Cake Magic!: Mix & Match Your Way to 100 Amazing Combinations

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A gifty, gorgeously photographed cookbook thats equal parts inspiration and utility, featuring 100 cake equations from mixing and matching a select assortment of batters, flavoring syrups, frostings, and toppings. Want something decadent and fudgy Combine Darkest Chocolate Cake with Caramel Syrup, Malted Milk Chocolate Frosting, and candy bars. BamCandy Bar Cake! Care for your chocolate on the more sophisticated side Simply swap in Bourbo Syrup and Sour Cream Frosting, and youve got the decidedly grown-up Drunken Tuxedo Cake.

With simple visual prep instructions for each cake combo, plus recipes for the components needed to make them: 8 batter (and the homemade cake mix thats the foundation of each - plus gluten-free and vegan mix variations), 10 frosting syrups, and 10 toppings. Includes basic techniques and tips for layer cake baking, assembly, and frosting, plus information on how to tweak the recipes to make sheet cakes, Bundt cakes, and cupcakes, too.

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 dont think Ive 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

Author Bio

Caroline Wright, a graduate of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne and recipient of a coveted scholarship, Les Dames dEscoffier, is a former food editor at Martha Stewarts Everyday Food. Currently shes 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 Womens 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.