Newsletter chitchat - April 22, 2025

[Cassel]

What is your go-to type of "birthday cake"?

I like the plain white cake if it is a baked cake (even if I love chocolate, I still prefer white chocolate).

I love ice cream cake.

I love the cheesecake that my husband makes.

Share your favorites.

[Michele]

When asked what kind of cake I want for my birthday, it's always Black Forest cake. 

 

[Ann Seeber]

When I was young I fell in love with the commercial ice cream cake roll so that was my birthday ask.

[Rene Marker]

Chocolate cake with Chocolate icing. But I couldn't have that cake now with chocolate not being something I can eat anymore. But then, the last time I even had a cake was 2008.

[Julie Magerka]

It was always (since I was a kid) my mother's 3-layer carrot cake with cream cheese icing! When I was very young I wouldn't eat it b/c it had "carrots" in its name. Boy, was I happy when I finally gave in. 🙂

[Julie Magerka]

5 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

When I was young I fell in love with the commercial ice cream cake roll so that was my birthday ask.

This was one of my faves as a kid! Can't find it for years now.

[Ann Seeber]

1 minute ago, Julie Magerka said:

This was one of my faves as a kid! Can't find it for years now.

Thinking about it I asked Google where I could buy it locally and they reported 1) Joanne's Fabrics (?); 2) Target or 3) Sam's Club! 🤷‍♂️

[Julie Magerka]

3 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

Thinking about it I asked Google where I could buy it locally and they reported 1) Joanne's Fabrics (?); 2) Target or 3) Sam's Club! 🤷‍♂️

Good idea! I'll check out a fabric store near me! 😄 Sometimes AI is not that bright. We don't have Target here anymore (Canada) and only Costco and I know they don't have it. But I am really salivating right now just thinking about it.

[Anne Lamp]

As a kid I always asked for chocolate cake.  After I was married my Mother in law made a sheet cake with lemon jello. That became my favorite for years.

[Ann Seeber]

3 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

Good idea! I'll check out a fabric store near me! 😄 Sometimes AI is not that bright. We don't have Target here anymore (Canada) and only Costco and I know they don't have it. But I am really salivating right now just thinking about it.

I know. To me, it's like a big Devil Dog with ice cream instead of cream filling. 😁

[Michele]

16 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

We don't have Target here anymore (Canada) and only Costco and I know they don't have it. But I am really salivating right now just thinking about it.

Do you have Dairy Queen, Walmart, or Baskin-Robbins?

[Julie Magerka]

9 hours ago, Michele said:

Do you have Dairy Queen, Walmart, or Baskin-Robbins?

We have those, have not ever checked for cake at BR. The DQ cakes are not quite the same.  But what actually is the same as we recall it from those childhood days?

[Ann Seeber]

13 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

We have those, have not ever checked for cake at BR. The DQ cakes are not quite the same.  But what actually is the same as we recall it from those childhood days?

I looked it up and it's called the Swiss Roll Ice Cream Cake and I also found one called Dean's that is available online via Instacart.

Edited April 24 by Ann Seeber

[Sue Thomas]

22 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

We have those, have not ever checked for cake at BR. The DQ cakes are not quite the same.  But what actually is the same as we recall it from those childhood days?

We have Walmart and Dairy Queen here.  Mind you I  have never been into a Dairy Queen, or any other fast food chain such as Mc Donalds or Burger King.  I will occasionally  have a Tim Horton's, soup combo though,  on the rare occassion I go to the city.  Although you can buy them in the supermarkets in the UK, my mum, would make an arctic roll.  I like to make my own too, and still do.

Edited April 24 by Sue Thomas

[Michele]

14 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

But what actually is the same as we recall it from those childhood days?

So true,

[Ann Seeber]

58 minutes ago, Michele said:

So true,

Now that I think about it, I haven't had an ice cream roll cake in years and would probably be better off leaving it at that. The memory may be better than today's reality.... 😉

[Julie Magerka]

On 4/24/2025 at 1:00 PM, Ann Seeber said:

I looked it up and it's called the Swiss Roll Ice Cream Cake and I also found one called Dean's that is available online via Instacart.

Oh yes! I wish I could get that one here. I doubt it they deliver to Canada. 😐

[Julie Magerka]

On 4/24/2025 at 1:12 PM, Sue Thomas said:

We have Walmart and Dairy Queen here.  Mind you I  have never been into a Dairy Queen, or any other fast food chain such as Mc Donalds or Burger King.  I will occasionally  have a Tim Horton's, soup combo though,  on the rare occassion I go to the city.  Although you can buy them in the supermarkets in the UK, my mum, would make an arctic roll.  I like to make my own too, and still do.

If I give you my address, can you send me one, Sue?

[Sue Thomas]

21 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

If I give you my address, can you send me one, Sue?

Absolutely!!!!   It might be an idea for me to send one to you during this coming winter  when the temps plummet to 30c below, that way the ice cream won't defrost in transit.  lol

[Jacques]

My wife and I made birthday cakes for our two oldest grandsons. I think it was a success, judging by their faces.

Noah likes trains:

 

While Ludovyk loves hockey:

 

He had just woken up

 

 

Edited May 9 by Jacques