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Breakfast Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

When you need to practice a presentation and are asking your colleagues to give up an hour of their time to listen to you and give feedback, it seems right to offer some baked goods.

Problem was, I planned my baked goods for an afternoon meeting and actually the meeting was scheduled for the morning. So I had to think of a ‘healthy’ breakfast treat I could make. While one of my favorites is Alice Medrich’s Breakfast Biscotti, I changed my tune and went with this oatmeal cake instead. Oatmeal – basically breakfast in disguise! Cream cheese frosting – just like eating a bagel!

This cake may not be the most nutritious breakfast you could choose, but it was glowingly reviewed and declared the favorite by many.

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Chocolate Coffee Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache

I had a huge dilemma recently. I was hosting a birthday party for myself and wanted to bake all of my favorite things. But that’s just too many things to bake… because people wouldn’t be able to eat that much! So after much consulting, considering, and mouth-watering cookbook perusing, I decided on just four cakes. And this one, of course, made the cut.

I’d made this one a year ago. It was my first cake from the Baked cookbook and it took me literally all day to make. And I made it for a dinner at a friend’s house, so it ended up being a lot of cake for just 4 people. I mean – a lot of cake. This time, it took me much less time to make, but it’s still a time investment. Which is well worth it.

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Aunt Sassy Cake – Pistachio Cake with Honey Buttercream

This cake is a winner. I made it last year for a departmental birthday to wide acclaim and one colleague sought me out to say it was his favorite. His birthday came around again this year (they have a habit of doing that…) and I remembered his preference and made him this cake again. This year, it was even better. Not sure what I did differently, but man it was good.

A word of warning: if you enjoy eating this cake, you may not want to read the recipe. Let me just say: there’s a reason it’s called ‘buttercream.’

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