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Dump Cake: Gourmet 25 Outrageously Delicious Dump Cake Recipes
Welcome to the Dump Cake Gourmet! Do you love eating delicious desserts? Then look no further. These 25 decadently delicious dump cake recipes will satisfy your sweet tooth. Download your copy today!
34 pages, Paperback
First published June 13, 2014
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January 16, 2016
Dump Cake: Gourmet 25 Outrageously Delicious Dump Cake Recipes by Grace Minello & Jen Trivalli.
Five Stars! Simple, fast, easy & truly delicious!! There are some yummy recipes that can be repeated for quick desserts. I highly recommend this book!
Microwaveable Express Cake. I want to try this one first. It doesn't get any easier than this.
Ultimate Chocolate Dump Cake. For a chocolate lover, this sounds divine.
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Five Stars! Simple, fast, easy & truly delicious!! There are some yummy recipes that can be repeated for quick desserts. I highly recommend this book!
Microwaveable Express Cake. I want to try this one first. It doesn't get any easier than this.
Ultimate Chocolate Dump Cake. For a chocolate lover, this sounds divine.
Dive in & enjoy!Claim it while it's free. As of July 13, 2014, it is free. Highly recommended!
To purchase, click this link. Free at time of review.
July 15, 2014
Not a lot of variety
Not a lot of variety
Most of the cakes were of the cherry/pineapple dump style cake. However there were a few new ones that I will definitely be trying soon.
Not a lot of variety
Most of the cakes were of the cherry/pineapple dump style cake. However there were a few new ones that I will definitely be trying soon.
August 24, 2014
NOT so outrageous, only so so. Most recipes repeated over and over with slight variations.
I like DUMP CAKES. They are fast, convenient, easy to make and best of all just plain YUMMY.
With that said I guess there can only be so many variations of the same theme. So basically, if you have seen one dump cake book of recipes you've seen them all.
Occasionally you see something a little different but what disappointed me about this book was the title. 25 Outrageously Delicious Gourmet dump cake recipes. It's lucky if you get 12 recipes!!
8 of them were variations on the cherry, crushed pineapple, yellow cake mix theme with the only differences were the type of nuts: walnut, pecan, almonds and their amounts; 1/2, 1, or 1 1/2 cups for topping then the amt of melted butter: 1/2 or 1 whole cup or 2 sticks etc melted butter on top.
THEN, 6 of the recipes I don't consider Dump Cake; Guess I must be a Dump Cake Snob. If you need to mix 6 or 7 ingredients, flour, baking powder, eggs, salt, vanilla, cocoa powder, meringue powder etc together separately before adding other items it's not a Dump Cake Recipe. It's a regular cake recipe and belongs in a different book.
One other quirk of mine. I really am not trying to be a witch. If you don't know how to use spell check or at least have a friend look over your final product before submitting it then you are going to get the literary snob police on your butt :) Especially with cookbooks in which you need to be clear on a recipes ingredients and amounts needed. AT LEAST 3 of the recipes asked for 1 cubed butter. Huh????? Did I miss something in home economics that day I was out uh...ummm ..out sick? Yeah, we'll stick with that. Now I've made enough dump cakes that I can guess that this probably means 1 cup butter cubed. OR, 1 stick cubed. I'm presently sure it doesn't mean 1 of those 1# blocks/cubes of butter (4sticks) cubed. Right?
Seriously, though, many people who don't bake are trying DUMP CAKES for a reason. Because they are so easy to do and you don't have to be Martha Stewart to make them. BUT unless they have baked before telling them to add 1 cube of butter could mean all I mentioned above OR literally one tiny cube of butter.
2 other recipes asked for a bag of nuts. Now that one is anyone's guess. I'm thinking 1 cup but recipes call for anywhere from 1/2 cup - 1 1/2 cups nuts. I usually go by my own tastes whether or not I use 1 , 3/4 or 1/2 cup etc. but a newbie baker might panic (or not think twice about it) and put in a whole bag of nuts, shells and all.
Hey, you never know!!! My Aunt once made an Apple pie without the apples because the recipe had the lists of steps for making the pie perfect till it came to adding the apples. The directions explained how to roll out the crust, how to place the bottom one evenly and then before adding the top crust and crimping the edges ; be sure to leave small air vents by folding over the top crust with a butter knife and making 5 small vented slits to top. She did it perfectly just as it said in the directions. The directions had one more piece of advice, be sure to peel and core the apples well before cutting in quarters and slicing them as evenly as possible before adding to the already made pie crust. Can you see how directions like these, for a newbie, can make things a little more complicated than they need to be? Later when the crust started to brown too early she asked if she did something wrong. The funniest part was when she asked when was she supposed to get the apples she sliced so perfectly into the crust, the recipe didn't say when? AND then asked how was she going to do it and not mess up the crimped edges she's worked so hard to look pretty? Is that what the vent holes she had to put in the top crust were for, to put the apples in after the crust was done? Needless to say this is one if those family stories that has been passed down to her kids and is now being passed down to her grandkids.
