Cake Magic!

Rating

The key to the cakes' ease is the homemade Mix Match Baking Mix-the foundation of every cake in the book. From there it's just a matter of mixing and matching the batters, flavouring syrups (the secret step that makes these cake recipes so versatile), frostings, and, sometimes, toppings to create unique cakes. Want something decadent and fudgy? Darkest Chocolate Cake Milky Caramel Syrup Malted Milk Chocolate Frosting crushed candy bars = Candy Bar Cake. Swap in Bourbon Syrup Cream Cheese Frosting, and you have the grown-up Drunken Tuxedo Cake. There's nothing vanilla about these vanilla cakes (Cookies Cream Cake, Caramel-Pineapple Upside-Down Layer Cake); summery citrus cakes (Basil Lemon Cream Cake, Arnold Palmer Cake); ethereal coconut cakes; and nutty cakes like the Elvis-Peanut Butter Cake Bacon Syrup Nutella Frosting, topped with candied bacon. Fit for the King, indeed. Includes valuable baking tips, vegan and gluten-free variations, plus how to tweak the recipes to make sheet cakes, Bundt cakes, and cupcakes.ting and you've got the decidedly grown up Drunken Tuxedo Cake.

Promotional Information

A totally unique and super simple way to make 100 delicious and original cakes by mixing and matching just a handful of batters, frostings, syrups and toppings. lt's Chose Your Own Cake Adventure!

About the Author

Caroline Wright, a graduate of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne and recipient of a coveted scholarship, Les Dames d'Escoffier, is a former food editor at Martha Stewart's Everyday Food. Currently she's a freelance food editorial professional/dynamo who wears many toques: she works as a recipe developer and tester, food stylist and photographer, and food writer and editor for Oxmoor House, Cooking Light, Real Simple, Every Day with Rachae Health and Women's Day, among others; she is also a field producer for the Cooking Channel. A mentee of renowne cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, and former student and mentee of Anne Willan (founder of La Varenne), Caroline with her husband and newborn son in Dallas, TX.

Reviews

"One of the most user-friendly baking books out there. Here's why: each of the 8 basic cakes starts with the same Cake Magic! Cake Mix (there's a gluten-free version, too)." --MyRecipes.com "I don't think I've ever seen a cake book that is so inventive, so easy and written by a chef that understands the needs of us home bakers" --David Venable, QVC