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The Perfect Cake
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The Perfect Cake
Your Ultimate Guide to Classic, Modern, and Whimsical Cakes
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Featured by QVC, Hallmark Home & Family, Tasting Table, and the Washington Post.
Cakes are the all-occasion dessert—the center of attention at birthdays, holiday celebrations, and dinner parties, and the most welcome brunch, after-school, or teatime snack. America's Test Kitchen's first all-cake book is the definitive guide to any cake you crave from Classic Pound Cake to enjoy anytime to a stunning and impressive Blueberry Jam Cake with brilliant jam stripes and ombré frosting.
In addition to foolproof recipes are features that make towering 24-layer Hazelnut- Chocolate Crêpe Cake as approachable as Applesauce Snack Cake. Sidebars include step-by-step photography for cakes with more advanced techniques like piping the ribbons of frosting that help give beautiful Rhubarb Ribbon Cake its name. Our years of test kitchen knowledge on the art and science of baking cakes provide all the tips and tricks you need for executing perfect cakes every time.
Featured by QVC, Hallmark Home & Family, Tasting Table, and the Washington Post.
Cakes are the all-occasion dessert—the center of attention at birthdays, holiday celebrations, and dinner parties, and the most welcome brunch, after-school, or teatime snack. America's Test Kitchen's first all-cake book is the definitive guide to any cake you crave from Classic Pound Cake to enjoy anytime to a stunning and impressive Blueberry Jam Cake with brilliant jam stripes and ombré frosting.
In addition to foolproof recipes are features that make towering 24-layer Hazelnut- Chocolate Crêpe Cake as approachable as Applesauce Snack Cake. Sidebars include step-by-step photography for cakes with more advanced techniques like piping the ribbons of frosting that help give beautiful Rhubarb Ribbon Cake its name. Our years of test kitchen knowledge on the art and science of baking cakes provide all the tips and tricks you need for executing perfect cakes every time.
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  • About America’s Test Kitchen
    America's Test Kitchen, based in a brand new state-of-the-art 60,000 sq. ft. facility with over 15,000 sq. ft. of test kitchens and studio space, in Boston's Seaport District, is dedicated to finding the very best recipes for home cooks. Over 50 full-time (admittedly obsessive) test cooks spend their days testing recipes 30, 40, up to 100 times, tweaking every variable until they understand how and why recipes work. They also test cookware and supermarket ingredients so viewers can bypass marketing hype and buy the best quality products. As the home of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, and publisher of more than one dozen cookbooks each year, America's Test Kitchen has earned the respect of the publishing industry, the culinary world, and millions of home cooks. America's Test Kitchen the television show launched in 2001, and the company added a second television program, Cook's Country, in 2008. 
    Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, Tucker Shaw, Bryan Roof, and our fabulous team of test cooks!
    Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.
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  • Publisher's Weekly

    Starred review from February 19, 2018
    This cookbook from the staff at America’s Test Kitchen deserves a place on the bookshelf of every cake baker. More than 200 recipes, all written in the confident voice of the Test Kitchen, will inspire home cooks and offer a master class in baking and decorating. Every manner of cake, including microwave mug cakes, cake pops, and ice cream cakes, is included. All-American layer cakes include Wellesley fudge cake, peanut butter and jam cake, and Blum’s Coffee Crunch Cake (a blend of lemony cake, coffee whipped cream, and crunchy coffee candy). There are recipes for basic cakes, such as pound cake and a foolproof New York cheesecake, but the Test Kitchen offers up more unusual takes as well, including a saffron-orange Bundt cake and a tahini-banana snack cake. Layer cakes range from the kid-popular, sprinkle-studded confetti cake to a Bananas Foster Cake with rum, caramel and banana filling. Sheet cake flavors get an upgrade with recipes for lemon buttermilk sheet cake, pumpkin, and buttermilk caramel. Recipes for elegant tortes include a pomegranate walnut cake, and a chocolate-espresso dacquoise made with layers of hazelnut and almond meringue. With a recipe for every taste and occasion, bakers could happily cook their way through this book, assured that each recipe will be a delicious success.

  • Booklist

    February 1, 2018
    The many chefs and editors behind America's Test Kitchen (ATK) once again deliver on their promise to provide bolstering and comprehensive advice to home cooks of all experience levels in their first all-cake cookbook. A detailed and fun-to-read introduction outlines the nitty-gritty on all the potential ingredients and toolsand where there's a best brand, ATK shares itas well as the techniques cake bakers will want to have at the ready. From rustic to refined, more than 200 recipes are then divided into 10 categories to fit a range of seasons, occasions, and time limitations, and each is accompanied by a photo. Readers can expect easy-to-follow but exacting guidelines that match the task at hand herethis is a baking book, after allalong with ATK's trademark interesting explanations as to why, and dry measures in weight as well as volume. An appendix to essential cake components pulls the sure-to-be-most-used cakes, frostings, and fillings from the preceding recipes for a handy quick reference. Overall, a must-have.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

  • Library Journal

    Starred review from February 15, 2018

    Having already crafted The Perfect Cookie, the editors at America's Test Kitchen now turn their attention to cakes. The ten chapters here cover cakes of all kinds, from classic layer cakes to chocolate-coated cake pops. Among the more than 200 recipes (including some vegan and gluten-free), there are such stunners as triple chocolate mousse cake, spiced pumpkin cheesecake, petit fours, and pear-walnut, upside-down cake. Thanks to meticulous instructions (the authors go so far as to specify the ideal temperature for softened butter) and photos of key techniques, even novices will be able to achieve a perfect result on the first try. VERDICT A one-stop shop for foolproof cakes, this comprehensive collection will delight all bakers.

    Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

  • Alice Medrich, Wall Street Journal "Pound Cake made with hot melted butter and a food processor? I've never made an easier, more delicious pound cake! The recipe is genius, and worth the price of the book."
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