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The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Picture book about a girl trying to make magical cheesecake like her grandma did. [s]

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Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5384 comments I remember almost everything about this book. This girl's grandma kept lots of notebooks, some about poetry, some about crime. The girl inherits them and reads them all the time. For her mother's birthday, her mother wants the special cheesecake that only Grandma could make. The girl is determined to make it. She finds the recipe and makes the cake, and it's so good that some angels come down to try it. The girl's father gives his wife a terrycloth bathrobe. Oh, and they have these awful relatives who come over.
I read this...geez, must have been ten years ago or more. The title was a lot of nonsense words and then "cheesecake." It was also the name of the recipe for the cake.
Thanks in advance.


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Kris | 54949 comments Mod
The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake by Nancy Willard seems to match your description, except it's an angel food cake.


Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5384 comments HOORAY!!! Thank you! I can't wait to read it again. How did you find it? Thank you again.


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Kris | 54949 comments Mod
Great! Glad you found your book, Rosa.

After no luck with searches involving cheesecake, I guessed it might be a different kind of cake. I got lucky with a Google search:

site:www.goodreads.com "picture book" "her mother's birthday" cake grandmother


Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5384 comments I don't know what I was thinking with cheesecake. How could it be anything but angel food cake?


Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5384 comments Small correction: it's the girl's great-grandmother, her mother's grandma.


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Rainbowheart | 28670 comments Sounds like this one belongs on the Really Long Titles list!


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