. We had that for our wedding cake this past October and we LOVED it! 🙂
My dream birthday cake would be a layer cake consisting of pumpkin spice cake and cheesecake layers covered in a cream cheese frosting and sprinkled with sugared pecans and toffee bits and mayyyybe a light drizzling of salted caramel. Mmmmm!
Anything chocolate 🙂
I adore either carrot cake with cream cheese frosting or coconut cake with lemon curd filling. Mmmmmmmmm.
I love yellow cake and chocolate icing but for my birthday next month I am toying with the idea of a two layer strawberry cake with strawberry jam inbetween the layers and chocolate cream cheese icing on top!
For my husband it would be a peanut butter cup cake but for me it would be something like a white chocolate strawberry cheesecake or a cookies-n-cream cake or a white cake with strawberry filling with a light and fluffy whipped frosting.
My birthday cake has to be an ice cream cake! I know thats not a baked cake but I am the Biggest Ice Cream lover so a traditional chocolate bottom, followed by cruchies topped with vanilla and icing.. Heaven!
My dream cake would be banana with chocolate frosting–mmmmm!
Dream Cake: Mega Chocolate cake filled with a marscapone whipped cream, topped with chocolate ganache icing, carmel swirl and pecans!
Either a nice rich chocolate cake with strawberry frosting (your strawberry frosting from the chocolate strawberry cupcakes preferably cuz it is amazing) or almond cake with raspberry filling and a simple whipped vanilla buttercream. Almond cake is amazing!!! I want to know more about the white velvet cake mentioned above though!!!! 🙂
My dream birthday cake would be very chocolate-peanut buttery. Moist chocolate cake, peanut butter buttercream, Reese’s pb cups and pieces and a chocolate drizzle on top. Mmmmmm.
my dream birthday cake is the almond tort cake. Oh my it is so good.
My birthday is on the 26th and I plan on baking some peanut butter cupcakes with dark chocolate frosting! Yum!
Dense Death by chocolate. Nothing is too chocolately. Mmmmmmm
Chocolate espresso cake is my all-time dream cake
I would LOVE a white cake with white frosting! I love to decorate cakes and love cakes with color and detail, but for me, an all white cake just makes my tummy growl! Mmmm!
My favorite cake for my birthday is a chocolate angel food with a fluffy meringue type frosting. It has to be made from scratch. So yummy!
White cake, almond flavoring added, coconut buttercream frosting. May I have a piece now?!
My favorite cake is white chocolate with either strawberry or raspberry filling.
I’m a big lover of sweets, so ANY cake would make my birthday happier, but I think my dream birthday cake would be a rich, creamy cheesecake with fresh berries on top!
Oh how I would love to have an old fashioned coconut cake- many layers with the old fashioned coconut icing on it! Yummy!!
A giant one with my husband popping out of it wouldn’t be so bad either! Hee-hee!
I never get my favorite because I am the only one in the house who will eat my strawberry lemonade cake. It is a lemon poke cake with strawberry jello and topped with a lemon whipped icing and a few strawberry slices. So yummy! My husband would prefer something chocolate or pumpkin. Which is why our wedding cake was pumpkin flavored.
My Mom’s cheesecake! She makes the best cheesecake!
Cookies and creme
Dream cake? Chocolate brownie cake layered wth chocolate cheesecake and chocolate fudge cream cheese frosting! That’s my dream cake! Oh, my!
A flourless chocolate cake drizzled with carmel and covered in chocolate whip cream. You guessed it I’m a baker allergic to wheat. But I still bake and send out the goodies to family, friends and neighbors. But I can eat my dream cake all of it. Paulette
I know it sounds kinda silly for a birthday, but a big slice of white wedding cake with copious amounts of buttercream is my ideal cake. : D
My dream birthday cake? It has to have chocolate, of course. I’m not much of a fan of regular frosting or icing, but anything mousse or mousse-like and I’m sold. If I had to pick just one type of cake, I’d say dark chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling, with whipped cream & oreos on top. Yum!
3 tier red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and dark chocolate shavings on top. Mmm,
I love the idea of these brownies! I must try them soon!
My Dream Birthday cake would be one that I wouldn’t have to work out so hard after eating all of it.
It would be a layered lemon cream cake with a lavendar infused buttercream frosting.
Wow, these look delicious. Love your photos! And my dream cake…I have so many. My favorite flavor combinations are peanut butter/chocolate and cookies and cream/chocolate. Strawberry/chocolate it another favorite. So I suppose my dream cake would be a three tiered cake with each tier featuring one of my favorites!
My favorite birthday cake is a devils food cake with chocolate icing and a mocha cream filling.
Since my birthday is in May, just in time for Strawberry season – Strawberry Shortcake is my choice.
My dream cake would be to get one! Nobody remembers my birthday except my mom and she has passed away. Never get a cake anymore and get depressed on that day now! But, I would love to have a homemade chocolate cake piled high with chocolate frosting! And, to see Happy Birthday on it!!
My dream birthday cake would definitely be carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!!
My dream birthday cake (which is coming up in less than 2 weeks) is chocolate with raspberry. That is my favorite flavor combination.
Chocolate cake with marshmallow filling between the layers and chocolate cream cheese on the outside…heaven! Thank you for the giveaway!
Yummmm!! Cake!! My fave is a white cake with pineapple filling & pineapple vanilla frosting!!! I had that cake for my 8th grade graduation & I still remember how delicious it was!!
Even though my birthday isn’t in the Fall, the best bday cake would be pumpkin spice with cream cheese frosting!!
Hmmmm decisions decisions… I think if you were making my cake I’d take anything you made! Everything you make looks absolutely delish!!!!!!! If not you then I think I would like to have the Coconut Cake my moms friend Mary makes for my Birthday; it’s a yummy white cake with a Coconut Cream Cheese frosting. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
My dream birthday cake is a white cake with strawberry filling and white birthday cake icing on it with lots of icing flowers from the Community Bakery!!! Yummmmmmmmmmm
My birthday cake would be a Poppy Seed Pound cake.
My cake would be: Italaian Creme Cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My birthday cake would be a white cake with chocolate icing…or a turtle cheesecake! yummo!
Anything cheesecake for me!
Devils Food cake with peanut butter cream cheese icing and Butterfingers pieces sprinkled on top!!
My dream birthday cake to enter would be Chocolate Hazelnut with raspberry.
My favorite cake is carrot cake – my daughter in law makes it for me – I love it and I love her!!!
My dream birthday cake is chocolate with chocolate fudge frosting!
Dream birthday cake…so many to choose from, but I guess I would go with chocolate fudge cake with a peanut butter frosting.
My Birthday is actually this Sunday and I’m dreaming of devils food chocolate with chocolate ganache frosting. Hopefully my husband is up to making it for me!
My dream birthday cake would have to be Mrs. Beaty’s Chocolate Cake by the Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten. thanks for the giveaway!
My dream birthday cake is vanilla rum with buttercream!
My dream birthday cake is Bristol’s Seafood & Grill’s Carrot Cake. I only eat it once a year. I am sure it has enough calories to last me a year 🙂
A basic yellow cake with lemon icing – always makes me think of when I was a kid and I would bring in lemon cupcakes on my birthday 🙂
My dream cake is fairly simple, vanilla cake, strawberry filling and chocolate buttercream frosting. Mmmm good!
My dream birthday cake is layers of red velvet cake with cheese cake and rich creamy cream cheese frosting and a dark chocolate crust! 🙂
My dream cake is a 3 layered angel food cake with fresh made whipped cream. Between one layer is fresh strawberries, another layer is fresh banana, and the last layer crushed pineapple…YUM!
My favorite birthday cake has always been Tiramisu. Love that coffee, chocolate, and bit if wine taste and soft layer of cake, yummy!
