Frosting For Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake frosting question!?
Hi guys.
I am not much of a baker and need some advice. I’ve been looking at different frosting recipes and I am wondering what does the ingredient butter do for frosting. Should I use a recipe with butter and cocoa or a recipe with melted Dark Chocolate with cream?
Cream or butter? which is better?
thanks!
Hey guys. thanks for all the helpful replies!
I was wondering, what if I added butter to the thickened cream and melted dark chocolate? do you think that will turn out good?
Dark chocolate with cream is called a ganache and is completely different from butter icing. Ganache is like a sauce when warm and then will set once cold to be a sticky, soft consistency. Ganache is richer than butter icing. If you use ganache make sure it cools a bit before putting on The Cake but don’t let it set or you’ll have to melt it again before applying.
Butter icing with cocoa can be spread between layers of a cake as well as on the top as it has a firmer consistency when made than ganache (ganache should only be placed on top, as it’s too watery when warm and too stiff when cold to spread). Make sure you use icing sugar if making butter icing.
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Foster’s Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes For Morning, Noon, and Night $35 For more than a decade, Foster’s Markets have been cooking and baking foods made fresh each day from ingredients picked locally at the peak of flavor. Now Sara Foster shares more than two hundred delicious recipes, providing modern takes on favorite home-style classics. The Foster’s Market Cookbook features old-fashioned ideas about how good food should taste and new-fashioned ideas about prep times and the use of high-quality prepared ingredients. Filled with eighty color photos, this is the perfect cookbook to refer to over and over again for everyday meals or for entertaining, whether it be for two or for twenty.Before moving to Durham, North Carolina, Sara worked alongside Martha Stewart in the kitchen of Martha’s catering business. When she opened her own catering company, Sara kept her food simple yet soulful, trusting the complex flavors of seasonal ingredients. This same basic principle guides the daily offerings at Foster’s Markets in Durham and Chapel Hill. Each week the markets serve nearly a thousand customers hungrily searching out Sara’s innovative, new-style home cooking. And now food lovers everywhere will be able to prepare with ease sumptuous dishes such as Roasted Chicken, Sweet Potato, and Arugula Salad; Herb-Grilled Salmon with Fresh Tomato-Orange Chutney; and Risotto Cakes with Roasted Tomatoes and Foster’s Arugula Pesto. Also featured are a host of wonderful desserts, such as Lemon Chess Pie with Sour Cherries and Chocolate Espresso Layer Cake with Mocha Latte Frosting.Featuring mouthwatering favorites from the market and dozens of helpful sidebars that discuss ingredients, techniques, and make-aheadtips, The Foster’s Market Cookbook provides all you need to know to make the most of every season’s finest offerings. |
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Gale Gand’s Just a Bite: 125 Luscious, Little Desserts $12.95 Sweets. As kids, we could never get enough, and anything sugary, gooey, and good was gratefully devoured. As adults, we give a polite “no thank you” when a dessert tray passes by, or take but a sliver of cake if offered, showing restraint that would make any ten-year-old incredulous. Well, that’s not fair. Why should kids get all the fun? Now, adults can have the best of both worlds. Gale Gand’s Just a Bite is equal parts kitchen-table, kid-giggling joy and uptown, grown-up chic. Award-winning pastry chef Gale Gand has collected the recipes from her Food Network show Sweet Dreams and renowned restaurant Tru into a book that is as charming and accessible as the author herself. These recipes aren’t just for the expert baker or pastry connoisseur but also for the everyday cook looking to lighten up the end of a meal, or even replace the ubiquitous brownie with, say, Banana Brûlée Spoonfuls. With easy-to-follow instructions, a handful of ingredients, and a craving for fun, you’ll be whipping up Devil’s Peaks with Double-Chocolate Drizzle and popping them in your mouth before, as a kid, you could have licked the frosting beater clean.Gale has also assembled a mini-menu of sorts for her delectables. Called the Tasting Trio, three of the treats are served together for maximum, sweet tooth bliss. Combinations like Bomb Poppers, Marshmallow Moons, and Butterfly Cupcakes; or Orange-Vanilla “Fried Eggs” on Cinnamon Toast, Meringue Cigarettes, and Mini Granita Watermelons. Or try your own assortments, putting together yummys like Stained-Glass Cookies and Fig Nortons with Peanut Butter Cookie—GrapeJelly Ice Cream Sandwiches and Mini Root Beer Floats. The possibilities are endless and the flavors . . . wow, with flavors like this, who needs to be a kid again? About the Author: Gale Gand is coauthor of American Brasserie and Butter Flour Sugar Eggs, which was |
