We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Classic southern desserts never really go away; they just ebb and flow in popularity. But one curious cake is so antithetical to today's quick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scripture Cake was especially popular in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century, where it was used as a 2-in-1 tool to teach ...

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I don’t know if you have ever heard of a “Scripture Cake” — also known as “Bible Cake” or “Old Testament Cake.” Scripture cake was a very popular dessert in the South in the latter part of the ...

A recipe titled “Scripture Cake for Birthday Party” was just too intriguing to pass up. When I described it to one colleague, his first thought was, “Like the ten plagues of Egypt?” This recipe was ...

Picture, if you will, the queen bee cake, a beautiful chocolate and gold pastry topped with tiny marzipan bees flitting over angel-hair pasta. Or a nostalgia cake covered in crystallized white lilac ...

Spoons and bowls and baking pans and ... a Bible? Most modern bakers probably don't associate the Good Book with pulling together a batch of their favorite treats, but during the late 1800s, some ...