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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780761122715
ISBN: 0761122710
Label: Workman Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: October 01, 2001
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 83257
Studio: Workman Publishing Company
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Product Description:
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.
Amazon.com Review:
Ann Byrn is on to something. Her first book, The Cake Mix Doctor, showed readers how to tweak store-bought cake mixes to produce 'like-homemade' treats. The sequel, Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor repeats Byrn's foolproof approach, focusing solely on chocolate. The strategy? Begin with commercial mixes like chocolate cake, devil's food, and chocolate brownie; alter them with ingredients that add flavor, such as cocoa powder, or richness and moistness, like sour cream; use homemade frostings (supermarket versions won't cut it); and you're in business. 'My mission,' says Byrn, 'is to help busy cooks find the time to bake even when company is not coming.' If her sweets lack true homemade quality, they nonetheless produce entirely creditable desserts most bakers, and those they feed, will applaud.
Beginning with a blueprint for mix-doctoring success, which includes information on pantry essentials and a useful chocolate primer, the book then presents over 150 easy recipes for a full range of chocolate layer, pound, sheet, angel food, and chiffon cakes, as well as muffins, cookies, brownies, and more. Among these, readers will surely want to try Triple Decker Raspberry Chocolate Cake, White Chocolate Peach Cake, Frozen Chocolate Neapolitan Cake, and Jessica's Caramel Chocolate Brownies. Besides more basic finishes, the frosting chapter offers recipes for the likes of Crushed Peppermint Buttercream Frosting. An introductory section presents color photos of all the cakes; Byrn also supplies interesting technical information, lore (Nuggets of Chocolate History, for one), and a chocolate cake glossary all bakers can use. --Arthur Boehm
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - This book has paid for itself in ease...and compliments
I purchased both of the Cake Doctor books and I love them.This one...the Chocolate Cake Doctor...is my favorite.I was able to make a Tunnel of Fudge Bundt Cake (page 98), which was the first cake I ever baked when I was younger...but it's no longer sold as a box mix.It was easy and so much fun to revive a favorite.
Then the holidays rolled around and I decided on Debbie's Dazzling Red Velvet Cake (page 88).This was a huge hit!!!It is so beautiful that no one would ever think ... Read More
Rating: - Chocolate Cake Doctor
This is a wonderful cookbook. Very easy recipes, with items that are easy to find. Cupcakes taste great. Perfect for get togethers and to take to work for "treat day"
Rating: - Cake baking made easy
I enjoy baking cakes.This book, and The Cake Doctor have delicious and easy recipes using the box mix.Highly recommended.
Rating: - LOVE IT!
If you have ever had a chocolate cake, the recipe for it is probably in here. Not made from scratch, but from a cake mix, but still just as good. All of the recipes I had tried have been wonderful; and so simple!
Rating:  - Too many repeats/variations counting as new recipes!
I like the cakes made from these cake mix doctor books, but it seems like the author really needed to pad this book out to come up with 150 recipes.The "Moist Chocolate Cake" is the same recipe as the "Perfect Chocolate Cake" except that it calls for one less egg. It is also exactly the same as the "Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes" -- she counts the layer cake version as one recipe and the cupcake version as a separate recipe! Why not just print the basic recipe and all the variations for different ... Read More
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