Whimisical Bakehouse Cookbook by Kaye Hansen & Liv Hansen
January 24, I received 2 cake books in the mail. One, Whimisical Bakehouse Cakebook, I have been lusting after since before our wedding in August. The book is written by a mother & daughter team by the names of Kaye Hansen & Liv Hansen. They don’t do fondant or gumpaste as they want everything on their cakes to taste delicious. That’s a wonderful philosophy!
On cakecentral.com, I had heard many glowing reports on their book and even more on their recipes which is why I have been so anxious to get the book. It’s a late Christmas present from Sarah, my youngest daughter. Between bouts of sickness & not finding the book locally, I’m just now getting it. Whimisical Bakehouse Cookbook was well worth the wait. I literally spend a couple of days drooling over the pages & incapable of deciding where to start. If you don’t already own this book, find it, buy it. It’s that simple.
Small heart cake pans measuring 4-inches across.
The decision was finally made to start with the Chocolate Butter Cake on page 65. The cake baked up beautifully. I made 2 6-inch layers and a handful of small heart-shaped cakes. Can hardly wait to try it. If I had been able to decide earlier in the day, I could have iced it & tasted it. But that will have to wait for another day. In fact, to be honest, I was so excited that I forgot to take any pictures of the process or the finished cake. That’s excited. I do have some pictures of the book though for you to view.
Recipe page showing how I mark them.
If you’ll notice the shot of the recipe, I have an inked star by the name. That’s a little tip you might want to remember for your own cooking adventures. Recipes in a cookbook that meet with my approval, I mark with a star & I also mark them in the index to make it easier to find recipes I’m trying to find & know I have in one of my cookbooks. If I don’t like it at all or think it could use huge improvements, I take the pen & X it out in ink so I don’t make that mistake twice.
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