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Will 2012 be the year for layer cakes? I don’t know, but I’d happily embrace that trend if it were to catch on. So let’s hope for a year of exciting and/or really good cake recipes. Until then, here’s a round-up of my favorites. For chocolate cake, here are 9 favorites plus the …
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Yesterday I made a very good chocolate cake using a recipe off this comment thread. I’ll review that later, but one thing I realized was that this might be my favorite comment thread on Cookie Madness. I really enjoy hearing about your favorite cakes and am bumping this up in case you happen to be [...]
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This recipe is an old favorite from Rick Bayless – author of several Mexican cookbooks and owner of Chicago’s Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. The original 13×9 inch recipe can be found here, but you can also do what I did and make a “mini” version using an 8 inch square pan. This is the mini [...]
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This was posted in the comment section a few weeks ago by Katy, who says it’s the best pound cake ever. Another reader, Jill from Salado, tried it and said it was fabulous. So here’s the recipe. Best Pound Cake Ever Save Print Prep time 10 mins …
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The Memorial Day party was fun. Everyone enjoyed being together and spending time with our good friend who is being deployed next week. A few of you might remember her as the mom from my playgroup who helped us mail our cookies to troops a while back. Now we can mail cookies to her. I’ll [...]
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Today I decided that the second super special cake would be Hummingbird Cake — a real crowd pleaser. In fact, it’s the most requested recipe in the history of Southern Living Magazine, which helped make it famous. It was submitted to SL in 1978 by Mrs. L.H. Wiggins of Greensborough North Carolina, but it had been [...]
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UPDATE: This was my post today, but if you are looking for good chocolate cakes, check the comment section. If you have on to add, feel free to paste it. think I’m a pretty competent baker, but when friends ask me to bake them a special cake, I get flustered. What’s their favorite? What recipe [...]
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