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Not that you need an excuse, but it’s National Pound Cake Day so bake a pound cake! That is, if you like pound cake. It’s actually not my favorite type of cake, but it’s a good complement to the berries that have been on sale lately. That, plus I’ve been searching for top pound cakes [...]
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A few weeks ago I stopped by a local thrift store to look around. There were the usual old clothes, used jewelry and old appliances from the ’70s, but the real find was in the book section. Hidden on the bottom shelf was a stack of 12 issues of Cook’s Illustrated from 2000 to about [...]
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I have another Voskos Greek Yogurt recipe to share. It’s for a simple pound cake that can be made without an electric mixer! Using vegetable oil in place of butter lets you skip the creaming, and adding lemon, vanilla and spices ensures there’s plenty of flavor. The texture is dense but very tender (thanks to [...]
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You know that feeling you get when you’re in a public place and you spot a celebrity? At first your brain is like “OMG! It’s the woman from Modern Family” or “No way! It’s that guitarist I haven’t seen since 1996 and here he is at the H.E.B.!” and then you try not to stare [...]
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So all that talk about extract was leading up to this cake. The original version was on the back of a Watkins cherry extract box, and since Todd loves anything chocolate-cherry, I knew this cake was in our future. The original cake was double this and baked in a standard size Bundt pan. I’m glad [...]
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I love going through old Bake-Off books and looking at entries from years gone by. It’s always interesting to see what recipes become famous and which ones fly under the radar; for instance, this one from the 1969 Bake-Off in Atlanta. It’s a whipping cream pound cake made with sesame seeds toasted in butter. It’s [...]
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Hello, and thanks for all the well wishes! It’s been a long week. I headed back to the kitchen yesterday, but my appetite had changed a bit and my usual rich, gooey, chocolate cravings were on the down low. What did sound good was a plain vanilla pound cake, and the King Arthur Flour Whole [...]
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When I saw this recipe in Mark Bittman’s NYT column, I knew I’d have to try it immediately. Not only is the cake made in the food processor, which in past experience has yielded a dense, tender, moist and tight crumbed cake, but it uses for almond paste. Looking at the recipe and reading reviews, I [...]
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