Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor
by: Anne Byrn
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Ann Byrn is on to something. Her first book, The Cake Mix Doctor, showed readers how to tweak store-bought cake mixes to produce "like-homemade" treats. The sequel, Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor repeats Byrn's foolproof approach, focusing solely on chocolate. The strategy? Begin with commercial mixes like chocolate cake, devil's food, and chocolate brownie; alter them with ingredients that add flavor, such as cocoa powder, or richness and moistness, like sour cream; use homemade frostings (supermarket versions won't cut it); and you're in business. "My mission," says Byrn, "is to help busy cooks find the time to bake even when company is not coming." If her sweets lack true homemade quality, they nonetheless produce entirely creditable desserts most bakers, and those they feed, will applaud.
Beginning with a blueprint for mix-doctoring success, which includes information on pantry essentials and a useful chocolate primer, the book then presents over 150 easy recipes for a full range of chocolate layer, pound, sheet, angel food, and chiffon cakes, as well as muffins, cookies, brownies, and more. Among these, readers will surely want to try Triple Decker Raspberry Chocolate Cake, White Chocolate Peach Cake, Frozen Chocolate Neapolitan Cake, and Jessica's Caramel Chocolate Brownies. Besides more basic finishes, the frosting chapter offers recipes for the likes of Crushed Peppermint Buttercream Frosting. An introductory section presents color photos of all the cakes; Byrn also supplies interesting technical information, lore (Nuggets of Chocolate History, for one), and a chocolate cake glossary all bakers can use. --Arthur Boehm
Product Description:
The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate!Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession.
It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras-including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder-a baker at any level of experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Not to mention sheet cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes and muffins, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and bars. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book.
Ann Byrn is on to something. Her first book, The Cake Mix Doctor, showed readers how to tweak store-bought cake mixes to produce "like-homemade" treats. The sequel, Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor repeats Byrn's foolproof approach, focusing solely on chocolate. The strategy? Begin with commercial mixes like chocolate cake, devil's food, and chocolate brownie; alter them with ingredients that add flavor, such as cocoa powder, or richness and moistness, like sour cream; use homemade frostings (supermarket versions won't cut it); and you're in business. "My mission," says Byrn, "is to help busy cooks find the time to bake even when company is not coming." If her sweets lack true homemade quality, they nonetheless produce entirely creditable desserts most bakers, and those they feed, will applaud.
Beginning with a blueprint for mix-doctoring success, which includes information on pantry essentials and a useful chocolate primer, the book then presents over 150 easy recipes for a full range of chocolate layer, pound, sheet, angel food, and chiffon cakes, as well as muffins, cookies, brownies, and more. Among these, readers will surely want to try Triple Decker Raspberry Chocolate Cake, White Chocolate Peach Cake, Frozen Chocolate Neapolitan Cake, and Jessica's Caramel Chocolate Brownies. Besides more basic finishes, the frosting chapter offers recipes for the likes of Crushed Peppermint Buttercream Frosting. An introductory section presents color photos of all the cakes; Byrn also supplies interesting technical information, lore (Nuggets of Chocolate History, for one), and a chocolate cake glossary all bakers can use. --Arthur Boehm
Product Description:
The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate!Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession.
It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras-including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder-a baker at any level of experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Not to mention sheet cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes and muffins, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and bars. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book.
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- Fun cook book
I love to bake.As a mom of young kids, it is tough to bake complicated recipes.This book is perfect for me and I have never had a recipe fail.I have tweaked the recipes to my liking - I use whatever mixes I have on hand, regardless of whether the recipe says the mixes should or should not have pudding included.I also add pudding to the mixes if the recipe calls for it, regardless of the type of mix.Lastly, I only add milk in lieu of water to give the recipes that extra homemade taste.... Read More
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- Defeats the purpose
I don't return many books, but I did send this one back (don't you LOVE Amazon!). The thing is that the recipes are so complicated that you might as well bake from scratch. I don't mind baking from scratch. It's just that sometimes, I don't have the time. My hope was that this would give me a bunch of quick little things to do with a mix to make it taste not so much like a mix. Instead, it gave me a lot of recipes with a dozen ingredients -- often including buttermilk, which I never have. So, what's ... Read More
Rating: 
- Yummy in a hurry
These are great recipes to have on had when you decide to have company at the last minute!
Rating: - Chocolate Cake Doctor
Found numerous wonderful and/or easy recipes that were enjoyed by many in the Chocolate Cake Doctor.
Rating: - This book has paid for itself in ease...and compliments
I purchased both of the Cake Doctor books and I love them.This one...the Chocolate Cake Doctor...is my favorite.I was able to make a Tunnel of Fudge Bundt Cake (page 98), which was the first cake I ever baked when I was younger...but it's no longer sold as a box mix.It was easy and so much fun to revive a favorite.
Then the holidays rolled around and I decided on Debbie's Dazzling Red Velvet Cake (page 88).This was a huge hit!!!It is so beautiful that no one would ever think that ... Read More
- Fun cook bookI love to bake.As a mom of young kids, it is tough to bake complicated recipes.This book is perfect for me and I have never had a recipe fail.I have tweaked the recipes to my liking - I use whatever mixes I have on hand, regardless of whether the recipe says the mixes should or should not have pudding included.I also add pudding to the mixes if the recipe calls for it, regardless of the type of mix.Lastly, I only add milk in lieu of water to give the recipes that extra homemade taste.... Read More
- Defeats the purposeI don't return many books, but I did send this one back (don't you LOVE Amazon!). The thing is that the recipes are so complicated that you might as well bake from scratch. I don't mind baking from scratch. It's just that sometimes, I don't have the time. My hope was that this would give me a bunch of quick little things to do with a mix to make it taste not so much like a mix. Instead, it gave me a lot of recipes with a dozen ingredients -- often including buttermilk, which I never have. So, what's ... Read More
- Yummy in a hurryThese are great recipes to have on had when you decide to have company at the last minute!
- Chocolate Cake DoctorFound numerous wonderful and/or easy recipes that were enjoyed by many in the Chocolate Cake Doctor.
- This book has paid for itself in ease...and complimentsI purchased both of the Cake Doctor books and I love them.This one...the Chocolate Cake Doctor...is my favorite.I was able to make a Tunnel of Fudge Bundt Cake (page 98), which was the first cake I ever baked when I was younger...but it's no longer sold as a box mix.It was easy and so much fun to revive a favorite.
Then the holidays rolled around and I decided on Debbie's Dazzling Red Velvet Cake (page 88).This was a huge hit!!!It is so beautiful that no one would ever think that ... Read More
