Apr 24
An Ode to Fresh Banana Cake
When I was a little girl, a chocolate sheet cake or a lemon meringue pie were almost always on the kitchen counter. My mom liked sweets, and she loved to bake. Very rarely she would buy dessert, but one of the rare exceptions was frozen Sara Lee banana cake. I had pretty much forgotten this [...]
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Feb 26
Easy Mexican Lasagna
My sweet youngest child is now a ravenous, meat-craving, teenage boy. I remember people warning me that this day would come. And while John isn’t the guy who pours an entire box of cereal into a mixing bowl for breakfast, he could eat steak 24/7. And hamburgers. And he questions why I would ever put [...]
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Feb 11
My Favorite Flourless Chocolate Cake
Don’t you love the names of chocolate cake around Valentine’s Day? Chocolate seduction, temptation, ecstasy… As if good dark chocolate, combined with butter, eggs, and sugar needed a provocative title. The recipe I share today is less tabloid and more French gourmet. I call it simply a Flourless Chocolate Cake, and it has been a [...]
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Welcome to my kitchen, where you’re as likely to find a caramel cake cooling on the counter as you are my son’s homework, folded laundry, and the makings for dinner. My life in Nashville is busy with three children, a husband, dog and a cat, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve been writing about food for 30 years, first in Atlanta and now through the Cake Mix Doctor and Dinner Doctor cookbooks. I love to eat well - burgers grilled over charcoal, roasted butternut squash soup, and that caramel cake – but I also rely on good shortcuts to make dinner happen. So come cook and bake with me as I share secrets and simply delicious recipes, some from scratch and some not.
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Cupcakes From the Cake Mix Doctor
The cupcake is America’s darling. It’s celebrated in upscale bakeries, on Sex in the City, on the cover of Gourmet, and in thousands of classrooms—where every day, it seems, a parent has sent in a batch for the kids to share.
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Anne’s Deep Dark Chocolate Cake Mix
Chocolate cake - warm fudgy layers topped with a creamy frosting - this is the cake I love most of all.
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