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Ron

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Reviewed: May 7, 2009

The real problem I had with this cake is that it tasted sweet, but didn't tase like anything else. The brown sugar/butter mixture overwhelms the peaches and the the orange juice and zest in the cake is so sublte as to be nonexistent. Basically, this cake tasted like nothing. Cake rapidly overflowed the pan, but since I had a 9x13 underneath I didn't make too much mess. The problem came when I tried to invert it onto a plate and it fell apart. Still, we thought it smelled great so we tried to eat it anyway despite how it looked and were sorely disappointed.

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queenvalerie

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA

Living In: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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Reviewed: Apr. 1, 2009

Quick, easy, simple dessert. I did sub applesauce for the shortening and reduced the sugar in the cake batter. With all that sweet yummy-ness on top the cake didn't need to be sweet for me. I'm sure I will make this again and will try another reviewers idea of adding some vanilla to the cake batter.

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Michelle

Cooking Level: Intermediate

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Reviewed: Jan. 5, 2009

This is a VERY sweet cake. Toothachingly sweet. Would cut back on both sugars next time around though am not sure how much the texture would be affected. Used 1 1/2 cups flour since I read the recipe wrong and 1/4cup of that was bread flour because I ran out of cake flour -- how much that changed the texture from the original recipe, I don't know. But it was a very moist, cottony soft yet dense cake, very good. Baked it in an 8in round pyrex deep dish, it was a lot of batter, though it shrank to a regular 8" layer when cooled a bit. Also added vanilla extract, unsweetened coconut flakes, and omitted cherries.

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bopomofo

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Reviewed: Apr. 16, 2008

I didn't have the zest or the orange juice so I used the juice from the can of peaches. The first time I made this, it overflowed all over my oven. I put some tinfoil under the next time and had no problems.

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Jean Marie

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Home Town: North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Living In: Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

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Reviewed: Jan. 16, 2008

I just made it. I replaced shortenning with applesauce to make the recipe fat free. And instead of orange juice added the juice from the peaches can. IT IS GREAT. Thanks.

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