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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Spice cake with buttercream! It was my wedding cake too. 🙂
I make a yellow butter cake with a strawberry buttercream that is just about spectacular (my coworkers prefer it to the professional cakes that can be bought in town). Yum.
Hmm, this is a tough question! I love spice cake (carrot, pumpkin, etc) with cream cheese frosting, but I also love Funfetti cake with my mom’s homemade sugar icing. Yum!
My all time favorite cake would be:
Kahlua Cake. Doesn’t that just sound decadent? Surprisingly enough it is light and satisfies your craving for chocolate.
It is a devil’s food cake composed of 4 layers drizzled with Kahlua and a delicious chocolate Kahlua whipped cream with chocolate jimmie sprinkles all over it.
Want to see it?!
Check out the Recipe & Finished Photos, just copy & paste the URL below.
http://unraveledyarns.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/the-ultimate-recipe-for-lime-violet/
I hope some of you try out the recipe. =D
Enjoy!
I’m a chocoholic, so usually whatever cake I can get that pumps the most chocolate into it wins XD But I have a special weakness for spice cake with vanilla frosting, too 😉
chocolate with chocolate, or if I’m being very good, spice cake with something yummy on top!
My favorite cake – Red Velvet Cake with a cooked butter frosting which my mother used to make for me. “The Cup” (pronounced Tay Cup) in Lincoln, Ne. that makes heavenly Red Velvet Cupcakes with beautifully swirled frosting toped with a slice of strawberry. Of course, they make “red” cake in Lincoln!
Jane
My own cup cakes: double size plain vanilla with pudding in the mix cupcakes. Plain icing: icing sugar with warm water, colored sprinkles on top according to the season. Have been making them for ages and is always a hit, simple and it melts in your mouth. Those cupcakes you have there look tempting, but I do not like cream…..yes, is true.
I absolutely love chocolate cake (especially chocolate cheesecake)…but…if I had to pick just one…it would have to be…the Chocolate Tuxedo Cream Cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory 🙂
LOVE spice cake with cream cheese frosting, but it would probably be great with CHAI frosting too…mmmmm.
I like it simple. Chocolate cake, chocolate frosting!
Right now my favorite would be Strawberry Cake with Blackberry frosting. There a shop not far from me that all they do is make cupcakes (and cakes).
My favorite cake is pineapple upside down , beautiful!!!, also yoplait yogurt even has a flavor soooooo good!
Despite being a chocaholic, my favorite cake is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Those Decadent Chocolate cupcakes sure look yummy!
white cake, white frosting, coconut
My favorite cake at the moment is a while pound cake, with a boiled sugar/brandy topping and then sprinkled with coconut. It is unbelievable!
There’s a special place in my heart for chocolate cake with chocolate icing. But I do also love me some Red Velvet cake.
Favor icing: cream cheese. It goes really well on carrot cakes with crushed pineapple.
There is a place in town that makes the best white cake with buttercream frosting. I haven’t had their cake since my youngest graduated from high school and we ordered the party cake from them. I should just make up an event to order a cake.
Another favorite is the broiled coconut frosting on german chocolate cake!
The photos look great! I’m partial to german chocolate cake with the coconut frosting.
And it was raining a little and about 50 degrees here today…I came home and cast on the Milkweed shawl in Casbah Victoria. I don’t think I’m ready for cold weather.
My favorite cake is carrot with cream cheese frosting, but that’s followed closely by anything pumpkin! It’s raining here in Minnesota, too. That’s after we had snow last weekend – the earliest snowfall in 26 years. And more snow on the way tomorrow. I don’t mind in the least. The leaves will just have to wait as I have knitting to do!!! 🙂
chocolate with chocolate… yum!!!! Or even yellow cake with chocolate… as long as there is chocolate, I’m good. 😉
Mmmmm cake. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting! My husband and I like it so much that it was even the top tier on our wedding cake 🙂
MMMMMM….Vanilla cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut!
