Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor - Softcover

Byrn, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761122710 ISBN 13: 9780761122715

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Ann Byrn is on to something. Her first book, The Cake Mix Doctor, showed readers how to tweak store-bought cake mixes to produce "like-homemade" treats. The sequel, Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor repeats Byrn's foolproof approach, focusing solely on chocolate. The strategy? Begin with commercial mixes like chocolate cake, devil's food, and chocolate brownie; alter them with ingredients that add flavor, such as cocoa powder, or richness and moistness, like sour cream; use homemade frostings (supermarket versions won't cut it); and you're in business. "My mission," says Byrn, "is to help busy cooks find the time to bake even when company is not coming." If her sweets lack true homemade quality, they nonetheless produce entirely creditable desserts most bakers, and those they feed, will applaud.

Beginning with a blueprint for mix-doctoring success, which includes information on pantry essentials and a useful chocolate primer, the book then presents over 150 easy recipes for a full range of chocolate layer, pound, sheet, angel food, and chiffon cakes, as well as muffins, cookies, brownies, and more. Among these, readers will surely want to try Triple Decker Raspberry Chocolate Cake, White Chocolate Peach Cake, Frozen Chocolate Neapolitan Cake, and Jessica's Caramel Chocolate Brownies. Besides more basic finishes, the frosting chapter offers recipes for the likes of Crushed Peppermint Buttercream Frosting. An introductory section presents color photos of all the cakes; Byrn also supplies interesting technical information, lore (Nuggets of Chocolate History, for one), and a chocolate cake glossary all bakers can use. --Arthur Boehm

From the Back Cover:

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 this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761122710
• ISBN 13: 9780761122715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464