Kiss My Bundt: Recipes from the Award-Winning Bakery [Paperback]

Chrysta Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2010

Featuring more than 60 made-from-scratch recipes, this guide provides instruction to re-create the award-winning cakes from the Kiss My Bundt bakery in Los Angeles. Including recipes for champagne celebration cake, sour cream pound cake, lemon basil bundt, bacon cake with bacon sprinkles, and many vegan recipes as well, it also reveals the bakery’s approach to developing new cake flavors and provides techniques for trying this at home.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This bundt lover's bible spells out how to make just about any variety you can think of, from basic vanilla to Lime Basil, while providing tips on how to achieve the perfect fluffiness and flavor.”  —Angeleno

About the Author

Chrysta Wilson is the owner of the Kiss My Bundt bakery, where she is known for her Californian spin on the Southern dessert of bundt cake. She lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Life of Reiley (May 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977412024
• ISBN-13: 978-0977412020
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #44 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Cakes

Customer Reviews

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56 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only cake book you really need, July 1, 2010

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C. Serrano - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiss My Bundt: Recipes from the Award-Winning Bakery (Paperback)

If you like to bake cakes on occasion, or a lot, and you want a go-to simple book, this is the one. Basically, Chrysta provides you with a cake baking foundation in the form of ratios for dry, wet, and solid ingredients, and a cake technique education on handling the ingredients, as well as a base for making glazes and buttercream frostings. There are a TON of recipes in here that produce some delicious cakes, but she ultimately gives you the tools to make your own creations. I'm an avid baking cookbook collector. However, if I was in some weird circumstance where I was forced to pick only one cake cookbook, Kiss my Bundt would be my choice.

On another note, I was fortunate to have taken a cake baking class with Chrysta at Kitchen on Fire (a cooking school) when she came to visit the Bay area a week ago. It was very fun. She divided us into 3 teams and we learned the base cake, and had the option to choose from among a list of other ingredients to flavor the cake, e.g., strawberry, coconut, chocolate, lime, lemon, etc., etc. So, even though all of us were essentially making the same cake foundation (a vanilla cake), we all had entirely different cakes once we added the unique ingredient combination that our teams decided on. My team made a strawberry mojito cake, with a lime buttercream frosting for some of the cakes, and a rum-lime glaze for the rest. We used lime, mint, rum, and a strawberry compote (what Chrysta terms "strawberry mash" in her book). It was sooooo good! The other two teams made a coconut lime cake with a lime buttercream frosting, and a chocolate, coffee, and cinnamon cake with an orange buttercream frosting. All of the cakes turned out magnificently! Three entirely different cakes from one base cake recipe. Awesome.

So, get Chrysta's book. You will definitely learn how to make some excellent cakes.

Happy Baking!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Bundts Ever!!, August 11, 2010

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D. Jeffers "the sky chef" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiss My Bundt: Recipes from the Award-Winning Bakery (Paperback)

This little book contains the best bundt cakes ever. I make the red velvet cake at least twice a month, and it's always a hit. The author is very detailed and tells you exactly how to get the best result with every recipe. Lots of imaginative flavor combinations, too, and she includes recipes for vegan versions of some popular bundts.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i can't believe that i can bake a cake!, June 23, 2010

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R. Pedine "Rich" (LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiss My Bundt: Recipes from the Award-Winning Bakery (Paperback)

honestly, i can't even believe that i can bake a cake from scratch. but i did. i've baked several from this book, and this book is my new bible. i have baked some of the most delicious cakes i have ever tasted in my life from this book! yes yes yes! the red velvet impressed friends and my boyfriend. the coffee cake thrilled my co-workers. and i made the strawberry ginger cake for my roommate's birthday. this is my new choice for gifting my friends that love to cook too!