The Cake Mix Doctor

About this book

The Cake Mix Doctor is in! And the prescription is simple: By doctoring up packaged cake mix with just the right extras--a touch of sweet butter here cocoa powder there or poppy seeds vanilla yogurt sherry eggs and grated lemon zest for the Charleston Poppy Seed Cake--even the least experienced baker can turn out luscious signature desserts time after time. The proof is in the taste and the taste never stops--from Toasted Coconut Sour Cream Cake to Devilishly Good Chocolate Cake; from a to-die-for Caramel Cake and a Holiday Yule Log to cheesecakes coffee cakes sheet cakes pound cakes bars brownies and those all-important frostings here are 175 fast foolproof recipes that will transform the art of home baking in America. Who could believe these cakes came out of a box? Moist tender rich deep and complexly flavored without a hint of artificiality each cake stand up and delivers. But without any of the fuss of baking from scratch. Anne Byrn an award-wining food writer and self-described purist creates recipes that employ a cake mixs strengths---convenience ease-of-use dependability and almost imperviousness to overbeating underbeating overbaking and underbaking. In addition to the recipes are the Cake Mix Doctors Q&As extensive "Doctor Says" tips lists--15 Beautiful Birthday Cakes 15 Cakes That Will Cash in at a Bake Sale--and more all illustrated in a full-color photographic insert.