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Thank you for joining me on my 6 year journey of working through an entire book of recipes! I have made 99 cakes, starting with the...

"In 2008 the Maryland legislature named not the crab cake but the 10-layer, chocolate-fudge-frosted Smith Island Cake as its state cake....

In the 1940's, Nestle opened an evaporated milk manufacturing plant in Mexico, and a recipe for the cake was on the label of those cans....

"As much as red velvet cake has been a national favorite, many cooks find it unacceptable to add artificial red food coloring to the...

In order to make flan; a chocolate cake batter is poured over cajeta, which is sweetened, caramelized goat milk that has been spread on...

Eugene Walter created this fruitcake. He gave it this name due to the sizzling sound the rum makes when poured into the holes of the warm...

"This recipe was created by Barrington Brewery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, one of the countries first microbreweries, and it...

"Natalie Haughton, the retired food writer from Los Angeles, says this cake speaks California, and we can thank pastry chef Emily...

John Martin Taylor shared a recipe for Half Pound Cake in his book The New Southern Cook. It is considered to be more of the "right" size...

"In America, rhubarb has been nicknamed "pie plant." But rhubarb is much older than America. Its origins can be traced to 206 BC in...

This is a rustic cake inspired by Zoe Nathan of the Rustic Canyon restaurants in Santa Monica, California, This cake has the...

Chantilly cake is uniquely Hawaiian. It originated in the 1950's, in Oahu, at a bakery called Liliha Bakery. It is a chocolate cake with...

John Edgerton wrote a cookbook in 1987 called Southern Food. He was a Southern scholar of history, civil rights, race, and food. He...

"In the late 1970's, when actor Robert Redford was in New York and dining in Hisae's restaurant in Greenwich Village, he supposedly was...

Fig preserves are special on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, especially Ocracoke Island. "This is where figs grow prolifically, where...

"The inspiration for this cake recipe was Ann Lee, or Mother Ann, the founder of the American Shaker religious movement who emigrated...

In the 1980's, Marian Burros shared her recipe for the Plum Torte in the New York Times. It became one of the most requested recipes, so...

This is a flourless chocolate cake that rises in the oven due to the beaten egg whites, and then falls and cracks as it cools. In the...

One of the first printed recipes for carrot cake in America, was in Portland Oregon, in 1912, by the Council of Jewish Women. Carrot Cake...

A Cornell student, named Mollie Katzen, helped to start a mostly vegetarian restaurant, in Ithaca New York, in 1973. They focused on...