Layer Cake Parade

A Procession of Storytelling through Recipes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake Oh how I need to write a love ballad to you! To start, I am very down with Life Equations. The term “life equations” was mentioned by Alex Guarnaschelli in one Food Network’s Guilty Pleasures episodes. Given she was talking about Frito Pie. I honestly feel like this Chocolate Peanut Butter cake falls…

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Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

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Sour Cream Sugar Cookies Holiday baking, with benevolent cookie giving galore, is when I’m able to try out recipes and compare different doughs. Those receiving my cookies are basically unsuspecting guinea pigs to my confectionery comparisons and trials. I know the holidays are about tradition, but I get sick of using the same recipes with…

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Cookie Monster Cake

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Cookie Monster Cake Society’s general consensus is that cakes are reserved for special days. That’s exactly how this chocolate cake came about; and I am glad to give it as a gift for my neighbor’s birthday). Hence there are no images of the towering 6-layer chocolate chip cookie and cream filled interior. Derived from Sweetapolita’s…

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Drumstick Cake

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Drumstick Cake   We need to do away with this daylight savings?   A commiseration of this sad-sad time of year, I’m pulling out a totem frozen novelty of summer—the drumstick. I spotted the recipe idea on Confession’s of a Cookbook Queen and instantly felt compelled to bake it up. The layer cake recipe is simply Heryshey’s recipe that’s…

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Valentine Pink Rainbow Cake

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Valentine Pink Rainbow Cake Red velvet seems overrated especially for Valentine’s day. I thought Italian flared dessert was in order for this year’s romantic day. Remember those Italian Rainbow cookies you’d see in the glass displays of bakeries? As pretty as they were, a bite into them would reveal that they are prettier than they…

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Snickers Chocolate Layer Cake

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Snickers Chocolate Layer Cake Snickers Chocolate Layer Cake. Need I say more? No, really I must. Is it sacrilegious to make a candy-themed cake and never once try the original candy bar? If it’s against heavenly ordained rules, then I am going down in flames. I guess missed out on childhood candy classics. Odd since…

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