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

by Caroline Wright

Overview

Choose a batter, flavor with syrup, add a frosting—it’s magic!

Want something decadent and fudgy? Darkest Chocolate Cake + Caramel Syrup + Malted Milk Chocolate Frosting + crushed candy bars = Candy Bar Cake. Or how about a nutty cake like the Elvis: Peanut Butter Cake + Bacon Syrup + Nutella Frosting, topped with candied bacon. Fit for the king, indeed!

This innovative and remarkably easy way to bake luscious, flavorful cakes is a formula for cake bliss. Cake Magic! is a full-color visual cookbook—photos in the front, recipes in the back—and the first step in every baker’s cake adventure. It includes valuable baking tips, vegan and gluten-free variations, plus how to tweak the recipes to make sheet cakes, Bundt cakes, and cupcakes, too.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761189015
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	07/12/2016
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	130 MB
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About the Author

Caroline Wright, a graduate of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne and recipient of a coveted scholarship from 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 Rachael Ray, Health, and Women’s Day, among others; she is also a field producer for the Cooking Channel. A mentee of renowned cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, and former student and mentee of Anne Willan (founder of La Varenne), Caroline lives with her husband and newborn son in Dallas, TX.

Read an Excerpt

INTRODUCTION

My friends will tell you that I am among the sneakiest of cake bakers. Months before a pal's birthday, I will surreptitiously ply him or her with questions (and often wine) to suss out his or her favorite cake. Later, on the big day, I'll smuggle a freshly baked cake into a crowded bar, tuck one under my arm on the subway, or leave one on a doorstep — whatever it takes to deliver a surprise gift to a wide-eyed friend who only vaguely recalls our conversation from six months earlier.

My sleuthing is born of the belief that there's magic in baking someone a perfect cake, doubly so if it's a new favorite, made even better with an unexpected twist. It is that magic — and the joy of giving a gift in cake form — that I hope to share with you in this book.

What you'll find in these pages are simple, dependable, fun recipes for cakes that are as inspiring to bake as they are to share. Each one begins with an easy, from-scratch mix that forms the foundation of a range of delectable batters, from vanilla to chocolate, citrus to coconut, and everything in between. Pour a simple flavored syrup (the professional baker's secret weapon!) over the still-warm cake layers, add one of a dozen dead-easy frostings, maybe a quick topping or two — and you've got a hundred cake possibilities. The cake's destination is up to you — I've just handed you some great reasons to make the trip.

Cake — even just the promise of it — brings people together. Browse through the pages that follow and get ready to join the legion of cake bakers whose celebrations start in the kitchen. I am so happy to have you here, and hope that you'll find your next favorite cake lurking among these recipes.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION,
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK,
CHAPTER 1 VANILLA CAKES,
CHAPTER 2 CHOCOLATE CAKES,
CHAPTER 3 CITRUS CAKES,
CHAPTER 4 BROWN SUGAR CAKES,
CHAPTER 5 FRUIT + VEGGIE CAKES,
CHAPTER 6 NUTTY CAKES,
CHAPTER 7 COCONUT CAKES,
CHAPTER 8 MOCHA CAKES,
CHAPTER 9 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER,
CHAPTER 10 THE RECIPES,
THE CAKES,
THE SYRUPS,
THE FROSTINGS,
THE EXTRA-SOMETHINGS,
CONVERSION TABLES,
ABOUT THE AUTHOR,

Editorial Reviews

12/21/2015
With the promise of 100 different cake recipes (each based on a batter, a syrup, and a frosting), Wright’s mix-and-match concept has a fun, versatile, anyone-can-do premise. Organized in chapters by flavor (vanilla, chocolate, citrus, etc.), each visual recipe comprises a full-color photo of a cake with a recipe equation below, such as Darkest Chocolate Cake + Spiced Red Wine Syrup + Bittersweet Chocolate Frosting = Chocolate Red Wine. Eight basic cake batters are used as the base, and a range of syrups—including bacon, tea, and vanilla—create variations, along with frostings such as Nutella, malted milk, and salted caramel. Basic baking tips (such as how to cream butter and sugar) and decorating and frosting hints are provided, along with a gluten-free mix and match cake recipe. Baking purists may turn up their spatulas, but this is a kid-friendly title that’s downright fun for adults, too. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"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

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