A marble cake riddle is:
Q: What cake is as hard as a rock?
A: Marble cake.
The riddle has been cited in print since at least 1976. “What cake would a sculptor use? Marble” was printed in a 1903 newspaper.
27 May 1903, Wilmington (DE) Journal, “A Cake Contest,” pg. 2, col. 5:
What cake would a sculptor use?
Marble.
13 December 1935, Reading (PA) Times, “Cake Guessing Begets Laughs,” pg. 30, col. 1:
What is the variety cake?
Marble.
Google Books
Biggest Riddle Book in the World
By Joseph Rosenbloom
Illustrated by Joyce Behr
New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
1976
Pg. 96:
What cake is as hard as a rock?
Marble cake.
24 February 1976, Aiken (SC) Standard, “Blondie” comic strip, pg. 10, col. 5:
Dagwood Bumstead: THIS SPONGE CAKE IS HARD AS A ROCK!
Cook: IF YOU THINK THAT’S HARD YOU SHOULD TRY OUR MARBLE CAKE!
17 June 2007, The Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL), “Riddle Me This,” Flying Horse, comics sec., pg. ?, col. 6:
Q: What cake is hard as a rock?
A: Marble cake.
Twitter
Susan Endriss
@SuzzzyGal
#GOODHUMORMONDAY: MARK: What cake is as hard as rock? RYAN: It’s unknown to me. MARK: Marble cake.
6:25 AM - 7 Feb 2011
Houston (TX) Chronicle
Jokes for children
December 24, 2014
(...)
What cake is hard as a rock?
Marble cake.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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