So i can focus on the decorating part for a while...could someone suggest their favorite cake, filling, frosting, combo...just so i rest knowing that what i make most people will like and that they're all easy for a newbie to make - meaning mostly reliable and user friendly.

To eat or make!!

Well, I love the taste of my cinnamon buttermilk chocolate cake, milk chocolate ganache filling, a light layer of buttercream, and then finished off with MMF!!!!!!!


Amy

Well, my favorites are either white cake with raspberry filling and cream cheese icing OR yellow cake with fresh banana cream filling and cream cheese icing. I also like white cake with key lime filling and cream cheese icing. Enjoy!!

I am a plain jane... I like Vanilla cake with Buttercream icing... if I have a filling I like Vanilla pudding, or cherry.

But really just give me the cake and you can keep the icing/filling.

Leily

My favorite cake combo is one that won me third place in a cake decorating contest in my area. I made a chocolate genoise with raspberry mousse and real French buttercream. The cake can get a bit dry if its baked too long, but it matches the mousse perfectly, and the buttercream complements the combination without overpowering it.

~Nicole

I just made Chocolate Cake with Banana Cream filling and it was a WONDERFUL combo! Good Luck!

I have so many! Orange cake with pineapple/cocoanut/orange filling, chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, white cake with raspberry mousse to name a few.

deep chocolate cake w/ mocha filling and frosting drenched in chocolate ganache w/ chocolate ice cream (HD: Belgium Chocolate Chocolate when I can find it)

naw...I'm not a chocoholic!

I can't remember the exact name of the mix but I think that it is called cinnamon swirl? Anyway...I make that cake (doctored up) and used Nutella as the filling. So it is a cinnamon/chocolate/hazelnut combo....OMG.....It is SOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!!!

I just started trying out fillings. My fav combo so far is a chocolate cake, cookies anc cream filling and chocolate gnache for the frosting.
Tracie

WOW....what a great start! Thanks everyone!!!! Next question...most of these recipes here at cakecentral, right???

I've never even heard of orange cake...but it sounds very summer-y!!! Cookies and cream filling??? yum!

could someone forward me their raspberry mousse recipe...my raspberries are coming in right now...i'd love an excuse to use them up

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Chocolate cake with either chocolate ganache or bailey's chocolate mousse!

Lemon cake, with raspberry filling and buttercream icing. Yummy!

I have a tie:
Lemon cake with snow white buttercream frosting
A really good, moist, tasty carrot cake with no nuts or pineapple with a cream cheese frosting.
If anyone has a recipe for a flavorful, moist carrot cake without pineapple or nuts, I'd love to have it! (Please PM it to me, or put it on this discussion)
(My husband chose that one as one of our layers for our wedding cake- but I can't find a close match for the recipe in taste! Last year, we drove 5 hours round trip to pick up our 1st anniversary tier from the baker (who was where I used to live.) Now, her contact information has changed and I can't get ahold of her!

Pistachio cake with white chocolate buttercream. Mmmmmmmm....
Chocolate cake with raspberry filling and bittersweet chocolate ganache.
Carrot cake (Sorry, MavericksMommy, I'm a HUGE fan of pineapple, nuts, AND coconut so I can't help you with your recipe search) with cream cheese frosting.
Just to name a few!

(I'm going to have to make that lemon combination this weekend, though, that sounds yummy!)

I love the raspberry mousse filling II on this site with both lemon and chocolate cake. Here is a link to the recipe.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2030-Rasberry-mousse-filling-II.html

I don't use many fillings becouse I don't have room to refrigerate. What needs to be refrigerated and what doesn't. I would like good filling recipes that don't need refrigerated. Thanks

BekkiM,

Be prepared to get addicted to the lemon combo! Everyone I've given it to is! I can't stop myself when I make it. I made 3 flavors for the 4th of July and that is the one that didn't make it till the end of the night- the other two were more than 1/2 there.

Enjoy!

My favorite is orange cake with chocolate filling and frosting, or Italian Cream with Cream Cheese frosting. I also love carrot cake with cream cheese.

One frequent request I get is white cake with chocolate frosting/filling. Lemon cake is also popular for me.

hmmm, that's the second suggestion for orange cake...i've never even heard of orange cake (i feel so deprived!!!!)....Okay...somebody get me to the nearest orange cake recipe quick....