Recipe

Mystery Cake

Considered an easy to make spice cake with an unusal ingrediant to help make it moist: tomato soup.

Ingredients:

For the Frosting (Optional)

Instructions:


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Recipe Websites

New York Times Cooking Section

The site I used to find the mystery cake. Very efficiently spaced so there is minimal scrolling, all relevant information is easy to find, and reviews and recommendations have various categories based on usefulness.

AllRecipes.com

Allows for the ingredients list to have a serving number inserted so it can automatically adjust, and there is a box next to each ingredient for you to checkmark while shopping. The site also allows anyone to share whatever recipes they find.

KingArthurBaking.com

Though interactions are quite simple, the layout and design of the website--and especially the recipes--are extremely elegant and an excellent example of hierarchy with typography. Also provides a "Baker's Hotline" that allows you to chat with a professional baker for advice, as well as a list of helpful guides to read yourself.


Non-Recipe Websites

DeviantArt.com

A site mainly for sharing artworks, the front page provides a large selection of some of the latest and most popular artworks. The text is small and unobtrusive, with a simple font to be easily visible. Mousing over artwork gives you the name of the artist.

MixBook.com

Text put in a lot of different places, but doesn't come across as too cluttered. Prompted to get started at the beginning, and if you don't you can scroll through to get an introduction to the product before being prompted to get started again. Good flow.

BoostedUSA

Has similar strengths to MixBook, though one thing that caught my attention was the transformation of images as the mouse scrolled over them. Adds more dynamic movement to the interaction.