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All Cakes Considered
A Year's Worth of Weekly Recipes Tested, Tasted, and Approved by the Staff of NPR's "All Things Considered"
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Melissa Gray started as a baking novice, but soon became National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brought a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share.
Following the more than fifty recipes in this book, readers can develop their cake-baking skills alongside Melissa—and enjoy irresistible treats like Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake, and more.
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October 12, 2021 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781452100135
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781452100135
- File size: 9444 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from September 29, 2009
Turning the offices of National Public Radio into a sugar-dusted gastrolab, NPR producer Gray (of the news program All Things Considered) spent a year testing cake recipes on coworkers to find the most satisfying among them. The result is this eclectic but cohesive cookbook, with a gentle learning curve especially useful for novices. An untrained pastry chef herself, Gray begins with a basic, lemon-glazed sour cream pound cake (which she calls the "Man Catcher") that introduces several key baking techniques: creaming the butter and sugar, incorporating eggs, beating batter, and lining the pan. She increases the skill level gradually as she goes, moving on to bundt, layer, and fruit cakes, followed by trickier temptations like angel food cake and the spicy, molasses-rich Appalachian Stack Cake. Each recipe comes with the story of its origin, reception, and variants. Readers will spot many bold-faced culinary names like Paula Deen and Ina Garten, but also obscure sources like out-of-print cookbooks, local publications, and small-town prizewinners. A handful of no-cake recipes includes cowboy cookies, butterscotch bars, and sinful fried pies. The instructional tone and homespun quality are signature NPR ingredients; fans of the network will find this cookbook a useful and companionable tool for family eating, potlucks, and easy entertaining. -
May 1, 2012
Self-trained baker and NPR producer Gray offers a delectable collection of 50-plus recipes that will please both beginners and more established bakers.
Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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