Last time did an chocolate one with orange marmalade from a USSR cookbook and she didn’t like it :0 did like the marmalade I made tho wasn’t a total loss

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    13 hours ago

    Preppy Kitchen and his videos is how I learned to bake. He has some good cake stuff on there

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    20 hours ago

    Dark chocolate, almond, orange, and an herbal liquer like Strega or Chartreuse or Galliano L’Autentico

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    21 hours ago

    This will sound facetious, but I recommend getting her a cake she likes.

    I don’t know if is too late to ask questions or do sleuthing, but if there was some kind of cake from her past she really liked that she hasn’t had in a long time that might be ideal. Like for my wife that was ice cream cake which isn’t as much a thing anymore as it was in our childhood. For me that is certain recipes my mom made in my childhood.

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      21 hours ago

      Normal ideas are welcome (or even non-cake desserts, if suitable). The chocolate marmalade one was described as “just a normal cake”—which makes sense, a lot of soviet recipes were dope at the time but people are in a totally different food system now lmao. Olivier salad still whips ass though. Mainly bc you can substitute a lot of ingredients, use sauce gribiche, better mustard, chicken, brussel sprouts… Mmmmmmmmm brussels sprouts