| Foreword |
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8 | (2) |
| So, You Want to Bake a Cake, Huh? |
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10 | (4) |
| How to Use This Book |
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14 | (1) |
| You'll Need Some Equipment |
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15 | (2) |
| The Man Catcher---Sour Cream Pound Cake: Your Introduction to Cake Baking |
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17 | (5) |
| A Word about Pans |
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22 | (6) |
| How to tell if your cake is done and how to get it out of the pan |
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28 | (3) |
| True Cake Lore |
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31 | (1) |
| What's in That Cake? A Briefing on Ingredients, with Tips |
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32 | (9) |
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Easy Cakes for Early Enthusiasts |
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41 | (44) |
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Brown Sugar Pound Cake: How Come Ya Taste So Good, Now? |
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42 | (3) |
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Missy G's Sweet Potato Pound Cake: A Lesson in Re-caking |
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45 | (3) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (2) |
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Procrastinatin Drunken Monkey Banana Bread (New Technique Alert! Plumping Dried Fruit with Rum) |
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52 | (2) |
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The Barefoot Contessa's Sour Cream Coffee Cake: Culinary and Cinematic History---All in One Recipe! |
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54 | (3) |
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Argroves Manor Coffee Cake |
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57 | (3) |
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Miss Saigon Cinnamon Almond Coffee Cake |
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60 | (2) |
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Dorie Greenspan's Swedish Visiting Cake (New Technique Alert! Toasting Nuts and Folding) |
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62 | (3) |
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Dorie Greenspan's Rum-Drenched Vanilla Cakes |
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65 | (2) |
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Of Office Cake and Office Cake Eaters |
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67 | (1) |
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Gingerbread, Glorious Gingerbread |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (3) |
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Like, Baking with Chocolate: A Few Things You Should Know |
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74 | (3) |
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77 | (2) |
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Mary Carole Battle's Mother's Wacky Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting: Chocolate Cake with Less Fuss (New Technique Alert! Separating Eggs) |
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79 | (3) |
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Cocoa Bread with Stewed Yard Peaches |
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82 | (3) |
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Bring Me Bundts and Bring Me More Spice and Vice! |
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85 | (48) |
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Gimme Them Purdy Cakes! A Brief History of the Bundt Pan |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (2) |
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91 | (2) |
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The Naughty Senator: Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake (New Technique Alert! Marbling) |
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93 | (3) |
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Paula Deen's Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake |
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96 | (2) |
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98 | (3) |
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101 | (1) |
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Hey, Lady---Nice Rack! Things you might like to know about what makes little girls so nice |
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102 | (3) |
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Spanish Meringue Cake (New Technique Alert! Beating Egg Whites) |
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105 | (3) |
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Honey Spice Cake with Rum Glaze |
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108 | (2) |
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Holiday Honey Cake: Another Adventure in Re-caking |
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110 | (2) |
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112 | (3) |
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Black Walnut Cake: Smells Like a Pancake, but Tastes Like a Cake! |
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115 | (2) |
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Banana Cake with Chocolate Frosting: Smells Like Banana Bread, but Tastes Like Cake! |
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117 | (2) |
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Fresh Apple Cake: Ah, Yes, This Is Another Family Story |
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119 | (2) |
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The Fruit Voted ``Mr. Popularity'': Baked Apple |
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121 | (1) |
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Paula Deen's Grandgirl's Fresh Apple Cake from Georgia: Coconut Haters Beware---You Might Actually Like This Cake |
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122 | (3) |
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Peach Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting: Yet Another Score for Those Small-Town, Community Cookbooks! |
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125 | (1) |
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Faux Fruitcake: A Fruitcake for Those Who Despise Fruitcake |
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126 | (3) |
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Martha Washington's Great Cake: The Cake That Launched the Cake Project and This Here Book! |
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129 | (4) |
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133 | (16) |
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OH, you'd better believe it happens... The Mistress of Cake Sometimes Gets Sick of Cake |
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134 | (3) |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (2) |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (5) |
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Layer Cakes, Angel Food Cakes, Moderately Sinful Cakes, All on the Road to Heaven and Hell |
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149 | (63) |
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Welcome to the Fancy-Pants Zone! Hard Hat Required |
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150 | (4) |
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154 | (3) |
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Poor Niece Melissa's Humble Attempt at Re-creating Aunt Di's Bittersweet-Chocolate Frosted Layer Cake (New Technique Alert! Unmolding and Dividing Layers, Frosting Layer Cakes) |
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157 | (5) |
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162 | (2) |
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Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake: Another Option for the Whipped Cream Cake |
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164 | (3) |
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Coconut/Not Coconut Cake: A Compromise of Congressional Proportions |
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167 | (1) |
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Alma's Italian Cream Cake: Yes, It's Got Coconut in It! And Wanuts! |
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168 | (2) |
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Sour Cream Spice Cake with Orange Butter Frosting |
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170 | (2) |
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172 | (1) |
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Devil's Food Cake with Quick Fudge Icing and Raspberry Jam: If You're Going to Sin, Sin Big |
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173 | (2) |
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Like, Baking with Chocolate: Part II |
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175 | (2) |
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Dark-Chocolate: Red Velvet Cake: For Those for Whom Plain Red Velvet Cake Is Too Jejune |
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177 | (2) |
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Triple Chocolate Orange Passion Cake |
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179 | (2) |
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German's Chocolate Cake: Achtung! Nicht Deutsch! |
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181 | (3) |
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Angel Food Cake: Not as Hard or as Caloric as You Think |
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184 | (2) |
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Chocolate Angel Food Cake: For That Saint with PMS |
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186 | (1) |
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Lady and Lord Baltimore Cakes: A Demi-Royal Experience with Divinity Frosting |
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187 | (6) |
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193 | (4) |
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Appalachian Stack Cake: You'll Never Make Fun of Meemaw and Pawpaw Again |
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197 | (4) |
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201 | (2) |
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Dark Chocolate Peppermint Pattie Cake |
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203 | (6) |
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Stephen Pyles's Heaven and Hell Cake: The Liberace of Layer Cakes |
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209 | (3) |
| So, You've Baked Many a Cake, Huh? |
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212 | (2) |
| Acknowledgments |
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214 | (2) |
| Sources |
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216 | (2) |
| Index |
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218 | (6) |
| Table of Equivalents |
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