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Easy Icebox Cake Is a Perfect No-Bake Summer Dessert
Icebox cake is one of the easiest no-bake summer desserts around. Just layer cookies and whipped cream...
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How to Take Boxed Cake Mix From Basic to Baller
These box cake mix recipe hacks are ingenious. We all get by with a little help from our friends...
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This Rosh Hashana Honey Cake Makes for a Sweet Start to the New Year
The Jewish New Year—Rosh Hashana—is celebrated without a lot of pomp and circumstance. Often a simple...
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A One-Bowl Apple Snacking Cake for Hangry Kids
Baker, recipe developer, and cookbook author Jessie Sheehan shares her recipe for an easy one-bowl...
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Best New Baking Cookbooks for Fall 2019
As summer melts away and fall starts to sharpen the air, we're getting ready to hunker down and cozy...
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How to Turn Melted Ice Cream From Summer Disaster Into Secret-Ingredient Desserts
From soft serve cones to pints of dairy-free ice cream, there's no form of frozen treat that isn't...
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Pizza Cake: The Best Alternatives to Boring Wedding Cakes, from Cheese Wheels to Doughnuts
From doughnut walls to cheese wheel towers, these are some of the best alternative wedding cakes around...
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8 Way Cool Ice Cream Cakes to Try This Summer
An ice cream cake is a thing of beauty; the best of cake and the best of ice cream, combined as one...
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Make Some Magic: Bake Your Very Own Unicorn Cake with These Expert Tips & Tricks
You don’t have to be made of magic to make a unicorn layer cake, but you do need a mountain of sprinkles...
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Cakes Recipes
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Vanilla 4th of July Flag Cake
This impressive insta-worthy 4th of July Flag Cake is surprisingly easy to make and will be sure to...
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Unicorn Layer Cake
This magical unicorn cake is enchanting at first glance—and inside, rainbow layers are a sweet surprise...
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Zucchini Layer Cake with Tangy Buttercream Frosting
This zucchini cake recipe is like zucchini bread but lighter; it's frosted with a tangy buttercream...
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Easy Caramel Sauce
It’s so easy, why not make your own.
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Doughnut Cake with Matcha Glaze
This Doughnut Cake with Matcha Glaze is tender, buttery, and fragrant with vanilla and mace, with...
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Vanilla Bundt Cake with Strawberries
Bundt cakes became popular in the 1950s, after Nordic Ware created the aluminum cake mold in the distinctive...
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Vegan Chocolate Cake and Frosting
A recipe for a vegan chocolate cake that’s got all of the chocolate, none of the dairy.
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Easy Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This easy recipe for a moist carrot cake is packed with carrots and warm spices, and topped with a...