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From: , NY

Joined: January 9th, 2010

Favorite cookbook: Cake Bible

Favorite recipe: Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake

Lemon Poppy Seed-Sour Cream Cake from Rose's Heavenly Cakes

This is Rose's signature cake ( and mine) made larger and more flavorful. This version adds sour cream to the recipe, that gives it a wonderful mouthfeel. It has a rich buttery flavor, perfumed with lemon... read more >

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The Pie and Pastry Bible

By Rose Levy Beranbaum
Scribner - 1998

Rose Levy Beranbaum is my favorite cookbook author.She taught me to bake cakes with her Cake Bible and this book is like taking a course in pastry making.As is her usual style, she gives you all the information to understand what to do and why you should do it. If all you want are recipes that are quick and simple this book is not for you, but if you want to learn to bake the best pastry,enjoy.