Depends what you mean by rice cake. As in mochi? Or those puffed rice cake thingies found in stores, meant to be 'healthy' for you?
Had mochi, it was "Om nom nom nom I'm going to get fat if I keep eating these but I can't~!" Puffed cakes are okay. They taste like popcorn before people drown it in butter or other stuff. Surprisingly, there are buttered popcorn flavored puffed cakes...
My family uses a rice cooker and jasmine rice. We also use white Japanese rice whenever we want a different texture and flavor every once in a while. We also sometimes use just a pot and water for rice when somebody has too much free time.
Ah...I use jasmine rice too.