Holiday Entertaining

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I'm bringing dessert to a party celebrating Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year (both holidays fall on Feb. 14 this year) and have been practicing making this lovely, raspberry-filled cake with coconut-vanilla icing. The verdict? Definitely yummy, but four-layer cakes are way too complicated. Here's how to do it with only two:

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Red velvet macarons with cinnamon buttercream filling from Delectable Deliciousness are too adorable to eat!

Who am I kidding? I would totally eat them—way too many of them, in fact!

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