The best birthday cake I’ve ever had was actually for my mom – it was a white cake with lemon filling in the middle. Vanilla frosting. So simple yet SO delicious! 🙂
My dream birthday cake is one that is a delicious combination of chocolate and peanut butter!!! My favorite combination ever 🙂
Well, it was my birthday this month and I had a lemon funfetti cake. It was so good and so colorful!
my favorite cake for my birthday is definitely anything fruit related. Cherry is my favorite with chocolate and cupcakes is my size of choice.
My favorite birthday cupcake would be anything chocolate with kaluha and whipped creammmmmm!
Bailey’s cheesecake or any chocolate cake!
An Atomic Cake is the BEST!!! Birthday Cake.
White Chocolate Mocha!!!
I LOVE italian cream cake!:)
The recipe looks amazing and love the giveaway! My dream cake would be a cheesecake of some kind. Cheers~
Those brownies look delish!!
Red velvet cheesecake would be heavenly. Or something with peanut butter and chocolate. Yum. Now I’m wishing it was my birthday! Lol
My dream cake is german chocolate with coconut pecan frosting…an oldie but a goody. I still remember eating that when I was a child.
Can’t go wrong with a very chocolate cake – like the kind that makes you say “oof” when you are done with one piece. 🙂
I love strawberry cake with the strawberries all lined up on top!
those look soooooo good!!!! i’m not a huge brownie fan, but with strawberry cream cheese it looks sooo good!! my dream birthday cake would be cinnamon cake with cinnamon frosting or yellow cake with chocolate buttercream!! YUM!! 🙂
My dream birthday cake would be something delicious that didn’t have any calories, fat or sugar.. that way I could eat ALL of it…. so basically I need a photograph of a cake and not a real one! 😉
I’ve never been a big fan of frosting… So mine would be a peanutbuttery chocolatey cheesecake! With like Reese’s in it and maybe Oreos too.
My dream birthday cake is a New York style cheesecake.
I have two dream cakes – Pecan Rum Cake and Pineapple Upside Down Cake both made by my Mama! I really couldn’t decide.
Although, I plan to experiment – Pecan Rum Cupcakes anyone?
That’s a challenge for you too, Lizzy!
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My favorite birthday cake would have to be a 7 layer chocolate cake. It’s made with yellow cake with chocolate ganache between each layer and frosted with a chocolate buttercream. Yum!
When I was a kid, I didn’t like cake, specifically chocolate. I would have my mom make the homemade brownies or get an ice cream cake with the amazing fudge filling. Right now, I am obsessed with the light and fruity type cakes. Like with the fresh strawberries in the frosting. I also think bundt cakes are fun.
Dream birthday cake: pea pickin’ cake made by my grandma
My favorite is the Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake. This last birthday I turned 60 and that is all I wanted but no one baked me one….I was very sad! So I thought ‘What the heck!” and I baked one for myself…sure was good!!!!1
Carrot cake with a light cream cheese frosting!
Perfect Cake?????? That would need to be the “Legend of Zelda” cake (Devils Food and Marshmallow Fondant) I made 3 years ago. It was beyond Amazing. Took hours to make and create….but took my family about 20 minutes to eat every last crumb…..
dream birthday cake= pumpkin cheesecake or ice cream cake.
Hi Lizzy! These look awesome. I love the contrast of the bright strawberry to the dark brownie. If you really must know 🙂 my dream birthday cake is probably going to have to be a chocolate cake with mousse filling and chocolate buttercream!
Hands down favorite: Carrot Cake….the recipe that includes crushed pineapple; cream cheese icing. Must put in my order to Hubby as my Birthday is coming up on March 3rd. Thanks for the chance to win.
Key lime mousse cheesecake!!! I love citrus!!!
My dream birthday would be vanilla cake with butter cream frosting its simple but still good 🙂
My dream cake would have to be a decadent red velevet abd homemade cream cheese frosting with a chocolate ganache drizzle. Yummy :]
My all time favorite birthday cake is “Heaven and Hell Cake”. It is absolutely delicious! Angel food cake, devil’s food cake, peanut butter mousse, and chocolate ganache….the perfect combination! I’ve made this cake in a cupcake version and it is the perfect sinful bite 🙂
Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Ganache Filling and Frosting.
ice cream cake with lots of frosting..
