Last-Minute Bakes: Sherry Poppy Seed Cake - No. 257

And a tribute to Rosalynn Carter

Sherry Poppy Seed Cake, recipe below, is one of my eight cakes of Christmas. Or Thanksgiving! Cake photos: Danielle Atkins, from my book, A New Take on Cake.

A COUPLE YEARS BACK I WAS DRIVING through Plains, Georgia, en route to see family in Florida. It’s not the most direct path from Nashville, but allows me to stop in Birmingham and then in Tuskegee, …