As usual, I was running around my kitchen at the last minute, still needing to make frosting and slather it on the cake before leaving for the potluck. I needed a stick of butter, a block of cream ...

If someone had told me that the key to frosting the perfect cake was half a dozen huge ice cream scoopfuls of buttercream, I might have been more interested in baking. Who am I kidding? I just would ...

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