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Vintage Cakes: Timeless Recipes for Cupcakes, Flips, Rolls, Layer, Angel, Bundt, Chiffon, and Icebox Cakes for Today's Sweet Tooth [Hardcover]

Julie Richardson
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July 31 2012
A charming collection of updated recipes for both classic and forgotten cakes, from a timeless yellow birthday cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, to the new holiday standard, Gingerbread Icebox Cake with Mascarpone Mousse, written by a master baker and coauthor of Rustic Fruit Desserts.

  Make every occasion—the annual bake sale, a birthday party, or even a simple Sunday supper—a celebration with this charming collection of more than 50 remastered classics.
 
Each recipe in Vintage Cakes is a confectionary stroll down memory lane. After sifting through her treasure trove of cookbooks and recipe cards, master baker and author Julie Richardson selected the most inventive, surprising, and just plain delicious cakes she could find. The result is a delightful and delectable time capsule of American baking, with recipes spanning a century.

Each cake has been expertly tested and retooled using the best ingredients and most up-to-date techniques. With precise and careful guidance, Richardson guides home bakers—whether total beginners or seasoned cooks—toward picture-perfect meringues, extra-creamy frostings, and lighter-than-air chiffons.

A few of the dreamy cakes that await: a chocolatey Texas Sheet Cake as large and abundant as its namesake state, the boozy Not for Children Gingerbread Bundt cake, and the sublime Lovelight Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Whipped Cream. With recipes to make Betty Crocker proud, these nostalgic and foolproof sweets rekindle our love affair with cakes.

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“Bakers will invent reasons to whip up the treats in Vintage Cakes, coached by Julie Richardson's precise and enthusiastic directions.”
 —Shelf Awareness for Readers, 8/3/12

“The cakes in this book somehow manage to seem fresh and new while simultaneously feeling familiar and immediately lovable….Whether you are considered to be The Cake Baker among your friends or just love a good dessert at the end of the day, there's a recipe or three in this book that will make you smile.”
 —The Kitchn, 7/31/12

“In Julie Richardson’s capable hands we are led back in time, down the cake walk. It takes a precise and meticulous baker to show us the way and here we are lucky to be guided by Julie’s confident voice. These recipes are tested and true for today’s bakers.”
—Kim Boyce, author of Good to the Grain and owner of Bakeshop

About the Author

JULIE RICHARDSON is the owner and head baker of Baker & Spice, a small-batch bakery and café in Portland, Oregon. She is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and the coauthor of Rustic Fruit Desserts. Her sweet tooth led her to open her first bakery, Good Earth, in Ketchum, Idaho. Upon moving to Portland, she fell in love with the farms and fruits of the Pacific Northwest and launched Baker & Spice from a stall at the farmers’ market in 1999. Julie spends most days baking cakes, croissants, and pies or teaching classes at SweetWares, her retail bakeware shop. When Julie is not baking, she can be found digging in her garden. She lives in Portland with her husband, Matt, and their many four-legged friends.

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5.0 out of 5 stars May 5,2013 A excellent Variety of Goodies ! May 5 2013
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm totally pleased with all the choice cakes representing
this delightful collection. There is simple language in
the directions,(historical storyline beginning each recipe,
photographs of your outcome,and who said jelly roll
variations are not around.They are lush & divine,
Honey Bee Cake,Daffidol cake, Italian Cream Cake,
Blitz Hazelnut torte, Real Raspberry in Buttercream icing,
Bourbon Cake, Almond Buttermilk Streamliner Cake,
topped with Lemon Custard Icing,& Lazy Dazy OatmealCake,
are a few of my favourites !
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3.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Cakes Feb 26 2013
By L. D. Godfrey TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Vintage Cakes was a bit of a disappointment for me. I was hoping for a collection of cakes that brought back memories from childhood. Some of the recipes had familiar names but the recipes weren't the same.That might be my memory. There are recipes for; Mississippi Mud cupcakes,and a Jam Cake that was good. I didn't make ganache frosting and filling,I used jam between the layers because that is what I remember my mom doing. I tried the Red Velvet, and the Classic Birthday cake. Nice cakes but not outstanding. I kept this book because I wanted to try the Gingerbread Icebox Cake with Mascarpone Mousse. This is the last recipe in the book and not what you would call a cake. Also not something you would just whip up everyday.It is made with ginger cookies layered with Mascarpone Mousse.You make the cookie dough, chill until firm and then roll and cut-out the round cookies,I froze my dough into logs and then sliced and baked. Then make the mousse and layer the cookies and mousse until you get something that looks like a cake.Placed on a footed cake plate it looked just like the picture in the book, took it to a potluck. If I made this again I would use my own ginger cookie recipe but the mascarpone mousse was good.I'm not sorry I kept the book but it wasn't really what I was hoping for.
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3.0 out of 5 stars More Bookish Thoughts... Jan 8 2013
By Reader Writer Runner TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
To produce "Vintage Cakes," professional baker and author Julie Richardson spent months baking vintage recipes, updating ingredients and methodology to revive formulae from a time when a cupcake was literally a cake from a cup. On one hand, this book extends far beyond the classic Victoria Sponge; it revitalizes forgotten delicacies such as Texas Sheet cake and Ozark Pudding Cake and makes them accessible to the modern baker.

On the other, Richardson can't technically call these cakes "vintage" because she has manipulated the recipes so much ("retro" seems a more accurate adjective). Those looking for recipes straight from "the good old days" will find themselves disappointed by these newer versions. Also, the book feels rather thin for such a wide topic and not every recipe includes a photo.

Overall, "Vintage Cakes" contain several delicious-sounding and unusual cakes and provide a venue in which to discover lost classics. Just don't expect those classics in their original forms.
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