Me and BF are getting "legally" married this Sunday, actual wedding will be in November. Sunday is also our 6 year anniversary so I thought it would be nice if we had a small wedding cake that day. I keep...
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I just baked a cake for a funeral potluck - pulled it out and my heart sank as I saw the center - a perfect sink hole. I debated filling it in with frosting but it was even too deep...
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When I was growing up my friends mom made this incredible chocolate cake with the best chocolate frosting ever. Kind of like a glaze frosting. She made it in like an over sized industrial Brownie pan. and she topped each...
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I went over to a friends this weekend and this was served. I had never heard of it but apparently it's a pretty common cake. It was so sugary I think I popped 8 cavaties and the filling(?)/topping(?) was the...
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My favorite desert in the world is this chocolate cake and I just read that the Washington Post printed 209 1/2's sour cream chocolate cake recipe about 20 years ago. Anyone have it? I'm desperate now that I know is...
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I made a batch of Christmas cakes yesterday and have liberally fed them with brandy and wrapped to store. How many more times and at what intervals should I feed them with more? Left to my own devices I might...
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This isn't one of those silly polls. A friend who does catering but doesn't bake has asked me to do some cake baking for her. We're not talking wedding or birthday cakes with fondant and intricate piping. These would be...
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My friends bday is in a couple of days and I want to make her a chocolate cake. However, I have a few challenges. First off, she is allergic to eggs, secondly, she is allergic to gluten, thirdly, she is...
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I finished working at that bakery finally (too much drama - I had to move on to find new drama.) Anyway, in celebration I decorated one last freaking happy cake and figured if anyone you'd be the people to appreciate...
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Years ago,my SIL used to make a caramel icing that she would cook in a saucepan and then,I thought,she would just pour it over a cake,where it would kinda harden.Not quite crunchy,but not at all soft.All the recipes I looked...
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