cimorene

We've made vanilla and chocolate cakes frequently. Also carrot cake, zucchini cake, banana bread which is actually a cake. Chocolate mousse cake most recently, of course, although that's really more of a pie? Or actually, of a chocolate mousse with some cookie crumbs attached. We have also done red velvet cake, but it turns out without the food coloring this is just kinda vanilla spice cake. Oh, we've had spice cake too, and it's okay, but not the biggest fans.

We should try making lemon cake and orange cake soon, but we haven't yet. I guess lime cake might be a thing? I've seen stuff like mojito- and margarita-inspired cupcakes.

I see yellow cake with the addition of a few types of liquor, and a couple of nut cakes, but they mostly seem to kinda be spice cakes or vanilla cakes that have some nuts in them and on them. There's peanut butter cake, but most of the results seem to be really dense and moist and not even that cakey in texture, really more like a brownie (could still be tasty, but even adding 'light and fluffy' to my search terms didn't seem to help with that).

Oh, and there's also such a thing as coffee-flavored cake of course, which is often combined with chocolate, or frosted with chocolate. We've tried that a couple of times, but haven't found the perfect recipe for it.

We might try this apple cake that we found next, mainly because we have tons of apples to use up, but we're having trouble settling on an icing/glazing because we don't have that much butter left and the recipe wants a peanut butter buttercream that uses tons of both.

But what other cakes are there, really? All the other options that come up when I browse recipe sites seem to be some slight variation on these - in fact, mostly just on chocolate or vanilla really - or a cheesecake, which is another category of thing.