Erin Bakes Cake: Recipes and Techniques for Building Better Cakes from the Inside Out

By Erin Gardner

Book Overview

"You have not eaten cake until you have eaten one of Erin's...ERIN BAKES CAKE is a must on your shelf." --Daphne Oz

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623368367
• ISBN13: 9781623368364
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.1" x 10.3"