Also, Hershey's research has shown that baking a chocolate cake with baking soda, which is an alkaline, destroyed flavanols but nutrients were retained when using baking powder.

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Lane cake recipes vary from state to state, kitchen to kitchen, and part of baking a Lane cake is developing your own take on it.

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"It's like baking a layer cake, but doing it one layer at a time, " said Atala.

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Managing a successful investment portfolio is like baking a State Fair award-winning cake.

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It starts with a baking-powder-leavened batter and ends in uncommonly airy waffles a sort of hybrid of the cake and yeast-raised categories.

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But even as I grew confident around a stove, progressing from roasting a chicken to boning a duck, from baking muffins to culturing sourdough, I avoided making funnel cake.

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Mr Mayer is championing the idea that Danisco should be a partner capable of developing new solutions for, say, baking the perfect cake or using pectin to replace gelatine in chewy sweets.

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