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Title: The Wedding Cake Book by Dede Wilson ISBN: 0-02-861234-5 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent How To!
Comment: If you want to make a wedding cake, or just want to know how they are made, this is the book to get!
The author generously shares her expertise in planning, making, transporting, and storing wedding cakes in a very friendly and interesting format. After reading this book, I felt like I'm ready to be a pro. :-) Also the book has many, many recipes of creams and fillings. I didn't know a wedding cake could come in so many different flavor!
If you're looking for design ideas, however, this book is probably a bit outdated. I think Martha Stewart Weddings and The Perfect Wedding Cake have beautiful and elegant designs.
Rating: 5
Summary: The One Book To Have!
Comment: This is it! If you could choose only one book on wedding cakes, you would want one that covers the art from beginning to end---and this one does just that. I particularly like this book in comparison to the others because the emphasis is on taste, as well as looks. The cakes are not your typical piped & overpiped powdered sugar towers most of us have come to know as the typical wedding cake. Most of the cakes can be made by someone who has a pinch of ability and can follow directions. But you do not need decorating experience (I proved that last August when I made a friend's wedding cake). The recipes may not all be conventional (very few aren't), but there is something here for everyone. I admit, even I had a little trouble when my friend picked out the Buttermilk Spice Cake recipe from the book to mix with two tiers of a Kahlua fudge recipe--and DeDe's Kahlua buttercream for all three tiers--but my little test cakes turned out to be downright delicious. And the wedding cake was an absolute success! Even the caterers took pieces and raved about them! Wonderful book! Thanks DeDe!!
Rating: 5
Summary: If you only buy one wedding cake book ....
Comment: I am not a professional wedding cake baker. I work in the food industry though, and have baked wedding cakes and groom cakes (from this book) from family and friends. The family friend who made our wedding cake, used a recipe straight from this book as well- and went out to buy her own copy of the book afterwards. She has baked cakes professionally for quite a few years.
Dede wrote the book well, with detailed descriptions of how to go about making the cakes and the frostings described. I think an amateur could easily use this cookbook to create a cake that they would love -- and I think that 'experts' can learn something from the book, as well. Too many wedding cakes today could just as easily be made of frosting and styrofoam for all the flavor (or personality) which they have. White, shortening-based frosting towers of mediocrity seem to dominate the cakes used at weddings -- if that's what you're looking for, don't bother to look at this book.
If you want something which *might* be unusual (there are some cakes which could satisfy the more 'basic' wedding cake desires some might have) -- if what you want is a cake with actual flavor, not out of a box, and with potentially even, some personality to reflect the interests/backgrounds of the bride and groom -- this is a good place to look.
The Chocolate Raspberry Truffle recipe is divine, and simple. I've given the recipe out many times! I've used several recipes from this cookbook, for special occasions and also just to see what they tasted like. To be honest, one of the things that attracted me to the book is that it focuses on the multiple uses that the cakes could have -- and the fact that for someone who *is not* into frosting details, it isn't intimidating. If you want to create an elaborate frosted cake, you can easily do so (some are elaborate) -- but you can also create a more simple and elegant version if you want to. The cakes and frostings have enough personality to be able to stand without the fancy frostings, if you don't want an elaborate design.
The information about ingredients and where to get them etc. is also good - the author does talk about pesticide concerns with flowers etc., if people pay attention to what's written in her introduction/ingredient area and in the index as well.
I would recommend, though, that for people who aren't used to making things like divinity etc., it would be a good idea to have someone in the kitchen helping you the first time or two that you attempt the Italian Buttercream frosting. It helps to coordinate so that the various steps are ready at the same time, and makes it easier to make when you're first figuring out how it works.
Also one detail not mentioned -- the syrup-based frostings used, may need to be adjusted for altitude, if you try to make them based on temperature. Your boiling temperature etc. will change with altitude, so unless you're comfortable using the old-fashioned "hard ball" "soft ball" etc. stages, you'll want to contact your local Extension office to find out how you might need to adjust the recipes for your elevation.
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Title: Perfect Wedding Cake, The by Kate Manchester ISBN: 1584790849 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Cakes in Bloom by Anna Von Marburg, Anna Von Marburg ISBN: 1864482273 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Colette's Wedding Cakes by Colette Peters ISBN: 0316702706 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Romantic Wedding Cakes by Kerry Vincent ISBN: 1853918598 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Cakes (For Your Wedding) by Bette Matthews ISBN: 1567999611 Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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