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    Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake

    It only took me six months to try out another recipe, but I think this one was worth the wait.  This recipe was featured in The Oklahoman in the Melba’s Swap Shop column, but I’m not sure when it was originally printed. A reader named Leslie Meloo requested a “good Chocolate Cake recipe” and Melba delivered this Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake.  Like other readers from that era, I was a little concerned that the recipe has you making the icing and cake at the same time. I think of baking as an exact science, and I wasn’t sure how much room for error there would be.  Grandma Jones wrote a quick note at the…