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Chocolate Truffle Box Cake

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Combining cake and chocolate truffles, this is the ultimate Valentine's Day dessert. The Chocolate Truffle Box Cake has a Bourbon vanilla cheesecake with a macadamia nut crust at its center and is surrounded by a white and dark chocolate box. Not just for decoration, the box lid actually comes off to reveal a layer of large chocolate truffles arranged in white chocolate "tissue paper." You have to eat or remove the truffles before getting to the cheesecake, which should not be too much of a sacrifice for a chocolate-lover, and you are unlikely to find a more well-presented cake anywhere. Price: $180.

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Autumn Harvest Cake

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

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If you're not planning on making the dessert for a holiday party or for Thanksgiving dinner, it's better to go all-out and get a top of the line cake than to buy a less-than-average supermarket pie and try to pass it off as your own. This Autumn Harvest Cake qualifies as over-the-top. Inside the white chocolate Limoges-style box, which has been topped with elegant grapes, leaves, a kumquat and two chocolate truffle pears, there is a Bourbon vanilla cheesecake with a macadamia nut crust. The cake is elegant and the combination of flavors is wonderfully decadent. The oval cake weighs 5.3 pounds and you'll probably get more than the recommended 8-10 servings from It, especially since people are usually fairly full following the main course of a holiday dinner. Price:$150.

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Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

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You can buy all the pumpkin-shaped pans that you want and spend all day in the kitchen, but the odds are good that no matter how much time you put into it, you will have difficulty getting a cake to come out as perfectly as the this Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake. We know we would, which is probably why we like this one so much. The 3-pound, handmade cake is entirely edible, including the realistically twisted stem. The cheesecake beneath the white-chocolate "skin" is swirled with an addictive pumpkin hazelnut toffee crunch and has a crispy cookie crust. With some judicious cutting, you'll probably get about 10 servings from this cake, making it a good choice for Thanksgiving, as well as for Halloween. Price: $100.