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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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This may not be your typical Easter cake, but it is the perfect post-Easter cake because you can make it with leftover milk chocolate eggs or chopped up chocolate bunnies! Or you could just do it the old fashioned way and use actual Hershey bars. Whatever type of milk chocolate you use, the result is [...]
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Happy Friday! And to celebrate, here’s a wacky but very tasty cake. It’s called ‘Tato Cake (though my relatives would have called it ‘Tater Cake) and it’s a chocolate Bundt cake made with Hungry Jack mashed potato flakes. You can’t taste the potatoes in the cake, but they add bulk and give the cake a [...]
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I’ve been trying various recipes from Hungry Jack, and this is one of them. It’s an easy to prepare chocolate cake baked in an 8 inch square metal pan and topped with chocolate mousse made with melted chocolate, a little bit of syrup, and freshly whipped cream. The cake part of the recipe was pretty [...]
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I hadn’t planned on posting a recipe today, but I came home from an afternoon meeting to find Fuzz baking cupcakes and listening to music. Rather than break her flow or dive in and try to help, I told her I was going upstairs to use my treadmill and to let me know when the [...]
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One of the best things about leaving home for college was this: I’d never have to look, smell or taste sauerkraut again. Blech! Okay, that was an overstatement, but I have some pretty bad memories of my mom spooning it out of a can, warming it in the microwave and serving it as a side [...]
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My mom didn’t enjoy baking, but occasionally she’d find a recipe so tempting it would lure her to the kitchen. One of those recipe was the “Double Fudge Fancifull Cake”, a plain chocolate cake with a ribbon of cheesecake running through the center. I vaguely remember the cake from childhood and am thinking my mom [...]
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Years ago I made a cake inspired by the Ding Dongs. I don’t remember much about it other than the filling was made with flour, sugar and Crisco and that the end result really was better than it sounded. Given that I’m on a retro cake bender, I looked for the Ding Dong cake recipe [...]
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