PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Griffin, 10/2/2018PURCHASE: link
MY GRADE: ?
FROM PUBLISHER: The ever-popular queen of desserts takes center stage in Food Network star Addie Gundry's cake cookbook, from trendy poke cakes to old-fashioned icebox cakes to swoon-worthy layered cakes.
From birthdays to holidays to Tuesdays, there’s always room for cake. Family and friends marvel at impressive tiered cakes while adorable individual mug cakes satisfy late-night cravings.
This cookbook features recipes for coffee cakes like Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake to timeless classics reinvented like Carrot Cake Poke Cake to quick and easy favorites like Slow Cooker Chocolate Lava Cake. Each recipe is paired with a four-color, full-bleed photo.
Catagories: Coffee Cakes, Bundt Cakes and Pound Cakes, Old-Fashioned Cakes, Everyday Cakes, Dump Cakes, Poke Cakes, and Mug Cakes, Special-Occasion Cakes.
THINGS I'VE BAKED
CHOCOLATE OREO CAKE
This cake is supposed to have crushed Oreo cookies stirred into canned vanilla frosting. I made half the cake in a 9" x 1.5" round pan and made my own frosting and omitted the Oreos. The cake is made with vegetable oil and you add boiling water to the batter at the very end. It's incredibly moist and a little sticky. I omitted one tablespoon of cocoa powder because I was scared it was too much.
I cooked it at a higher temperature than stated, 350 degrees F, instead of 300, for 23 minutes. It's a good cake but not the best homemade one I've ever had. It's very similar in taste to a boxed Devil's Food one but something's a little off with the flavor.
APPLE CRUMB CAKE
This 8" cake has a layer of cinnamon crumb mixture layered between the batter and uses a total of 1.5 sticks (3/4 c./6 oz.) of butter! I added the chopped apple to the batter instead of layering it with the crumbs in the middle. I only used a tiny bit of the crumb mixture on top of the batter since I don't really like or understand hard crumbs on top of a moist cake. The cake has sour cream in it and just 4 tablespoons of butter.
The cake is dense, which I don't like, and I don't care for the crumb mixture either. Too much brown sugar's in it and not enough cinnamon.
The cake is dense, which I don't like, and I don't care for the crumb mixture either. Too much brown sugar's in it and not enough cinnamon.
I made my own glaze for this since the one in the book didn't suit me.
MY THOUGHTS: There's a good variety of recipes in here. There are six chocolate cake recipes, three of which are almost identical, multiple lemon cake recipes, a couple with apple and apple sauce, and plenty more. I'm disappointed there's not a basic white cake recipe that I could have added maraschino or dried cherries to.
I'm only partially happy with one of the two cakes I made. I don't mind cake mix recipes being in here but I don't like them being mixed in with the homemade cakes. They should be in their own chapter.
Since I've only baked two cakes from this book of many I'm not comfortable with giving it a grade/rating.
I received this from publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Since I've only baked two cakes from this book of many I'm not comfortable with giving it a grade/rating.
I received this from publisher in exchange for an honest review.
