Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor

It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras-including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder-a baker at any level of experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Not to mention sheet cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes and muffins, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and bars. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book.
 

Customer Reviews:

This book has paid for itself in ease...and compliments

I purchased both of the Cake Doctor books and I love them. This one...the Chocolate Cake Doctor...is my favorite. I was able to make a Tunnel of Fudge Bundt Cake (page 98), which was the first cake I ever baked when I was younger...but it's no longer sold as a box mix. It was easy and so much fun to revive a favorite.

Then the holidays rolled around and I decided on Debbie's Dazzling Red Velvet Cake (page 88). This was a huge hit!!! It is so beautiful that no one would ever think that you started with a box mix and it is truly dazzling on your holiday table. Instead of red raspberries, I simply topped it with some red and green sugar sprinkles. It's so easy that I made it for each Christmas party that we attended and I made one for Christmas Eve dinner at our house. Everyone raved about how pretty it was...and how yummy it was!

I can't wait to try more...

2009-01-04

Chocolate Cake Doctor

This is a wonderful cookbook. Very easy recipes, with items that are easy to find. Cupcakes taste great. Perfect for get togethers and to take to work for "treat day"

2008-12-21

Cake baking made easy

I enjoy baking cakes. This book, and The Cake Doctor have delicious and easy recipes using the box mix. Highly recommended.

2008-07-16

LOVE IT!

If you have ever had a chocolate cake, the recipe for it is probably in here. Not made from scratch, but from a cake mix, but still just as good. All of the recipes I had tried have been wonderful; and so simple!

2008-06-17

Too many repeats/variations counting as new recipes!

I like the cakes made from these cake mix doctor books, but it seems like the author really needed to pad this book out to come up with 150 recipes. The "Moist Chocolate Cake" is the same recipe as the "Perfect Chocolate Cake" except that it calls for one less egg. It is also exactly the same as the "Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes" -- she counts the layer cake version as one recipe and the cupcake version as a separate recipe! Why not just print the basic recipe and all the variations for different baking pans? She also does this double counting for Chocolate Banana Cake/Cupcakes, "Chocolate-Orange Cream Cheese Pound Cake" is the same as "Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake" with the addition of a little orange juice, etc. It's annoying! I wish she would have just produced a shorter book written more concisely.

2008-04-26