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German Chocolate Cake $38.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! German chocolate cake is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally used for the chocolate flavor in the actual cake, but few recipes call for it today. The filling and/or topping is a caramel made with egg yolks and evaporated milk; once the caramel is cooked, coconut and pecans are stirred in. Occasionally, a chocolate frosting is spread on the sides of the cake and piped around the circumference of the layers to hold in the filling. Maraschino cherries are an added touch. |
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Gobba Gobba Hey: A Gob Cookbook $6.62 When Steven Gdula was growing up in western Pennsylvania, gobs were everywhere-at church bake sales and birthday parties, and even stacked by convenience store cash registers, sparkling in cellophane. Transplanted to California, Steven found himself dreaming of gobs: two rounds of moist cake joined by sweet, fluffy icing. The only way to satisfy his craving was to start baking them himself-but with a local spin, using seasonal ingredients and grown-up flavors. Once he perfected his recipes, Steven started selling his gobs from a cart on the streets of San Francisco. Calling his enterprise Gobba Gobba Hey (a nod to the Ramones), he was soon on his way to becoming something of a local food rock star. In Gobba Gobba Hey, Steven introduces readers, bakers, and eaters to the gob. These fifty-two recipes-one for every week of the year, from old-school chocolate and vanilla to matcha green tea with lemongrass ginger frosting-make it deliciously evident why gobs couldn’t be kept a regional secret for long.Praise for The Warmest Room in the House (a Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year)"[Gdula] serves up … a delight, rich but restrained."-Atlantic "Literary comfort food-Very Short List"Vivid, funny and absorbing …Warmhearted."-Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review |
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Junior’s Devil’s Food Cheesecake $49.99 If someone you love is crazy about chocolate, they’ll lose their mind over this decadent cheesecake dessert from Juniors. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia? cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior?s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. Dressed up for a special birthday occasion, this NY cheesecake is layered between rich, chocolate layers of devil?s food cake and topped with fudge frosting and giant chocolate chips. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. |
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Junior’s Devil’s Food Cheesecake $49.99 Voted No. 1 “The Best Cheesecake in N.Y.” by New York Magazine!If someone you love is crazy about chocolate, they’ll lose their mind over this decadent cheesecake dessert from Juniors. Famously founded in 1950 in New York, Junior’screated The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. Dressed up for a special birthday occasion, this NY cheesecake is layered between rich, chocolate layers of devil’s food cake and topped with fudge frosting and giant chocolate chips.Kosher. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99. |
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Junior’s Happy Birthday – Devil’s Food Cheesecake $49.99 Say “Happy Birthday!” in a very big way with JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY FUDGE CAKE: This decadently delicious birthday fudge cake is every chocolate lover’s birthday wish come true! Layers of moist, rich chocolate cake, chocolate ganache and sweet fudge frosting create this Junior’s masterpiece. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY DEVIL’S FOOD CHEESCAKE: If someone special is celebrating a birthday and you can’t decide between chocolate cake or cheesecake, don’t. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. Dressed up for a special birthday occasion, this NY cheesecake is layered between rich, chocolate layers of devil’s food cake and topped with fudge frosting and giant chocolate chips. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.Treat them to Junior’s Happy Birthday Cake. Famously founded in 1950 in New York, Junior’screated The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. |