A deep dark moist chocolate cake with freshly whipped cream and strawberries.
Red velvet cake with strawberry ice cream and chocolate ganache 🙂 mmmmmmmmm
My dream birthday cake is red velvet cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting! It is my favorite kind of cake! But I can always go for chocolate too!
I’ve always loved getting ice cream cakes for my birthday. My favorite is chocolate cake with mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Cannoli cake
My favorite cake? I simply can not limit it to just one! Lol! I like chocolate and raspberry, carrot cake, German Chocolate Cake, etc. You get the picture. 🙂
Delicious brownies!
My dream cake would be strawberry mascarpone cake 🙂
Anything with rich chocolate! Yum!
I would love to have a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing for my 50th birthday on April 20th!!!
ok 4 layers of desserts layer one 1 is chocolate (because it’s delish) , second layer is yellow cake (i love yellow cake) , 3rd is cookies and cream (my fav) and I saved the best for last …..last but not least TIRAMISU CAKE!!!! (really come on tiramisu …need I say more.) I have a obsession with all of these. I love you Lizzy. I’m a huge fasn of you and your website.
a fruit pizza that has a chocolate chip cookie bottem with a sweet cream cheese icing and lots of fresh fruit on top
Oh my…that is such an open ended answer!!!! LOL… Cake is my downfall! I love chocolate and love a cake
that is rich but light… So, a chocolate cake with a nutella marscapone whipped center , your wonderful
chocolate buttercream frosting. With pink buttercream roses….they are my favorite flower!
Oreo and peppermint (the pink mint not the green) ice cream cake! The cake part would be chocolate of course!
white choolate cake with white chocolate icing! love wc!
Chocolate cake with marshmallow frosting.
classic vanilla cake with vanilla icing, yummmmm.
I would love a mocha cake.
When i was growing up it was a peach cake with a pecan icing that made my heart pitter pat on my birthday. Also got to love german chocolate!!
Classic Vanilla cake with the thickest, sweetest, smoothest frosting. Topped with Fresh Strawberries. YUM!
a tasty chocolate cake with chocolate icing…mmmmmm
carvel ice cream cake!
German chocolate cake is my absolute favorite!
I REALLY like Italian Love Cake!!
Dream birthday cake… Chocolate and caramel cake with layers of toffee and topped with mocha frosting and almonds. Yumm!
I grew up thinking German Chcolate was the ONLY cake to have! I have to say, when made right, it’s still my favorite!
Wedding cake birthday cake!!!
Oh definitely anything with dark chocolate!!! yummo!! 🙂
something chocolate-y with coconut and chocolate ice cream!
any kind of cake with a lot of Berries! Maybe more berries than cake? lol
the perfect cake for me would have chocolate and coconut and some kind liqueur in it 😉
I love any cake with dark, dark chocolate.
I like the traditional red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.
My favorite cake is chocolate with a chocolate truffle filling and a smooth and creamy vanilla whipped icing topped with chocolate curls.Yum!!!
My birthday is in in March and I can not wait to have my all time favorite cake…Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting! Yummy! 🙂 My husband and children make me one every year!
My favorite is German Chocolate – triple layer, made the day before so that the cake becomes moister and more delish. Can’t wait for April!!
White cake with lots of thick buttercream icing.
Apple cake with cream cheese frosting!
Cheesecake, any cheesecake for my birthday.
Rich moist chocolate cake with a raspberry filling , espresso buttercream frosting then topped with a decadent chocolate ganache.YUM!
My favorite birthday cake would be….believe it or not….angel food cake topped with fresh fruit!
Fudgey chocolate cake with peanut butter Oreo cream cheese whipped cream frosting. I just made that up — now I will have to go create it and see if it is as good as it sounds!
Boston Cream Pie Cake is a favorite birthday cake for both me and my boyfriend!
