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Claudia Byers's avatar

My husband, my brother-in-law and myself shared a birthday month. Birthday cakes became overwhelming to us so my mother-in-law would make each one of us our favorite pie instead. It became our tradition. Now at my age, a cake couldn't hold enough candles so you might as well just set the cake on fire. ;)

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Tara Dawn's avatar

German Chocolate cake with Pecan ice cream.

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Claudia Byers's avatar

Now, this sounds like an interesting combo. I'll have to try that one. Have you ever had peach pie with chocolate ice cream? If not, give it a try.

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Amie McGraham's avatar

A couple years ago, I made a Danish dream cake to celebrate with friends who share the same birth month. It was as heavenly as the name.

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

I think I would like any cake called a dream cake.

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Lindsey Otto's avatar

Strawberry shortcake! I have a summer birthday in June and my mom makes them from scratch. Nothing like a fresh berry in season 🍓

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Elizabeth Pizzinato's avatar

I love the idea of birthday pie! Especially cherry. But somehow birthday says “cake” to me and what makes me happy is a piece of hummingbird cake.

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

I love hummingbird cake! Also, I think it's the perfect birthday cake - it's fanciful, somehow. Maybe partly because of the name.

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Ellen Kornmehl MD's avatar

My husband and I found three months after we began dating that we share the same birth date. He's three years older. Usually no presents because we cancel each other out. Sharing a pot of steamed mussels and a good meursault in my Adirondack chairs perhaps with a few friends by the sea---that hits the spot.

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

How fun to share a birthday! Especially if you both enjoy celebrating in the same way. :-)

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Caroline Schoneweis's avatar

This question has made me a little surprised with myself. I LOVE food. I think about it all of the time and have no qualms about taking the time to cook good food….but I can’t think of what my favorite birthday treat is.. probably because my husband and I treat ourselves somewhat regularly. I do remember many fun past birthday foods though: blueberry pie in Maine when I was a pre-teen, Danish Princess cake my daughter spent hours making for me several years ago, and chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches, using McConnells ice cream that I made for a party that just happened to fall on my birthday, for a gathering at some friends’ cabin in the mountains, just last year.

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Caroline Schoneweis's avatar

I smiled the whole I read your comment! Not ironic in a bad way. I fee the same;)

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

All of that sounds fantastic. Here's a little secret: I kind of hate questions about what my favorite anything is because I can never pair things down to what I like the most. Which, I know, is ironic, since I'm the one asking questions like that here. :-)

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Sally Ekus's avatar

I usually do birthday French fries.

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

That sounds like a splendid idea. I'll take mine with a side of cake.

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Rory's avatar

I love a coconut cake with a coconut cream cheese frosting that I first had at a local cafe that is long gone. So good!

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

Coconut cake is one of my favorites!

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Shell Plant's avatar

Nicki and I have had wonderful chats about this. I love that she goes for a birthday pie!

My husband's birthday treat of choice is a Cherry Pie. I decorated it very intricately with pastry leaves and put candles in it.

This year, my family have really got into the 'tower' theme for their birthdays.

After I made a pink raspberry flavoured Macaron tower for my daughter's birthday, my sister has requested a blackcurrant macaron tower and my dad has requested a pistachio madeliene tower.

Last year I made myself a chocolate and pecan dacquoise for my birthday. Maybe I shall make another dacquoise again this year. Sophie Bamford's with miso maple buttercream looked delightfully extravagant!

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

Wow! I want a birthday tower! :-)

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Christine, My Tuscany Roots's avatar

Hiiii my Is a simple sponge cake 👩‍🍳 i have also a recipies in my page of you would like to have 💗

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Betty Williams's avatar

Definitely the Ina Garten recipe called Beatty’s chocolate cake topped with American buttercream frosting! My absolute favorite!

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Rebecca Blackwell's avatar

I mean, remove one letter and it's called Betty's chocolate cake, so I think that's absolutely the best, and maybe the only, choice.

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Betty Williams's avatar

Lol! True! 😂

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Jolene Handy's avatar

Ice cream cake! 🎂

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Amie McGraham's avatar

You stole my line!!

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Jolene Handy's avatar

😆

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L P Inness's avatar

Ice cream cake is my favorite, too! It is my son's requested birthday treat and was also my late husband's. We are from CT originally - the home of Carvel and I have, over the years, perfected a clone of their cake that had chocolate cookie crumbs for filling between the ice cream layers. Here in TN, I can occasionally find frozen Carvel cakes but they are not the same as the product available at their bricks and mortar dairy stores. My birthday is coming up in August, it's summertime hot, and I 'm in the mood to make myself an ice cream cake treat. Thanks for the inspiration!

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Jolene Handy's avatar

Carvel is the best! I grew up in NY, and my birthday is in July, best summer birthday cake — how delicious you will make your own! 🎂

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L P Inness's avatar

I lived in NY for several years, too. My Dad is from Schenectady and I lived downstate in Dutchess County. There was still a Carvel within driving distance and I did return home to visit frequently. I didn't realize how Carvel had played such a large part in my childhood until I looked back on it several years ago. Friday nights after dinner was Carvel dessert. The store was only a couple miles away and birthdays, anniversaries, summer picnics, holiday gatherings all prominently featured Carvel treats. Times change, but there are some things I wish would stay the same.

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Jolene Handy's avatar

Sweet memory!

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