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Cakes are the all-occasion dessert--the center of attention at birthdays, holiday celebrations, and dinner parties, and the most welcome brunch, after-school, or teatime snack. America's Test Kitchen's first all-cake book is the definitive guide to any cake you crave from Classic Pound Cake to enjoy anytime to a stunning and impressive Blueberry Jam Cake with brilliant jam stripes and ombre frosting.
In addition to foolproof recipes are features that make towering 24-layer Hazelnut- Chocolate Crape Cake as approachable as Applesauce Snack Cake. Sidebars include step-by-step photography for cakes with more advanced techniques like piping the ribbons of frosting that help give beautiful Rhubarb Ribbon Cake its name. Our years of test kitchen knowledge on the art and science of baking cakes provide all the tips and tricks you need for executing perfect cakes every time.
The many chefs and editors behind America's Test Kitchen (ATK) once again deliver on their promise to provide bolstering and comprehensive advice to home cooks of all experience levels in their first all-cake cookbook. A detailed and fun-to-read introduction outlines the nitty-gritty on all the potential ingredients and tools and where there's a best brand, ATK shares it as well as the techniques cake bakers will want to have at the ready. From rustic to refined, more than 200 recipes are then divided into 10 categories to fit a range of seasons, occasions, and time limitations, and each is accompanied by a photo. Readers can expect easy-to-follow but exacting guidelines that match the task at hand here this is a baking book, after all along with ATK's trademark interesting explanations as to why, and dry measures in weight as well as volume. An appendix to essential cake components pulls the sure-to-be-most-used cakes, frostings, and fillings from the preceding recipes for a handy quick reference. Overall, a must-have.--Bostrom, Annie Copyright 2018 Booklist