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Coconut rum cake, with roasted peanut crumble and lime curd.

Coconut rum cake, with roasted peanut crumble and lime curd.

How I built my sister's birthday cake.

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Jul 11, 2024
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Hello and welcome back to Bake Experiments! Thank you for being here.

This week is a story of recipe development.

I have read of some chefs testing recipes more than ten times before they consider them ready. Some play with recipes for a year or more.

However, many food writers and chefs don’t write in depth about the process (some do, and beautifully). …

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