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American Cake: From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best-Loved Cakes

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Taste your way through The usa with more than 125 recipes for our favorite historical cakes and frostings.

Cakes in The usa don’t seem to be just about sugar, flour, and frosting. They’ve a deep, rich history that developed as our country grew. Cakes, more so than other desserts, are synonymous with celebration and coming together for happy times. They are an icon of American culture, reflecting heritage, region, season, occasion, and era. And they all the time have been, all through history.

In American Cake, Anne Byrn, writer of the New York Times bestselling series The Cake Mix Doctor, takes you on a journey through The usa’s past to present with more than 125 authentic recipes for our best-loved and beautiful cakes and frostings. Tracing cakes chronologically from the dark, moist gingerbread of New England to the elegant pound cake, the hardscrabble Appalachian stack cake, war cakes, deep-South caramel, Hawaiian Chantilly, and the modern California cakes of orange and olive oil, Byrn shares recipes, stories, and a at the back of-the-scenes look into what cakes we were baking back in time. From the well known Angel Food, Red Velvet, Pineapple Upside-Down, Gooey Butter, and Brownie to the lesser-known Burnt Leather, Wacky Cake, Lazy Daisy, and Cold Oven Pound Cake, it is a cookbook for the cook, the traveler, or anyone who loves a good story. And all recipes have been adapted to the modern kitchen.

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