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

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

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    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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      That’s smart, the backup option is to make a new flavor of basque cheesecake. She’s better at those though so I was thinking of something entirely new.

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            Cherry, apple, blueberry, whatever fruit she likes you can probably find a good recipe for a pie that features it. Does she go nuts for pumpkin spice lattes? Pumpkin pie. Insists on keeping bananas in the house? Banana cream pie. Or maybe she just loves oreos and you can get a store bought oreo pie. Just make it clear that you know her and have been paying attention to what she likes and she’ll enjoy what you make/buy for her.

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      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