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marble cake at helfer's pastries & deli cafe Credit: carmen troesser

The marble cake with fudge frosting from Helfer’s Pastries & Deli Cafe is a nostalgia trip to simpler times. The chocolate and vanilla zebra-striped cake has a light, soft crumb and delivers that best-of-both-worlds flavor, topped with an entirely unfussy, dense, sweet fudge frosting. It’s not avant-garde baking, but it will remind you how good a sheet cake can be. 

Helfer’s Pastries & Deli Cafe, 380 St. Ferdinand St., Florissant, 314.837.6050, helferspastries.com

Meera Nagarajan is art director at Sauce Magazine. 

This article appears in April 2019.

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Meera began working at Sauce in 2008 and is responsible for the design of Sauce Magazine. She has a masters in journalism with an emphasis in magazine design from Mizzou and she has a habit of hoarding...