Bake from Scratch

GRASSHOPPER DRIP CAKE

When I was growing up, no one in my home made from-scratch sweets. I celebrated every birthday with a Baskin-Robbins mint chocolate chip ice cream cake, and my brother and I happily ate packaged treats from the grocery store. When we visited my grandmother’s house, though, she had freshly baked goods on offer from the moment we arrived until we departed with wax paper-wrapped chocolate chip cookies and challah in tow.

Of all the treats my grandmother baked for us in her tiny galley kitchen, it was her chocolate sheet cake that I loved the most. Served with a dusting of confectioners’ sugar,

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