Walnut Pecan Torte Serves 8

Mix eggs and yolks together. Whisk until light. Beat in .25 c sugar. Add nuts and cake crumbs. Beat whites until foamy; add .25 c sugar until softly peaked. Fold into yolk mix. Divide between 2 greased and floured 9″ cake pans. Bake at 300 for 35 min. Remove to racks and cool 10 min.…

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Vanilla Wafer Cake

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour angel food cake pan. Cream butter w sugar in large bowl of electric mixer. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Add wafer crumbs in 4 batches alternately w milk. Stir in nuts and coconut. Pour into pan. Bake until golden…

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Upside-down Cake, Starfruit-Cocoa

Place rack in loser third of oven. Heat to 350. Slice starfruit 1/4″ thick and remove seeds. In small saucepan over medium, combine brown sugar, honey and butter. Stir until bubbling. Immediately pour it into an 10″ round cake pan, spreading evenly over bottom. Arrangestarfruit in pattern over mix. Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, ginger,…

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Triple-Layer Chocolate Macaroon Cake

Preheat oven to 350. Spray an 11- by17-inch jelly-roll pan w vegetable oil spray and line the bottom w parchment paper; spray the paper. In a small saucepan, bring the cream to a boil. Remove from the heat, add the chocolates and let stand for 5 minutes, then whisk until smooth. Pour 1 cup of…

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Rum Cake 

Preheat oven to 325. Grease and flour 10″ tube pan or 12 c Bundt pan. Sprinkle nuts over bottom. Mix cake and pudding mixes, eggs, 5 c cold water, oil and .5 c rum. Pour into pan. Bake 1 hour. Set on rack to cool. Invert on serving plate. Prick top. Drizzle and brush glaze…

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Buttermilk Pear Upside-down Cake (gluten-free)

Preheat your oven to 350*.In a large bowl stir the oat flour, almond meal, sweet rice flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and clove until combined.In another bowl whisk the eggs then whisk in the buttermilk, butter, applesauce, and vanilla bean paste.In a 9-inch cast iron skill melt the 2 1/2 tablespoons of butter over…

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Pastel de Tres Leches  Serves 12

Heat oven to 350. Generously butter a 9 x 13 glass pan or angle food pan. In electric mixer fitted w whisk attachment, combine egg whites, baking soda, and salt and beat on medium until soft peaks form, 2-3 min. Add yolks and 1/2 c milk and beat until completely combined. With mixer running slowly,…

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Nantucket Cranberry Cake

Preheat oven to 350. Put cranberries and walnuts in food processor and pulse until roughly chopped. Mix im 5 T sucralose. Pout into bottom of round cake pan sprayed with cooking spray and pat down firmly. Stir remaining ingredients together and pour/spread over cranberry mix. Bake 40 min. or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool…

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​Lemon Poundcake

Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour loaf pan. Cream butter and sugar until light. Add lemon zest, then the eggs, one at a time, mixing until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately w sour cream to butter, mixing just to combine. Spoon into pan. Bake until…

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King Cake (this recipe makes two King Cakes)

DOUGH:2/3 cup whole milk5 tablespoons sugar1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast2 large eggs, room temperature2 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour1 teaspoon kosher salt1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces, room temperature Combine flour, sugar, salt, yeast and milk in a mixing bowl and mix on low speed till it comes together. As dough…

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