Anything Chocolate
It isn’t my birthday without Red Velvet cake and a thick layer of cream cheese frosting. Sometimes, I just want the frosting!
My dream birthday cake is a moist white cake with 3 or 4 short layers with either a yummy coconut or creamy lemon frosting (lots of it)!
I would go with chocolate cake and peanut butter frosting!
Your coconut cupcakes were my birthday cake this year!
My fave birthday cake…which I am planning for my big 50 party…still a few years off…cupcakes…chocolate with chocolate butter cream frosting…white with butter cream frosting. Of course now that I’m on to YOU I’m sure I will find something even MORE Amazing!! Better get trying out some recipes 🙂
I grew up with ice cream cakes (baskin robbins), but now I looooove cheesecake. So I’d figure out how to have a layered cake with both the cake and cheesecake… with some chocolate, crushed pecans, and caramel syrup drizzled on top- yum!
Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache
These look Devine!! I am a sucker for all things chocolate and when you add Strawberrues on top you have a winner!!
My favorite birthday cake would be a rich, but light Chocolate cake with tiny dark chocolate chunks layered with milk chocolate, raspberry and marshmallow whipped cream frosting ….. Topped with dark, white and milk chocolate curls. Omg I am drooling 🙂
My favorite would have to be a chocolate-cherry cake with a chocolate glaze. So easy, and so moist and delicious. 🙂
Definitely a double layer red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting in the middle and on top!
Dairy Queen ice cream cake!!!!
My dream cake is anything you would make for me, Lizzy 🙂
I just think it doesn’t get much better than traditional German chocolate!
my dream birthday cake is my mom’s pound cake, decorated with zebra print, and a pink bow!
My favorite would have to be a rum cake with chopped pecans covered in rum buttercream. so light and fluffy & delicious! my sister makes it marvelously! 🙂
Jello cream cheesecake!
My favorite cake is a capuccino flavored layer cake from one of our local bakeries here. 😉
Chocolate peanut butter something. I just love the combination so much!
My favorite birthday dessert is pumpkin cheesecake with lots of whipped cream 🙂 my birthday is in the fall so I have always gotten things pumpkin or apple based! But after reading all these wonderful favs…i may have to mix things up
This recipe comes just in time for my 40th Birthday!!! I love anything strawberry and I will be having this on my special day, march 3rd?,
I would have to say a chocolate with raspberry filling … Or peach upside down … As long as I get to make it I’m happy lol
Tres leches cake is my favorite!
My Dream Birthday Cake would be the richest dark chocolate cake possible, very moist, at least three layers. It would be heavily frosted with a cream cheese icing, not too sweet. For decoration, for me, nothing beats the classic roses, pink for me. Lots of them!
My favorite bday cake is one layer cheesecake chocolate ganache and a layer of chocolate cake covered in buttercream frosting
Pistachio cake, whipped raspberry filling and rosewater buttercream cake ORRR Lavender cake, whipped honey-orange filling and almond buttercream. Yum!
Ice Cream Cake!
Dream cake is chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream… nothing fancy! YUM
My Dream Cake is Mint Chocolate chip Ice Cream Cake.
Vegan chocolate peanut butter!
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My dream cake would be a combination of confetti cake, chocolate, vanilla, and red velvet! A bunch of my favorite cakes mashed into one! ^_^
Anything Chocolate is fine by me
I wasn’t a cake fan as a kid but I loved ice cream….so I always had a Carvel ice cream cake, very hard to find in the south so I haven’t had one since I was a kid in N.Y. Have you made a recipe for ice cream cake yet?
dream birthday cake is cheesecake with caramel and chocolate cherries all over!!
My dream birthday cake would be a fruit tart.
my dream b-day cake is a huge life size cake of me
My dream birthday cake would have to be the death by chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache buttercream and all of it’s chocolate goodness 🙂
My all-time favorite birthday cake is a strawberry-lemonade cake. Its strawberry cake with lemon custard in between layers and a strawberry-lemon cream cheese icing! DELISH 🙂
My favorite cake is definitely a really good carrot cake that is made the RIGHT way! It must have grated carrots, walnuts, and raisins and the best cream cheese icing out there!
