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| The Whimsical Bakehouse: Fun-to-Make Cakes That Taste as Good as They Look! | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kaye Hansen, Liv Hansen
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 11513
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0609608967
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780609608968
ASIN: 0609608967
Publication Date: August 20, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 Eye-catching, easy cake decorating April 30, 2008
I purchased this book to make a shower cake for a friend. I am so glad that I did. So far, I have made the chocolate butter cake and the cookies and cream filling... it was delicious and very easy to make. I learned how to make melted chocolate designs which I morphed into a white chocolate facade for my version of a stadium cake. The directions are easy to understand and the designs are eye-catching and the cakes, fillings and frostings (so far) are excellent. I highly recommend this book for artistic bakers like me.
 Best cakes April 25, 2008
I was afraid of making cakes until I tried the recipes in this book. When using the Betty Crocker cook books in the past my cakes were bland, unattractive lumps that felt like bricks in my stomach. I bought this book because I was determined to make a nice cake for my daughter's birthday. The chocolate birthday cake with the Oreo cookie filling is fabulous! The instructions are easy to follow and the decorations make me look like a professional. No one believes me that I use to make horrible cakes. My only complaint is that I would like a list of all of the cakes in the index so I don't have to remember the cake names. But, even then I don't mind thumbing through the beautifully photographed pages to find the cakes I want to try.
love it April 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a different take on cakes. I absolutely love it. The icing recipes are amazingly yummy. They are all buttercream recipes. They only decorate their cakes with chocolate decorations and buttercream icing, so they all taste wonderful. The best part is that they look just as good as they taste! The techniques are fairly simple. The cakes are sooo cute. All the recipes I have tried have been extremely good! No really, I now use the white cake recipe for my own. And I don't adopt a recipe unless it is the best I've ever had! If you like to eat really good cakes, buy this book!
Awesome book February 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm an amateur cake decorater in the process of trying to hone my skills so that I can make this is a part-time profession. Most of the cake decorating books rely on fondant to make the cakes look spectacular which they do..the only trouble is that fondant is horrible in taste ! So, it's hard to justify making a cake which looks wonderful but does not taste so ! With the tips and tricks shared in this book I now have some additional tools to help decorate a cake and make it delicious too ! I'm anxious to make all the cakes in the book ..
Love it! January 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I got this as one of my Christmas present and since I received, I haven't been able to take my eyes off it! I love the color and the ideas in the book are fun and approachable. The recipes are also really good. In the last week I've tried the vanilla cupcakes and banana cake. The cupcakes were the best I've ever made and it will continue to be my go-to recipe for basis yellow cupcakes.
I made the banana cake this weekend. I filled it with fresh whipped cream and crumb coated it in the chocolate buttercream frosting. I then covered it with the chocolate glaze and decorated it with colored-candy coating. This is known as the "fling" cake in the book. Not only did it look cute, it tasted so good! The cake was light and rich and the glaze took the edge off the sweetness.
I love how detailed the directions are in the book, and the pictures are beautiful. Some of the recipes make large quantifies (buttercream and chocolate glaze), but they are very easy to halve.
All in all, I think this is a very good book to start with if you are new to decorating cakes.
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