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Get ready for the holidays no matter what they may bring with two new cake cookbooks and a cookie cookbook!
From the famed name in hospitality comes “Martha Stewart’s Cake Perfection.”
The book contains more than 100 recipes for cake, ranging from complex to simple snack cakes. There are also chapters on essential ingredients and tools as well as frosting techniques before the six chapters of cakes: Show Cakes, Layer Cakes, Everyday Cakes, Sheet Cakes, Cupcakes and Celebration Cakes.
Show Cakes include stunners like Faux-Stone Cake and Watercolor Cake, which something no mere mortal will probably ever achieve, but are pretty to look at in the book. Layer Cakes come back down to earth with Milk-and-Cookies Cake and Mint-Chocolate Icebox Cake. Everyday Cakes include favorites like Red Velvet Pound Cake and Lemon Olive-Oil Cake. Sheet Cakes too bring familiarity with Vanilla Sheet Cake with Citrus Cream Cheese Frosting and Spiced Snacking Cake. Cupcakes bring a party to the table with Soft- Serve Peanut Butter Cupcakes and Mini Mocha Cupcakes. Celebration Cakes bring holiday themes like a Holiday Yule Log — perfect for this time of year.