Cakes or Baking For Dummies

Cakes: Cook Books from Amish Kitchens

Author: Phyllis Pellman Good

Eat a banana or eggs with warm shoo-fly cake and you have a breakfast. Dollop the cake with whipped cream and you have dessert. Sometimes cakes turn up at breakfast, in lunch boxes, and at company dinners. Cakes are treats, but then they're also part of daily faire--the special part.

One of 12 cookbooks from Amish kitchens! The recipes in this series overflow with the good, old-fashioned food which comes from some of the world's best cooks. These handsome cookbooks have sold more than 800,000 copies!

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents
Moist Chocolate Cake
Mother Pellman's Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake Roll
Quick Carmel Frosting
"Lovelight" Chocolate Chiffon Cake
Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Party Angel Food Cake
Shoo-Fly Cake
Hot Milk Sponge Cake
Short Cake
Chiffon Cake
Crumb Cake
Pumpkin Chiffon Cake
Cream Cheese Frosting
Quick Sugar and Cinnamon Coffee Cake
Black Walnut Cake
German Apple Cake
Hannah's Raisin Cake
Raw Apple Cake
Blueberry Cake
Carrot Cake
Pumpkin Cake
Zucchini Squash Cake
Banana Cake
Hot Applesauce Cake
Mandarin Orange Cake
Oatmeal Cake
Out-of-This-World Cake
Topping
Spice Cake

The Goods are the parents of two daughters and are members of the Landisville Mennonite Church.

Rachel Thomas Pellman is the manager of the Old Country Store in Intercourse, Pennsylvania, which features quilts, crafts, and toys by more than 200 Amish and Mennonite craftspersons. Rachel and her husband, Kenny, are co-authors of The World of Amish Quilts and its companion book, Amish Quilt Patterns.

Rachel and Kenny are the parents of one son and are members of the Rossmere Mennonite Church.

Phyllis and Rachel are sisters-in-law.

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Baking For Dummies

Author: Emily Nolan

Ever walk past a bakery window and marvel at the assortment of cookies, tarts, pies, and cakes and wonder how they did it? Wonder no more. The secrets to creating them can now be yours. With Baking For Dummies, You'lll discover how simple (and fun!) whipping up any sort of baked good from a chocolate layer cake, a classic apple pie to a plateful of scrumptious chocolate chip cookies or black-and-white brownies actually is.

The magic is in the doing and baking expert Emily Nolan shows you how. In almost no time, you'll get down to basics with easy-to-follow tips on:

• Outfitting your kitchen with a baker's essentials iincluding baking pans (loaf pans, springform pans, glass vs. aluminum pie plates), food processors and blenders, bowls, measuring cups, graters, and sifters
• Measuring ingredients, preparing pans, working with eggs, zesting fruit, and melting chocolate
• Getting ready to bake,preparing your kitchen, working with recipes, and using the right equipment

And once you're all set, you'll marvel at how simple creating the smallest baking masterpiece really is:

• From chocolate cupcakes topped with mocha frosting to a lemon-curd cheesecake, to fluffy blueberry muffins and buttermilk biscuits
• From scrumptious pumpkin and chocolate cream pies and a classic cheesecake to outrageously delicious chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies
• From a heart-warming chicken potpie to a yummy cheese soufflé

With over 100 recipes to choose from (including ones for soft pretzels and pizza!), eight pages of color photos, a summary cheat sheet of baking essentials, black-and-white how-to illustrations, andhumorous cartoons along the way, the book will reward, even a baking novice, with delicious results and allow you to enjoy the unending magic of baking from scratch.