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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In successful cake making, select the best ingredients, mix them together and pour into the right size pan, bake at the right temperature and for an appropriate time, frost and decorate to add flavor and eye appeal.

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They are making "tea cups to cake stands to everything, 450 pieces in a beautiful raku, " a Japanese-style of pottery, Ms. Foppiani says.

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She was pure New Orleans, serving our dorm floor King Cake in March, making pots of gumbo at midnight, doling out nuggets of her grandmother's sugary praline.

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It is a cracked and crumpled layer-cake of rocks, 480 million years in the making, a landscape sculpted by ice then transformed by man and a witness to the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

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