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Junior’s Happy Birthday Chocolate Fudge Cake $61.1 Say “Happy Birthday!” in a very big way with JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY FUDGE CAKE: This decadently delicious birthday fudge cake is every chocolate lover’s birthday wish come true! Layers of moist, rich chocolate cake, chocolate ganache and sweet fudge frosting create this Junior’s masterpiece. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY DEVIL’S FOOD CHEESCAKE: If someone special is celebrating a birthday and you can’t decide between chocolate cake or cheesecake, don’t. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. Dressed up for a special birthday occasion, this NY cheesecake is layered between rich, chocolate layers of devil’s food cake and topped with fudge frosting and giant chocolate chips. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.Treat them to Junior’s Happy Birthday Cake. Famously founded in 1950 in New York, Junior’screated The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. |
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Junior’s Happy Birthday Chocolate Fudge Cake $61.1 Say “Happy Birthday!” in a very big way with JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY FUDGE CAKE: This decadently delicious birthday fudge cake is every chocolate lover’s birthday wish come true! Layers of moist, rich chocolate cake, chocolate ganache and sweet fudge frosting create this Junior’s masterpiece. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY DEVIL’S FOOD CHEESCAKE: If someone special is celebrating a birthday and you can’t decide between chocolate cake or cheesecake, don’t. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. Dressed up for a special birthday occasion, this NY cheesecake is layered between rich, chocolate layers of devil’s food cake and topped with fudge frosting and giant chocolate chips. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.Treat them to Junior’s Happy Birthday Cake. Famously founded in 1950 in New York, Junior’screated The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. |
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Junior’s Happy Birthday Chocolate Fudge Cake $49.99 Say “Happy Birthday!” in a very big way with JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY FUDGE CAKE: This decadently delicious birthday fudge cake is every chocolate lover’s birthday wish come true! Layers of moist, rich chocolate cake, chocolate ganache and sweet fudge frosting create this Junior’s masterpiece. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.Treat them to Junior’s Happy Birthday Cake. Famously founded in 1950 in New York, Junior’screated The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. |
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Junior’s Happy Birthday Chocolate Fudge Cake $49.99 Say “Happy Birthday!” in a very big way with JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY FUDGE CAKE: This decadently delicious birthday fudge cake is every chocolate lover’s birthday wish come true! Layers of moist, rich chocolate cake, chocolate ganache and sweet fudge frosting create this Junior’s masterpiece. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.Treat them to Junior’s Happy Birthday Cake. Famously founded in 1950 in New York, Junior’screated The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. |
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Junior’s Happy Birthday Devil’s Food Cheesecake $49.99 Say “Happy Birthday!” in a very big way with JUNIOR’S BIRTHDAY DEVIL’S FOOD CHEESECAKE: If someone special is celebrating a birthday and you can’t decide between chocolate cake or cheesecake, don’t. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. Dressed up for a special birthday occasion, this NY cheesecake is layered between rich, chocolate layers of devil’s food cake and topped with fudge frosting and giant chocolate chips. This gift includes fresh ingredients and requires 2-Day delivery. Serves 12. Net wt. 3 lbs. Kosher.These exceptionally fresh cheesecakes and cakes require 2-Day delivery for an additional $7.99.Treat them to Junior’s Happy Birthday Cake. Famously founded in 1950 in New York, Junior’s created The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake. The only cheesecake maker to use 100% real Philadelphia cream cheese, fresh eggs and vanilla, Junior’s hand blends the rich batter in small batches for maximum taste, flavor and freshness. |
