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I bought this book a little over a week ago and couldn't wait to get baking. This weekend I made the lemon yogurt cake and added poppy seeds and cream cheese frosting, as well as the chocolate coconut cake. They were well balanced and not overly sweet (but not under, I do like my sweets). The recipes are easy to follow and don't call for too fussy of ingredients. On top of that the book is beautifully written, designed, and photographed. I bought this on a whim and have zero regrets. :D
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After having this book for a little over a year I still love it. In quarantine I've gotten into the habit of baking something sweet every week and I am consistently reaching for this book. I read a review before saying that the recipes aren't complicated and you could find something similar online. That might be perfectly true (the book is called Simple Cake after all), but for everyday cakes and a beginner/intermediate baker I find that they are just unique enough. If there was one downside to the book I would say that she provides alternative pan sizes for all of the cakes, but they feel random to me and I only have 3 pans myself (a cake, bundt, and cupcake pan. I would prefer if she added a chart that showed pan size and bake time for all of the cake recipes. Even with that gripe, I plan to cherish this book for many years and will be buying it as a gift for others.
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The best baking cookbook
Truly, this is a wonderful baking cookbook. I enthusiastically recommend this cookbook for beginner-to-intermediate bakers looking for recipes without expensive ingredients or intricate designs. The recipes are simple but delicious results.The authors layer on complexity nicely by adding suggestions at the end of each recipe. The recipes come out very well even in mediocre to poor quality ovens that lack convection baking options (like mine). I enthusiastically recommend this cookbook.
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Shahanaz A Nomiyama
Muito bom livro! Vale a pena
Reviewed in Brazil on August 7, 2020
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Reviewed in Brazil on August 7, 2020
Adorei os 2 primeiros que fiz!! Muito simples!! Receitas que dão certo!!
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Best cake book you'll ever own
Reviewed in Canada on February 12, 2020
Kris
Reviewed in Canada on February 12, 2020
Simple Cake is organized into 4 main chapters: Let the Baking Begin!, Cakes, Cake Toppings, and Cake-Worthy Moments. I appreciate how she begins by outlining all the essential advice, equipment, and techniques you'll need and, follows this with the cake recipes and toppings. Williams even offers instructions on how to bake up cakes for any event or reason -- I already know that the "How Did You Get So Big?" Cake will be the one I bake for my daughter's upcoming birthday. Doesn't chocolate cake with marshmallow icing sound perfect? There's also a small section at the back of the book that is dedicated to ingredients. I appreciate that the book is called Simple Cake and the recipes contain a very small number of ingredients. How simple is that? The ingredients are all ones you most likely have in your pantry right now, and if you don't, then you can find them easily at the local supermarket.
I love to bake with my daughter and, Simple Cake is a great first cookbook for young bakers. With 10 cakes and 15 toppings the possibilities are limitless and offer what kids love the most: experimentation. A "choose your own cake adventure" if you will. It started with a fistful of leftover candy canes and some peppermint bark. We decided on the recipe for Very Vanilla Cake and instead of adding sprinkles for the Funfetti variation we added crushed up candy cane to the batter and a bit of peppermint extract. Our glorious creation was frosted with her Easy Creamy Icing and was then topped w/ chopped up peppermint bark. My daughter was so proud of our "Ode to Christmas" Cake! We sliced it up and she gleefully took her first bite. The look on her face is what childhood is all about. And, in case I'd forgotten, my first bite tasted like childhood too.
This is also a fun book to hand to any visitors that come to stay. Once the book is in their hands you tell them to choose a cake to make. When my dad was here, he picked out the Cinnamon Spice Cake and when my MIL came to stay, she chose the Bribery Cake (the Chocolatey Chocolate Cake topped with Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream). My Mother-In-Law loves anything chocolate (my husband comes by it honestly!) so I was excited to bake her something special. This cake is perfection on a plate but, to be honest, it’s so much more. About three years ago I saw a gloriously layered and buttercreamed cake I wanted to make for my daughter’s birthday. The cake turned out fine, but that buttercream was such a fail that it brought me to tears (and, of all the things that do bring me to tears, food usually isn’t one). But with Willams’ tips and instructions I was able to overcome my fears and try again. This luscious frosting has been renamed (in my mind) “No Tears Swiss Meringue Buttercream” — it’s the perfect topping for a cake that I’m calling the “Have Faith Chocolate Cake” because when you pour the batter into the cake pan it’s so soupy you wonder (doubt) how it will ever bake, but, it does! (A good metaphor for life when you wonder how it can get better/turn out, then magic happens).
Another favourite I enjoyed making was the Cinnamon Spice Cake (full of beautiful ingredients like spelt flour, honey, and applesauce) which I frosted with the Cream Cheese Frosting and sprinkled with chopped, toasted pecans. The cake smelled like a dream while it baked! I chose to bake it as a 9X13" sheet cake but Williams also gives options (as she does with all of the cake recipes) for other sizes. Just as the cake for Cookbook Club was finishing baking, I got to work mixing up the Very Vanilla Cake recipe using the Funfetti variation for my family. I made it in a 6" springform pan -- a perfectly petite afternoon treat and, I also used some clear, imitation vanilla extract to really double down on those Betty Crocker-laced memories of funfetti cakes of my childhood. As soon as the cake cooled, I dusted it with icing sugar and then I whipped up a batch of Nutella Whipped Cream.
Some cookbooks can act like a safety net -- even when you're not sure of anything you can trust the recipes. Simple Cake is the cookbook I turned to so that I wouldn't show up empty handed to my cookbook club meeting and as I took the carrying lid off my cake carrier at the meeting, I knew that the cake would be loved. Sharing it with the group, I think that this is a cookbook everyone should have in their life. Even with a small, unassuming book like, Simple Cake, it's one that will bring much joy to your kitchen like it has in mine.
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Best cake book I have ever owned!
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