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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780761117193
ISBN: 0761117199
Label: Workman Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 1999-11
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 1493
Studio: Workman Publishing Company
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Product 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 transformthe 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.
Amazon.com Review:
Cake mixes are undoubtedly convenient, but do they produce good cakes?They can, says Anne Byrn, author of The Cake Mix Doctor, if you knowhow totweak them. Doing this involves the addition of ingredients to enrich themixes and flavorings to enhance and, in some cases, conceal questionabletastes.To prove her point, Byrn offers more than 175 recipes for mix-based cakes andother desserts, including formulas for frostings that, Byrn maintains, mustbe made from scratch. The results are convincing; readers interested in satisfying, dependable desserts prepared quickly and with little fussshould welcome the book.
Beginning with a useful discussion of cake mixes, their history and composition, and an outline of the mix-transformation battle plan, thebook then presents the recipes in chapters such as 'Chocolate Cakes,''Cake-Mix Classics,' 'Special Occasion Cakes,' and 'Incredible Bars and ComfortingCookies.' Among the most successful offerings are Deeply Chocolate AlmondCakewith Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting, Banana Cake with Quick CaramelFrosting, and Lemon Buttermilk Poppy Seed Cake. A chapter devoted tocrumbles,crisps, cobblers, trifles, and even a dessert pizza shows how to use themixesin innovative ways, and 'Lighter Cakes' presents 'healthier' offerings,such asPear and Toasted Pecan Buttermilk Cake. With sidebars such as The LegendaryPillsbury Bake-Off and tips for success throughout ('Cinnamon is oneof the great tools to use when doctoring up cake mixes,' begins one), thebookexplores every aspect of cake-mix fixing while revealing the unexpectedrichness that the process can yield. --Arthur Boehm
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Cakes!
I have already made 3 of the cakes featured in the book for various organizations I belong to.All of them have received rave reviews.The recipes are very easy to follow and delicious to boot!
Rating: - Cake Doctor above and beyond
The Cake Doctor above and beyond expectations.The receipes are easy and delicious.It is more than worth the price.
Rating: - Great Book to Use and Share
My Aunt introduced me to this great cookbook.I promptly went out and bought myself one.It has such a variety of recipes/icings/cookies to choose from and so far everything I've tried has been great!!I like the book so well that I've bought one for several members of my family to give as Christmas presents this year.
Rating: - Cake Mix Doctor
Book came quickly, days before it was promised.Condition excellent as advertised.Great book for first time bakers, recipes easy.I would buy from this seller again
Rating: - cake mix doctor cookbook A+++
No one can believe I use cake mixes when they eat the cakes I make from this cookbook. As a mother of 3 little ones I am always needing to make cakes, but never have the time to make them from scratch. Who needs to use scratch when it tastes like scratch with this book? I have given this book to so many of my friends because I love it so much.
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