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Chocolate Lingering Cake

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This is a small cake with brownie-like qualities. I wouldn’t stand for a brownie with cake-like qualities, mind you. That would be out of the question for me. But this is definitely a cake, best served within 30 minutes of coming out of the oven and with a heaping scoop of ice cream or …click to continue Chocolate Lingering 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

Gravenstein Apples: Heirloom Apple Cake

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This cake is a community cake. A week ago, my friend Jon Rowley sent a big box of Gravenstein apples to Dallas for me. This is the second time he has performed this great and generous task on my behalf. The rest of that story is after this recipe. …click to continue Gravenstein Apples: Heirloom Apple Cake

Whipping Cream Cake

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“Plain Cake” seems to be a very uninspired title for something as wonderful as this. But, a cake that you eat happily unadorned is rare. This cake, with perhaps the lightest sprinkling of confectioners’ sugar is a simple joy. I suppose this is technically a member of the pound cake family. The original recipe …click to continue Whipping Cream Cake

Blueberry Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze

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Here I go again, adding all of the fat and calories back into a perfectly good Cooking Light recipe. I can’t seem to help myself. This time you can blame my trusted recipe donor and gustatorily like-minded Missourian Courtney Mertens. On the recipe sheet, in her hand, she noted, “This is from Cooking …click to continue Blueberry Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze