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| The Cake Bible | 
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| Author: Rose Levy Beranbaum
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  163 reviews
Sales Rank: 5538
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.3 x 2
ISBN: 0688044026
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780688044022
ASIN: 0688044026
Publication Date: September 20, 1988
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 Guys, if I can bake a cake, so can you February 23, 2008
My wife and I both cook. Its something we do because we enjoy good food and cannot see blowing our budget on restaurant fare. Hence we are both fans of good cook books. There are a number of great books out there on cooking, but when it comes to baking I could never find a book that seemed to work for me (my wife, on the other hand, is quite good at it, no matter what the book).
I was about to come to the conclusion that baking must be something only females in general, or CIA trained Chefs can do until I came across Rose Beranbaum's Cake Bible. She explains cake baking in terms that are both informative and interesting. She also combines the mind of a chemist with the heart of an artist.
I invested in an inexpensive electronic scale, read through her ingredients and process descriptions, and started baking cakes. I was amazed that I finally could produce a cake that was beyond edible, indeed they were excellent! My earlier trials, pre-Rose, could have been used to up-armor HumVees.
So, hats off to Rose for this must have book. I am so enthused about her work that I ordered her other two Bibles (on Pastry and on Bread). I look forward to seeing if those books match the high benchmark she has set with her Cake Bible.
 a big book February 6, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I got the book as a gift. I did not try to make any cake. But the thing I did not like about the book - each recipe does not have a picture. only some recipes have pictures in the middle of the book. 3 stars - I hope recipes themselves were good
The Cake Bible January 29, 2008
There are lots of recipes that are well explained and easy to follow. Love it!
THE SOLUTION for dry chocolate cakes from the Bible January 4, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was reading some of the negative reviews for the Cake Bible and they made me hesitate to purchase it. I was googling through some blog entries and came up with the following information. So now I'm going to buy the Cake Bible! No more dry chocolate cakes!
"I've been using Rose's chocolate cake recipes for nearly two years, and always had the same problem - I weighed every ingredient carefully, had the oven spot on 350, and every time, the cake would bake perfectly, but would serve out DRY and crumbly. The strange thing was that when I made yellow or white cakes, this didn't happen. Last week I figured out why.
When you use hot water to dissolve the cocoa powder, then let it sit to cool, some of the water evaporates. I stated measuring the water/cocoa mixture *after* it cooled, and found that I was loosing as much as two ounces of water, depending on the conditions in my kitchen! Adding a little room-temp. water, just before mixing the cocoa/water with the other ingredients has totally solved this problem. Just last weekend, I made a wedding cake with a 12-inch, two-layer middle tier of chocolate, baked and iced the day before the event. When served, the cake was soft and moist and the texture perfect."
Here's Rose Baranbaum's response on her webpage:
http://www.realbakingwithrose.com/2006/11/blogger_aaron_solves_dry_choco.html
Must have November 9, 2007
This is a awesome book, although some of the recipes are alot more difficult then they need to be. I have made some of the same tasting frosting, alot easier with less ingredients.
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