Book Description
The Cake Mix Doctor is in! And the prescription is
simple: By doctoring up packaged cake mix with just the right
extras--a touch of sweet butter here, cocoa powder there, or
poppy seeds, vanilla yogurt, sherry, eggs, and grated lemon
zest for the Charleston Poppy Seed Cake--even the least
experienced baker can turn out luscious signature desserts,
time after time. The proof is in the taste, and the taste
never stops--from Toasted Coconut Sour Cream Cake to
Devilishly Good Chocolate Cake; from a to-die-for Caramel
Cake and a Holiday Yule Log to cheesecakes, coffee cakes,
sheet cakes, pound cakes, bars, brownies, and those
all-important frostings, here are 175 fast, foolproof recipes
that will transform the art of home baking in America.
Who could believe these cakes came out of a box? Moist,
tender, rich, deep, and complexly flavored, without a hint of
artificiality, each cake stand up and delivers. But without
any of the fuss of baking from scratch. Anne Byrn, an
award-wining food writer and self-described purist, creates
recipes that employ a cake mix's strengths---convenience,
ease-of-use, dependability, and almost imperviousness to
overbeating, underbeating, overbaking, and underbaking.
In addition to the recipes are the Cake Mix Doctor's
Q&A's, extensive "Doctor Says" tips, lists--15
Beautiful Birthday Cakes, 15 Cakes That Will Cash in at a
Bake Sale--and more, all illustrated in a full-color
photographic insert.
