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Birthday Cake
kingfishersunite
Posts: 12 Member
Hey Guys
I've apparently been struck with extreme indecisiveness and I'm trying to decide what kind of cake I want to make for my birthday. It doesn't have to be low calorie, although ideally it would be a fairly small cake since there's only two of us eating it.
I'm not too picky, or allergic to anything; just not a fan of the usual vanilla/chocolate cake.
Ideas?!
I've apparently been struck with extreme indecisiveness and I'm trying to decide what kind of cake I want to make for my birthday. It doesn't have to be low calorie, although ideally it would be a fairly small cake since there's only two of us eating it.
I'm not too picky, or allergic to anything; just not a fan of the usual vanilla/chocolate cake.
Ideas?!
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This year my husband bought me a chocolate cake with chocolate whipped cream frosting topped with chocolate truffles, it was amazing. lol
He requested for his birthday: A fruit tarte, so thats what I ordered and we will see how that goes next week lol1 -
Hi
I always say get me a Cupcake and stick a candle in it. I do not want Cake hanging around calling my name.0 -
Oh also the year before that I had an almond flavored cake with a raspberry filling, the cake was extremely small (theres only two of us in my house too) probably enough to serve 6, and it was easy to fit in cake for 3 days into my budget.1
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I have a birthday coming up too. When I was losing weight I made cupcakes. Just enough for the people I was celebrating with and one for myself. I didn't want to get tempted eating extras.
Last year on vacation I split a yummy cheesecake slice with my guy.
Now that I'm maintaining I make my own regular cake from scratch. It's small (3 layers using 6 inch cake pans), but pretty and tasty.
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Carrot cake.
Alternately, ditch the cake and have pie.2 -
Carrot cake is good, you can make a similar thing using parsnips too.
Fruit cake, mincemeat cake if you've some kicking around (I always buy a couple of jars when they get marked down after Christmas!).
Whatever you make, I'd scale it down to only use one egg for the 2 of you, and in a 6'' pan. If you want really small you can make a cake in a mug in the microwave 0 -
rainbow198 wrote: »I have a birthday coming up too. When I was losing weight I made cupcakes. Just enough for the people I was celebrating with and one for myself. I didn't want to get tempted eating extras.
Last year on vacation I split a yummy cheesecake slice with my guy.
Now that I'm maintaining I make my own regular cake from scratch. It's small (3 layers using 6 inch cake pans), but pretty and tasty.
What's your cake from scratch?0 -
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Hi
I always say get me a Cupcake and stick a candle in it. I do not want Cake hanging around calling my name.
That's not a bad idea, but then I'll have all the other cupcakes calling my name
The stores that sell cupcakes around here are not very good - stale/bland cupcakes with a tonne of buttercream (not my favourite).0 -
I found a recipe for an Oreogasm cake I want to try wanna a peanut butter chocolate chip Bundt cake with chocolate and peanut butter ganache0
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It's my daughter's birthday today and she will be having red velvet cake with vanilla icing. Cake is good!0
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Ideas: chocolate cake with coconut filling, or a schwarzwald cake, maybe? That one is super easy to make, too. They still have chocolate crusts though, but most of the flavour comes from the filling. 0
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Angel food cake, topped with fresh berries & a dollop of real whipped cream.
Pretty low in calories if you don't use whipped cream on top.0 -
Bee Sting Cake https://www.marthastewart.com/949556/bee-sting-cake
It is a mix of a cake and a sweet bread with pastry cream in the middle and honeyed almonds on top. I made it for my birthday about three years ago BFC and it was amazeballs.0 -
These all sound so good, but I'm a big fan of German Chocolate Cake.0
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I just had my birthday cake. My SO was making banana/apple bread anyway so we just used that. She whipped up a batch of peanut butter icing for topping.
It was delicious and now I can eat my birthday cake for breakfast.1 -
My birthday is coming up too and I am making a strusel coffee cake. The year before was strawberry shortcake. You could try lemon yogurt cake. Yum yum.0
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Cheesecake or Tiramisu!0
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laurenebargar wrote: »This year my husband bought me a chocolate cake with chocolate whipped cream frosting topped with chocolate truffles, it was amazing. lol
I would like your husband to buy my next birthday cake. The man obviously has excellent taste.1 -
laurenebargar wrote: »This year my husband bought me a chocolate cake with chocolate whipped cream frosting topped with chocolate truffles, it was amazing. lol
I would like your husband to buy my next birthday cake. The man obviously has excellent taste.
Bahaha he definitely does!0
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