New Take on Cake

I love this book. I love it enough that I have made several of the recipes. I love it enough that I've ordered by own physical copy after reading and cooking out of the Netgalley copy. The people I work with love this book too. I like cooking things but I don't really like to eat everything that I make. I have to force baked good onto unsuspecting people. They are very happy about this.This book is basically a guide to fancying up cake mixes. There are so many ideas here though. There are layer cakes and cupcakes and loafs and smaller cakes and gluten free cakes and vegan cakes. There are also general guidelines like how to convert a cake recipe to cupcakes. All the recipes that I've made have been amazingly moist and soft. That made wonderful cupcakes. It was a little harder when I tried a layer cake. Both of the cake layers fell apart when I tried to take them out of the pans. I had to force them into cake shapes and then majorly cover them with whipped cream and oreos. It looked like something made by an overenthusiastic toddler but it tasted amazing. My coworkers fell on it like starving hyenas. One person has already requested that cake for her birthday next May.I will be keeping this book as a reference and I see myself baking out of it often. This review was originally posted on Based On A True Story