Every Monday the NPR producer of All Things Considered ( a.k.a. the Cake Lady) brings a cake to the office for her colleagues to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share—and more than 50 recipes, including ones for brown sugar pound cake, peppermint and chocolate rum marble cake, lord and lady baltimore cakes, dark-chocolate red velvet cake, and honey butter cream and apricot jam cake. This is an essential addition to every baker's library.

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