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A nostalgic ode to the joy of homemade cake, beautifully photographed and with easy mix-and-match recipes for a sweet lift any day of the week.
Everyone has a favorite style of cake, whether it's citrusy and fresh or chocolatey and indulgent. All of these recipes and more are within your reach in Simple Cake, a love letter from Brooklyn apron and bakeware designer Odette Williams to her favorite treat. With easy recipes and inventive decorating ideas, Williams gives you recipes for 10 base cakes, 15 toppings, and endless decorating ideas to yield a treat--such as Milk Honey Cake, Coconut Cake, Summer Berry Pavlova, and Chocolatey Chocolate Cake--for any occasion. Williams also addresses the fundamentals for getting cakes just right, with foolproof recipes that can be cranked out whenever the urge strikes. Gorgeous photography, along with Williams's warm and heartfelt writing, elevate this book into something truly special.
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"Such a beautiful beautiful book. It really belongs on the coffee table, inspiring another coffee and piece of cake. Odette, this is a truly glorious cake experience, and thrilled to find a pavlova inside too. Highly recommend to anyone who has a family and loves to occasionally (now a lot more often) bake cake! Simply a joy. Must buy. Especially lovely gift for a friend, take a cake from the book along too! :)"
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Simple Cake All You Need to Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake edition by Odette Williams Cookbooks Food Wine eBooks Reviews :
Simple Cake All You Need to Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake edition by Odette Williams Cookbooks Food Wine eBooks Reviews
- I am one of the few that disagreed with other 5-star reviews.
To begin with, there are basically 10 basic recipes in the book--or 7, if you leave out madeleines, meringue, and almond gato. The last one also doesn't come with a picture so I still have no idea of what it is. The rest 2/3 of the book are about ways to make variations out of whatever. I wouldn't say the cookbook is bad, but it is overpriced.
It is also very basic. I don't think "simple" and "basic" are always synonymous, but the basic here means you could also easily find other similar cake recipes online (i.e. basic chocolate cakes, basic vanilla cake, and Ina's famous lemon yogurt loaf etc.). If you happen to have other cookbooks on baking, you'll most likely already have those recipes. I wouldn't say the recipes are bad, but they are not special or unique to me.
If you don't have any, this could be a nice "introductory" cake book for you. But if I were a true novice for cake-baking, would I be willing to pay for $15 (+Tax) for this book (as opposed to getting some recipes from the Internet to start with)? I probably wouldn't. - I would really like to give this 4.5 stars because this book is excellent at what it sets out to do (provide unfussy, delicious cake recipes) but does have some significant gaps.
Simple Cake IS for you if you
~Want a few carefully curated recipes with LOTS of suggested variations to customize them. I call this book choose your own adventures with cake because each recipe has a list of flavor, size, and topping variations that makes it easy to have an astonishing amount of variety from just ten base cake recipes. It's incredibly fun.
~Live surrounded by chaos and still want to bake. The author is a parent who bakes with her family, and it definitely shows with recipes that use minimal dishes and can be followed even while distracted. I successfully made the coconut cake with simple glaze while talking on the phone and the lemon yogurt cake with silky marshmallow frosting with interruptions and intermittent help from my six- and nine-year-olds, and it all turned out scrumptious.
~Gravitate toward simple, rustic, unfussy bakes. Many of these recipes are designed so that you can be sitting down eating your sugary creation an hour and a half after you started baking. It's very nearly instant gratification.
Simple Cake is NOT for you if you
~Want carrot cake. (I'm slightly bitter because as soon as I found out that I was getting this book, I planned to make carrot cake the instant it arrived. I was SO EXCITED to try a new take on my favorite cake only to find out when the book arrived two weeks later that there's no carrot cake recipe. Boo.)
~Want a comprehensive book of cake recipes and techniques. In spite of the incredibly audacious claim that these are the only only cake recipes you'll ever need, there are some big omissions. Even if you don't count some of the trickier cakes (and I DO count them) like swiss rolls, angel food, genoise, etc., there are classics that are conspicuously absent. Where's the German Chocolate Cake? Where's the cheesecake? Where's the *cough, cough* CARROT CAKE?
~Want a cookbook that includes decorating techniques and tips for polished finished products. This book is all about simple and quick and charmingly rustic rather than flawless. It's a breath of fresh air, yes, and makes everyday cake friendly and accessible, but if you're aiming for fancy, special occasion polish, look somewhere else.
~Want vegan cake. A couple of the recipes could easily use egg and milk substitutes, but I think you'd have to be a fairly experienced baker to figure out how make it work. It would have been nice if the author had included a few vegan substitution suggestions in the plethora of possible variations offered. There's a gluten free recipe, why not include a vegan one as well?
One final note If you are a high altitude baker, the necessary alterations for your cakes to bake correctly are not included in the text. Usually adding an additional 1/4-1/2 cup of flour to the dry ingredients does the trick, but sometimes cooking times and temperatures need to be adjusted as well.
Thank you, @tenspeedpress for the free book! - 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 fussy ingredients. On top of that the book is beautifully written, designed, and photographed. I bought this on a whim and have zero regrets. D
- Such a beautiful beautiful book. It really belongs on the coffee table, inspiring another coffee and piece of cake. Odette, this is a truly glorious cake experience, and thrilled to find a pavlova inside too. Highly recommend to anyone who has a family and loves to occasionally (now a lot more often) bake cake! Simply a joy. Must buy. Especially lovely gift for a friend, take a cake from the book along too! )
- Whether your a novice Baker like myself, or a cake pro, this book will be on constant rotation in your kitchen. The recipes are mix-and-match, with lots of bases and toppings, with easy to follow instructions and beautiful photos to serve as a guide. The ingredients are pared down to the essentials. My whole family was so pleased with my fluffy madeleines. I plan to bake my way through the entire book!
- This is a straightforward, easy to use cake making book you and yours will enjoy day in and day out.
We have ordered 3 so far, 2 of those for gifts to dear ones. Definitely worth check it out.
In addition, the photography is not only enticing, it comes from real life moments with loved ones.
Kudos Odette Williams!
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