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Learn how to bake easy but elaborately decorated cakes—no fondant needed!
Erin Gardner’s cake recipes share a delicious, time-saving secret: they're all the same. Why play the guessing game of sifting through dozens of recipes when all you need are just a few that contain hundreds of variations—572, to be exact! The cakequations in Erin Bakes Cake teach you how to combine her cake, buttercream, cookie, and candy recipes in endless mouth-watering ways. Erin’s cake recipes aren’t sorcery—they’re science. They all share similar ratios of ingredients that add tenderness, strength, or flavor. You don’t have to be an expert. Everyone can learn to make a great cake!
Erin Bakes Cake provides the building blocks for constructing a great cake, and then offers endless ways those blocks can be reassembled. Erin shares the baking tips she learned as a professional pastry chef and wedding cake baker, what tools to use, how to perfect the cake’s finish, and other tricks of the baking trade. She then shows you how to make gorgeous and intricately decorated cakes by elevating simple, but delicious, ingredients like candy, cookies, and chocolate. Erin’s created cake designs that are festive, chic, and easy to recreate at home without the use of hard-to-deal-with fondant.
And best of all, you can make every recipe your own! The Any Veggie Cake cake can be transformed into a classic carrot cake, zucchini cake, or sweet potato cake. A creamy cake filling isn’t limited to buttercream with the inclusion of recipes for caramel, ganache, marshmallow, and more. A chocolate birthday cake recipe can be reimagined as red velvet or chocolate toffee. Elements of crunch, like peanut brittle, honeycomb candy, or even cookie crumbles, can be sprinkled onto your cake layers for tasty added texture.
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Creators
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Release date
September 5, 2017 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781623368371
- File size: 94334 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781623368371
- File size: 88569 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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January 1, 2018
Gardner, creator of ErinBakes.com, is a pastry chef and cooking instructor known for her whimsical cakes. Providing an overview of cake-making ingredients and techniques, she then offers mix-and-match recipes for cakes, frostings, fillings, and finishes. Several chapters are dedicated to "cake projects," each of which functions as a detailed decorating guide. Gardner demonstrates how to work with a variety of fondant-free decorations, including candies, cookie doughs, and chocolate. Among her many projects are such eye-catching treats as sweet bouquet cake, unicorn carousel cake, and pop-art heart cake. VERDICT Versatile and instructive, this cheerful cake book will unleash readers' creativity.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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