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Delicious apple cake stands the test of time

Sylvia Carter

Sylvia Carter Sylvia Carter

Carter writes a food column for Newsday.

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Bebe Calobrisi Barbella of Muttontown sent me her apple cake recipe last month, and a story.

We met in 2003, when she made her mother's chocolate-dipped butter cookies for a Christmas cookie story. Her cookies were a remembrance of her mother, Giuliana Calobrisi of Muttowntown, who had died two years before.

Back then, Barbella promised me a "fantastic" apple cake recipe by the fall...

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