Slice-O-Life cakes.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Cool Colorado Stuff - Slice-O-Life's fruitcakes and peach-cakes have a loyal following - Brief Article

In the 1970s, Mary Lincoln would take orders from her neighbors and bake delicacies of all descriptions on a big stove in her Palisade backyard. By 1978, she'd outgrown the backyard, leading her and her cabinetmaker husband Tim to set up shop in a former movie theater in downtown Palisade. Dubbed the Slice-O-Life Bakery, the place soon earned a reputation for making some of the best cookies, breads, and cakes around. Slice-O-Life's fruitcakes and peach-cakes have a loyal following, thanks to the abundance of fruit in Palisade and Mary's time-tested recipes. "They're not the fruitcakes you're used to," said Curt Lincoln, Tim and Mary's son and manager of Slice-O-Life's...