Why do most birthday cakes suck?
Posted by Ed Levine, August 15, 2006 at 10:28 AM Why do most birthcake cakes suck? I’d really like to know. While everybody else is singing “Happy Birthday,” I’m thinking about how that first forkful of cake is going to be dry, virtually tasteless, and inedibly sweet, with grainy icing. Birthday cakes are often so bad I welcome the taste of the melted wax from the candles. I know I’m going to be seen as a killjoy and a curmudgeon, but I’m willing to take one for the team (of passionate eaters) here. But on Saturday night, at a friend’s 50th birthday, we had a killer chocolate mocha cake that could have been served as a dessert at a great New American restaurant like Craft or the Union Square Cafe. That the cake was great was no surprise to me. I told my friends to get the cake from Two Little Red Hens. I’ve had at least ten different kinds of cake from TLRH, everything from yellow to white to chocolate cake, with every kind of frosting and filling imaginable, and I’ve never been disapp
