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CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEES
CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEESE E

POUND CAKE E
POUND CAK

aybe I should call this future! Should I add that this cake
the “Chocolate Mailbox is best served warm, or at summer-

Masterpiece.” When my morning mailbox temperature?
friend Kathy Sellers was testing

recipes for me, she would drive by
early in the morning and place slices

of the ones that she gave thumbs-

up to in my mailbox. What a treat it
was to hurry down to the mailbox SERVES: 16
PREPARATION TIME: 8 MINUTES
those July mornings to see if a sam-
BAKING TIME: 58 TO 62 MINUTES
ple had arrived. Oh yes, I know it’s

against the law to place anything
Vegetable oil spray for misting the pan
but mail in the box, but I am sure Flour for dusting the pan

that if the mail carrier had come 1 package (18.25 ounces) plain butter
recipe fudge cake mix
earlier than his usual time, he might
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese,
have forgiven the plate of warm, at room temperature

moist, cream-cheese-laden choco- 1 ⁄2 cup water
1 ⁄2 cup vegetable oil
late pound cake. Or more likely, he
1 ⁄4 cup sugar
might have helped himself to a slice
4 large eggs
and rescheduled his route for the 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract