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dog cakes
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floral christmas cake
the only thing strictly *Christmas-y* about this cake is the tree in the center, so I think it could be made year-round. You can replace the tree with whatever you want — a birthday message, some fresh flowers, a little fondant minion from Despicable Me — truly anything ingredients cake 1.5 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped 3/4…
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painting cakes
i think there’s a misconception that high end cake decorating entails fondant and dragées and other decorations that are technically edible but always end up getting left on the plate. don’t get me wrong, fondant is great — if you want a cake to look like an anatomically correct heart, it’s the way to go…
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dark chocolate caramel cake
something changed recently and i can’t get enough of bright colors. i guess it’s been raining a lot in dc, and that coupled with all the big gray and white buildings makes me feel sort of blah. i generally try to stay away from artificial food coloring. i’ll use it if i have to (e.g.…
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petit prince petit four
i played the desert flower (not the rose!) in a production of the little prince during my freshman year of high school. these were my lines: desert flower: good morning. pilot: where are the men? desert flower: men? i think there are six or seven of them in existence. i saw them, several years ago.…
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#metoo
#metoo, obviously. i don’t know a single woman who hasn’t had a “me too” experience. i know i’m a bit late to the game — i haven’t posted the hashtag before now for a number of reasons. one is because i’m frustrated that the burden is on women to open up and share our personal,…
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burnt honey cake with blackberry jam and marzipan
there are few cakes that cross my mind as often as the pink champagne cake i made two years ago does. i think this is due to a combination of three things: 1) it’s one of the prettiest cakes i’ve ever made, 2) my life was in complete turmoil when i made it, and 3) the…
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iced sugar cookies
i took the red-eye megabus home from d.c. and arrived in durham this morning bleary-eyed but ready to bake in my own kitchen. i scrolled through pinterest and came across molly yeh’s adorable sugar cookies, which seemed like the perfect way to start off my holiday baking, but after reading the recipe, it dawned on…
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dark chocolate plum cake
today marks a month since i moved in to college! here’s a timeline of some (lena’s lunchbox-related) events that have happened so far: august 28: i started marketing immediately, plastering my door with cake photos and posting in the GW facebook group. september 1: i tested out the kitchen in my residence hall by baking a chocolate…
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kanelbullar cake
after visiting denmark a few days ago, i’m doing my best to embrace the danish concept of hygge (hue-gah). hygge roughly translates into coziness — ideally a coziness that leads to a sense of well-being and contentment. imagine sitting around a fireplace and drinking warm apple cider with friends, or curling up with a blanket and a book while…
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