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Title: Don't bother if you have her first book!
Review: On the hunch that this book would probably have a lot of reruns from the first book, I took it out of the library rather than buying it. And I was right -- there are a lot of exact repeats, plus a lot of repeats with chocolate or cocoa added (or using a chocolate cake mix instead of the original yellow, white, spice, etc). In some instances the recipes don't sound very appetizing -- I mean, Chocolate Pumpkin Cake? Chocolate Spice Cake?For me, there are more than enough chocolate recipes in the first book. Frankly, I wish she would do a lower-fat book. But probably the cakes would taste even more like cake mix if they weren't loaded up with extra butter, chocolate, sour cream, etc.However, I did try the "Darn Good Chocolate Cake" with low-fat sour cream and no chocolate chips, and it still turned out very well. (I did use the full amount of eggs and oil.)
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