We need some color here in St. Louis – how about you? It has been raining for days and will continue to do so until Saturday. Now you know that I like rainy, cloudy days, but this is getting ridiculous. So I thought I’d share a fall photo that my hubby took last weekend. Click on this indian corn photo to make it big, and check out the kernals on the ear third from the left. Amazing! I’ve never seen a colorburst like that before.
Good news – because I’m within a day’s delivery from Dream in Color, we’ve been able to re-stock all of the Knitosophy line already. (And our wayward box of the BOLD colorway arrived. I took a quick photo of it here – beautiful blues – but I’ll make sure that the “official” photo gets taken later this week, too. I did add them to the site. I didn’t want you to have to wait on ordering it, as several of you have asked about it.) This new dye method turns out gorgeous colorways. If you were in our sock club in 2008, Veronica experimented with this method on the Spicy Kisses colorway that she did for us that summer. I’m having trouble deciding which colorway to knit up first. I like Butterfly and Superhero because of the color mixes. But Blossom is so tangy that you can almost taste it. And I love the thought behind Strength and Laugh. (Come to think of it, those would be good colorways to use for socks or shawls or scarves for people who need a little of that in their lives.) Hard to decide. I know you all had the same problem, because so many of you bought several of them! It will be fun to see your projects as you finish them up.
While I’ve been knitting at night, I’ve been watching the Food Network. Big mistake. Now I find myself wanting cake when I go to bed. I used to like white cake with chocolate frosting, but then I tried Kirstin’s Chai buttercream frosting on a spice cupcake and that immediately moved to my favorite spot. Although now that I’ve seen this “Decadent Chocolate” photo, I think I might need to try one of those for comparison. (Photo used with permission.) Unfortunately As You Wish Bakery doesn’t ship, but I will let you know if that ever changes. I’m definitely ordering platters of her cake balls for next year’s Spring Fling. I have an “in” with her mom, Janice, who comes down to help me with the Fling every year. I’m sure she’ll deliver. This month’s blog contest question – what is your favorite flavor of cake and frosting? I’ve saved some skeins full of color for prizes and we’ll draw for them next week, so leave your comment below to be entered!
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As a ;new person’ to the Loopy Ewe shop, can you tell me why, if it is a loopy EWE, that Loopy is called a ‘him’?! Am I being silly here? Or is there a logical, historical reason? Do love the yarn, though!
My husband and I chose a devils’ food cake for our wedding, with white buttercream frosting. Whenever I go home, I still stop at the store that made that cake and pick up cupcakes to bring back with me. They are an absolute requirement.
I’m also partial to pure carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. By “pure” I mean carrots and raisins and cake. No nuts, no coconut…simple, basic, perfect every time.
My favorite cake nowadays is german chocolate with german chocolate icing. But the favorite cake of my childhood (lost the recipe), is a cake called a milk cake.s
My grandma would take a can of milk (mom says it was evaporated milk, but by the time Grandma got through with it, it tasted kind of like sweetened condensed milk, but thicker), mix it with sugar and other stuff and cook it on top of the stove. She’d add chopped pecans, and made a two-layer cake from scratch with pecans throughout the batter. That is the best cake I have ever had in my entire life!
All I can tell you is I think she used a 1/2 pound to a pound of butter that came in this big round cake, and if you didn’t soften it up you’d be shaving off slices forever to get what you need.
I wish I’d had the sense to write it down and keep it. There’s no telling where my notes wound up.
My favorite cake is fudge marble with chocolate icing, but carrot cake with cream cheese frosting runs a close second.
MMM Chocolate with Chocolate frosting.
I definitely LOOVVVEEE homemade German Chocolate cake with the pecan icing that goes with it!
Underscore homemade…This was OUR wedding cake!
Yellow cake with mocha frosting.
Chocolate with chocolate covered with chocolate, served on a bed of chocolate!
I like chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter or white frosting.
