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All Cakes Considered
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All Cakes Considered

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Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetimeincluding Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam CakeAll Cakes Considered is an essential addition to every baker's library.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 1, 2010
ISBN9781452100135
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Melissa Gray

Melissa Gray is the mother of six children and a proud new grandmother. She owns living Waters Yoga in Grosse Pointe Michigan and enjoys leading worship at Grace Community Church in Detroit. Her life message has been to lead others into wholeness, healing and freedom.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Brilliantly written and the first two cakes turned out flawlessly.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I have a self confessed sweet tooth that is most partial to cakes - rather than just sweets -candy or cookies do not hold as much appeal for me as does an ohlalala cake! Maybe I shared some cake with Marie Antoinette in a past life?! Well at any rate this is one of those cake cookbooks that you absolutlely must not miss out on owning. Hurry to you local book store - or if you are isolated as I am - to your favorite on line book purveyor - and order this one up! you will not be disappointed.This book came about as producer Melissa Gray wends her way through a year full of cakes that pleased her fellow NPR work mates. I think that this book is notable in it's appeal not just to the seasoned cake baker but to the budding cake aesthete as Ms. Gray shares cake secrets that she has learned along the way. Interesting anecdotes, recipes culled from lots of places & many people. This book is exceptional and won't fail to please those of us that adore cake in all of it's sublime shapes & sizes (and who may try to hide that extra 'sliver' we ferret out the door without anyone noticing!)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What a treat! Simply stated, All Cakes Considered is the most delightful cookbook I’ve purchased in ages. It has so much going for it I’m not even sure where to start. Well, I guess I should start with the recipes. Obviously, it’s a book of cake recipes, and in the course of the 52 recipes in the book, Melissa Gray includes cakes both simple and challenging. Along the way, she helpfully calls out “New Technique Alerts!” to assist bakers who are still acquiring their skills. The recipes include layer cakes, sheet cakes, bundt cakes, coffee cakes, and more. There’s even a chapter called “Break from Cake” that features a selection cookies and fried pies, just to shake things up. The cakes themselves range from old standbys like Sour Cream Pound Cake, Gingerbread, Tunnel of Fudge Cake, and Red Velvet Cake to more exotic fare such as The Naughty Senator: Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake or Procrastinatin’ Drunken Monkey Banana Bread.Do you detect a hint of humor in some of the cake names? Believe me, it carries over in the text. I don’t necessarily read all of my cookbooks from cover to cover, but this book is a pure delight to read. I found Ms. Gray’s voice to be so darn likeable, and I really enjoyed the down to earth language of both the text and the easy-to-follow recipe directions. She tells some fun stories and breaks up the text with a variety of entertaining and educational sidebars.A final note on the photographs—they are lovely and abundant throughout the book. They illustrate both baking techniques and beautiful recipe presentations. I look forward to using this charming resource for years to come. Peach Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is up next!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Lovely cake recipes and related lore. These are a bit too involved for my tastes (special ingredients, lots of steps) but they are delicious. She also gives great pointers for understanding and mastering cake techniques.