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The Heavenly Cake Bakers are making the Lemon Canadian Crown this week. I made this cake last November. I had come to Poland to spend Thanksgiving with my husband and our daughter, who was en route from Austria back to AZ. It was a fun trip and a wonderful, creamy cake. Since I've already made this one and still have many on my "to-do" list, I decided to flip to another recipe in the cheesecake category and make the No-Bake Whipped Cream Cheesecake. Due to another of my many Polish language oversights in the grocery store, this became a Neapolitan cheesecake.
The recipe calls for a pound of whipped creamed cheese. Cream cheese is serek in Polish, and they have several varieties in the dairy case. I know because they have…
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