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For what it's worth, the Aspen Hill bakery that started with an "E" was 
Radford's.  I suddenly remembered.


"Paul Green" <pgreen @ comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> Who makes a decent chocolate cake (with good chocolate icing) here in
> Northern Montgomery County? There used to be a fine, old-style bakery in
> Aspen Hill (not all that Northern, but doable), but it is long gone. I am
> tired of mediocre grocery store cakes, with their Crisco icing. I am 
> shocked
> and horrified by some of the fancier bakeries, with their pretty cakes 
> that
> taste as if they were made from sawdust. Someone once told me that the 
> Giant
> Gourmet makes a decent cake, but that was back when there actually was a
> local grocery chain called "Giant" that actually baked its own stuff. Will 
> I
> have to bake my own? What is a chocolate cake lover to do?
>
> [While I know that most of this board's traffic has migrated to Chowhound,
> hope springs eternal.]
>
> And if I may wax nostalgic for a second, I well recall walking into one of
> those old-style bakeries as a kid and almost going crazy over the 
> wonderful
> aromas.  The Aspen Hill bakery (I can't even remember the name, except 
> that
> I think it may have started with an "E"--it was next to the hardware store
> that no longer exists) was one of those.  I suppose the other question is
> will I do better just buying a cake mix, and whipping up some good icing
> (even Alton Brown concedes that it is hard to do better than a good mix
> cake)?
>
> Paul
>
>