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...)
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.
Chocolate cake with non-chocolate frosting obviously has self-worth issues. On the other hand, it could just be exploring its identity.
A chocolate cake could have vanilla frosting, or pumpkin frosting. It's still a choclate cake
Isn't that B, though?
Cheesecake has to have cheese in it, though. I can't really cave on that.
B, but in my mind that also includes A. C IS TOTALLY WRONG.
Cheesecake has to have cheese in it, though. I can't really cave on that.
And yet, it needn't have cake. It's very confusing.
Cheesecake popsicles, btw, are delicious. Chocolate popsicles are pretty good, too.
Popsicles like carrots. Though I haven't tried the carrotcake popsicle yet.
I'd expect A but not be super shocked by B. nor would I turn it down. I would be startled at C and possibly not eat it.
Plain NY style cheesecake is the one true cheesecake. The addition of strawberries makes it inferior, though acceptable. Chocolate cheesecake is a travesty.