The only two things I ever saw her make for dessert were the rabbit-shaped coconut cake complete with pink paper ears and jelly-bean eyes and nose that she brought over for every Easter lunch, and the ambrosia she made during the rest of the year.

WSJ: Easter Feast for the Champagne Set

Call me crazy or just plain unhinged, but I always looked forward to squeezing the last bit of cake heaven from the doughy and sugary paper.

NPR: How to Eat a Cupcake

Wrap the items in waxed paper before putting them into the cake.

CNN: Saint Basil's Cake

Before each bite of a cupcake, I carefully peeled the paper away from the tender buttery cake and billowy buttercream frosting and saved it for last.

NPR: How to Eat a Cupcake

Those who've chewed know that a decent amount of cake can be left behind in the carefully pleated paper, and chewing it can satiate the desire for a second cupcake.

NPR: How to Eat a Cupcake

The meal is often finished with a traditional sweet - such as a sticky rice cake in the shape of a purple blossom, with paper-thin slices of pear shaped like leaves.

BBC: Kaiseki-ryori: Japanese haute cuisine

Butter two 8-x-2-inch round cake pans, dust the insides with flour, tap out the excess and line the bottoms with parchment or wax paper.

NPR: Recipe: Devil's Food White-Out Cake