Synopses & Reviews
The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate! Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession.
It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras-including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder-a baker at any level of experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Not to mention sheet cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes and muffins, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and bars. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book.
Synopsis
THE CAKE MIX DOCTOR GOES CHOCOLATE - NOW YOU NEVER HAVE TO BAKE FROM SCRATCH AGAIN!
In a marriage made in baker's heaven, baking phenomenon and best-selling cookbook author Anne Byrn brings her easy, no fail, tried-and-true cake mix techniques to chocolate - the ingredient that inspires a love bordering on obsession.
Cake Walk...Anne Byrn tells readers how to turn mixes into masterpieces. (PEOPLE MAGAZINE)
All Chocolate All the Time
CHOCOLATE-Y - Ebony and Ivory Cake, Peanut Butter Cake with Fluffy Chocolate Frosting, White Chocolate Peach Cake
CHOCOLATE-IER - German Chocolate Spice Cake, Mint Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake, Banana Split Fudge Cake
CHOCOLATE-IEST - Kathy's Chocolate Chocolate Chip Chip Cake, Double Chocolate Lime Cheesecake, Molten Chocolate Pudding Cake
About the Author
ANNE BYRN is known to millions of fans through her
Cake Mix Doctor and
Dinner Doctor cookbooks, which she's promoted in more than 200 television appearances on
Good Morning America,
Roker on the Road,
QVC, and local stations. She is also a favorite subject for lifestyle editors in newspapers across the country. Anne lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and three children. You can visit her online at&
Table of Contents
Introduction CHOCOLATE FOR THE SOUL
Chocolate Cake Mix 101
Luscious Layers
Chocolate Pound Cakes
Sheet Cakes
Cheesecakes, Pudding Cakes, and So Much More
Chocolate Angel Food and Chiffon Cakes
Muffins, Cupcakes, and Little Cakes
Cookies, Bars, and Brownies
Frostings
Conversion Table
Chocolate Cake Glossary
Bibliography
Index