Ice cream cake – chocolate cake with mint ice cream all covered in fluffy whipped/marshmallow frosting..yum
We have to choose? OK, my mood today says Chocolate Ganache cake from our Publix supermarket (FLA). Homemade ones are my mother-in-laws sour cream pound cake and my mom’s lemon supreme cake. I’m so fickle, but it’s so hard to decide. I love cake!
Um…chocolate. Yes, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Pillsbury now has a dark chocolate cake mix that is just yummy. Can I have chocolate chips on top too? (Totally know what you mean with watching Food Network before bed. I had to stop watching “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” before bed because I would end up craving whatever it was they were talking about….Hot coco, pasta, breakfast foods…who can sleep on that?) 🙂
Omg easy question~
Strawberry cake and sweet vanilla frosting~ 😀
I live in the Strawberry Capital~ ;D Even Wikipedia Says so~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxnard_Plain
We have a yearly strawberry festival too~ which is always around my birthday~ So it is natural for me to loveeee strawberry anything… however… I actually do not like to eat fresh strawberries (in berry form) nor do I like strawberries dipped in chocolate. Go figure.
Chocolate cake with white frosting. Birthday cake is the best!
I just love plain ole chocolate cake w chocolate icing..I also love German chocolate cake..yum
I’d love for some of that yarn to come home to live with me!! We are having rain also..it was a joy to stay home!!!
My fav is carrot cake w/cream cheese frosting!
Chocolate cake with espresso frosting!
Carrot cake with cream cheese icing – thank you for the contest!
Definitely carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
No frosting for me, but my favorite cake is my rum cake recipe, pecans on top, soaked with a butter and rum sauce. Yum Yum!!!!!
Like so many others, I would have to say my favoirte flavor of cake and frosting is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Such earthy, autumn flavors and colors! Carrots, walnuts, golden raisins, cinnamon – snuggled against thick, creamy frosting – like an early snowfall on a forest path strewn with autmn leaves.
Mmmm, buttercream frosting and lemon cupcake.
Impossible to pick just one, so here are my TWO favorites:
dark chocolate cake with mocha frosting and carrot cake with lemon-cream cheese frosting. BTW, Martha Stewart’s new cupcake book is really something. Not that I’ll ever get around to baking most of them, but the photos are drool-worthy!
Banana cake with peanut butter frosting. from scratch
Cream cheese frosting is definitely my fave, and I love any kind of cake that it’s on. If I were to have a piece of cake right this minute I’d pick carrot.
We’ve been having rain here in CA too, but I’ve been enjoying it. It’s been so warm and sunny here for so long, I was ready for a change!
Dark chocolate cake with a dark chocolate whipping cream for the frosting. From the Hershey’s cocoa site. Fabulous!
Rain, rain, rain here too. A little is nice, but this is way past that now!
My favorite is coconut cake with a butter cream frosting — but I’m picky about this as I have a great recipe that includes coconut milk which really improves the flavor. I’m a big fan of cakes with cream cheese frosting — I’m just not a big fan of chocolate cake as it’s too rich and overwhelming for me to enjoy more than a few bites.
Hands down: red velvet with creamy white frosting. From my mama’s kitchen, of course!
Oh… that chai/spice combo sounds really good! My favorite… forever… has been spice cake with penuche frosting. Very fall… maybe I should make some!
german chocolate and coconut
carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
anything from extraordinary desserts in san diego
I like most cakes, but basic yellow cake with chocolate frosting is my favorite.
Chocolate cake with real whipped cream! YUM!
Home made apple cake, no frosting please 🙂
Well, pie is my favorite dessert, but cake – Red Velvet with cooked icing would be #1 -Carrot Cake with nuts & coconut added and cream cheese frosting #2 – and German Chocolate Upside Down cake #3. Think that one will be on the menu soon! These are all made from scratch, so we call them “spaacial”.
That yarn really is gorgeous, such pretty colors.