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Tangerine Sheet Cake

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You well know by now my love of the humble sheet cake. This offering is delicious and has received raves from grown ups and children. I flavor it with tangerine juice and tangerine zest. The best move was borrowed from Cook’s Illustrated’s Cook’s Country Magazine which printed a recipe for a lemon cake several …click to continue Tangerine Sheet Cake

Mud Cake

I’d love to sit here and tell you that this cake is gorgeous, but it isn’t. The genre is called “mud cake.” I’ve run across a West Virginia Mud Cake and a Mississippi Mud Cake and several non-geographically correlated versions, and all of them are WONDERFUL. But, friends, they aren’t pretty. I tried a …click to continue Mud Cake

Carrot Cake with Orange and Honey Frosting

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This is an homage recipe. In particular, it is an homage to the Carrot Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting to be found on the Fine Cooking website. I made two miniscule changes to it here, but hardly enough to even stretch and call it an adaptation. All credit goes to the genius, Leslie …click to continue Carrot Cake with Orange and Honey Frosting

Vanilla Cake

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I’m calling this Vanilla Cake because, The Cake that Kelly and Carol brought to the Family Reunion at Harry and Diana’s House a Few Years Back seems a bit cumbersome. But that is what it is. My mom pulled the mother of this recipe out of the paper years ago. I have played with …click to continue Vanilla Cake

Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake

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Generally, I have a feeling that cakes are about bakeries and pies are about home. I know that is silly but it is simply a sense. When I think about cakes, generally, I think about big multi-tiered affairs and fondant and weddings and all of that. And when I think about pies I think …click to continue Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake