Tag Archives: cake

Vanilla Buttermilk Cake with Instant Fudge Frosting & Chocolate Honey Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipes

May 6, 2009 – 11:54 pm

  Between the chaos of work trips, half-packed suitcases and endless hours of convention center banter, there was cake. Delicious, unapologetically rich, lavishly frosted cake. Um, two cakes, actually.

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Carrot Cake Recipe

March 15, 2009 – 1:22 pm

  I’ve been so entertained all week, watching my friend Eva struggle to restrain herself from spilling the beans as she snuck around Brooklyn planning a suprise birthday party for her boyfriend Gabe. You could see the secret welling up inside her, ready to burst. She told me that by the time the day of [...]

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Cranberry Upside-Downer Cake Recipe

February 7, 2009 – 9:58 am

This recipe has a sad name, which, I hope, will not mislead.  When I first saw it, I was reminded of this night when I was out with some girlfriends a few years back and I was in a really dark mood. I’m talking apocalyptic, what’s-the-point-because-with-global-warming-the-planet-is-doomed, we’re-all-food-for-the-wor ms-anyways kind of dark. My friends drew stares from [...]

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Blueberry Crumb Cake Recipe

January 21, 2009 – 11:46 pm

  The biggest problem with keeping cookbooks in the bedroom is that some mornings, as soon as my eyes open, I’ll find myself with a rumbling stomach, gazing over at book after book containing endless possibilities for curbing my hunger. With blueberries burning a hole in my fridge and a running streak of 3 for [...]

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Devil’s Food White-out Cake Recipe

January 1, 2009 – 6:46 pm

  Last night a few of us gathered at our place for an extravagant, multi-course dinner cooked by Brian to ring in a new year that we can only hope holds as many good things for us as the one that has just passed. The meal had been built up for weeks and I felt [...]

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