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  baked for this week’s cake day – check out her cheesecake! So you know, this is
  not going to become a culinary blog, but cake day is a good reason to post! Being
  a designer is not (always) a piece of cake.   […]
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23 July 2012

# Cake

[Design](https://ubuntu.com/blog/tag/design)
[design team](https://ubuntu.com/blog/tag/design-team)

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Every weekly team meeting someone is tasked with baking a cake. [Ivanka](http://twitter.com/ivanka) baked for this week’s cake day – check out her [cheesecake](http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3842/baked-raspberry-cheesecake "Recipe")! So you know, this is not going to become a culinary blog, but cake day is a good reason to post! Being a designer is not (always) a piece of cake.

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