Want To Learn ... Textbook Style
Decorating By czyadgrl Updated 28 Aug 2006 , 5:07pm by cakesbykitty
I was wondering if there are any good "textbook-like baking and decorating books out there. Alton Brown -ish style content (though I'm sure not nearly as fun!). I'm wanting to dive deeper and get down the science behind stuff.
Can anyone suggest some good ones? I need something to help me with my cake studies that's not based on the computer! LOL
Thanks!
I just got a great book simply called Great Cakes. It's mostly just recipes, but the entire first bits of the book are in depth explanations of the difference between types of cake, the scientific bearing of every recipe on a cake, and exactly what every action does (beating butter, etc.). It's really good, especially considering it comes with literally hundreds of really detailed recipes. I'm totally in love with it right now, you should try it out! 
SugarArches - who is that book written by?
thanks!
The Cake Bible...i hear it's great for scratch bakers, lots of good recipe's and plenty of science lessons...
even though i have been baking forever the one book i want to get is the cake bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum. She explains the scinetific side of the process in baking the perfect cake
you can get it at amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0688044026/?tag=cakecentral-20
Amazon.com
Rose Levy Beranbaum is a kitchen chemist extraordinaire--this, after all, is the woman who wrote her master's thesis on the effects of sifting on the quality of yellow cake. In The Cake Bible, she explains the science behind types of leavening, the merits (or not) of sifting, melting chocolate, ... Read more
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