| | |  | NY Times Holiday '09 | Home » » » All Cakes Considered | | | | | | | Description: | | Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake All Cakes Considered is an essential addition to every baker's library. | | | Features: | |
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| Melissa Gray | | Hardcover:
| 224 pages | | Publisher:
| Chronicle Books | | Publication Date:
| October 14, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0811867811 | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
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| 1.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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 Terrible distributorJul 26, 2010
I am so disappointed in Amazon. I received the cookbook and some of the pages were stuck together, wrinkled and upside down. Is there no quality control. This book is a disgrace and Amazon should be ashamed that their quality control is so terrible. I think it is going to Barnes and Noble for me.
 AwesomeJul 19, 2010
This is an awesome awesome cook book. I got it as a gift from a friend who knows I love to bake. I've tried the first two recipes so far and made the chocolate pound cake twice. The first time I used my own icing recipe and the second time I used the recipe for the icing that goes with the Coffee Cake recipe. It tasted great. I used the cream cheese frosting when I made the brown sugar pound cake and my friend said that was her favorite part. Everyone agrees that the Sour Cream pound cake was good. The crust of it comes out looking a little like Angel Food Cake but it's a good cake all in all. I look forward to trying out other recipes. Anyone who likes to bake will love this book.
Way more than just cakes! A cake bible, and much moreJul 08, 2010
All Cakes Considered is like a cake bible, with a vast selection of cake recipes ranging from sheet cakes to layer cakes to tube cakes and bundt cakes. Dessert cakes, birthday cakes, and coffee cakes are included. There is also a chapter called "Break from Cakes" with several cookie recipes and one for fried fruit pies. And last but definitely not least the first 25 pages provide exhaustive guidance that will give confidence to even the most novice of bakers, including very clear, easy to understand descriptions on the steps in cake baking, information about different baking equipment, and ingredients with what they do. Melissa is a great guide and teacher, and will hold your hand through the whole experience of baking. She also provides stories and insights throughout the book that are very entertaining to read. She really makes you feel like she's right there in the kitchen with you, helping you along and chatting it up with you while you bake. The book itself is of extremely high quality with a thick, heavy hardcover, nice dustjacket, high quality paper, and gorgeous mouth-watering full color photographs throughout. One of my favorite recipes is a tube cake called "The Naughty Senator" that has a beautiful marbled pale green and brown color and tastes like mint chocolate chip ice cream. Another of my favorite recipes is "Cowboy Cookies", where you choose 1 1/2 cups of your favorite mixed morsels (chocolate or other chips, nuts, candy, dried fruit - whatever you want!) and follow a base cookie recipe that adapts well to whatever morsels you throw at it - the possibilities are endless and customizable by you. Another notable recipe is "Martha Washington's Great Cake", which comes from a modern adaptation of Martha's original recipe and is one Founding Fathers fans will get a kick out of. There's also a Paula Deen cake included, "Paula Deen's Grandgirl's Fresh Apple Cake from Georgia". Most of the recipes in the book are fairly simple to complete, and Melissa's clear instructions make them even easier. There are a few challenging recipes for the more adventurous, but most bakers will have little problem with the majority of them. This is a great book for novice or experienced bakers who want a helpful and entertaining companion providing great insight during their cake (and other) baking endeavors.
So Far So Yummy!Jun 21, 2010
I'm a fairly experienced baker but I've always had drama when using Bundt pans. This book has been a godsend as I'm now five cakes in and 4 out of 5 have turned out wonderfully, partly due to Melissa's clear and precise directions. I don't know what errors others have noticed in this book but I have to say that its been right on the money for the cakes I've made so far. Not only that, they are, in the words of my cake taster/husband, probably the best cakes I've EVER made for him!
I strongly recommend this book; I've jumped around a bit in the order of cakes she shares and may never have the nerve to try the "fancy-pantsy" cakes towards the back of the book but even if I never go beyond the ones I've already baked, the book is worth the price! Full disclosure: My Mom bought this book for me so, in order to pay her back, I suppose I owe her at least a couple of cakes!
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 It makes a good coffee table book!Jun 19, 2010
I have been baking for a very long time and I was excited to get this cookbook as a present. However, I have had more problems with this book than any other cookbook! For starters, there are very few pictures. I think that a cookbook filled with cakes should have a picture for every cake since you can't always tell what the finished product should look like just by reading the recipe. Over half of the recipes DON'T have pictures and I could consider this a big negative. Other problems with the book are some of the "helpful" tips that Gray includes. Cut butter into tablespoons AFTER it comes to room temperature?? If you cut it into tablespoons while it's still cold it's A) easier and less messy to cut and B) it will warm up faster.
I have also had problems with every single cake I've made out of this. The Heaven and Hell cake was a big mess as the chocolate cake was far too crumbly to be used in a layer cake. Other cakes have turned out too dry, too messy, or just too bland. I have followed every recipe I've made word and word and my oven is the correct temperature. I have never had this many problems with other cookbooks. This is a nice book but I think it works better as a coffee table book than a cookbook.
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