B. "Chocolate" modifies "cake." Frosting is optimal but optional, and can be any flavor, because the cake will still be chocolate.
White cake with chocolate frosting is not "chocolate cake."
Jesus Christ, I want cake now.
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Steph L. - May 26, 2013 6:35:12 pm PDT #23773 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Atropa - May 26, 2013 6:39:57 pm PDT #23774 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
1 - A, 2 - C. CAKE I WANT CAKE NOW. Thank goodness the Infamous BlueJay is coming over with chocolate raspberry cupcakes.
JZ - May 26, 2013 6:47:20 pm PDT #23775 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Interesting...very interesting. So we've got 6 B's, 3 A's, 1 anything but C, and lots of people who want cake.
I actually have cake if I want it, but bullshit consensus seems to be that it is not chocolate cake. As I suspected.
Juliebird - May 26, 2013 6:47:55 pm PDT #23776 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I think you all are crazy and reading the question wrong, as B is terribly wrong for anything resembling chocolate cake. A vanilla cake with chocolate frosting is not a chocolate cake. It's a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting.
A chocolate cake could have vanilla frosting, or pumpkin frosting. It's still a choclate cake, although a bit suspect. Also, a cheesecake with any sort of additions automatically becomes not a cheesecake, but a whatever-weird-cake. This includes graham cracker crusts. Just don't.
Atropa - May 26, 2013 6:51:12 pm PDT #23777 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
A vanilla cake with chocolate frosting is not a chocolate cake. It's a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting.
This is very true.
Jesse - May 26, 2013 7:00:48 pm PDT #23778 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
B is the "cake that is chocolate" answer.
Ginger - May 26, 2013 7:02:22 pm PDT #23779 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
B.
A is chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, which is overkill for me.
You would probably not cry over C if it was the cake a friend makes, a six-layer (three layers split) yellow cake with cooked fudge frosting.
Consuela - May 26, 2013 7:02:56 pm PDT #23780 of 30001
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Chocolate cake is cake which is chocolate. Not yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Bah.
a cheesecake with any sort of additions automatically becomes not a cheesecake, but a whatever-weird-cake
Pfeh. My Oreo cheesecake is still cheesecake because it has a solid pound of cream cheese in it. NOM. (I should make one of those...)
-t - May 26, 2013 7:05:49 pm PDT #23781 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
1B (with the modification that I agree with ita and frosting is not necessary
2C
I would accept cake that is not chocolate but completely covered in chocolate as being called "chocolate cake" if I get the whole thing and it is in no way sliced so that the not-chocolate-part is not revealed. Although I might feel betrayed after putting a fork in it. But I might not! I am willing to undertake this experiment. For science.
Eta: I am entirely not a cheesecake purist. In my book, vegan pumpkin cheesecake is still cheesecake.
Connie Neil - May 26, 2013 7:31:09 pm PDT #23782 of 30001
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Chocolate cake with non-chocolate frosting obviously has self-worth issues. On the other hand, it could just be exploring its identity.