My mom didn't do much baking from scratch (although we always got cake mix yellow cake for our birthdays, covered in whipped cream and fruit!) but she did (and still does!) make really delicious baked Chinese sticky rice cakes. Mostly on holidays, but man, there is nothing like a warm, stretchy, coconutty sticky rice cake. And now, I make it too! The cake is delicious, but the tradition is even better.

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