Needless to say, DUMP CAKES are not quite as complicated for those of us who have baked for years or had someone teach us the basic techniques. But for someone who is totally new at this, has no experience at all and can't tell the difference between a T or Tbls = Tablespoon or that t or tsp= teaspoon and trying recipes like these because they are so easy
I like DUMP CAKES. They are fast, convenient, easy to make and best of all just plain YUMMY.
With that said I guess there can only be so many variations of the same theme. So basically, if you have seen one dump cake book of recipes you've seen them all.
Occasionally you see something a little different but what disappointed me about this book was the title. 25 Outrageously Delicious Gourmet dump cake recipes. It's lucky if you get 12 recipes!!
8 of them were variations on the cherry, crushed pineapple, yellow cake mix theme with the only differences were the type of nuts: walnut, pecan, almonds and their amounts; 1/2, 1, or 1 1/2 cups for topping then the amt of melted butter: 1/2 or 1 whole cup or 2 sticks etc melted butter on top.
THEN, 6 of the recipes I don't consider Dump Cake; Guess I must be a Dump Cake Snob. If you need to mix 6 or 7 ingredients, flour, baking powder, eggs, salt, vanilla, cocoa powder, meringue powder etc together separately before adding other items it's not a Dump Cake Recipe. It's a regular cake recipe and belongs in a different book.
One other quirk of mine. I really am not trying to be a witch. If you don't know how to use spell check or at least have a friend look over your final product before submitting it then you are going to get the literary snob police on your butt :) Especially with cookbooks in which you need to be clear on a recipes ingredients and amounts needed. AT LEAST 3 of the recipes asked for 1 cubed butter. Huh????? Did I miss something in home economics that day I was out uh...ummm ..out sick? Yeah, we'll stick with that. Now I've made enough dump cakes that I can guess that this probably means 1 cup butter cubed. OR, 1 stick cubed. I'm presently sure it doesn't mean 1 of those 1# blocks/cubes of butter (4sticks) cubed. Right?
Seriously, though, many people who don't bake are trying DUMP CAKES for a reason. Because they are so easy to do and you don't have to be Martha Stewart to make them. BUT unless they have baked before telling them to add 1 cube of butter could mean all I mentioned above OR literally one tiny cube of butter.
2 other recipes asked for a bag of nuts. Now that one is anyone's guess. I'm thinking 1 cup but recipes call for anywhere from 1/2 cup - 1 1/2 cups nuts. I usually go by my own tastes whether or not I use 1 , 3/4 or 1/2 cup etc. but a newbie baker might panic (or not think twice about it) and put in a whole bag of nuts, shells and all.
Hey, you never know!!! My Aunt once made an Apple pie without the apples because the recipe had the lists of steps for making the pie perfect till it came to adding the apples. The directions explained how to roll out the crust, how to place the bottom one evenly and then before adding the top crust and crimping the edges ; be sure to leave small air vents by folding over the top crust with a butter knife and making 5 small vented slits to top. She did it perfectly just as it said in the directions. The directions had one more piece of advice, be sure to peel and core the apples well before cutting in quarters and slicing them as evenly as possible before adding to the already made pie crust. Can you see how directions like these, for a newbie, can make things a little more complicated than they need to be? Later when the crust started to brown too early she asked if she did something wrong. The funniest part was when she asked when was she supposed to get the apples she sliced so perfectly into the crust, the recipe didn't say when? AND then asked how was she going to do it and not mess up the crimped edges she's worked so hard to look pretty? Is that what the vent holes she had to put in the top crust were for, to put the apples in after the crust was done? Needless to say this is one if those family stories that has been passed down to her kids and is now being passed down to her grandkids.
Needless to say, DUMP CAKES are not quite as complicated for those of us who have baked for years or had someone teach us the basic techniques. But for someone who is totally new at this, has no experience at all and can't tell the difference between a T or Tbls = Tablespoon or that t or tsp= teaspoon and trying recipes like these because they are so easy
December 15, 2014
Good resource to have on hand.
February 23, 2016
Dump Cake Gourmet: 25 Outrageously Delicious Dump Cake Recipes (Dump Cake Quick and Easy Fun Recipes Cookbook)
Each recipe starts out with a pictures, servings, ingredients and how to make the dessert, along with nutritional information.
Most if not all, start out with a cake mix so very little time preparing is needed.
Low calorie cakes are also included at the end.
Each recipe starts out with a pictures, servings, ingredients and how to make the dessert, along with nutritional information.
Most if not all, start out with a cake mix so very little time preparing is needed.
Low calorie cakes are also included at the end.
February 10, 2016
Quick and Easy Recipes
I really liked this cookbook. The recipes are quick and easy to make. It even has some low calorie and gluten free recipes. I have some diabetic family members and I found a recipe in this book that I can use for them. Great cookbook
I really liked this cookbook. The recipes are quick and easy to make. It even has some low calorie and gluten free recipes. I have some diabetic family members and I found a recipe in this book that I can use for them. Great cookbook
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