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Decadent cake and grief

Decadent cake and grief

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Sep 02, 2023
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At 56, you'd think a man would own a cake tin. But for the better part of five years, I've championed the sugar-free life. Before that, I was too absorbed in eating cakes to bother baking them.

Yet, here I am, haunted by the siren call of chocolate cake, the Matilda-like kind that oozes waterfalls of chocolate ganache.

This isn't just about the sensory in…

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