More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community Hardcover Kindle
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"Baking made me a better leader and critical thinker. Baking asks me to work with compassion, kindness, and thrift. Baking brings me closer to my parents, my friends, and my neighbors. Baking is more than cake."
—Natasha Pickowicz, from her introduction
Delicious, inspired recipes—both whimsical and approachable—created to delight and honor the people in your life
Chamomile Puff Crown
Cheesecake and Plum Syrup
Still Life Tart
Mushroom, Cheddar, and Apple Tart
Shoyu Peanut Butter Cookie
Flaky Poppy Seed Crackers with Whipped Feta
Modern Layer Cakes
The cakes, soaks, fillings, and buttercream recipes in the chapter on layer cakes are meant to be mixed and matched to create the cake of your dreams. You’ll find five tried-and-true combinations—my most victorious layer cake triumphs—and you can use those as a guideline or a place to start. Those recipe sets are also helpful to understand how I build layer cakes, and those methods can be applied to a unique layer cake of your own devising. I’ve made you a map, but which path you choose is up to you. Let’s go!
Natasha’s Step-By-Step Guide to Building Layer Cakes
Using thin, large sheets of cake, punched to specific circular shapes, allows you to have any size cake you desire.
Natasha’s Step-By-Step Guide to Building Layer Cakes
A cake pan, lined in plastic wrap, provides a safe environment to build a soaring masterpiece layered with sticky and creamy fillings, as well as a convenient vessel to store in the fridge for chilling.
Natasha’s Step-By-Step Guide to Building Layer Cakes
The process is meditative; no teetering cakes here.
Natasha’s Step-By-Step Guide to Building Layer Cakes