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A New Take on Cake: 175 Beautiful, Doable Cake Mix Recipes for Bundts, Layers, Slabs, Loaves, Cookies, and More! A Baking Book Paperback – November 16, 2021

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Turn a cake mix into a cake masterpiece! Discover 175 decadent and quick modern recipes with from-scratch flavor from the bestselling author of The Cake Mix Doctor.

Anne Byrn is known for her cake mix magic, and A New Take onCake makes baking from a boxed mix as inspiring as it is easy—everything from vegan tortes to gluten-free cakes, doughnuts to cake pops, and whoopie pies to a wedding cake. All for snacking, celebrating, and everything in between!

With 50 modernized classics and 125 brand-new recipes, no one will believe your Ice Cream Cone Cake, Vegan Chocolate Cake with Creamy Nutella Frosting, or Blood Orange Loaf with Campari Glaze were made from boxed mixes. Whether you are following a gluten-free, sugar-free, or plant-based diet, or are just a fan of a good old-fashioned yellow layer cake with chocolate fudge icing, you’ll find your calling—and won’t have to spend all day making it.

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	Taste your way through America with more than 125 recipes for our favorite historical cakes and frostings	An approachable tour of American history through 100 classic cakes, cookies, and candies

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Anne Byrn is the bestselling author of American Cookie, American Cake, The Cake Mix Doctor, and the Dinner Doctor cookbook series. Formerly a food editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a graduate of the La Varenne École de Cuisine in Paris, Byrn lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Introduction

From Cake Mix to Cake Magnificent

I wrote The Cake Mix Doctor when my children were young and my family life was joyous but frantic. Baking for birthdays, potlucks, and bake sales often took place late at night when my kids were in bed, and it was so easy to reach in the pantry for a box of cake mix to get things started. My dirty little secret (and savior!) . . .

My mother, Bebe, had been doctoring up cake mixes and slathering them with homemade frosting for years. It was her idea that I developed into a newspaper story and then into a book. But little did I know that using mixes as a time-saving foundation for everything from rich chocolate layers to lemony Bundts would resonate with millions of cooks who embraced my hacks as well as my fearless heart to write about cake mixes in what seemed a from-scratch world. And little did I know that that book, which my daughters grew up with, would allow them to embrace baking at an early age and help them become the confident bakers they are today.

The Cake Mix Doctor became a bestseller nearly overnight, and to this day people arrive at my book signings with a ragged, stained, much-loved copy in hand. They’ve circled the postage stamp–size photos of their favorite recipes. And if not, I don’t have to ask which recipes they’ve most baked—I just look at the batter-splattered pages!

Now more than twenty years later, I am writing a new book for a new time. I still believe that you can turn a mix into a masterpiece—and I still want to help you bake cakes with only a handful of ingredients and be able to effortlessly savor the joy of home baking. But this time, I explore new flavors, new shapes of pans, new methods for baking and frosting cakes, new ways to make cake inclusive and friendly for all, and share not only exciting new recipes but updates of many Cake Mix Doctor classics using today’s smaller mixes. (Obviously, when companies downsized their mixes a decade ago, it perplexed a lot of us because favorite recipes didn’t work anymore.) Well, they will now!

A New Take on Cake is built on what I originally cre- ated in The Cake Mix Doctor, but it clearly is for baking today—the cakes are still easy, but are bolder, fresher, more pantry-driven, and often adventurous while remaining simple enough to inspire everyone. This book is for bakers of all ages, regardless of how much you have to spend on ingredients, where you live, your baking preferences, whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, or need to follow a sugar-free diet—and no matter your baking skill level.

Many home bakers have told me how much they relied on the basic cakes and frostings in The Cake Mix Doctor because the recipes were a roadmap to being creative in the kitchen. This book shares more of those flexible blueprint methods for cakes and frostings, too. You’ll find a way to infuse basic chocolate ganache with fresh mint or create a distinctive buttercream frost- ing from just-picked summer blackberries or make a simple—and yummy—frosting from Nutella and peanut butter, two pantry staples. And there are other ingre- dient revelations: coconut milk, Meyer lemons, plant butters, salted caramel, tahini, matcha, Greek yogurt—I had not baked with these ingredients two decades ago, but they now reside in my kitchen and my cakes are so much better for them. So even if you’ve read all my cookbooks and think you know everything, I encourage you to pay attention!

