Título: The Cake Bible, 35th Anniversary Edition
Autor: Rose Levy Beranbaum, Woody Wolston
Sinopse: The legendary IACP Culinary Classic The Cake Bible—found in the kitchen of every serious baker and beloved for decades—with classic recipes thoroughly updated and including about 30% new recipes and methods and the latest ingredient and equipment information
The original Cake Bible is a guiding light in the world’s baking literature, with Rose Levy Beranbaum’s deep knowledge and respect for craft to be found on every page. It’s for home and professional bakers who want to make glorious, technically perfect cakes and understand why the ingredients in cakes work the way they do.
The book was hugely influential from the moment it first came out in 1988, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and going through sixty printings. It introduced the reverse creaming method, incorporating flour and butter first instead of butter and sugar. This makes mixing faster and easier, helps cakes rise more evenly, and results in a finer and more tender cake texture. And it’s among the first United States cookbooks to offer measurements in weights, highlighting the superiority of the metric system, which has become the gold standard in baking books.
But a lot has changed in thirty-five years—and The Cake Bible has changed with it! This striking new edition—with new photographs in an expanded section--contains recipes for classic and innovative cakes and complementary adornments of all types, instructions for making stunning decorations, and flavor variations for every craving and occasion, with foundational recipes like All-Occasion Downy Yellow Butter Cake and Angel Food Cake and showstoppers like the Strawberry Maria, which brings together Génoise au Chocolat, Grand Marnier-flavored syrup, and Strawberry Cloud Cream. Rose also provides instructions for baking for special occasions, such as weddings, with recipes to serve 150 people as well as formulas to scale the recipes for any number of desired servings.
For thirty-five years, Rose has been tweaking and reworking her methods based on reader feedback and constant conversations with other bakers and food and equipment professionals. Rose’s fans, professional and amateur alike, will love this perfect distillation of her decades of experience and the pure joy of creation.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Cake Bible, 35th Anniversary Edition”, de Rose Levy Beranbaum, Woody Wolston, publicado pela editora William Morrow Cookbooks, em 2024 e com 608 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: William Morrow Cookbooks
Páginas: 608
Ano: 2024
Edição: Revised
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0063310279
ISBN13: 9780063310278
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora William Morrow Cookbooks trazem uma experiência culinária que combina tradição e inovação, com receitas que vão desde massas artesanais coloridas feitas com ingredientes naturais até pratos práticos para o dia a dia, como refeições de uma panela só. O catálogo privilegia uma linguagem acessível e didática, com instruções passo a passo e dicas para facilitar o preparo, mesmo para quem está começando na cozinha. Há obras que valorizam a celebração de datas festivas e encontros familiares, com menus sazonais e receitas para ocasiões especiais, enquanto outras exploram técnicas específicas, como dobraduras de guardanapos e preparo de pães regionais. O tom varia entre o descontraído e o prático, com algumas obras carregando humor e histórias pessoais que acompanham as receitas, criando um clima acolhedor e convidativo para o leitor.
