140 Cake Quotes

Following is our list of cake quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about birthday cake.

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Famous Cake Quotes

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories. — Buddy Valastro

There's nothing better than cake but more cake. — Harry S. Truman

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. — Audrey Hepburn

Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. — Mary Berry

A party without cake is really just a meeting. — Julia Child

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy. — Nigella Lawson

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there. — Duff Goldman

Cupcakes are the tattooed brunette chick of the baked goods world. — Dov Davidoff

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness. — Aberjhani

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you. — Ann Richards

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it. — Boris Johnson

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. — Mitch Hedberg

It’s so comforting to have a small piece of cake. Just one slice. — Mary Berry

Let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette

The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake. — Michele Gorman

Short Cake Quotes

  • The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke
  • If the people have no bread, let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette
  • Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis
  • I love you like a fat kid love cake. — 50 Cent
  • Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. — Dave Barry
  • I love you like a fat kid loves cake! — Scott Adams
  • By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. — Taylor Dane
  • You can’t have your cake and eat it too. — English Proverbs
  • We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. — Meg Whitman
  • To be a piece of cake. — Mexican Proverbs

Cake Image Quotes

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. - Walker Percy quote

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. — Walker Percy

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock quote

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. — Alfred Hitchcock

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. - Eva Green quote

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. — Eva Green

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous. - Peter Drury quote

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous. — Peter Drury

Cake quote A party without a cake is just a meeting.
A party without a cake is just a meeting.

Chocolate Cake Quotes

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache. — Eric Carle

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from. — Brianna Wiest

Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy. — Sayings

Cake quote Happiness is like a cake. Have too much, and you get sick of it.
Happiness is like a cake. Have too much, and you get sick of it.

I want something mouthwatering and tasty which reminds me of childhood. The scent of a fairground, candy floss, little cakes, chocolates and caramels. Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style. — Thierry Mugler

It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. — Daniel Dennett

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it. — Chetan Bhagat

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up. — Sharon Olds

It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. — Dan Dennett

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. — Homaro Cantu

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches. — Frank Iero

Birthday Cake Quotes

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. — Catherine Bell

Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded. — Craig Kilborn

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids. — Bill Maher

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing. — Faina Ranevskaya

Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in. — Dylan Lauren

The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain. — Heath Ledger

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum! — Abraham Lincoln

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. — Janet Evanovich

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake. — Daniel Handler

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it. — Casey Stengel

Icing On The Cake Quotes

I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake. — Emeril Lagasse

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. — Brian Greene

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake. — Lindsey Vonn

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake! — Peter Guber

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake. — Jeff Conaway

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake. — Jimmy Carr

Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake. — Antony Gormley

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do. — Michael Rooker

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant. — Anna Sui

Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako — Naoko Takeuchi

Wedding Cake Quotes

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. - James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. — James Thurber

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. - Margot Asquith

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. — Margot Asquith

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. - Proverbs

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. — Proverbs

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme. — Ron Ben-Israel

I love a good madeira cake. Nice and simple. The most important thing is that a cake is moist. Most people overcook cakes, which dries them out. — Mary Berry

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake. — Darynda Jones

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — W. H. Auden

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like. — Ron Ben-Israel

Scientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake. — Jim Davidson

Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could. — Lindsey Graham

Baking A Cake Quotes

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one. — Robert Kuttner

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. — Danielle Steel

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment. — Cam'ron

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake. — Arnold Lobel

There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers too! — Pom Klementieff

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked? — Jessica Savitch

Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas tree. These items remind people of their childhood; we just re-create them with adult flavors. — David Castle

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. — Elon Musk

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl. — Nicole Scherzinger

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too Quotes

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. — Benjamin Franklin

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks — William Camden

Two heads are better than one. — Unknown Author

Don't count your chickens before they egg. — Ross O'Donovan

Too many cooks spoil the broth — Jane Austen

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. — Miguel de Cervantes

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. — Ric Keller

Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing." — T. Harv Eker

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. — Billy Corgan

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. — Vaughn Monroe

Baking Quotes

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. - Unknown Author

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author

I love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi. I race for your love, Shake-n-Bake, Ricky Bobby — Drake

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies. — Linda Sunshine

Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile. — Anna Olson

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation. — Regina Brett

God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking! — Chip Ingram

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake. — Nigella Lawson

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. — Mary Berry

The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong. — Carla Hall

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. - Oprah Winfrey

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. — Oprah Winfrey

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More Cake Quotes

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. — Marie Antoinette

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. — John Oates

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic. — Cynthia Nixon

If happiness were a cake recipe, and ingredients included having food, shelter, healthcare, education, satisfying work, a good life partner, the most important ingredient would be where you live. — Dan Buettner

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it. — E. Lockhart

When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out. — Steve Aoki

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. — William Rathje

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake — Chuck Palahniuk

But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs. — Eva Herzigova

Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going. — Ogden Nash

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. — Barbara Kingsolver

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes. — Jamie Oliver

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