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In case you missed the news, yesterday was not only National Baking Day, but National Devil’s Food Cake Day. And while I admit to not taking full advantage of the excuse to make a devil’s food cake, I made another type of chocolate cake which was just as good — a mayonnaise cake. If you’ve [...]
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One of my favorite scratch marble cakes is this Triple Layer Mocha Marble Cake, but last week I had to pull something together quickly for a Girl Scout pot luck and felt like using cake mix. Since I’d had good luck with the enhanced Orangesicle cake, I decided to push that luck a bit by [...]
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I found this coconut cake recipe yesterday while organizing my big box of recipe clippings. The recipe was clipped from Taste of Home, where it had been submitted by a fellow Texan who found it in an old cookbook. She said she made it once and has since been asked to serve it every Christmas. [...]
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If you like making Bundt cakes but don’t have a big family to help eat them, treat yourself to a brand new a 6 cup Bundt pan! It took me forever to finally buy one, but Target had them in the baking aisle a few weeks ago and I finally gave in. Now I’m wondering [...]
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Here’s another reason I like the BIG cupcake wrappers. They hold more filling! In this case, that filling is peanut butter pie. I got the idea after reading a reference to peanut butter pie and thinking “I’ll never be able to make that” because the only person around here who really likes peanut butter is [...]
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If you haven’t entered the Happy Birthday Funfetti Giveaway, go for it! I’m collecting party tips in the comment section and will pick one comment Saturday morning. Good luck! And if you’re a Facebook user, you might want to check out the promotion on the Pillsbury Baking Facebook page, too. But back to business. Let’s [...]
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It’s National Coffee Cake Day, and to celebrate this momentous occasion, I have baked my favorite sour cream coffee cake in mini Bundt pans and jumbo muffin cups. They’re inverted, as you see. The Bundt pans measure about 4×2 and the jumbo muffin papers I used were the Reynolds foil lined 3 1/2 inch type. [...]
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A few days ago I stumbled upon my new favorite website, Wayne’s This and That. Wayne, whom I’ve never met, has lots of interesting information (Todd’s enjoying his Addams Family Pinball section), but what drew me in were his cake mix comparisons. I could tell before reading the rest of the site that he was [...]
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