In an increasingly busy world — and Valentine's Day season — where a single scroll can give you a bombastic array of gorgeously futuristic, pushing-the-envelope dessert photos, it's reasonable to think that we've already seen just about everything when it comes to the world of cake.
And that's why it's worth looking back.
Because when you dig back in history and attempt to unearth some forgotten gems, you can land on the kind of cakes we need right now. Cakes that can be a part of personal moments, not a publicized event in and of themselves. And lately I've fallen in love with a cake that's so demure on a platter and gentle in flavor, it feels like a balm. So old-fashioned and underrated, it somehow feels new. The recipe defining this radically simple way of cake thinking? Mahogany cake.
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