The Cake Bible

The Cake Bible
by Rose Levy Beranbaum

The Cake Bible
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Author: Rose Levy Beranbaum
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1988-09-20
ISBN: 0688044026
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks

Book Reviews of The Cake Bible

Book Review: Good to a point
Summary: 4 Stars

I have loved this cookbook for the most part. I think I have gotten to accustomed to the shiny full color pages in other books I own. This only has a section of pictures in color. The rest are printed recipes. It's good information and I am grateful to have this book with so many new things to try. I just wish it were in a nicer format.

Summary of The Cake Bible

"If you ever bake a cake, this book will become your partner in the kitchen." -- from the foreword by Maida Heatter

This is the classic cake cookbook that enables anyone to make delicious, exquisite cakes. As a writer for food magazines, women's magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times, Rose Levy Beranbaum's trademark is her ability to reduce the most complex techniques to easy-to-follow recipes. Rose makes baking a joy. This is the definitive work on cakes by the country's top cake baker.

The Cake Bible shows how to:

Mix a buttery, tender layer cake in under five minutes with perfect results every time

Make the most fabulous chocolate cake you ever imagined with just three ingredients

Find recipes for every major type of cake, from pancakes to four-tiered wedding cakes

Make cakes with less sugar but maximum flavor and texture

Make many low- to no- cholesterol, low-saturated-fat recipes


Rose Levy Beranbaum is a kitchen chemist extraordinaire--this, after all, is the woman who wrote her master's thesis on the effects of sifting on the quality of yellow cake. In The Cake Bible, she explains the science behind types of leavening, the merits (or not) of sifting, melting chocolate, preheating ovens, and more. There are precise and detailed instructions for intricate wedding cakes as well as cakes that can be mixed and in the oven in five minutes. In addition, nutrition information is included with every recipe. Cake scientist Beranbaum doesn't forget the art, either; pencil drawings teach novice bakers how to create a garden full of flowers from royal icing and mushrooms from piped meringue. It's no wonder that the International Association of Culinary Professionals picked The Cake Bible as their cookbook of the year for 1988--this book has something to teach bakers at every level.

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