About this item
Erin Gardner's cake recipes share a delicious, time-saving secret: they're all the same. Why play the guessing game of sifting through dozens of recipes when all you need are just a few that contain hundreds of variations -- 572, to be exact! The cakequations in Erin Bakes Cake teach you how to combine her cake, buttercream, cookie, and candy recipes in endless mouth-watering ways. Erin's cake recipes aren't sorcery -- they're science. They all share similar ratios of ingredients that add tenderness, strength, or flavor. You don't have to be an expert. Everyone can learn to make a great cake!Erin Bakes Cake provides the building blocks for constructing a great cake, and then offers endless ways those blocks can be reassembled. Erin shares the baking tips she learned as a professional pastry chef and wedding cake baker, what tools to use, how to perfect the cake's finish, and other tricks of the baking trade. She then shows you how to make gorgeous and intricately decorated cakes by elevating simple, but delicious, ingredients like candy, cookies, and chocolate. Erin's created cake designs that are festive, chic, and easy to recreate at home without the use of hard-to-deal-with fondant. And best of all, you can make every recipe your own! The Any Veggie Cake cake can be transformed into a classic carrot cake, zucchini cake, or sweet potato cake. A creamy cake filling isn't limited to buttercream with the inclusion of recipes for caramel, ganache, marshmallow, and more. A chocolate birthday cake recipe can be reimagined as red velvet or chocolate toffee. Elements of crunch, like peanut brittle, honeycomb candy, or even cookie crumbles, can be sprinkled onto your cake layers for tasty added texture.
About the Author
Erin Gardner is the creator of ErinBakes.com, author of Erin Bakes Cake, and 3-time Craftsy Instructor. She's also a regular contributor for The Cake Blog, Craftsy's Cake Decorating Blog, and American Cake Decorating Magazine. Erin worked as a pastry chef in numerous New England kitchens, including Boston's legendary Locke Ober, before opening Wild Orchid Baking Co. She quickly became the go-to cake designer for premiere events, competing on and winning Food Network's Sweet Genius. Erin was named one of the best wedding cake makers in the country by both Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine and Brides; one of her cakes was also included in Brides' Prettiest Cakes in America story. 7 years and 2 babies later, Erin decided to close up shop and continue sharing her love for baking and cake decorating through her blog, Erin Bakes, teaching, writing, and content creation. Her work has been featured in media outlets including: Oprah.com, Brides, Martha Stewart Weddings, Town & Country, OK Magazine, Huffington Post, HGTV's DIY Network, and more. When she's not talking about cake, she's exploring the NH lakes region and coast with her husband and two children.