As I write this book at my kitchen table in Nashville, a global pandemic has forced most to stay home—from school, from work, from social gatherings. The good news is that we are baking more than ever to soothe ourselves and comfort one another, and just bring joy to our everyday routines. I welcome my old friends as well as newcomers to these pages. Let’s go bake a cake and share it with someone we love. Not only will it taste good, but it will be beautiful and doable, too!

Enjoy!

Anne

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter (November 16, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 059323359X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593233597
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.41 x 1 x 9.09 inches

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Anne Byrn is known to millions of fans through her Cake Mix Doctor, Dinner Doctor, and American Cake cookbooks. Her newest book is called American Cookie, which is a history of the favorite cookies and small sweet bites in America with recipes. When Anne is not in her Nashville kitchen, she is in the garden. Visit her online at www.annebyrn.com.

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Customers find the recipes in this book delicious and appealing to different tastes. They find the recipes easy to follow and the results great. The book is described as creative, nice, and beautifully illustrated with great photographs. It's updated for the new smaller cake mixes available.

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Customers find the recipes in the book great and delicious. They appreciate the updated version of their favorite Cake Doctor recipes, as well as the variety of tasty recipes that appeal to different tastes. The recipes are simple, with simple ingredients and great icings and fillings. Many customers find the book an excellent resource for novice bakers, offering a variety of cakes, including bundts, small cakes, and cupcakes.

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"A NEW TAKE ON CAKE is the Best Cake cookbook ever. It has so many great recipes in it using the current Cake Mix size 15.25 Oz...." Read more

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Customers like the cake recipes in the book. They find the recipes easy and produce great results. The book is written in a personable, pleasant way.

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Customers find the book user-friendly and the recipes easy to follow. They appreciate the distinct lemon flavor without being overwhelming.

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Customers find the book's content creative and nice. They describe it as a classic cookbook updated for modern tastes. The recipes look amazing and customers can't wait to try them out.

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This book has easy to follow recipes to make boxed cake mixes special. It’s been update for the new smaller cake mixes currently available. Recipes I’ve tried are great!

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Very easy for absolute novices.
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My book just arrived today, but I had a copy from the library and I was already armed with ingredients I would need for my first cake. (I cook but never bake. Always buy Whole Foods cake for Birthdays, but not anymore!) I went to task and was pretty amazed as how quickly it was made. I made the Yellow Cake with Chocolate Icing with Betty Crocker's Yellow cake mix from Walmart. I slathered it with Chocolate Frosting Cream. I had spatulas but not the long metal ones and I am going to get the cake decorating tools too.
This is an excellent book for absolute novices in baking, like me. I am Indian background and can cook everything that we eat on a stove top but haven't baked. We will see if the taste lives out to my tastes. Although it won't be her recipes, but my errors. I do plan to bake from scratch after going through this book.
I particularly like that oil is used instead of butter in the main cake. There are pictures throughout every page and the font is clear and readable.
I love this book and ordered the Chocolate Cake Book by Anne Byrne.

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One of the BEST Cake Cookbooks Ever!
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A NEW TAKE ON CAKE is the Best Cake cookbook ever. It has so many great recipes in it using the current Cake Mix size 15.25 Oz. And I always love when photos accompany the recipe....and this book does just that. No recipes seem to be complicated and the add-in(s) on the recipes makes them unique. I'm glad I took a chance on this book and it's worth every penny!

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Yes, all things yes. This bake book is incredible and incredibly simple. I love being able to take a boxed cake mix and make it taste so much more than a plain ol’ boxed cake mix. So many great recipes!

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Today I baked Susan's Lemon Cake. This is my first attempt using a bundt pan and I'm really pleased with the cake. The lemon flavor is distinct but not overwhelming. I feel confident to bake this cake (and others in the future) and bring it to the church's hospitality hour after service. Thank you for this book with a wide variety of recipes and great photographs.

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