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Birthday Cakes, Cookbook of the Day

Most families have one person who is responsible for baking the cakes for birthdays and other occasions. It might be a grandmother who bakes her famous coconut cake everyone loves or an enthusiastic child whose greatest love is elaborately decorating sheet cakes made with box mixes, but there is always one. When you are that one person, sometimes you run out of ideas. Even grandma must get tired of her coconut cake every once in a while.

Birthday Cakes: Recipes and Memories from Celebrated Bakers is a good book to get inspired by.

The book is packed with stunningly beautiful cakes, recipes to go with them and stories from bakers who moved from being "the one" in their family to making a career out of something that they loved to do. Recipes come from cooks like Alice Waters, Julia Child, James Beard and Alice Medrich. They are cakes that will take birthdays and other celebrations to a new level, not just variations on the same old thing, so if you're up for the challenge of tacking something new, like a Princess Cake, you will be well rewarded when it is met with oohs and aahs at serving time.

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Tags: alice bedrich, baking, birthday, birthday cake, cake, cakes, cookbook, cookbook of the day, dessert, james beard, julia child, parties, party

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jenjen

8-24-2006 @10:36AM jenjen said... Oh I have been eyeing this book for a while now. I would have already gotten if it weren't for the price. It's quite expensive down here and they only sell the hard cover version.
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