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Favorite Cakes

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Favorite Cakes by Williams-Sonoma is a delightful cookbook that explores a wide array of cake recipes suitable for every occasion. It includes classic favourites along with innovative creations, offering step-by-step instructions for both novice and experienced bakers. The book aims to inspire bakers to create mouth-watering cakes with ease, focusing on flavour and beautiful presentation.
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If you enjoy baking and are looking for a collection of delectable cake recipes, this book will delight you with its variety and creativity. Perfect for both novice and experienced bakers, it offers detailed instructions and tips to help you create beautiful and delicious cakes for any occasion.

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Cakesβ€”perhaps one of the most special and versatile dessertsβ€”are the perfect way to mark an occasion or sweeten an ordinary day.

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From sheet cakes to tea cakes, mini cakes and 'naked' cakes, to cakes with over-the-top decorations for special events, this inspiring and exquisite collection includes cakes for any day of the year.

Cakes, perhaps one of the most special and versatile desserts, are the perfect way to mark an occasion or sweeten an ordinary day. Whether you're looking for a multi-tiered cake to impress a crowd, a simple and fruity cake to serve with tea, or a decorative holiday cake, Favorite Cakes includes all these and more.

Simple, easy-to-follow directions, ideas for customizing, decorating tips and techniques, and solutions to common baking mistakes will help bakers of every level make the most of this book. Organized by basic recipes, modern, and specialty cakes, and including 40 recipes and full-colour photography, there's a cake for every occasion.

You'll find essential frostings, meringue, and other cake toppers. Discover reinvented classics, such as Champagne and Raspberry Mini Layer Cake, Rose and Vanilla Bean Mini Tea Cakes, Coconut and Lime Curd Layer Cake, Blood Orange Chiffon Cake, Dulce de Leche Crepe Cake, and Brown Butter and Plum Upside Down Cake.

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Favorite Cakes by Williams-Sonoma has been praised for its beautiful photography and clear instructions, making it an ideal resource for both novice and experienced bakers. Reviewers appreciate the diverse selection of classic and innovative cake recipes. While some found the ingredients a bit challenging to find, the results were generally considered worth the effort.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781681883205

Publisher: Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 December 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 600g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Since its founding by Chuck Williams in 1956, the Williams Sonoma brand has been bringing people together around food. Williams-Sonoma is a leading specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home, providing world-class service and an engaging customer experience.

The Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen spearheads the development of culinary content for the brand’s catalog, website, blog, social media programs, cooking schools, and special events.

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