Thank you!
Thank you for joining me on my 6 year journey of working through an entire book of recipes! I have made 99 cakes, starting with the...
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Smith Island Cake
"In 2008 the Maryland legislature named not the crab cake but the 10-layer, chocolate-fudge-frosted Smith Island Cake as its state cake....
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Tres Leches Cake
In the 1940's, Nestle opened an evaporated milk manufacturing plant in Mexico, and a recipe for the cake was on the label of those cans....
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Beet Red Velvet cake
"As much as red velvet cake has been a national favorite, many cooks find it unacceptable to add artificial red food coloring to the...
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Chocoflan
In order to make flan; a chocolate cake batter is poured over cajeta, which is sweetened, caramelized goat milk that has been spread on...
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Rum Sizzle Cake
Eugene Walter created this fruitcake. He gave it this name due to the sizzling sound the rum makes when poured into the holes of the warm...
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![Chocolate Stout Cake](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/18a20d_40a383d1a0b54065ae51c7db9e6654fb~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/18a20d_40a383d1a0b54065ae51c7db9e6654fb~mv2.webp)
Chocolate Stout Cake
"This recipe was created by Barrington Brewery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, one of the countries first microbreweries, and it...
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California Orange and Olive Oil Cake
"Natalie Haughton, the retired food writer from Los Angeles, says this cake speaks California, and we can thank pastry chef Emily...
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Half Pound Cake
John Martin Taylor shared a recipe for Half Pound Cake in his book The New Southern Cook. It is considered to be more of the "right" size...
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Alaska Rhubarb Cake
"In America, rhubarb has been nicknamed "pie plant." But rhubarb is much older than America. Its origins can be traced to 206 BC in...