If you have a family reunion, birthday celebration, anniversary, or other special occasion coming up, and you’re looking for a special dessert, “Cake My Day!” might have the answer for you. It’s a new baking and decorating book by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson which promises “easy, eye-popping designs for stunning, fanciful, and funny cakes.”
I’ll admit to being a fan of the show “The Great British Bake-Off,” which features a dozen contestants competing to be the best home baker through a set of increasingly impossible-looking baking tasks designed by master bakers Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
“Cake My Day!” is nothing like that.
Instead, the authors know most home bakers don’t have access to lots of specialty equipment, ingredients, and oodles of time to devote to honing their cake-frosting techniques. Does that stop them from delivering on their promise for some impressive special-occasion desserts? Not at all! Their basic equipment list is comprised of basic items most kitchens already have: measuring cups, spatulas, ruler, roller pin, cutting board, etc., and whatever you don’t have is readily available and inexpensive.
Of course, it’s important to have a tasty cake to work with before you start decorating, and the chapter “10-Step Program To A Better Cake” offers a quick, illustrated overview of the best techniques for a good result. The authors also provide several recipes for cakes and homemade frostings which bakers can use for any of the cakes in their book.
One cake which really caught my eye was the “Piñata Cake,” which is so festive! In the shape of horse, the cake mimics the fringed layers of rainbow-colored tissue paper using rolled-out gum drops decorated with colored sugar. There’s even a surprise inside, as each slice of cake contains a rainbow of colors.
There are so many fun holiday cakes, from a giant Easter egg to a haunted house with a bright orange candy corn roof and tall towers (made from upside-down ice cream cones, frosted to match the rest of the cake). A lawnmower, a slot machine, a hiking boot, a Siamese cat and even a pink poodle are just some of the other fun possibilities. Each cake comes with a diagram for construction and step-by-step construction.
Karen Tack is a highly-regarded food stylist and cooking instructor who contributes to national magazines such as “Martha Stewart Living” and “Every Day With Rachel Ray.” Alan Richardson is an award-winning food writer. Their new book, along with several of their previous baking book collaborations, is available at Carlsbad Public Library. To see more of what this creative baking duo has come up with, visit their website at http://hellocupcakebook.com.
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