Tickets for Cake at Brewery Ommegang

cake band black and white

By this point, we're guessing they've figured out how to afford the rock 'n roll lifestyle.

Drawing's closed! Winner's been emailed! Congrats to Drew!

The band Cake is playing outside Friday evening at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown. It sounds like a great show. We have a pair of tickets for it, and we're giving them away -- maybe to you.

To enter the drawing, please answer this question in the comments:

What's your favorite cake?

It could be a specific cake from a specific place, or just a type in general. We'll draw one winner at random from the comments.

The Cake show at Ommegang starts Friday at 8 pm. Gates open at 5:30 and there will be food and drink available for purchase. The show is outside and lawn chairs are allowed. Tickets are $42.50.

This show is just the first of a solid lineup at Ommegang this summer, including Death Cab for Cutie (July 21), Lyle Lovett (July 27), and Wilco (July 28).

Important: All comments must be submitted by 10 pm on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 to be entered in the drawing. One entry per person, please. You must answer the question to be in the drawing. You must enter a valid email address (that you check regularly) with your comment (seriously, we want to give you the tickets). The winner will be notified via email by 11:59 pm on Wednesday and must respond by noon on Thursday (June 14, 2012).

photo via Cake Facebook

Comments

my favorite cake: Trader Joe's Patisserie de Chocolat Cake... soon no more schlepping to Hadley Mass! I Love Cake!

Made at home from a box mix yellow cake with chocolate frosting OR any cake at all from The Breadbasket in Saratoga.

My favorite? Yellow cake with peanut butter frosting and a chocolate pudding fill between the layers. YUM!

Brian Gilchrist owns the Ale House on River Street in Troy. His mother makes home-made carrot cake and chocolate macadamia cakes for their dessert menu. Sublime.

German Chocolate Cake! Maybe from The Bread Basket in Saratoga, but that's not set in stone.

Carrot cake!

My favoritw cake is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting from Coccadotts. Yum!

The marble cake with buttercream delaying from cocodots in Albany has to be one of the best cakes I have ever eaten

I like cake! My favorite cake is carrot cake or lemon with lemon frosting. That said, I make a mean rootbeer float cupcake too.

My favorite is Chocolate cake w/ PB frosting.

Pineapple upside down cake, even though it makes me feel like I'm taking a time machine back to, like, 1956 whenever I eat it.

Definitely my wife's Black Forest Cake!

Chocolate Cake! Specifically this chocolate stout cake: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Stout-Cake-107105

My mom used to make me a cake when I was a kid themed after Back to the Future called "The Dr. Emmitt Brownie Cake". It was a chocoloate/brownie cake with white coconut on top to look like to top of Christopher Loyd's head.

chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

Chocolate ganache espresso with buttercream.

I love a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!

Red Velvet. There's something about any recipe that involves dumping two FULL bottles of red food coloring into the batter. :-)

I miss the chocolate covered sponge cakes that came from Phil's Bakery in downtown Albany - it was near the intersection of Washington Avenue and Central Avenue.

wedding cake.

I like ice cream cake!

I

Fruit cake soaked in rum

Crisan's makes AMAZING cakes - any flavor. Add some gelato. Fantastic!

Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet is my absolute favorite, Cream Cheese Frosting tops it off perfectly.

Frankencake from cheesecake machismo! Best way to get a variety of all their delicious and unique cakes!!

Watergate Cake. Chilled.

Tres Leches is my favorite cake! Our Dominican neighbor treats us to it on special occasions. Mmmmmmm

Banana's Foster Cheesecake from Cheesecake Machismo.

My favorite cake is chocolate cake.

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Icing!

carrot cake.
Carrot Cake.
CARROT CAKE!

Chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and fresh cut strawberries on top. Simple, but perfect.

My favorite cake used to be an Espresso Cake from The Vanilla Bean in Latham when it was open. But now I'd have to go with the Italian Rum Cake from Bella Napoli. Just smother my face with it, please!

Any kind of cupcakes!

Any cake is a good idea, but within that, any cake with cream cheese frosting is an even better idea!

tres leches for me, please. Yum!

I love all kinds of cake, but this time of year I'm craving something with strawberries.

Angel food, without a doubt.

Vanilla cake with raspberry filling and chocolate butter cream frosting. It has never failed me, and I'm positively certain it never will.

lemon with buttercream frosting!

The Salted Vanilla Caramel Cake from Dolce & Biscotti bakery in Clifton Park. Ordered it for my birthday this past year and fell in love - so good, yet not sickeningly sweek at all.

Cheesecake with cherries on top. Yum!

Carvel Ice Cream Cake with the little chocolate crunchies in the middle.

fudgie the whale!!

Funfetti cake, with funfetti frosting. Or appropriate sports team decoration.

german chocolate. No contest.

White cake with chocolate frosting I make myself!

Triple layer chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and chocolate-peanut butter glaze!

Red velvet with cream cheese frosting!

Peach upside-down cake.

I love cake! I think my favorite is either homemade carrot cake (made by yours truly) or german chocolate with coconut pecan frosting.

What my family lovingly calls, "Jam Cake". Its two yellow cake layers, with strawberry jam or preserves in the middle, covered with vanilla frosting and sprinkles or strawberries. Its sweet and easy.

Triple chocolate cake from Wegmans. Let the grocery store debate brew on

my favorite cake is chocolate layer cake with vanilla frosting with coconut on the outside. add a little coffee to the cake batter and you're in BUSINESS.

German Chocolate Cake!!

I like dem boithday ones what with the hidden fileses in dems.

franken-cake

Spice cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. Yum!

My mom's strawberry shortcake. I guess it's really more biscuits than cake, but man is it yummy

Rum Cake

The Southern Belle of cakes, if ever a confection was one, the Hummingbird Cake.

Molten Lava Cake - What's not to love?!?!

Home made, one pan, Wacky Cake.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cheesecake

Cannoli cake

The carrot cake at the concession stand at the Spectrum is hands down the greatest carrot cake on earth. Or at least that I've ever had. German Chocolate is my other favorite.

Well that's easy, Blueberry Maple cheesecake from Cheesecake Machismo....so delicious!

Yellowcake.

red velvet.

Cakes Next Door makes an amazing carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, almost as good as the band Cake.

PB&J cheesecake!

Jello-O Rainbow or Pudding Poke Cake

Red velvet, cheesecake, or molten lava! All are delicious.

German Sweet Chocolate all the way!

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, without raisins but with coconut...yes I am a little specific but we ARE discussing cake afterall.

Ice cream cake. Doesn't matter what flavors. But ice cream cake, definitely.

Pineapple Rum Cake. *Hiccup*

My favorite cake is peanut butter bone, made at Deising's bakery in Kingston, NY. It is chocolate cake with a layer of peanut butter, covered in chocolate.

Chocolate

My favorite cake is made by my friend Candance - chocolate with chocolate ganache and a light raspberry butter cream!

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