Cake, like love, is a many-splendored thing. It comes in so many forms—cupcakes, cheesecakes, carrot cakes, chocolate cakes, and so on, and on. But the best cake, let's be honest, is often the cake that's most easily available to you without having to use every implement and bowl in your kitchen. Thus the popularity of boxed cake mix, and the continual popularity of easy cakes, the kind that you don't have to worry too much about between mixing and serving. And of this genre there is a consistent-favorite heavy-hitter: the two-step pound cake. Read more... |