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More from Magnolia $3.97 Eight years ago, Alyssa Torey brought the comfort of grandma’s kitchen to New York City when she opened the Magnolia Bakery. Located on Bleecker and 11th, in the heart of Greenwich Village, it quickly became a popular destination; in the evening the line of people craving one of Magnolia’s world famous cupcakes or a cup of banana pudding extends down the block. The success of the bakery gave birth to The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook, written by Alyssa and her then-partner. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1999, it’s gone through 7 printings and has over 46,000 copies in print. Today the bakery is busier than ever (they sell about 15,000–yes, 15,000–cupcakes a week), and Alyssa has finally succumbed to the pressure to write a second book. In More From Magnolia Alyssa offers home cooks 75 of the bakery’s most requested recipes, discontinued treats, and favorite sweets from her own home kitchen. Craving Magnolia’s Red Velvet Cake or the decadently creamy Banana Pudding? Miss having a Raspberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Bun with your morning coffee? (The bakery had to discontinue all their breakfast items to keep up with the demand for cupcakes.) You’ll find those recipes here. Of course, there are the recipes for the Chocolate and Vanilla cupcakes and Buttercream Frosting, but you’ll also find Apple Cake with Butterscotch Cream Cheese Frosting, Devil’s Food Cake with Seven Minute Icing and Coconut, and Chocolate Pecan Pudding Pie. Not to mention Blueberry Coffee Cake with Vanilla Glaze, Pumpkin Walnut Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting, White Chocolate Pecan Bars, Nectarine Double Crust Pie, and Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Pecan Crust. There are even recipes for Magnolia’s best-loved ice creams. Whether you’re a regular visitor or just dream of making a pilgrimage, More from Magnolia brings the delights of the bakery to your very own kitchen. |
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Most Decadent Diet Ever!: Featuring more than 125 recipes that only taste fattening $19.95 Devin Alexander, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Biggest Loser Cookbook, lets you have your cake and lose weight, too, with sinfully tempting — yet amazingly healthy — recipes for America’s all-time favorite foods.Chef and former L.A. caterer Devin Alexander has maintained a fifty-five-pound weight loss for over sixteen years by transforming the dishes she and millions of other Americans love best into guilt-free (yet still outrageously mouth-watering) indulgences–Rigatoni with Meat Sauce, BBQ Bacon Cheeseburgers, Eggplant Parmesan, Sinless Yet Sinful Sticky Buns, and even Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. These simple-to-prepare recipes for the kind of delectable dishes people crave but feel they can’t eat when trying to be healthy and trim, actually can be the basis of a personal weight-loss plan. They can also be a way to add “off-limit” foods back into an already successful diet. Or they can simply be part of an exciting new way to eat healthfully — and with pleasure. In The Most Decadent Diet Ever! Devin Alexander proves that even the most decadent dishes — Chipotle Chili with Blue Cheese Crumbles, “Fried” Jumbo Shrimp, Super-Stuffed Steak Soft Tacos, Fettu-Skinny Alfredo, Godiva Brownie Sundaes, and Chocolate Chip Pancakes — can lead to weight loss, good health, and carefree enjoyment. |
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Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Celebrations $15.99 Taste the chocolatey goodness of Mississippi Mud or marvel at the extravagant elegance of the Lady Baltimore and there will be no doubt that Southerners know how to bake a cake. Here are 65 recipes for some of the most delicious ever. Jam cakes and jelly rolls; humble pear bread and peanut cake; whole chapters on both chocolate and coconut cakeseach moist and delicious forkful represents the spirit of the South. A Baking 101 section offers the cake basics, some finishing touches (that means frosting and lots of it!), and the how-to’s of storing each lovely concoction so that the last slice tastes as fresh and delightful as the first. |
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Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Celebrations $6.91 Taste the chocolatey goodness of Mississippi Mud or marvel at the extravagant elegance of the Lady Baltimore and there will be no doubt that Southerners know how to bake a cake. Here are 65 recipes for some of the most delicious ever. Jam cakes and jelly rolls; humble pear bread and peanut cake; whole chapters on both chocolate and coconut cakeseach moist and delicious forkful represents the spirit of the South. A Baking 101 section offers the cake basics, some finishing touches (that means frosting and lots of it!), and the how-to’s of storing each lovely concoction so that the last slice tastes as fresh and delightful as the first. |
