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My Strawberry Cake Recipe-Famous and Easy

Strawberry Cake

This strawberry cake recipe is so easy! However, it tastes like it is a bakery cake. I have made it famous among my family and friends. Everyone asks me to make this cake! Ingredients Even though the cake tastes like a bakery cake, anyone can make it. It’s that simple! First, gather your ingredients. You…

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Grandma’s Watergate Salad: A Potluck Classic from the 70s

Today we’re making a recipe that showed up at every single potluck I went to growing up. My grandmother loved this one — it’s a pistachio Jell-O salad that she always called Watergate salad. If you were a kid in the 70s or early 80s, chances are you remember it too. A Family Effort This…

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Aunt Martha’s $500 Sausage Bread (The Pillsbury Bake-Off Winner)

My Aunt Martha once walked into the Pillsbury Bake-Off — the big one — and won it. Her prize was a microwave and $500. That might not sound like much today, since almost everyone has a microwave now, but back in the 80s, hardly anybody did. It was a very big deal. And here’s the…

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Remembering Dolly: A Tribute Cake for a Southern Icon

Today is a very sad day. I just saw the news that Dolly Parton has died. And like all Southerners, we do everything with food — we celebrate with it, and we mourn with it. So this morning, once I got past the shock, I remembered I had a box of cake mix and a…

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