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The Case for Never Eating Cold Cake Again
Fruit is refreshing when served cold. Yogurt is at its most delightful, creamy state when chilled. Ice? Transcendent. But cake: That is where I have to stop you. For the love of all saturated fats, and everything good, please stop eating cold cake.
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Forget Frosting and Give Your Cupcakes the Lamington Treatment
A mighty glob of buttercream frosting looks appealing on a cupcake, but my quick hack for eating such a cupcake is to remove the liner off the bottom, use the liner to pull off the frosting, then throw the liner and frosting into a burning trash can. This keeps your fingers clean. Or, if you…
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12 Holiday Cookie Recipes With Five Ingredients or Fewer
Making festive cookies for the holidays doesn’t have to mean owning six types of sprinkles or having three different sugars on hand. In fact, I find some of my holiday favourites have shockingly few ingredients with no decorations necessary, barring the occasional shake of powdered sugar. If you think cookies should be easy to make…
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The Easiest Way to Keep Your Cake From Drying Out
“Cake is good” is a statement that needs no qualifying, no coaching, and no parenthetical asides. Cake does not need me to hype it up. Cake does not need a PR firm. Unequivocally good things, such as cake, should be protected and cherished and, in the case of cake, kept moist for as long as…