Cakes: 1001 Classic Recipes: 1001 AUTHENTIC RECIPES | 
| Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Readers Digest
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 130479
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 9.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0762104031
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.815
EAN: 9780762104031
Publication Date: November 10, 2003
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Condition: remainder mark
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Book Description
You'll find 1,001 delicious cake recipes-from family favorites to exotic cakes from around the world-in this mouthwatering cookbook. Step-by-step instructions make baking perfect cakes foolproof, and helpful hints and tips guide the baker to the best results. Each recipe is ranked by difficulty, from super-easy to the more challenging.
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 A Baker's Dream January 2, 2008
I bought this book, and absolutely love to bake from it. There are many eccentric, difficult cakes, but for the beginner, there are simply easy, yet delicious cakes that you can bake for any occasion. The cakes in this collection are very good and delicious, and if you have a baker in your family, you already have a birthday, anniversary, wedding, etc. present. It won't disappoint!
 Dissapointed September 15, 2007
I bought this book because the cover made my mouth water. I ordered it for a really good price and anxiously awaited it's arrival. Well, when it came I was extremley dissapointed. I do not recognize some of the ingredients in the cakes that I was interested in and alot of things seem geared toward experienced bakers. But the majority of the cakes in this book I would not even try. The cover is still beautiful though.
gift for girlfriend January 6, 2007
this book was a gift for my girlfriend as she loves to bake. she likes this book for some of the older reciepes that it has.
 For Experienced Bakers Only. March 22, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a valuable collection of Italian cakes that you probably have never eaten, much less even heard of before. On the down side, half of the recipes in this book simply do not work as written.
If you are an experienced baker, this book is an invaluable encyclopedia of Italian cakes. Each and every recipe that you can get to work from this book will be a revelation to your dining guests, in that they are neither German, Austrian, American, nor French in influence. The combination of flavors are uniquely Italian, underappreciated in this country, and therefore valuable and sure to amaze and surprise your diners. You are on your own, however, in choosing those recipes that will work, and being able to get faulty or incomplete recipes to work correctly.
If you are an average home cook, however, avoid this book. There is no educational information, and no helpful hints. This is a big problem, in that many recipes are rather tricky and require experience to pull off correctly. Almost all recipes need additional techniques to do correctly, and these techniques are not spelled out (an experience baker, however, should be able to supply the missing bits). The recipes appear to be a simple cut and paste affair, cribbing from many sources far and wide, but without all the explanatory stuff you would normally expect to get in addition to just the recipe.
(...) February 20, 2006
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I love this cookbook more than a fat kid likes cake.
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