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Applesauce Pecan Cake
This homespun cake is the quintessential after-school snack.
September 2009
- Keywords
- gourmet today,
- dessert,
- apples,
- fruit,
- cakes
food + cooking
The Kid’s Menu: Let Them Eat Cake
When it comes to baby’s first birthday, what’s wrong with a sweet, simple, made-from-scratch celebration—or two?
08.25.09
- Keywords
- the kid's menu,
- culinary culture,
- kids,
- cakes,
- lesley porcelli
food + cooking
Wedding Cake 101
Gourmet editor learned the hard way that baking a friend’s wedding cake is no piece of cake.
05.13.09
- Keywords
- dessert,
- cakes,
- wedding,
- baking,
- marisa robertson-textor
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Walnut Jam Cake
Jam is always in season, so we turn to this nutty cake whenever we’re craving a hit of fruit in the early days of spring.
April 2009
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Gingerbread
With no bells and whistles or outré ingredients, this gingerbread is everything you want it to be: moist, satisfying, and gently spiced.
February 2009
- Keywords
- ruth cousineau,
- web-exclusive recipes,
- dessert of the month,
- cakes,
- spices
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Glazed Chocolate Cake with Sprinkles
Let’s put our cards on the table: The exuberant confetti of colorful sprinkles is what makes you want to dive right in.
December 2008
- Keywords
- lillian chou,
- web-exclusive recipes,
- chocolate,
- dessert of the month,
- cakes
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Wine Cake with Macerated Strawberries
Concord-grape wine—a traditional part of the Passover feast—gives this delightful spongecake a fruity, almost floral note.
April 2006
- Keywords
- passover,
- dessert,
- cakes,
- eggs,
- strawberry
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Chocolate Decadence
Perhaps no other dessert typifies the excess of the 1980s more than this flourless chocolate cake—which makes for an interesting parallel to the fancy cakes of the 1880s.
February 2000
- Keywords
- rick ellis,
- narsai david,
- cakes,
- dessert,
- chocolate
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Angel Food Cake
This classic spongecake is thought to have originated with German settlers—a thrifty use of the many egg whites left over after making noodles. Apocryphal perhaps…delicious nonetheless.
February 2000
- Keywords
- rick ellis,
- cakes,
- dessert,
- the great american cake
