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Apple Cider Cake with Cranberries and Walnuts

Monday, November 26, 2012
Apple Cider Cake with Cranberries and Walnuts at The Hungry Mouse

Fall’s officially here, let the baking begin! Apple and cranberry is such a classic New England combo when it comes to Autumn desserts. This cake gets a double…

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Triple Chocolate Espresso Pudding Cake

Friday, July 20, 2012
Chocolate Fudge Cake at The Hungry Mouse

This is a summer standby at The Mouse House. (Warning: This cake is not bikini friendly.) It’s dark, dense, and fudge-y, and is the perfect foil for everything…

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Buttery Lemon Layer Cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Somebody help me: After 35 years, I think I’m developing a sweet tooth. Tragic, right? Get over it and join the rest of the world, Mouse. I know….

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Angel Food Cake

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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As I write this, my angel food cake is upside down, cooling in the kitchen. Upside down. You heard me right. Making angel food cake is one of…

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Chocolate Cheesecake

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Our good friend the Baron Von Hammer came to visit us recently, right around his birthday. That being a rather auspicious occasion, I wanted to make him something special. This chocolate cheesecake didn’t disappoint!

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Texas Sheet Cake

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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Texas Sheet Cake is an expansive, thin chocolate cake that’s coated with chocolate frosting and sprinkled with chopped pecans. And? This cake defies one of the 10 Commandments of Baking: Thou shalt not frost until the cake is cool.

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Torta di Ricotta

Monday, May 10, 2010
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This cake is like a coffee cake, but better. It’s rich, but still manages to have a light crumb. It gets a subtle, mollasses-tinged sweetness from dark brown sugar, and a burst of brightness from a generous amount of fresh lemon zest.

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Mocha Layer Cake with Sour Cream Ganache

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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One of the reasons that I love this cake is that it looks impressive, but it’s ridiculously easy to make—even for folks who don’t have a lot of experience baking. The hardest part is waiting for it to cool completely before you can fill and frost it.

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Orange Pound Cake

Monday, February 22, 2010
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Warning: Baking this cake will fill your kitchen with the irresistible smell of oranges. This is a slightly modified version of a recipe I saw recently in Saveur. It’s a buttery pound cake shot through with freshly grated orange zest and soaked with sweet orange syrup.

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St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Monday, February 8, 2010
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So here’s the thing. I liked this cake so much that I immediately had to get it out of the house so I didn’t gobble down the entire pan. Find the logic in that, I know.

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