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Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 by whyibakedacake · 2 Comments

Orange Cream Cake

My Goodbye to Summer 2020 Cake, a wonderfully fragrant Orange Cream Cake inspired by the orange push-ups I enjoyed as a child (read more about it here), might seem intimidating on the surface, but by breaking down the whole into components, many of which can be made days in advance, this cake is achievable even by the novice baker.  

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Some intense googling led me to the following. Charles Gilbert mentored Charles Rain from 1946 to 1965. Rain lived in New York, and Charles Gilbert owned an apartment at 10 Mitchell Place, NYC, his primary residence until 1954 when he changed that designation to 103 Ridgefield Road, Thibodaux, Louisiana, the property we recently purchased, also Gilbert’s childhood home.
“The past is not one separate place. It is many, many places, and they are always ready to rise into the present....”
“Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.” — Louis Armstrong
“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”
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“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
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