| | |  | Desserts and Breads | Home » » » Rose's Heavenly Cakes | | | | | | | Description: | | This comprehensive guide will help home bakers to create delicious, decadent, and spectacularly beautiful cakes of all kinds with confidence and ease. With her precise, foolproof recipes, Rose shows you how to create everything from Heavenly Coconut Seduction Cake, Golden Lemon Almond Cake, and Devil's Food Cake with Midnight Ganache to Orange-Glow Chiffon Layer Cake, Mud Turtle Cupcakes, and Deep Chocolate Passion Wedding Cake. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780471781738
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Rose Levy Beranbaum | | Hardcover:
| 512 pages | | Publisher:
| Wiley | | Publication Date:
| September 22, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0471781738 | | Package Length:
| 10.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 4.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 56 reviews |
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 Wonderful cake recipes!Sep 08, 2010
You can't go wrong with any of the recipes written by Rose Levy! She's always sure to please!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Fantastic - almost better than The Cake BibleAug 18, 2010
Almost better than "The Cake Bible" is high praise from me - that cookbook got me through the harrowing ordeal of making my first wedding cake (long before I was really "ready.") Now with 5 large wedding cakes - and dozens of other "special occasion" cakes - behind me, "Heavenly Cakes" has become my new obsession.
This one is a lot of fun; many of the recipes seem much more "approachable" than a lot of the ones I've made from my "sacred" Cake Bible. I've been baking from "Heavenly Cakes" since I got it for Christmas and everything has been wonderful - but best of all is the Apricot Roll w/ Rose's new lacquer glaze - just stunning in appearance and absolutely delicious. I made the new banana cake last week and was skeptical that it could beat the one from "The Cake Bible" and I'm afraid to say - it DID! I made a double recipe for 10 people - two of whom didn't make it and still not a crumb was left at the end of the party!
The pictures are fantastic - well detailed and show steps not usually seen in most cookbooks. Usually I'm a little apprehensive about the next call I get from someone wanting to order a wedding cake but now I'm praying someone will want that gorgeous chocolate wedding cake from this book.
My only complaint is that this book is sure to literally fall apart from continual use - just like every other "Rose" cookbook I own. (Seriously, if any publishers read this - you guys *have* to use better glue for Rose's cookbooks - they see A LOT of action in a kitchen like mine!)
2 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Not so heavenly...Aug 15, 2010
I love to bake and have made many complicated cakes requiring tiers, ganache, buttercreams, fruit fillings, etc. In looking for some new recipes, I found this book, which was highly rated, and following using the search inside the book feature, it looked like there were some absolutely gorgeous cakes inside. So, I purchased it.
The first cake that I made was the whipped cream cake, which was good, but baked domed and remained that way following cooling. Accoringly, the bundt did not sit flat on the cake (I chose not to level the bottom following turning it out onto the plate, as this would have involved cutting off a significant amount of cake.
Today I've been working on Woody's Lemon Luxury Layer Cake, and thus far (all components completed, cake not yet assembled) again am not pleased. The cakes baked unevenly (no it is not my oven, as verified by an oven thermometer, and success with recipes from other books), and upon cooling, fell in the centers, on the exposed face. When flipped over, they appear beautiful, but I am sure that there will be texture issues. The white chocolate lemon buttercream tastes wonderful, but is not the yellow color pictured in the beautiful picture from the book. Instead it is a creamy light yellow color in lieu of the vibrant color shown in the cookbook.
The only think I can think of is that Rose's Cake strips are required. I use magic line pans and haven't required the use of cake strips in the past with recipes from various other sources, both online and in books other than this.
It is sad that these beautiful recipes do not execute well. Very disappointing. Even more disappointing is the cost of these failures, between eggs, white chocolate, and cream, this is not cheap.
The directions also leave something to be desired. For example, when making the white chocolate lemon buttercream, the reader is instructed to make the custard base, refrigerate until it is between 65 and 70 degrees, then complete it using butter that is 65 to 75 degrees, followed by letting it sit out for 1.5 - 2 hours. It should be no more than 70 degrees following this resting period. How is this possible, unless you keep your house at less than 70 degrees considering that the ingredients are already at that temperature when combined?
Also, there are no storage instructions clearly outlined - how to store the assembled cake, how long components can be made in advance, stored refrigerated or frozen, etc.
This book is headed to the goodwill, or to be resold on Amazon.com.
The Cake Book by Tish Boyle is a much better choice. Even better yet, are user reviewed recipes from Epicurious and Food Network.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Delightful recipes, explanations and structure of this outstanding book!Aug 13, 2010
I've only made three recipes from the book but I think that they have came out perfect, simply delicious and amazing to impress everyone.
I entirely recommend: German Chocolate Cake, it has a wonderful chocolate cake that is moist, soft, chocolaty and not to sweet for the perfect match with the filling of coconut the filling is just perfect there are no words to describe how tasty it is, the toasted nuts give an important contribution to the cake, the coocnut and the filling made with condensed milk and other ingredientes made a perfect match, I am mexican and here in Mexico we have something that we call "Cajeta" is like "dulce de leche" but is better than dulce de leche" well the filling of this cake is really similar to the "Cajeta" and I just love that flavor, of condensed milk with those flavours and ohhhh there are just no words to describe it.
I recommend too the Apple Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake is the most delicious apple cake that I've ever tried and yesterday I made the Double Chocolate Valentine I made it without the raspberries and with another frosting but the cake as itself was OUTSTANDING it is the best chocolate cake that I've ever made and I've made lots of recipes so you have lo believe me.
If you are hesitating about buying or not buying this book, I hope that you believe in what Im saying, buy this book ou wont regret, try as many recipes as you can try and enjoy the pleasure of baking by the hand of one of the greatest baking authors nowadays.
PLEASEEE BUY ITT!!!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Rose's Heavenly CakesJul 06, 2010
This is a beautiful, fabulous book with amazing recipes. The recipes are easy to follow and wonderful! The photographs are just stunning!
I would recommend this book to anyone who is actually interested in baking wonderful cakes!!!
I would also recommend this as a beautiful coffee table book, it is stunning!!!
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