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"If you ever bake a cake, this book will become your partner in the kitchen."
-- from the foreword by Maida Heatter

This is the classic cake cookbook that enables anyone to make delicious, exquisite cakes. As a writer for food magazines, women's magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times, Rose Levy Beranbaum's trademark is her ability to reduce the most complex techniques to easy-to-follow recipes. Rose makes baking a joy. This is the definitive work on cakes by the country's top cake baker. (2017 inductee into the Int'l Assoc. of Culinary Professionals Culinary Classics Hall of Fame)

The Cake Bible shows how to:
Mix a buttery, tender layer cake in under five minutes with perfect results every time
Make the most fabulous chocolate cake you ever imagined with just three ingredients
Find recipes for every major type of cake, from pancakes to four-tiered wedding cakes
Make cakes with less sugar but maximum flavor and texture
Make many low- to no- cholesterol, low-saturated-fat recipes

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Rose Levy Beranbaum is a kitchen chemist extraordinaire--this, after all, is the woman who wrote her master's thesis on the effects of sifting on the quality of yellow cake. In The Cake Bible, she explains the science behind types of leavening, the merits (or not) of sifting, melting chocolate, preheating ovens, and more. There are precise and detailed instructions for intricate wedding cakes as well as cakes that can be mixed and in the oven in five minutes. In addition, nutrition information is included with every recipe. Cake scientist Beranbaum doesn't forget the art, either; pencil drawings teach novice bakers how to create a garden full of flowers from royal icing and mushrooms from piped meringue. It's no wonder that the International Association of Culinary Professionals picked The Cake Bible as their cookbook of the year for 1988--this book has something to teach bakers at every level.

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Beranbaum, a talented baker and former owner of a New York cooking school, has produced a definitive work that will excite accomplished cooks and beginners alike. She covers basic, "foolproof" cakes as well as showcase cakes, accompanying these with pages and pages of adornments of all types; her instructions are impressively precise but unintimidating. She also includes lengthy discussions on ingredients and equipment and concludes with a special section on the chemistry of cake baking and on making a professional wedding cakes. An essential purchase. JS
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; 8th edition (September 20, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0688044026
ISBN-13: 978-0688044022
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.7 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 489 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,900 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Cakes
- #41 in Books > Reference > Encyclopedias & Subject Guides > Cooking
- #44 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking Education & Reference > Reference

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awesome book!

Bylmbasineton September 13, 2009

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this book kept me from completely giving up baking.

moved to high-altitude at 28 @ had nothing but disasters in baking...had to re-teach myself everything I'd already taught myself when i was 6 (my mom didn't learn to cook until she had 3 kids, lost the nanny when we moved back to the states, & my fighter-pilot dad wasn't around often enough to do it for her).

Rose's explanations of the chemistry of baking at high altitude were the BEST! i also found her recipes to be excellent & are ones i use, often. i have some cake decorating talent so none of the pictured cakes are any problem for me.

if you don't have any cake decorating experience, check at Hobby Lobby for classes. they're around $30 for 4 classes of 2 hours each. you can also take additional, higher level classes.

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Great Book

ByPaul Soberon February 2, 2015

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Fantastic. I am a big fan of cookbooks in general and have spent some time working as a baker. The recipes in this book are very clear and well written. Rose does such a fantastic job of explaining the purpose for each ingredient, it's more like a college textbook on building excellent texture in your cakes. Not only do I enjoy following her recipes, I also enjoy going outside the box and exploring with other ingredients.

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LOVE this book.

ByVDMon December 22, 2010

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I bought this book because a year ago I started decorating cakes, I found that after taking all the Wilton classes and being asked a lot to make cakes that I wanted to learn to bake from scratch instead of a box all the time. Don't get me wrong, box cakes are good, but scratch is SOOOO much better. I asked the instructor who is now a friend and colleague since I teach Wilton classes now, what books are can not live without ones for scratch cakes and she told me that I MUST buy this book. I immediatly ordered it and have not been let down at all.

I have made a couple of the chocolate cakes and a couple other things but everything in this book is amazing. I just opened an early christmas present from my husband and her newer cookbook called Rose's Heavenly Cakes was part of my Christmas. Rose is awesome, she does not rip you off on her books, she does not put a new one out every year and this is literally COVER TO COVER recipes and instructions. She explains everything from structure to the ingredients, gives you batches of cake to make wedding cakes and so much more. Love it rose and so far I am LOVING the new one as well.

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My cake bible!

ByEugenia Giacovazzion November 5, 2016

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I love this book. The variety of recipes offered is incredible and they are flop proof! I have used Rose's cake recipes for my children's wedding cake with great success!

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cake book for all

ByNEPA Momon May 16, 2011

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This is a wonderful book filled with useful tips, recipes, and more! The ecipes are time tested and step by step so everything comes out delicious and looking beautiful. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for ideas on making a cake from scratch for the first time.Even experienced cake bakers could use some of the great recipes and add their own twist to make it their own secret recipe!

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Good instruction.

ByGeorge L. Yinglingon April 5, 2013

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With this book I now have overcome my fear of baking cakes. Her butter cream icings are divine. At my altitude (5280 ft.) I have found that adding one more egg to her butter cakes recipes along with cutting back sugar and increasing baking temperature to 375 degrees solves a lot of problems. Rose has a website with instructional videos, which I recommend so you can see live her techniques well explained in this book. It is accurately named -- a Cake Bible. I use other recipes than hers, but love the real butter cream icings I make. Highly recommend this book. I constantly use the weight chart and convert recipes to grams and use a scale to measure ingredients for consistent results.

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Spectacular!

ByNAP21on December 19, 2012

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Making a 6-tiered cake for a relative, never did anything of this size so I knew I needed a pro's advice, and that is what you get with this book. Tons of spectacular recipes for cakes, fillings, frostings and glazes, BUT it also has wonderful charts as how to calculate the batter, filling and frosing you will need from 6" to 20" cakes. It is in standard US measurements, ounces and grames, making conversions so, SO, much easier! I have checked out 12 cake books from library and wound up using this one I (thankfuly) bought due to its ease of conversion.

Even if you are not doing a wedding cake she has so many wonderful and practical recipes in 3/4 of the book, that is is well worth the small cost...

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Yes, it is aptly named.

ByTiaramonkeybirdon January 2, 2014

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This has been my first choice for cakes and fancy cakes for years. This purchase was a gift. RLB is a teacher. If you are sincere and want to learn to make perfect cakes, this is the number one book. You don't just follow a recipe, you learn how and why. I can't tell you how many times I took a cake to a party and people told me it was the best cake they had ever had. That feels good. Part of it is that most cakes are too sweet, Rose's recipes are never disgustingly sweet. My copy is falling apart, smudged with chocolate, and filled with my own notes. I wouldn't give it up for mucho bucks.

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Great classic book. Of course I wish there were more pictures, maybe in the next addition. For anyone who wants to make cakes, this is for you. Clear directions.

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