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Cake check: A good cake, as I point out frequently, is hard to find. Celebrity makes a decent divinity icing; Highland Park Cafeteria makes good chocolate cake. But Sweet Endings in Deep Ellum (or Plano) takes the cake. Their whole cakes start at $25 and they recently came up with...

By Mary Brown Malouf

August 24, 1995

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Cake check: A good cake, as I point out frequently, is hard to find. Celebrity makes a decent divinity icing; Highland Park Cafeteria makes good chocolate cake. But Sweet Endings in Deep Ellum (or Plano) takes the cake. Their whole cakes start at $25 and they recently came up with a new flavor that makes waiting for dessert a good idea. The perfect summer cake: lime cake filled with lime curd, topped with lime buttercream, and garnished with fresh lime curls.

--Mary Brown Malouf

Sweet Endings, 2901 Elm St., 747-8001, and 1900 Preston Rd., 964-0111.

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