Rose’s Heavenly Cakes
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At last an all-new, full-color cake lover’s companion from Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Diva of Desserts! Rose Levy Beranbaum is a much beloved and widely respected baking legend-”a worshiped woman . . . revered by serious cooks and part-timers” alike, in the words of USA Today. Eagerly-awaited by her legions of devoted fans, Rose’s Heavenly Cakes is a must-have guide to perfect cake-baking from this award-winning master baker and author of The Cake Bible, one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. 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 Wedd… More >>
Rose’s Heavenly Cakes
I have a forty year old recipe for red velvet cake and nothing can compare to the orginal waldorf astoria recipe.
I hate cream cheese frosting on the red velvet, for the exception of carrot cake. And red velvet cake is not corse its light and spongy like a synthetic sponge texture…like velvet. I slave over this cake for my sister for her birthday. Nothing can compare to the orginal frosting made with vegetable oil and sugar and a kind of vanilla rue. It keeps the cake moist because most cakes with cocoa powder in them tend to be dry.
But Rose’s cakes do look heavenly. Sorry for the poor grammar I’m in a rush.
Dear Rose,
Everyone who has heard of the Cake Bible will love your new book. 20 years have passed, and this new book really is everything one have been wishing for since. I know all your other books can also be “part two” of Cake Bible, but this one is it!
I hope you live till 150 years, and you release a new CAKE book every 20 years. The world needs it. I am so happy you are so open to reality and indeed you are evolving. This book shows you, the new Rose, renaissance Rose, the Rose that is catering to today and to people of today. Once many times I commented, narrow minded, that mini cakes, cupcakes, red velvet, white chocolate, non mousseline, etc, are not real cake or real baking, but now you changed my vision. I glanced at your book 5 times last night, until taking it to bed and flip every page from the very first page, page by page until past middle of book and hope to fall asleep in a dream. I also looked at the cover, the hard cover, the spine, the paper, how this is all built.
I love my mention, I told my friends I am mentioned in the acknowledgments and perhaps in very short and small print, but now, I have near 5 lines if not a whole paragraph about me! I also love the part you say that writing is lonely, but now your blog makes you no longer lonely. So many new angels came to you via your blog and keep coming, I think now is the perfect time to revamp your blog, change the design, add more functionality, no idea how, so many new technologies now. Maybe just have you come back to it the same way we miss you, with your many generous comments and answers. I think you will, you have a new book to blog about!
I don’t know how you keep track and in touch with the many people you mention in the acknowledgments and introduction. The world is at your feet, so many family and friends, colleges, agents, and also computer people! I love Woody’s picture, with his measuring device, really neat and well presented.
Love the lemon poppy seed cake baked on the Nordic Ware heart pan, the slice is so stunning!
I thought you already told me everything about the book… you have been, and that yesterday I wouldn’t be impressed. I was so wow, this book is so beautiful my dear, so you, and it shows you made this book for love and as a gift to people that you love, many people, and with individual attention. Each cake is a love story! You wrote a cake to each person you love, like a musician giving the gift of music, you write one new song for each one of us. Thank you for been who you are, only you know how, and there is only one like you, Rose, but so glad this flower comes in many colors!
I hope this book does well and that you take a lot of ginseng and embrace publicity, the news, the media. We really like to hear your side of the story about this book, now that is out to the public!
Hugs / Hec
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While I agree with the other reviewers — this IS a terrific book of recipes… I was really disappointed with the lack of photos for EVERY recipe. She references her other books, so maybe MAYBE that is where I could find the photos. I’m very visual, and to me the photos are extremely important.
Los libros de Rose han cambiado mi vida. Rose es una científica de la pastelería en la que confio a ojo cerrado. Ahora, con este nuevo libro, nos regala un universo entero de delicados y exquisitos pasteles. Cada una de sus recetas es tan detallada que no existe forma alguna de que salgan mal. Si usted es un “nuevo pastelero”, si por hobbie se dedica a este mundo o esta pensando en poner un negocio formal de pastelería este es el libro que debe comprar. Las recetas son variadas y van desde pasteles para tomar el te o café como el Apple-Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake que tiene dos trucos para que sea mejor que cualquier otro, la mejor Torta Tres Leches tan famosa en latinoamerica, un capítulo dedicado a los Baby Cakes donde se encuentran recetas para los ya tan famosos y tan de moda Cupcakes que incluye la receta de los Designer Chocolate Baby Grands cupcakes la cual es espectacularmente deliciosa; Y para completar hay un capítulo dedicado a wedding cakes donde esta la receta de la mejor torta de chocolate que alguna vez haya podido imaginar, el Deep Chocolate Passion Wedding Cake.
Otras recetas que seguro le saldrán deliciosas son el Devil’s Food Cake with Midnight Ganache, Baby Chocolate Oblivions, Golden Lemon Almond Cake, Tiramisú, Chocolate Ice Cream Cake o Rose Red Velvet Cake.
Ustedes no se alcanzan a imaginar el universo de exquisites y perfección que Rose abre para nosotros gracias a estas increíbles recetas.
I tried the Whipped Cream Cake recipe for my first attempt at this book. Halfway through with the baking, I was already near to heaven; the aroma that wafted…I’m at a loss for a word to describe it. The cake came out of the oven twenty minutes ago and I’ll be testing more of the recipes from this book. In the meantime, stay away from my cake! They’re for dear friends only.