A cupcake to share

June 10, 2009 12:55 PM PT

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A reader, Phyllis Mael, wrote to add to our cupcake knowledge by showing us how her granddaughter celebrated her graduation from the University of Maryland. The cake is from Leslie Goldman-Poyourow of Fancy Cakes by Leslie in Bethesda, Md.

-- Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

A cupcake to share

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