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I've always wanted to make this, and my fiance has mentioned that he hasn't had one in a long time, so for Halloween I decided to make it. I used a recipe from this one book I bought, called The Essential Baking Cookbook. Enjoy.


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Back again, with another cake.


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Hi! It's my friend's birthday next week and I want to make him a birthday cake. His girlfriend says that his favorite flavor is passionfruit. Do you have any delicious recipes for cakes, frosting, cookies, anything?

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Maaaaany moons ago when the world was young and I was only a sprig of a girl aged 10 we lived in Borneo. One of the things I remember eating there in the markets in the evenings were things called Curry Puffs. They resembled what we call pasties here in the UK. They were made from shortcrust pastry not puff as the name might suggest and they were ( Read more... )

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I searched around this weekend for the perfect white cake, stuffed some of Smitten Kitchen's mango curd in the middle, and topped the whole thing with raspberry buttercream roses ( Read more... )

My mom and I made black cake today. Black cake is a Carribean dessert--kind of like a cross between a rum cake and a fruit cake, but ten times better.

It wasn't always like that though. The first time I ever had a slice of black cake, I was a young girl and I hated it. It was much too dense--not light and fluffy like all the other cakes I've eaten ( Read more... )