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Sweet Utopia: Simply Stunning Vegan Desserts $19.95 Over 130 luscious, full-color dessert photos invite readers to reconnect with their sweet tooth. This amazing collection of recipes for scrumptious and sophisticated vegan desserts are as good as anything ever tasted. From decadent cakes, cookies, creamy cheesecakes and pies to mousses, puddings, and cremes and other luscious treats, these dairy-free versions of traditional favorites still capture the flavors and textures of the originals. Recipes include Midnight Cake with Chocolate Frosting, Zucchini Loaf Cake with a Tangerine Twist, Gingerbread Guys, Coconut Tiramisu, Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches, and Mixed Berry Cheesecake. |
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The Birthday Cake Book $19.99 You only get one birthday each year, and in this book Dede Wilson has created 75 recipes for special cakes that will make your celebration a memorable one. The book begins with a set of master batter and frosting recipes that can be mixed and matched and used as the basis for fun, inspired cakes like Confetti ‘n’ Sprinkles Cake, Teeny-Tiny Chocolate-Orange Birthday Cake, Grand Golden 50th Birthday Cake, and the Banana Split Cake. With this book, anyone can bake and decorate cakes like a pro at home! |
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The Foster’s Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night $17.99 For more than a decade, Foster’s Markets have been cooking and baking foods made fresh each day from ingredients picked locally at the peak of flavor. Now Sara Foster shares more than two hundred delicious recipes, providing modern takes on favorite home-style classics. The Foster’s Market Cookbook features old-fashioned ideas about how good food should taste and new-fashioned ideas about prep times and the use of high-quality prepared ingredients. Filled with eighty color photos, this is the perfect cookbook to refer to over and over again for everyday meals or for entertaining, whether it be for two or for twenty.Before moving to Durham, North Carolina, Sara worked alongside Martha Stewart in the kitchen of Martha’s catering business. When she opened her own catering company, Sara kept her food simple yet soulful, trusting the complex flavors of seasonal ingredients. This same basic principle guides the daily offerings at Foster’s Markets in Durham and Chapel Hill. Each week the markets serve nearly a thousand customers hungrily searching out Sara’s innovative, new-style home cooking. And now food lovers everywhere will be able to prepare with ease sumptuous dishes such as Roasted Chicken, Sweet Potato, and Arugula Salad; Herb-Grilled Salmon with Fresh Tomato-Orange Chutney; and Risotto Cakes with Roasted Tomatoes and Foster’s Arugula Pesto. Also featured are a host of wonderful desserts, such as Lemon Chess Pie with Sour Cherries and Chocolate Espresso Layer Cake with Mocha Latte Frosting.Featuring mouthwatering favorites from the market and dozens of helpful sidebars that discuss ingredients, techniques, and make-aheadtips, The Foster’s Market Cookbook provides all you need to know to make the most of every season’s finest offerings. |
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The Knot Ultimate Wedding Lookbook: More Than 1,000 Cakes, Centerpieces, Bouquets, Dresses, Decorations, and Ideas for the Perfect Day $40 You want a wedding that will wow your guests, but where do you begin? Carley Roney,  founder of the world’s most popular wedding destination, TheKnot.com, has compiled The Knot Ultimate Wedding Lookbook to make the entire wedding-planning experience enjoyable.    More than 1,000 gorgeous color photographs give couples endless inspiration for their wedding day, and useful tips, time lines, and lists help the lovebirds flawlessly pull off every detail. Each chapter is bursting with creative and classic ideas to make the day as meaningful as it is beautiful: Stationery: Save-the-date cards do double duty when printed on coasters or delicate handkerchiefs.Ceremonies: An auspicious bird’s nest adds a beautiful and rustic touch for carrying rings at a farm wedding.Dressing Up: A retro bride goes glam with a feathered veil and pearl button–accented gloves. A casual groom and his mates add a personality pop with chocolate-brown Keds to match their wedding chinos.Cocktail Hour: For a low-key affair, mini grilled cheeses dipped in shot glasses of tomato soup satisfy.Centerpieces: Fruit slices suspended in crystal vases overflowing with Crayola-bright poppies and orchids offer a cheery setting.Cakes: White lace frosting details that match the bride’s dress and the couple’s monogram turn a pale green cake into a chic masterpiece.From classic white-on-white palettes to floral themes to fun fantasy ideas, the choices are limitless. Purple, pink, red, robin’s egg blue—find inspiration at every turn in all the colors a bride can dream of! And The Knot Ultimate Wedding Lookbook is loaded with money-saving ideas that don’t sacrifice style. Expert advice and rich images add up to a delicious visual feast and essential resource to help you create an event as special as you are |
