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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- No matter how you slice it, the two newest dessert-inspired flavors from Yoplait Light are sure to curb those sweet cravings that can hit after lunch and dinner. Both Yoplait Light Red Velvet Cake and Yoplait Light Thick & Creamy Blueberry Pie - with only 100 calories and 0 g fat per cup - make it easy to side-step familiar decadent treats while keeping calorie counts in check. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100209/NE51554-a ) (Logo:...

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- January is when a bride's thoughts turn to her upcoming wedding in earnest. Better Homes and Gardens magazine and BHG.com are featuring all sorts of basic wedding planning tips, including wedding location tips, budget suggestions, registry tips and thoughts on rehearsal dinners. Knowing that restraining the budget is a big challenge in wedding planning, BHG.com lists 20 smart and easy ideas to get the most for your money. "We think we have all the bases...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- TLC today announced that ULTIMATE CAKE OFF returns to the schedule for its second season, starting February 1, 2010 at 10 PM ET/PT. Joining the series as host is chef, TV personality and author George Duran, bringing expertise and energy to the hit culinary competition series. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091015/TLCLOGO ) Margaret Braun, an acclaimed sugar artist based in New York, and Leigh Grode, owner of Los Angeles' Cake Divas bakery,...

GREENDALE, Wis., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- On Newsstands Now -- Anyone who has a sweet tooth or knows someone who does - which is to say most everyone - will love the December/January 2010 issue of Taste of Home: The best holiday cookies, spectacular prize-winning cakes, homemade marshmallows, caramels, brittle, and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate everywhere - 'tis the season for holiday treats! But the folks at Taste of Home know we cannot live by dessert alone. (Sorry!) So, for those looking...

EDISON, N.J., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pre-heat the oven and have the icing close at hand as Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, and Sandlot Games Corporation, creator of the Cake Mania franchise and the world's leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced that Cake Mania 3 for Nintendo DS(TM) has shipped to retailers nationwide. With more than 100 million PC downloads and 650,000 units sold...

The star of the Food Network's Ace of Cakes drove overnight to Chicago's O'Hare Airport to deliver a birthday dessert to American Airlines' Admirals Club. Celebrity chef Duff Goldman drove all night from Baltimore and arrived Thursday at O'Hare International to hand-deliver the 70-pound cake to mark the 70th anniversary of American Airlines' members-only lounge, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. The edible centerpiece of the cake depicted a Texan napping in a chocolate chair with his...

CANTON, Mass., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Baskin-Robbins, America's favorite neighborhood ice cream shop, today announced the setting of a new Guinness World Record(TM) for the Largest Cheerleading Dance* to the tune of the "Ice Cream and Cake" song by the Buckwheat Boyz. To celebrate the launch of its new Ice Cream and Cake Dance Video Contest, Baskin-Robbins organized the Largest Cheerleading Dance, with Mario Lopez of Extra TV and Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA). The online contest...

ATLANTA, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society, the Official Sponsor of Birthdays, joined forces with The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the world's premier culinary college, to reinvent the birthday cake. Because healthy living is key to creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays, the Society and the CIA challenged CIA's baking and pastry students to create a better-for-you birthday cake. CIA Alumni and star of Food Network's TV's "Ace of Cakes" Chef Duff...

Angela Logan of Teaneck, N.J., says she was able to save her home from foreclosure by reaching her goal of selling 400 homemade apple cakes at $40 each. The Record of Bergan County, N.J., said the actress and mother-of-three received more than 500 orders for her apple cakes as of Tuesday, thanks in part to a Record story that outlined her financial plight to the world. Logan is facing three $2,559.94 mortgage payments and her initial cake sales have helped her raise enough for an initial...

For a select group of U.S. Navy enlistees, learning new skills includes mastering the art of creating rosebuds and otherwise putting the icing on the cake. Many of them get their training from AnnaBelle Eversole, owner of Wine & Cake Hobbies in Norfolk, Va., The Virginian-Pilot reports. At the moment, many of Eversole's students for a three-day crash course in decorating -- a sort of basic training for bakers -- are culinary specialists from the George H.W. Bush, the Navy's newest...