Summary

Winner of the 2010 Cookbook of the Year Award, IACP (International Association of Culinary ProfessionalsAt last an all-new, full-color cake lover's companion from Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Diva of Desserts!Rose Levy Beranbaum is a much beloved and widely respected baking legend-"a worshipped woman . . . revered by serious cooks and part-timers" alike, in the words of USA Today. Eagerly-awaited by her legions of devoted fans, Rose's Heavenly Cakes is a must-have guide to perfect cake-baking from this award-winning master baker and author of The Cake Bible, one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time.This comprehensive guide will help home bakers to create delicious, decadent, and spectacularly beautiful cakes of all kinds with confidence and ease. With her precise, foolproof recipes, Rose shows you how to create everything from Heavenly Coconut Seduction Cake, Golden Lemon Almond Cake, and Devil's Food Cake with Midnight Ganache to Orange-Glow Chiffon Layer Cake, Mud Turtle Cupcakes, and Deep Chocolate Passion Wedding Cake.Rose's Heavenly Cakes Features Rose's trademark easy-to-follow, expertly tested (and retested) recipes for perfectly delicious results every time Offers over 100 simply wonderful recipes for cakes for every occasion-from exceptionally delicious butter and oil cakes, sponge cakes, and mostly flourless cakes and cheesecakes, to charming baby cakes and elegant wedding cakes Features special tips and tricks from a beloved baking expert for creating amazing special effects and beautiful cake decor Contains 100 tempting full-color photosVisit Rose Levy Beranbaum at realbakingwithrose.com and learn basic baking techniques with her, including measuring, preparing, and mixing ingredients to make cakes and creating decorations to dress them up.Everything you need to create heavenly cakes-every time-can be found in this new collection of tried-and true recipes by one of the most celebrated bakers of our time.

Author Biography

Rose Levy Beranbaum is the award-winning author of nine cookbooks, including The Cake Bible, the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook of the Year for 1988. She also won a James Beard Foundation Award in 1998 for Rose?s Christmas Cookies,?and her most?recent book, The Bread Bible, was an?IACP and James Beard Foundation nominee?and was listed as one of the Top Ten Books of 2003 by?Publishers Weekly and Food & Wine.?She is?a?contributing editor?to Food Arts magazine and writes regularly?for the Washington Post, Fine Cooking, Reader?s Digest, and Bride?s. Her popular blog, realbakingwithrose.com, has created an international community of bakers where you can visit Rose Levy Beranbaum and join in the discussion on all things baking. While you are there, you can bring the author right into your kitchen as she demonstrates key techniques and shares trade secrets so that you can create perfectly divine cakes.

