But when you're an Olympic athlete, you don't get to have your cake and eat it, too.

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Expecting to slide into the same place you left years later is wanting to have your cake and eat it too.

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For now this vehicle proves that when it comes to electric cars, it's possible to have your cake and eat it too.

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You want to have your cake and eat it, don't you?

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Yet, the power and speed are easily accessible to a novice driver (552 HP and a 6.0 liter W-12 engine.) For super cars, this is how to have your cake and eat it too.

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For instance, it asks you to slide a button along the bottom of a birthday cake to determine your age, or to rate your pain on a scale of happy green to angry red.

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And a growing number of travel companies, from tour guides to vegan or vegetarian hotels, are doing what they can to make sure you can have your vegan cake and eat it too.

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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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Using the new method you could have your cake and eat it, by designing a strong core to a structure that has a weaker, temperature-resistant surface, he says.

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Bake the cake until it springs back when lightly pressed with your finger and just starts to pull away from the sides of the pan, 38 to 42 minutes.

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