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  • In these few lines are several gross errors: (1) cream-tarts should be _cheese-cakes_; (2) the charge was "that he made cheese-cakes

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

  • One of my cookie ladies made these darling mini cheese-cakes in pastry with cherry topping.

    The Christmas Cookie Cookbook Ann Pearlman 2010

  • The Cream cheese frosting is greta for cheese-cakes, cupcakes or smaller desserts, while the Royal icing is preferred for decorating cookies.

    5 Basic Frosting Recipes 2008

  • The Cream cheese frosting is greta for cheese-cakes, cupcakes or smaller desserts, while the Royal icing is preferred for decorating cookies.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • “Hey! bourgeois, may I offer you a glass of Alicante and some cheese-cakes?” said Georges to the count.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • “Eight francs for Alicante and the cheese-cakes; forty sous for cigars; and his breakfast will cost him —”

    A Start in Life 2007

  • Oscar, anxious to play the man, swallowed the second glass of wine, and ate three more cheese-cakes.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • They were now entering Saint – Denis, and Pierrotin presently drew up before the door of a tavern where were sold the famous cheese-cakes of that place.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • Accordingly, he now posed as a great personage; paid for their cheese-cakes, and ordered for each a glass of Alicante.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • “I think I would have cheese-cakes,” says Charley, sighing, as his teeth closed on a large slice, “and the gentleman whom Mr. Johnson was with,” continues Charley, with his mouth quite full, “was Mr. Richardson who wrote — —”

    The Virginians 2006

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