Hard to say- but I love lemon or chocolate with orange!
My friend is having a baby next April. I’m so happy to be putting on a baby shower for her! I’ve been trying to decide what cupcakes to make and this contest is a big help – yay!
I think I’ll be making her these lemon cupcakes with lemon curd filling and lemon-basil icing.
My favorite would have to be carrot cake with a rich cream cheese icing and walnuts sprinkled about.
I’m a huge fan of white cake with white icing, but I also love red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.
Yes, yes, those cupcakes looks so yummy! I’m kind of odd and boring, I think. Oddly enough, I’ve always liked the marble cake you can buy at grocery store bakeries (Martin’s or Giant Eagle around here). And I don’t like any icing really but occasionally I like some chocolate icings.
My mother’s yellow birthday cake with boiled icing or … the same cake with her chocolate fudge icing. Or… her German chocolate cake. OK. If I have to go with just one, I think I’m taking the yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing.
favorite cake and icing… well, it is no longer on the diet after the back surgery/ cortisone la la and induced diabetes, but, if I could wish… I love angel food cake with custard frosting. YUMMMM.
My fav is “Better than sex cake” german chocolate cake (or is it devils food) with sweetened condensed milk and caramel poured over cake and than whipped cream on top. So yummy!!
Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge icing is THE BEST!!
my very favorite cake is red velvet, with white buttercream icing. sometimes with cream cheese icing. reminds me of my great aunts’ birthday parties when i was a kid, they both loved red velvet.
now i’m hungry too…
I started looking through all the other comments and with each kind of cake mentioned I thought, “yes, that is my favorite cake”, then I would read the next one and – same thing! I guess I am very suggestible when it comes to cake! If I had to pick, I guess I would say anything chocolate or anything with butter cream icing (but that’s just today. don’t hold me to it!).
DS2 says: chocolate with chocolate.
DS1 says: strawberry cake with lemon frosting.
My favorite is banana-bread cake with lemon frosting — non-dairy because of allergies.
Lemon cake with lemon glaze, the kind where you poke holes in the cake and let the glaze seep into it. 🙂
I’m not really much of a cake fan, but there are some that are irresistible even to me. My favorite cake-frosting combination has to be a moist and quite dark chocolate cake that I make, with a simple (again: quite dark) chocolate frosting that has lots of After Eight or other mint chocolates melted down into it. Divide the cake into squares, decorate with the same chocolates cut into triangles or whatever shape you like … Only thing I don’t like is how fast it disappears. Or, actually, is transformed: into big smiles on people’s faces!
two layer cupcake – chocolate -peanut butter frosting – chocolate – peanut butter frosting with shaved chocolate sprinkled on top. yummy – even better than peanut butter cups
My grandmother made a prune spice cake that was delicious. She iced it with a dark chocolate/mocha icing, and since she made it at Easter, she would decorate it with jelly beans. Unfortunately, my grandmother never used a recipe and gave directions like…”mix it until it looks right”. One day I’ll have to try to resurrect this!
You know, my taste changes all the time but right now my favorite cupcake (and a favorite of those I work with when I bring them!) is pink lemonade cupcake with a pink lemonade buttercream frosting. Course, that’s really a summer taste, so I’m getting all ready for pumpkin and cream cheese frosting this time of year. 🙂
My absolute favorite cake is a lemonade dream cake from a little bakery in Galveston, Tx. The icing has a bit of a “twang” to it, which I LOVE. 🙂
Chocolate and then more chocolate 🙂 although I have fond memories of a vanilla/chocolate/strawberry cake my grandmother used to make. Just like a marble cake but with pink swirled in too. And chocolate frosting of course.
I have a great recipe for banana-nut cake with caramel icing…YUM.
Tough call. Carrot cake (with or without vanilla icing) is a perennial favourite, but for special occasions, you can’t beat a chocolate beet cake (with chocolate icing).