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The Williams-Sonoma Baking Book: Essential Recipes for Today’s Home Baker $18.83 Nothing evokes the comforts of home better than freshly baked treats straight from the oven. But too many home cooks believe they don’t have the time to bake except for the occasional special dessert. If you are one of them, this comprehensive baking collection, with nearly 400 recipes for everything from homespun favorites and bake-shop sweets to popular restaurant-style desserts, is guaranteed to change your mind. In this inspired book, you will find recipes that both fit into your busy schedule and suit nearly every occasion, from quick dessert for weeknight suppers to fancy cakes for holiday tables.Whether you are dreaming of buttery shortbread for an afternoon snack, a luscious berry pie for a midsummer get-together, a buche de Noel for a Christmas Day buffet, or a batch of rolls for Sunday supper, you will discover how to make it in these pages. The recipes are organized into eight comprehensive chapters: Cookies and Bars; Muffins and Quick Breads; Coffee Cakes, Scones, and Biscuits; Cakes and Tortes; Pies and Tarts; Yeasted Breads; Fruit Desserts; and Custards and Egg Dishes. Each chapter provides an array of flavor options to match the seasons and to accommodate a variety of tastes. Every recipe includes a photograph of the finished dish, so you can see how it will look, as well as photographs illustrating key baking task, ingredients, and/or equipment.Classics enjoyed by adults and kids alike are here, such as lemon bars, chocolate-studded cookies, blueberry muffins with brown-sugar topping, buttermilk biscuits, birthday cake with fudge frosting, pumpkin pie, and country-style cinnamon rolls. Detailed directions for baking chocolate cupcakes, bagels, and madeleines make these typical bakery specialties easy to prepare at home. A large selection of recipes for special occasions, such as almond-flecked chocolate cake with caramel sauce, pear torte with fresh ginger, and cherry cheesecake with a biscotti crust, provides plenty of ideas for holiday |
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What’s New, Cupcake?: Ingeniously Simple Designs for Every Occasion $16.95 The endlessly imaginative duo who turned cupcaking into a national pastime is back, with utterly new, eye-popping creations anyone can make. Create a race-car cupcake, a robot cupcake, or ravishing jewelry cupcakes for a birthday party. Surprise the family with Chinese takeout dinner cupcakes on April Fool’s or serve up a goofy chocolate moose. Captivate Mom with a bouquet of  long-stemmed rose cupcakes and build sand castle cupcakes with the kids. All you need are candies from the corner store and cake mix and canned frosting.  So what is new, Cupcake?• Dozens of “EZ” projects that use just a few ingredients—perfect for kids and parties.• More pictures, brighter colors, bolder designs.• More faux-food creations—so real you won’t believe they’re cupcakes!• More comical critters and the cutest pets ever!• More irresistible party centerpieces to celebrate hobbies, from golf to knitting.• More spectacular holiday cupcakes: Valentine’s, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. You’ll end up with cupcakes so striking that you won’t want to eat them—but so delicious you’ll have no choice! |
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What’s New, Cupcake?: Ingeniously Simple Designs for Every Occasion $16.95 The endlessly imaginative duo who turned cupcaking into a national pastime is back, with utterly new, eye-popping creations anyone can make. Create a race-car cupcake, a robot cupcake, or ravishing jewelry cupcakes for a birthday party. Surprise the family with Chinese takeout dinner cupcakes on April Fool’s or serve up a goofy chocolate moose. Captivate Mom with a bouquet of  long-stemmed rose cupcakes and build sand castle cupcakes with the kids. All you need are candies from the corner store and cake mix and canned frosting.  So what is new, Cupcake?• Dozens of “EZ” projects that use just a few ingredients—perfect for kids and parties.• More pictures, brighter colors, bolder designs.• More faux-food creations—so real you won’t believe they’re cupcakes!• More comical critters and the cutest pets ever!• More irresistible party centerpieces to celebrate hobbies, from golf to knitting.• More spectacular holiday cupcakes: Valentine’s, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. You’ll end up with cupcakes so striking that you won’t want to eat them—but so delicious you’ll have no choice! |
