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Little Homemade Cake
My mom has been making this cake as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, she had a huge garden. She grew enough food to feed us all summer, can or freeze enough for all winter and still had enough left over to sell to make a little extra money. One of the items she grew in huge amounts was strawberries. We loved them, and ate them all kinds of ways, but one of our favorite ways was mashed and spooned over the top of her little homemade cake. It is a smaller recipe that mom always made in a square pan. We liked it best warm…
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Strawberry Pineapple Trifle
I used to make a punch bowl cake when we were first married, everyone loved it especially my husband. Well somewhere over the years, the recipe disappeared and I have not been able to find it again. I have tried a bunch of recipes over the years but none are the same. They are usually very good, though none are the same. I pulled several elements from different ones over the years and this strawberry pineapple trifle was so good, that it was already gone when I got to the dessert table. People were asking for the recipe and scraping the bowl to get a little taste. I got a…