Cakes by Melissa: Life Is What You Bake It: 120+ Recipes for Cakes, Icings, Fillings, and Toppings for Endless Flavor Combinations by Melissa Ben-Ishay

  • Classic vanilla cake (page 34)

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    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert
    • Ingredients: butter; sugar; eggs; all-purpose flour; milk; vanilla extract
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  • Chocolate chip cake

    • Nancith on May 31, 2020

      This was a nicely flavored cake, somewhat denser texture than expected, but that may be due to cook's error. The disappointing aspect was that the mini chocolate chips that are supposed to sink down into the cake batter, did not, & stayed on top of the cake. After frosting the cake, you couldn't even tell the chips were there. Not sure what went wrong with that.

  • Chocolate icing

    • Nancith on May 31, 2020

      This was a pain to make, but yielded a rich result. Recipe says to use whisk attachment on mixer which I dutifully did, but it was devilishly difficult to incorporate the dry ingredients into the butter. I ended up with a mixture like mortar, until adding the cream, which helped make the transformation to a smooth & creamy frosting. The process took way longer than it should have, but fortunately, it worked. Actually subbed melted vanilla ice cream for heavy cream & it worked perfectly.

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  • ISBN 10 0062681273
  • ISBN 13 9780062681270
  • Published Oct 03 2017
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 240
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher William Morrow

Publishers Text

Cakes by Melissa is a mouthwatering collection of easy and imaginative cakes from the creative force behind the delicious bite-size cupcake brand Baked by Melissa.

Melissa Ben-Ishay, the baker, mom, and founder of Baked by Melissa—the tie-dye and fun-loving bite-size treats company—shares her secrets in this vibrantly illustrated cookbook that offers more than 120 recipes for fabulous cakes, icings, fillings, and toppings for endlessly delectable combinations.

Melissa believes baking should be fun and easy—and that incredible flavor can be in bite-size amounts. This ethos and her lively, personal style are infused throughout Cakes by Melissa. A simple-to-follow crash course in making baking more like crafting, it offers Melissa’s fresh takes on traditional cakes and inventive ideas to make dessert in any form extra sweet. The cookbook will encourage home bakers to be creative and spontaneous in their baking, even including fill-in-the-blank ingredient sheets to individualize their special treats.

From the very recipe that started it all—the tie-dye cupcake—to peanut butter banana cake batter and icings and crumbles that inspire the baker in us all to create scrumptious desserts, Cakes by Melissa is filled with unique and totally irresistible recipes to devour. Replete with 125-150 photographs and stunningly designed pages that mirror the down-to-earth and colorful Baked by Melissa aesthetic, Cakes by Melissa is a celebration of the joys of baking for experts and novices alike, and is a must for Melissa’s fans.

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