Set us as preferredThis is the story of a birthday cake, or rather, the pursuit of a birthday cake. Earlier this year the Los Angeles Times Food team began obsessing about birthday cake, what it meant to different people, and what might be the iconic birthday cake, if there were one. The overall favorite birthday cake was carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. We decided to build a crowd-sourced composite of those favorite components to create the ultimate birthday cake. (Did you know that egg yolks are what make yellow cake yellow?)