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| CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch | 
 enlarge | Author: Warren Brown
Creator: Renee Comet
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
Buy New: $16.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 10399
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1584796626
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9781584796626
ASIN: 1584796626
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW BOOK
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Product Description
Warren Brown wants you to bake your cake and eat it too. And he wants you to conquer your fear of flour and learn to love every step of cake baking—including, of course, the step in which you present your made-from-scratch masterpiece to bedazzled, hungry-eyed family and friends. (Not to mention the moment when you yourself get to sample a slice of that lovingly crafted creation.)
For Brown, love and baking are inseparable. After all, he abandoned an unrewarding career in law to do the work—baking cakes!—that he finds truly emotionally satisfying. Every page of CakeLove communicates that satisfaction, as well as Brown’s can-do approach to the art of baking. As he asserts, baking cakes isn’t a cakewalk, but it’s not rocket science, either—and getting it right isn’t nearly as hard as you think.
Pound cakes, butter cakes, sponge cakes, cupcakes. Glazes, frostings, fillings, meringues. Brown provides all the basics on ingredients, equipment, and techniques, as well as recipes for more than 50 cakes that range from the classic (Chocolate Butter Cake) to the adventurous (“Sassy,” a pound cake made with mango puree and cayenne pepper). The informative step-by-step shots make you want to run to the kitchen and start baking, and the scrumptious color photos of completed cakes look good enough to sink your teeth into.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 As a DC cakeloving resident, I vouch for Warren! August 16, 2008
I've been lucky enough to sample Warren's wares at Cakelove in DC, and I'm so thrilled that he has brought the recipes back to us, as cakeophiliacs. Five stars, Amazon - it doesn't get much better than this!
Complex, but Totally Worth it August 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
You may be familiar with Warren Brown from reruns of his show Sugar Rush on the Food Network, or perhaps if you're lucky enough to reside in D.C. you might have had the pleasure of sampling some of his creations and original recipes at one of his highly regarded CakeLove bakeries. For those of us living outside of personal shopping distance you're in luck as Warren has recently released a gorgeous cookbook dedicated to the art of making some of his most popular CakeLove recipes.
I don't use the term "art" loosely. These cake are involved masterpieces. Don't be lulled into complacency by the brightly colored layout and upbeat color schemes. The pages of this book may be designed to imply simplicity and ease but in reality this cookbook is more boot camp than day camp. These recipes mean business and attention to detail is key.
Fortunately, Brown gives you all of the tools to succeed including very detailed recipe instructions, step-by-step images when appropriate, and helpful tips and tricks. But in the end it's all up to you. Thanks to jaw dropping photography and tantalizing recipe options like Stout Pound Cake with Roasted Pecans, Tres Leches Butter Cake, and Hazelnut Spice Sponge Cake your body will no doubt go into pure craving mode, and the ambition to taste one of these fanciful creations will give you all the motivation you'll need to power through the recipe.
After examining the cookbook I decided to attempt the decidedly Summer appropriate Mojito Pound Cake. To answer your burning question, yes, it really does taste like a Mojito! Actually it tastes like a great Mojito, not one of those ghastly drinks you get from a hurried bartender because they think you're a jerk for ordering one in the middle of a rush, but a carefully made, simple syrup, and mint muddled Mojito that makes you sit back and say, "Ahhhhh..."
In all seriousness though, I can't believe I made this cake and I definitely couldn't have done it without this amazingly thorough text. There's nothing semi-homemade about these recipes. They're all butter, flour, cream, and eggs through and through. Sure they take a little more time and effort but the quality and taste of a cake made from scratch isn't even in the same league as your basic boxed Betty Crocker.
Love these cakes July 20, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've made three recipes so far from this book and plan to make them all. They are unique, wonderful, and my family devours them. Next best thing to living close to one of Warren Brown's bakeries!
In love with cake baking July 18, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If I could rewrite my life I'd have been a baker. I loved this cookbook and he makes it so easy and fun that a novice or a life-long baker would enjoy using it. Great gift idea for the cake baker in your life. Maybe if you are a good boy or girl they'll bake one for you?!
 Too complicated July 10, 2008
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
I made the buttercream frosting. It was really good. The baking style in the book is too structured. Good frosting though.
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