Cake Books.

January 30, 2012 in Books by somethingboutrenes | 7 comments

With him all interested in baking bread, I have a sudden urge to pick up baking cakes too! My cake baking experience is an embarrassment of the century. I’m mortified by my edible but slightly lumpy Oreo Cheesecake (I call it Chunky Cheesecake), slippery strawberry cheesecake (that never set and turned into yogurt once I removed the cake tin) and my recent fruit cake episode (which was all burnt on the top).

But I am still determined (at least for a short while) to try my hands on baking again!

After a quick research online through various forums and top cake recipe authors, I’ve a list of authors who are popular among cake bakers. The “+” means the number of people who said it is good in a forum I read. After I read the reviews in eBay, Amazon and a few others, these authors are mostly good. If there is 1 person who said it is bad, I will strike it off my list. So what’s left is here, some of them gave a specific book title that is good some just listed that the author is good.

I have top 4 books which I am really interested (which I have included the pictures) but I should check it out at Kino before buying them, some of the books are really old so I got to see if the language is easy to understand. Haha.

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Nick Malgieri – Perfect Cakes (+ 5) Someone called him King of Cakes

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Tish Boyle – The Cake Book (+ 4)

Dorie Greenspan (+3)

Carole Walter – Great cakes / Perfect cakes (+ 3)

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Marcel Desaulniers – Desserts to Die for / Death by Chocolate (+ 2)

Maida Haetter (+ 2) The someone also called her the queen of cakes

James Mcnair (+ 1)

Rose Levy Beranbaum (+ 1) She wrote The Cake Bible which is well received by experience cake baker.

Anyone tried their recipes? Any other recommendations?

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  1. somethingboutrenes’s avatar

    somethingboutrenes on January 30, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    Oops. I just read that Nick Malgieri – Perfect Cakes may not be suitable for novice!

    Shucks. I’m looking at The Perfect Cake by Susan Gold Purdy. Hmm. Anyone has any recommendation? I want to research more before committing to one because I want to at least bake a few cakes from a book! haha

  2. Lady J’s avatar

    Lady J on January 31, 2012 at 2:38 am

    I’m sure your cake skills will improve with time :)

  3. somethingboutrenes’s avatar

    somethingboutrenes on January 31, 2012 at 7:16 am

    Haha I hope so too!

  4. SQ’s avatar

    SQ on January 31, 2012 at 10:21 am

    Since he is so into the baking.. let him work and u enjoy the goodies (or spoils whilst he is trying to get it right). :)

  5. somethingboutrenes’s avatar

    somethingboutrenes on January 31, 2012 at 11:57 am

    Lol!! He is only interested in bread and not sweet treats!

  6. Justina’s avatar

    Justina on January 31, 2012 at 11:27 pm

    All the best in your baking adventures! I usually snitch recipes off the Net, easier and faster hahahha. And I prefer baking cakes to cookies any day….my cookies always don turn out like they shud :S

  7. somethingboutrenes’s avatar

    somethingboutrenes on January 31, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    Any tried and tested recipe to share?? :)