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Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor :: 0761122710
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The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate! Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession. It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras-including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder-a baker at any level of experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Not to mention sheet cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes and muffins, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and bars. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
The recipes in Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor are every bit as simple, tasty, and impressive as those in Byrn's first book. Chocolate lovers will be in absolute heaven; don't skip Kathy's Chocolate Chip Cake...it's incredibly moist and rich and delicious! A must have in every baker's cookbook library.
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Author: Guest
Absolutely love trying the new cake recipes. So far my family has enjoyed them all. This is a cake baker's dream come true. Highly recommend.
Cris P
New York
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Author: Guest
I've never been much of a cook -- I once left the eggs out of that traditional teenaged girl staple, chocolate chip cookies, and wondered why they came out so runny and weird until I saw the egg carton still sitting on the counter, untouched. I have made food that's so terrible that even my boyfriend won't touch it for all his love for me. But even though I'm a horrible cook, when the boyfriend and I have our friends over, I'm seized with the Urge To Produce Baked Goods.
Before, those baked goods were always a dish of brownies-from-a-box. My audience was usually appreciative, even when they came out hard as rocks, but making brownies-from-a-box every week gets dull. I tried expiramenting with the mix to liven it up, but that was a raging disaster. So when I got a bookstore gift certificate for my birthday last year, I picked up this book along with her first book. Since then, I have made a lot of the cakes from both of these books, and every single one of them has turned out beyond my wildest expectations. I just made up a batch of the 'Easy Chocolate Poke Cake', the one with gooey caramel ice cream topping in the middle, and my friends devoured every bit and almost came to fighting over the last piece! The chocolate mousse trifle has made steely-willed dieters break their diets! (Did I mention that I actually made chocolate mousse? And it tasted like chocolate mousse?)
Everyone who has tasted recipes that I made from this book thinks I'm a cooking goddess, and I'm enjoying the attention too much to set them straight ;)
The only complaint I have, and the only reason this book gets four stars, is that a good number of the recipes are "off limits" to me because I'm allergic to milk. I wish that she would have included more milk-free recipes, or recommended good substitutions.
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Author: Guest
I am definitely a fan of cooking things from scratch, but this but does away with that necessity!! If you're ever in a pinch for a desert, this book give you endless speedy recipes that will literally have everyone asking you for the recipe!! Her decadent frosting recipes are a must for finishing off these yummy cakes. My copy of this book has many chocolatey pages stuck together! A must have for all kitchens!
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Author: Guest
Boy, I still don't understand all the hoopla about these cake mix books. I purchased the first one in hopes of finding some new technique. What I found were chemical tasting cakes of rather poor texture and adaptability. They also cost more than baking from scratch. After buying the mix, the pudding, and all the other things (that are in a homemade cake anyhow!) these things get expensive. I am a baker. I'm not against shortcuts, but there are certainly a lot of basic cake books out there that can take the pressure off of baking. If you really think about it, if you learn to make one good pound cake, a chocolate layer cake, a vanilla flavored cake and one specialty item, that's about all you need. I would recommend you look at other books before trying this stuff. Give yourself a chance to taste real bakery - no chemicals to make the shelf life longer than the new millenium. Take a look at Cook's Illustrated Baking Book - just released. You will find tons of hints and they walk you through each step. And the end product will REALLY wow your audience.
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