Oh my dream birthday cake is my favorite cake my sister makes. It’s called the brownie batter cake! It is a rich-Chocolate cake with chocolate chips inside of it, with homemade brownie batter scooped ontop of the cake and when it cooks the brownie batter spreads across the whole cake and becomes a gooey surprise ontop of the cake! Then to finish it off, homemade chocolate icing. That with a tall glass of ice cold milk would be a dream 🙂
Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting! Byerly’s is my favorite! Your raspberry chocolate cupcakes are very close second!
any cake made of coconut!
cheesecakeeeeeee
My dream cake is german walnut chocolate torte…sooo yummy!
I think brownies or tiramisu are perfectly perfect birthday cake choices 🙂 Your cupcakes always look so amazing!
My favorite cake for my birthday, and a pretty serious must each year, is funfetti cake with whipped cream! Despite all the fancy and delicious creations I’ve had over the years, that one’s still my favorite.
My dream birthday cake is chocolate with peanut butter frosting!
Anything with triple chocolate!!
Mom homemade angel food cake with strawberry cream icing. Since she is gone I choose cheesecake. Lovin all your cupcakes!!
My dream birthday cake would be the heaven and hell cake! It is a layered cake with layers of angel food cake and devils food cake and peanut butter mousse all homemade of course and iced with chocolate ganache! This cake has everything you would need in a cake! On the side it would go great with raspberries! It is delicious!!
My dream birthday cake would have to be a very good red velvet cake with real cream cheese icing layered throughout it and on the top! Simply divine!
Love the coconut frosting and pumpkin cake. Thanks for all the good cupcakes you post.
Chocolate chocolate chocolate!!!!
Yellow funfetti cake with vanilla frosting and lots of sprinkles!
Lemon cake would be my favorite for my birthday!
I love just a regular red velvet w/ some cream cheese frosting and vanilla ice cream on the side:)
Well this is a fitting contest because I turn 26 on February 26th! And it gets me thinking about what dessert I should take to work for my birthday (because that’s what bakers do).
It’s a toss-up because I should pick something sophisticated, but I can’t stop thinking about sprinkles and rainbow chip icing. Nostalgia wins out and my dream birthday cake is a white confetti cake with rainbow chip icing. If anyone could make that look sophisticated, it would be Lizzy.
My dream birthday cake is hummingbird cake with coconut and vanilla frosting!
Redvelvet Cheesecake Cake
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Mmm, carrot cake!!
Most favorite is chocolate layer cake with Pepsi frosting and cherries on top
My perfect cake would definately be a black magic dark chocolate cake
With white chocolate-coconut buttercream filling, frosted with a dark chocolate
Buttercream topped with mini chocolate chips & toasted coconut……never had one,
So I think I’ll bake one!!
Vanilla chocolate cheesecake with mandarin oranges!
Hi, my favorite is really, really good carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Yum!
My dream birthday cake would people pineapple cake with coconut and cream cheese frosting!
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
I love Black Forest Cake!! YUM
Rich chocolate cake with fudgy chocolate frosting. Yummy!
Since today (February 26th) is my actual birthday I know exactly what my dream cake would be. 3 layers 1) strawberry with strawberry cream cheese frosting 2)old fashion apple with fresh sliced apples yum! 3) mocha with expresso buttercream
I love German Chocolate cake!
My favorite birthday cake has to be Groom’s Cake, chocolate cake with chocolate icing. The smell alone takes me over the moon! Some mixed nuts with it are also wonderful!
My dream cake would have no fat, calories, or anything else bad for me. Guess I’m stuck looking at these yummy pictures on your web site!
Pineapple cake with fluffy coconut frosting! Yum!
My dream birthday cake would be a super moist vanilla bean call with chocolate buttercream frosting.