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Watergate Cake with Cover-Up Frosting
Watergate Cake with Cover-Up Frosting Schatzi: Though this cake was a prominent fixture on the community cookbook circuit when it debuted (my mother’s version is noted as being from the Nursing … more →
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Watergate Cake with Cover-Up Frosting
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Schatzi wrote 8 months ago: Watergate Cake with Cover-Up Frosting Schatzi: Though this cake was a prominent fixture on the commu … more →
Coca-Cola Cake
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Schatzi wrote 8 months ago: two great tastes that taste like something together Schatzi: Let’s start off Bake Week with a … more →
Christmas Cookies: Fruitcake Cookies
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Schatzi wrote 11 months ago: Fruitcake Cookies from LHJ circa 1977 Schatzi: It seems that one either loves fruitcake or hates it. … more →
Baked Apples
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beefcheeks wrote 1 year ago: baked apple with bleu cheese Mother didn’t like the idea of my going to a strange boarding-hou … more →
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: Sylvia Lovegren dates the popularity of the pudding cake to the Forties, though that popularity decl … more →
Indian Pudding
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Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: Toward evening they set her at the easiest task they could devise–the making of corn pudding. … more →
King of Pound Cakes or, Elvis' Favorite Pound Cake
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Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: Schatzi: I was fairly young when I began my love affair with pound cake; I must have been in second … more →
had to get away: Chicken Vesuvio
Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: I happened across Chicken Vesuvio when looking for a recipe my mother used to make, one that I canno … more →
had to get away: Marionberry Slump (or Marionberry Grunt)
Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: it's slump, it's slump, it's in a pot. When Europeans settled North America, they brough … more →
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
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beefcheeks wrote 1 year ago: pineapple upside down cake Schatzi: One of the earliest cakes to make an impression on me was a Pine … more →
Rosy Chiffon Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: the finished (and partially eaten) product Schatzi: The Rosy Chiffon Cake recipe I found at Slashfoo … more →
Tunnel of Fudge Cake
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Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: the Tunnel of Fudge Schatzi: My Fourth of July was spent doing a few of the traditional activities: … more →
Apple Cake
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Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: fresh out of the oven Schatzi: I’m not sure why, but I was haunted by apple cake recently. While per … more →
Twinkie Jell-O Casseroles
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Schatzi wrote 1 year ago: Schatzi: When I was little, my sister Malia gave my brother-in-law (a chef), a copy of White Trash C … more →
