Ice Cream or Cake: What’s Your Pick?

From chocolate to vanilla, there’s a special flavor just for you. The real question is, what is a better canvas to paint that flavor on? Ice cream or cake? It’s a real stumper, isn’t it? While ice cream has that pizazz, topped with a cold, refreshing sense after a long, hot day in the sun, cake, on the other hand, has that bouncy, fluffy feeling that satisfies you, yet makes you crave even more. 

Each has such a wide variety of tastes. For ice cream, there’s the simple rocky road, cookie dough, and strawberry, to the complex marshmallow, salted caramel, and brown butter pecan. And for cake, the spectrum can range from the basic fun-fetti to the famous red velvet, carrot cake, or even chocolate ganache!

Ice cream can be fruity or milky. The number of toppings is unlimited. There are gummies, Oreos, popping boba, Reece’s, Kit-Kats, sour patch, and more! You can basically put anything on or in ice cream. There are also some crazy and unusual ice cream flavors that you most likely have never heard of! Some may call them gross, but I’d call them unique! Check out some of these crazy tastes that’ll knock you off your feet!

Just to name a few there’s…

• Garlic 
• Flamin’ Hot Cheetos 
• Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
• Horseradish
• Dill Pickle
• Mountain Dew and Doritos
• Pineapple Cilantro
• Asparagus Water
• Pear and Blue Cheese
• Wasabi

Sure, there may be insane flavors and tastes for ice cream, but cake, with its homey pillow vibes, can never go wrong! There is such a wide range of textures with cake. It can be glazy, super sugar-packed, fruity, fluffy, creamy, spongy, and so many more! There are so many unique recipes, so take a look!

Just to name a few there’s…

• Sultana Cake–with butter and raisins
• Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake 
• Cajun Cake–with caramel and pecans
• Sausage Cake–with breakfast sausage, pancakes, and syrup
• Battenberg Cake—a British cake with a soft, light almond flavor including the marzipan around it
• Spiced Dulce de Leche Banana Icebox Cake–with cookies, bananas, spiced dulce de leche, and sweet whipped cream
• Parsley Cake
• Tomato Soup Cake
• Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
• Crepe Cake With Whipped Cream & Chocolate Ganache

Let’s see what Temecula Middle School thinks about this controversial topic!

What is better: Ice cream or cake? What’s your favorite flavor?

“Cake because it’s my favorite dessert and I love chocolate cake because I love the taste of chocolate.” (Kelsey Allred 6th)

“I love cake because it tastes yummy since it’s so fluffy. Funfetti cake is my favorite.” (Savannah Pepe 7th)

“My favorite is ice cream and I like mint chocolate chip and cookie dough.” (Sophie Stempson 8th)

In all honesty, why not just have both? Ice cream cake if you will! What is your pick? Ice cream or cake? What’s your favorite flavor? Leave a comment below!

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