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As someone who always loves a good flourless chocolate cake I was excited to try this week’s Heavenly Cake Baker recipe, Baby Chocolate Oblivions. The recipe called for the cakes to be baked in silicone cupcake pans, so I decided to use silicone rose pans about the same size and was thrilled with how they turned out. I ended up improvising for some of the baking directions because I don’t have a parve roasting pan or turkey baster (shocking, I know). It certainly did not make sense to buy them just for this recipe, since I do not envision I will be doing a lot of parve roasting in the future, so I just made due with what I had. The cakes turned just fine in spite of the changes. I placed the 6 cup mold (for half a recipe) in a 9 x 13…
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