Great Cakes: Over 250 Recipes to Bake, Share, and Enjoy

by Carole Walter

Carole Walter has had a love affair with baking since she was a child. That passion has flowered into a professional career that has taken Walter around the world to study baking and the culinary arts with renowned chefs in Austria, Denmark, France, and Italy, as well as in the United States. For twenty years she has been sharing this wealth of expertise with her own students, and now she shares it with you.
With Carole Walter at your side, you will be able to achieve professional results every time. Her clear instructions and invaluable tips will help you avoid the common pitfalls that every baker, no matter how experienced, faces from time to time.
Many of the cake recipes in Great Cakes can be baked in under an hour and don't require frosting or filling, yet they are attractive enough to serve to company. Here are recipes for Old-Fashioned Pound Cake and Streusel Lemon Torte, Chocolate Marble Cheesecake and Italian Purple Plum Cake, and more -- over 250 recipes in all.
You'll also find an array of basic butter cakes, jelly roll cakes, coffee cakes and cheese cakes, as well as cakes that have fruit, nuts, and vegetables as their main ingredients. Once you've mastered the basics, you can go on to fillings, frostings, glazes, and toppings for glorious results.
A complete compendium of cake recipes, this is the only cake baking book you'll ever need, the one you'll use again and again to make simple yet utterly delicious cakes for your family and friends. Great Cakes is more than a "cookbook" -- it's a baking course between two covers.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Food, Cooking

592 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Mercury1122 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic explanations of technique, the science behind the techniques, and reasons common problems occur in baking cakes. Easy to read and extremely comprehensive in it's scope of baking cakes. Lots of unique cake recipes from around the world and wonderful histories and stories to accompany each recipe. Only drawback is that there are very few pictures of actual cakes.

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have not made as many of these cakes as I would like to have tried--she is an excellent cookbook writer for the baker and I would like to do more

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great basics & many variations

[Dray · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent collection of cakes. I liked the variety, the historical inclusion, the how to early chapters and much more. Worthy of winning the James beard award. Recommended.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Carol is an excellent teacher.

[Irma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very comprehensive book of cakes.