Cake Simple: Recipes for Bundt-Style Cakes from Classic Dark Chocolate to Luscious Lemon-Basil Review

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Cake Simple: Recipes for Bundt-Style Cakes from Classic Dark Chocolate to Luscious Lemon-Basil ReviewI wanted to love this book. I am an experienced baker and love the ease of bundt cakes and was excited to have some new ideas. This book has them, plus it is very pretty.
But the real test is the recipes. I have tried 4 recipes from the book and all of them fell short. The cover recipe (Mexican Chocolate with spiced dulce de leche) was my first cake. I love sweets, but this was overpoweringly sweet (2 cups of sugar total to 1-3/4 cups of flour in the batter). The dulce de leche is delicious, but like all dulce de leche, extremely sweet. On top of the cake, it was just sweet on sweet. In addition, the baking soda amount seems to be off (too much); the cake had a distinctly soapy taste. I made the cake for guests, and few people took more than a nibble. It was embarrassing.
The chemical leavening was also off in the cornmeal lime with chile cake and the maple cake--a pronounced aftertaste to both. Sadly, the salted caramel cake--the one I was most excited about--did not rise properly.
Further, I do not think the title is quite right for the cakes in this book. Yes, bundt cakes are much easier to make than other cakes, but the cakes in this collection have many, many steps, including some that need to be taken hours before you even begin baking. For example, a great many of the cakes call for creme fraiche, the author provides the recipe, but it takes several hours before the creme fraiche is ready for use. It's something I (as a more advanced baker) am willing to do, but I doubt that baking novices would. I would hardly classify such cakes as "simple"
This is the second cake book I have recently purchased from Chronicle Books with editing problems; the other was Miette: Recipes from San Francisco's Most Charming Pastry Shop. Both are beautiful books, but if the cakes do not work, than they do not have much use.Cake Simple: Recipes for Bundt-Style Cakes from Classic Dark Chocolate to Luscious Lemon-Basil Overview

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