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For 20 years, Ann Taylor Pittman built a career of creating healthy recipes at Cooking Light magazine ... when you enjoy your New Year's bowl of rice cake soup, your age increases by one year.

These are 8 of my favorite loaf cake recipes, the ones I come back to again and again. This moist and tender Vanilla Loaf ...