I have way too many favorites, chocolate with chocolate icing, then carrot with cream cheese icing, home made icing on everything! I think the icing is my favorite part!
No question…..German chocolate cake with that wonderfully gooey coconut/pecan frosting. Oh yum!
My current fave is my homemade chocolate with chocolate buttercream. But my favorite cake of memory was done at an elementary school cafeteria when I was little. Deep dark chocolate cake with hot pink butterceam icing. They baked it in huge sheet pans and cut it into squares and we always called it “pink cake”.
chocolate and chocolate!
There are just so many great tasting cakes to choose from but since it’s fall I’ll have to go with carrot cake and cream cheese frosting.
Oh yes, my favorite is carrot cake with a rich cream cheese icing and walnuts sprinkled on top! But then, there is the four layered cake with tons of cool whip! Oh yes, and rainy days are great days for baking!
Years ago I found a recipe for a chocolate/orange marble cake. Instead of frosting between the layers you used sliced oranges. Yum. Years later, on the side of a cake mix box, I found instructions to “jazz” up the box mix. Since you were just adding in a couple of different flavors, namely orange peel, I decided to see if I could not do it with a “real” from scratch cake. Can you tell my favorite cake is any chocolate with orange combination?
I do not think we will get any fall color here in Idaho. We had snow and really cold weather before the leaves started to turn and now the green leaves are just falling off of the trees. I think they got freeze dried. We usually have a really pretty fall with lots of yellow from the aspen and some red canyon maple thrown in.
Ohhhh …. my goodness, I make homemade BANANA muffins (with the really rotten black bananas) with a homemade LEMON frosting.
People gobble up what I have not eaten (I usually have 2-3 after I make ’em cause they are just sitting there waiting for me to eat them) – these are the best muffins ever. Easy recipe and if you whip the butter for the frosting until it is almost whipped cream, the frosting is soft and the BEST part. I can’t even type this without my mouth watering.
My family has had a receipe for Red Velvet Cake circulating for years. Legend has it that my Uncle purchased the receipe from the Waldorf Astoria hotel in the early 1950’s.
ooooo – It is not like any red velvet I’ve ever had. The frosting is like a rich, buttery, whipped cream and the cake is dark and moist and well… velvety.
If my birthday ends in a 0 this year (and starts with a 5) do you think I can get away with making myself two?
ooops! i just drooled on my laptop, reading everyones’ posts!
i will stick with a rich, moist chocolate layer cake done up with luscious, homemade chocolate frosting…okay now i gotta go score something yummy in the kitchen!!
My favorite would be a chocolate cake base with a penuche frosting… It is so yummy…
chocolate and chocolate frosting with a glass of milk.
ALL CAKE IS GOOD CAKE! haha, but German Chocolate with Chocolate cake or if it’s an ice cream cake, chocolate with chocolate chip ice cream, yum!!
Dark Fruit Cake with Marzipan – mmmmmm
Tres Leche cake. It has whipped cream frosting.
red velvet, yes definately red velvet with buttercream frosting. yum yum
I have to go with carrot cake and cream cheese icing! can’t believe how many knitters love my favorite too!
I would have to say yellow cake with chocolate frosting… but as long as it’s homemade, I’d take anything. I hate store bought sheet cake.
Favorite as in only one? This is highly mood dependent. Spice cake with real cooked buttercream, white cake with a hint of lemon and decorator’s frosting with vanilla and almond flavoring, Red Velvet cake with roux based frosting, spiced banana cake with vanilla glaze – hard to pick just one! I think my absolute favorite, and the only non-homemade one in the list, would have to be cone cupcakes made with Pillsbury’s Funfetti cake mix and Betty Crocker French Vanilla frosting.
I love cream…(and unfortunately it shows on my rear end a little too much thank you).
My favorite flavors of cake are maple vanilla (made by my aunt with her own maple syrup) and crunchie cake (a confection by a friend of mine which starts by a layer of meringue, lots of cream, caramel and bits of the famous candy bar…)