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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

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Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

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Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

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Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Elizabeth Foss

Elizabeth Foss
Elizabeth Foss, an award winning columnist for the Arlington Catholic Herald, published her first book, Real Learning: Education in the Heart of My Home in 2003. The book is now in its third printing. Her popular blog, In the Heart of My Home is a source of inspiration and support for Catholic women …
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Carmen Miranda Cake

Says You: wonderfully awful or awfully wonderful?

I can’t decide if this cake plate is a really fun something I would love to have…

...or an abomination unto my soul.

It’s actually part of a three-tiered set, which you can see here. (Below the main image.)

What say you?


Comments

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No contest: it’s wonderful! I found it for cheaper in the Solutions catalog, though. I will top it with my husband’s favorite: fruitcake.

 

Oh my. I think I can safely say that I do not have the personality to pull off that plate. But if one does….one should.

 

I LOVE IT. GET IT!!!!!!!!!That plate is all kinds of fabulous!

 

It looks like tons of fun, but as someone who takes her cake very seriously, I think for presentation value, the plate should enhance, not detract. As a focal point and conversation starter, go for it. It will definitely get people talking!

 

BTW… your post title had me hoping you were posting the recipe for some kind of fruit cake alternative with bananas and pineapple.

 

I have to go with just plain AWFUL!!! It doesn’t work for me in any way.
But hey, if you like it ....... go for it.

 

Personally, I think it is hideous, but to each their own.

 

Not for me but my MIL would probably love it !

 

Here’s my take on it: taken seriously, the cake plate is an abomination.  Taken as a joke and presented with a flourish for the amusement of your guests, it’s fabulous.

It’s all about attitude, right? smile

 

You’d have to make your cake to go with your cake plate.

 

I wouldn’t use it Thanksgiving or Christmas or a baby shower but for a fun 40th birthday, or Bunco or just because…I think it is wonderful!!

 

I would have to go with AWFUL for me, but if someone else likes it than good for them.

 

Oh, boy.  I think it is hideous.  Unfortunately, I will be giving it’s companion teapot to my sister-in-law for Christmas.  I have no idea if she will like it.  My mother-in-law offered to pick up something for Christmas for me to give her daughter.  I was (and am) very grateful that she is so generous and thoughtful to help me.  I just don’t know if her daughter will like the gift and it will have my name on it! 

Jen in OK

 

It put a smile on my face and I’m sure it will make people stop at the dessert!!

 

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