Hi, my name is Desiree. I am married with a menagerie of pets(dog, birds, uromastyxs, turtles). I am on weight watchers so I "try" to watch my diet. I can count on my husband to eat the rest! My favorite cakes(almost all qualify,so it's hard to choose):

Any really dark, semisweet chocolate cake (CMD: darn good chocolate and tunnel of fudge)
My late grandmother's poundcake (just can't duplicate it!)
Yellow, butter cake with chocolate icing
Fresh coconut
Cinnamon coffee cake with pecans

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Desiree Kroeger
Owings Mills, MD

Thanks, BarbaraMc, for your feedback. I still haven't decided which two other cakes to make, but I'll probably do one of the two you suggested with the raspberry sauce. I'm so hungry to try these cakes out, I might have to make a couple early to sample and then decide.
-Tami

Hi all,
I'm Kathy and just joined the Board yesterday. I LOVE it! I did things a little backward in my life: PhD in anthropology (college prof for four years), then medical school and psychiatry residency, practiced for ten years, then retired to raise kids. Yeah, that means I am now 55 with a 20 month old daughter and 4 1/2 year old son, both adopted from Guatemala. (I know why most people have their kids when they are half my age!) My DH is ten years younger than I am, which helps somewhat. We have been married for 18 years and live in SE Wisconsin. I love to cook, garden, travel, read, sing and knit. (Guess what I don't have much time for.)
So on to the everchanging list:
Fresh Lime Cheesecake
Deeply Chocolate Almond Cake
Orange Dreamsicle Cake
a triple lemon cake with lemon cake mix, lemon pudding, lemon juice and lemon extract
Chocolate covered cherry cake
Kathy

Hi! I'm Cindy and I'm from Texas! I am new to the CakeMix Doctor cookbook. I haven't tried a lot of the recipes, but I'm taking note on the ones you all have listed as favorites!! I just made a cake last week which included a cake mix called the "Heaven Cake". It was great. I have been given another one to make for a church function called " Pumpkin Pie Pecan Cake" also made with a mix. Have any of you tasted this one? I was always a "make from scratch" person, but I'm becoming a believer!!

I am happily married for 29 years. I have 2 kids in college and 2 furbabies at home. I enjoy baking, exercising, message boards, reading, shopping, traveling and of course my dogs! I'm hoping to get to know you and get some really great recipes.

Hello again everyone! I haven't been on this board since early July. This summer was very slow in the cake baking business, but is picking up as of late.

Some info about me: I'm 32 years old and live in southwestern Wyoming. I bake and decorate cakes for my hobby. I'm also a house mom with a 2 year old daughter and another baby due in May. I'm just getting over the morning/all day sickness, thank goodness!!! Some of my favorite Cake Doctor cakes are:

1. Strawberry Cake
2. Orange Dreamsicle Cake
3. Basic Sour Cream White Cake
4. Buttermilk Devil's Food Cake
5. Peaches and Cream Cake

Well, I hope to be back for a while now. And I'm looking forward to reading all your posts and getting great ideas from everyone.

Have a great day!
Carolyn

I LOVE the darn good chocolate cake Soooo much that I havent even tried any others yet. I am also a stay at home mom (bayb Isabella is 4 months old on Nov 5) and I've been married 12 years (as of november 20th) and I am 32 years old currently living in Louisiana though I was raised yankee.

I'm Karen and I'm in west Tennessee. I'm 40 with a DH, 2 boys (9 & 11) and am a stay at home mom. Baking is a stress reliever for me. My DH can always tell when something's buggin' me.....so he likes to keep me as calm as possible so I won't blow his successful Low Carb diet. heehee. If I make it he will eat it. He's my favorite guinea pig.

Ok my all time favs are:

-Strawberry layer cake with the cream cheese frosting
-Honey Bun Cake
-Angel Food Cappucino cake
-Cookies and CREAM !!!!!!!!

Just to name a few.

Karen

I am new to this board. My name is Donna Lee and I love to bake cakes. I especially love bundt cakes and all of the wonderful fancy bundt pans. I can't wait to get the new Christmas tree pan!!
I absolutely love the chocolate egg nog cake. I am wondering if there is a good recipe for an eggnog bundt cake? I did use a yellow cake mix last year and substituted eggnog for the water in the traditional pound cake recipe.

I'm Jill, and I'm new to the board. I live in Buffalo, N.Y., I'm 30 years old and I've been married for a little more than 2 years. I became a mom for the first time in November. I'm using the time off from work to do a little more baking ... that is, when the baby will sit peacefully in his swing and let me!

Favorite cakes:
1. Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cake. This is THE cake my mom and hubby always request for birthdays.
2. Darn Good Chocolate Cake.
3. Chocolate Orange Cake. (I always thought orange chocolate was just a Buffalo thing, so I was overjoyed to see this recipe.)
4. Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake.
5. Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins. (Sense a theme here? )

Welcome, Jill. I just joined a couple of months ago myself. I've never tried the chocolate peanut butter muffins. Hmmmmm- maybe there is some baking to be done today!

Hello! I am a stay at home mom. I am 31 and I have 1 nine year old daughter. I live in Southeast Louisiana.I have been married 10 years.

I love the Cake Mix Doctor books and recipes. I love baking,cooking,collecting recipes,scrapbooking,photography. My main focus is my dd. I spend every free moment with her. She has even developed a love for cooking.

My fav. recipes are:

Italian Cream Cake
Hummingbird Cake
Red Velvet Cake

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Every baker has a disaster in the kitchen sometimes. It's called a learning experience and an excuse to make something else instead.

I am new and I wanted to say hello to everyone.

Obviously I love to bake and have found that I absolutely love the CMD and CCMD books. So far my all time favorite recipe is the Loaded German Chocolate Cream Cheese Muffins - they are to die for!

Happy Baking!
Tara

Hey Y'all,

I'm Bronwen and go by "Bron" a lot of the time for simplicity's sake. (My name is Welsh, my mother got it out of a book called "How Green Was My Valley"--fantastic fictionalized account of a Christian Welsh coalmining family's life. "Bronwen" means "fair lady" in Welsh. When I was ten, my Tennesseean granddaddy did some family genealogy and discovered that lo and behold, not only is the family Scots-Irish, but Welsh as well! So my name was pretty nifty in two ways.) I'm a Native Southerner, originally from Texas, with my mother's family from Tennessee (and some hail from around the Nashville area, where Anne is based) and now happily living in Central Florida. I'm 46 years old and happy about that, especially considering the alternative . I'm married, have one child--my dd in college in Texas, and two half-grown kitties here at home: Bluebonnet and Dixie.

Here are my favorites from The CMD. Oh, and I am thrilled that soon there will be a Cupcakes book, as I love making and decorating cupcakes for church functions and sharing around our apartment complex too!

Thank you, Anne, for all the great books you've done and continue to create. May I put in a request for a Cookies book? I can just imagine how creative a Cookies book would be from your heart.

And now, for my personal favorites from CMD!

1. Banana Cake with Quick Caramel Frosting -- tastes as fabulous as my granddaddy's recipe, without all the tedious watching of the sugar to caramelize for the frosting. I have gotten so many compliments for this cake ALONE and when I tell folks where I got it, they don't believe me until I show 'em the book! LOL

2. Sock-It-To-Me Cake--a deadringer for the recipe (which I lost) that I used to make back when I was growin' up in the 60s and 70s. DEE-licious and deep cinnamon flavor that stays on your tongue and gets you cravin' more.



3. Tennessee Jam Cake -- again, happy memories of family gatherings ensue when I put this cake together, smell the blackberry jam, make the caramel frosting--and it's SO much less work and time than my great-aunt's recipe entails. But it tastes JUST the same. Anne, my hat is off to you, lady--I am so glad you are a Southerner, so when you made the CMD you were inspired to recreate so many Southern-style cakes/desserts! As my Texas and Tennessee families would say "You done good!"


4. Caramel Cake -- see above, "ditto"! Caramel Cake hits the spot with peach icecream, as Anne recommends. I would go further and say that Blue Bell's peach icecream is the absolute best. O'course, that's just my opinion .

5. Mom's Layer Cake with Fluffy Chocolate Frosting -- because it's a 'comfort food cake'. Perfect with Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla icecream. Excellent as a birthday cake (I've made it for my own birthday!, particularly when raspberry jam is sandwiched between the layers. MMM! Cain't beat that with a stick, no way.



6. Milk Chocolate Pound Cake -- I love milk chocolate as opposed to semisweet or dark, and also enjoy dutch-process cocoa's flavor and the way it easily mixes into cake mixes for that unique taste.(I haven't tried doing that in this particular recipe, yet, though.) This poundcake hits the spot with the candybars in it. Very soothing to the milk chocolate-covered soul; has the effect of an edible 'band aid' for those blue days.

7. Old-Fashioned Cola Cake -- where I come from, that's "Coke" and *only* Coke, or Coca-Cola Cake. Tastes, again, just like the from-scratch version--which I have been makin' nigh onto 20 years at this point. I was very skeptical about this 'un, as I just flat out didn't think you could make a Coke Cake from a box. BEEEEEEP! WRONG! Tastes just like my old recipe and no one is the wiser for the shortcuts, either. Ya-hoo!

Well, I reckon I best stop right there; otherwise this first post will grow like Topsy. :>) I'm lookin' forward to meetin' and gittin' to know my fellow bakers here on CMD's board, and sharin' and tweakin' recipes with all o' y'all.

As I was frequently admonished growing up in the South:
"Be sweet, now!"--

warmly,
Bron

Hi Bron and welcome. Sounds like you have already added some tweak ideas in your first post Hope to keep hearing from you.
Kathy