We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).

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Peggy Paul, who is married to son Ron, contributed a recipe for Oreo Cake, which is made with Oreo cookies, instant chocolate pudding, cream cheese and Cool Whip.

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