One Pot Cakes: 60 Recipes for Cakes from Scratch Using a Pot, a Spoon, and a Pan - Hardcover

Andrew Schloss; Ken Bookman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688141382 ISBN 13: 9780688141387

Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks, 1995

Synopsis

A collection of simplified cake recipes enables readers to prepare cakes in ten minutes with a minimum of tools and includes such selections as Chocolate Fudge Cake, Lemon Poppy Seed Cake, and Perfectly Plain Cheesecake. 20,000 first printing. First serial, Family Circle.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Schloss is the author with Ken Bookman of Fifty Ways to Cook Most Everything, Dinner's Ready, and One-Pot Cakes.

Reviews

"I've done the impossible," announces Schloss, former director of the Restaurant School in Philadelphia. He may be right. New to the culinary curriculum, this is Cakes 101, more a celebration of cooking from scratch than a course in elaborate, dazzle-the-guests desserts. The one-pot method streamlines the baking process to its least complicated, something possible with just a wooden spoon, a heavy-bottomed, three-quart saucepan and the baking pan. The method includes such steps as half-melting the butter and bypassing sifting (baking power and soda are added in pinches). Recipes begin with a selection of 10 chocolate cakes (among them Devil's Food); other chapters embrace coffee cakes (Traditional Sour Cream Coffee Cake), cupcakes, flourless cakes (the Chocolate Almond Torte is worth the price of admission); fruit and vegetable cakes and sheet cakes all follow. The finishing touch is icing. Prepared with food editor Bookman, this selection isn't for the baker looking for a challenge but for the time-short cook seeking to please with a fresh-baked cake cooling on the counter.
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Here are two baking books offering easy desserts?one of them, really easy desserts. Schloss and Bookman are the authors of Dinner's Ready (LJ 2/15/95), a good weekly menu-planning cookbook. Inspired by a friend's chocolate cake recipe, Schloss discovered how to put together a cake using just one pot or bowl and a wooden spoon, and he's come up with lots more chocolate cakes, cupcakes, coffee cakes, even bar cookies. Most take only minutes to prepare, but they are indeed cakes made from scratch, and most seem delicious. Haedrich is the author of several other cookbooks, including Country Breakfasts (LJ 11/15/94), but baking is his first love. His desserts range from homey to elegant, from Brownie Pudding Cake to Coffee Shortbread Cookies to Maple Mousse with Toasted Hazelnuts. They are simple to make but not always quick to prepare; usually, however, the different components for more complicated desserts can be made in advance. Haedrich writes well, and his recipes are so good and varied that most bakers will want to plunge right in. Both titles are recommended for most collections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688141382
• ISBN 13: 9780688141387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 105