Foreword	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Rose's Rules of Cake Baking	p. 1
Butter And Oil Cakes	p. 5
Apple Upside-Down Cake	p. 9
Plum and Blueberry Upside-Down Torte	p. 12
She Loves Me Cake	p. 15
White Velvet Cake with Milk Chocolate Ganache	p. 17
Heavenly Coconut Seduction Cake	p. 20
Southern (Manhattan) Coconut Cake with Silk Meringue Buttercream	p. 23
Whipped Cream Cake	p. 29
Karmel Cake	p. 31
Spice Cake with Peanut Buttercream	p. 35
Golden Lemon Almond Cake	p. 37
Lemon Poppy Seed-Sour Cream Cake	p. 41
Woody's Lemon Luxury Layer Cake	p. 43
Apple-Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake	p. 49
Marble Velvet Cake	p. 52
Chocolate Streusel Coffee Cake	p. 55
Swedish Pear and Almond Cream Cake	p. 58
Cradle Cake	p. 61
Sicilian Pistachio Cake	p. 65
G&ahat;teau Breton	p. 69
Sticky Toffee ""Pudding""	p. 71
English Gingerbread Cake	p. 75
Fruitcake Wreath	p. 79
Rose Red Velvet Cake	p. 83
Chocolate Tomato Cake with Mystery Ganache	p. 87
Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Cake	p. 91
Chocolate Banana Stud Cake	p. 96
Devil's Food Cake with Midnight Ganache	p. 99
Chocolate Layer Cake with Caramel Ganache	p. 104
Bernachon Palet d'Or G&ahat;teau	p. 107
Double Chocolate Valentine	p. 113
Chocolate Velvet Fudge Cake	p. 117
Black Chocolate Party Cake	p. 119
Classic Carrot Cake with Dreamy Creamy White Chocolate Frosting	p. 122
Pumpkin Cake with Burnt Orange Silk Meringue Buttercream	p. 125
Many-Splendored Quick Bread	p. 131
Banana Refrigerator Cake with Dreamy Creamy White Chocolate Frosting	p. 133
German Chocolate Cake	p. 137
Chocolate Ice Cream Cake or Sandwich	p. 142
Miette's Tomboy	p. 145
Sponge Cakes	p. 151
Angel Food Cake Base Recipe	p. 154
Chocolate Tweed Angel Food Cake	p. 159
Chocolate Apricot Roll with Lacquer Glaze	p. 163
Génoise Rose	p. 169
White Gold Passions Génoise	p. 173
True Orange Génoise	p. 179
Génoise Trés Café	p. 182
Chocolate Génoise with Peanut Butter Whipped Ganache	p. 184
Moist Chocolate Raspberry Génoise	p. 187
Red Fruit Shortcake	p. 193
Catalán Salt Pinch Cake	p. 197
Almond Shamah Chiffon	p. 199
Orange-Glow Chiffon Layer Cake	p. 203
Lemon Meringue Cake	p. 205
Torta de las Tres Leches	p. 211
Apple Caramel Charlotte	p. 215
Chocolate Raspberry Trifle	p. 222
Saint-Honoré Trifle	p. 227
Holiday Pinecone Cake	p. 234
Mostly Flourless Cakes And Cheesecakes	p. 241
Cranberry Crown Cheesecake	p. 243
Pure Pumpkin Cheesecake	p. 247
Coconut Cheesecake with Coconut Cookie Crust	p. 250
Ginger Cheesecake with Gingerbread Crust	p. 252
No-Bake Whipped Cream Cheesecake	p. 257
Lemon Canadian Crown	p. 261
Ladyfingers	p. 264
Tiramisù	p. 267
Sybil's Pecan Torte with Coffee Cream	p. 270
Chocolate Feather Bed	p. 273
Hungarian Jancsi Torta	p. 279
Le Succès	p. 281
Zach's La Bomba	p. 285
Baby Cakes	p. 293
Yellow Butter Cupcakes	p. 295
Chocolate Butter Cupcakes	p. 296
White Velvet Butter Cupcakes	p. 298
Golden Neoclassic Buttercream	p. 299
Dreamy Creamy White Chocolate Frosting	p. 301
Chocolate-Egg White Buttercream	p. 302
Designer Chocolate Baby Grands	p. 303
Gold Ingots	p. 311
Chocolate Ingots	p. 313
Peanut Butter Ingots	p. 317
Plum Round Ingots	p. 319
Financier-Style Vanilla Bean Pound Cakes	p. 322
Mini Vanilla Bean Pound Cakes	p. 325
Baby Lemon Cheesecakes	p. 327
Quail Egg Indugence Cake	p. 330
Marionberry Shortcake	p. 332
Coffee Chiffonlets with Dulce de Leche Whipped Cream	p. 334
Individual Pineapple Upside-Down Cakes	p. 339
Caramelized Pineapple Pudding Cakes	p. 342
Classic Brioche	p. 346
The Bostini	p. 351
Deep Chocolate Rosebuds	p. 355
Molten Chocolate Soufflé and Lave Cakes	p. 359
Chocolate Bull's-Eye Cakes	p. 363
Barcelona Brownie Bars	p. 367
Baby Chocolate Oblivions	p. 371
Two Fat Cats Whoopie Pie	p. 373
Mud Turtle Cupcakes	p. 377
Wedding Cakes	p. 383
Tropical Wedding Cake	p. 391
Golden Dream Wedding Cake	p. 397
Grand Marnier Wedding Cake	p. 403
Deep Chocolate Passion Wedding Cake	p. 409
Double-Chocolate-Whammy Groom's Cake	p. 419
Wedding Cupcakes	p. 423
Special Effects and Techniques	p. 424
Ingredients and Basic Recipes	p. 436
Ingredients Sources	p. 461
Equipment	p. 462
Equipment Sources	p. 481
Appendix	p. 482
Recipes Using Only Egg Yolks	p. 482
Recipes Using Only Egg Whites	p. 482
Quick-and-Easy Recipes	p. 483
Index	p. 484
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