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All About Cake: A Milk Bar Cookbook Kindle Edition
It’s a universe of ooey-gooey banana-chocolate-peanut butter cakes you make in a crockpot, of layer cakes that taste like Key lime pie, and the most baller birthday cake ever.
From her home kitchen to the creations of her beloved Milk Bar, All About Cake covers everything: two-minute microwave mug cakes, buttery Bundts and pounds, her famous cake truffles and, of course, her signature naked layer cakes filled with pops of flavors and textures.
But more than just a collection of Christina’s greatest-hits recipes (c’mon, like that’s not enough?) this book will be your guide for how to dream up and make cakes of any flavor you can think of, whether you’re a kitchen rookie or a full-fledged baking hardbody.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherClarkson Potter
- Publication dateOctober 23, 2018
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“Kind of like calculus, baking is a precise art that takes a bit of time to master—and there is no better teacher than Milk Bar genius Christina Tosi. Like the best mathematicians, Tosi makes baking come alive in unbelievable ways.”—The Kitchn
“It’s a universe of cake truffles, banana-chocolate-peanut butter cakes and cereal-milk ice cream and we just live in it. The owner of Milk Bar (and creator of the naked cake) reveals all of her bakery’s secrets, with clear instructions that even kitchen rookies can follow.”—PureWow
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. . . of the matter is that growing up I didn’t really love cake. (I KNOW!) I was a fool for dense, fudgy brownies, crazy cookies warm out of the oven, and—my childhood fave—gooey butter cake (which is technically not even a cake! It’s a bar cookie.).
Cake was a bit boring to me, almost always the same old formula: a spongy base with
some muted flavor, sweet frosting on top. Nine times out of ten, I’d just scrape and eat the frosting off the snooze fest, leaving the cake behind, naked and afraid. To be fair, cake was fun to have at birthdays and celebrations because I do love dessert rituals. And it meant, if I played my cards right, I could finagle enough frosting to keep me going through the afternoon and still have a little for a slumber party pick-me-up. To me, cake was really just a vehicle for a frosting fest.
It wasn’t until 2005 that I started really thinking twice about cake. More specifically, layer cake. I had over a decade of home baking under my belt, been to culinary school, and worked my way up in top NYC restaurants, but had still never met a cake that made me swoon. I had started making desserts for the Momofuku restaurants and had found my voice as a pastry chef through the desserts that I adored—ice cream, pie, cookies. The thing I never dared put on the menu was the dessert I never felt was truly lust-worthy. But as my imagination grew, I became obsessed with figuring out how to fall in love with cake.
I sat down and considered the things that bummed me out about cake:
Cake flavors are dull and boring.
Cake is usually overbacked to make it sturdy enough to be layered or topped.
Cake is usually just one soft spongy bit. Why take the time to make cake so beautiful on the outside if it's just a snooze fest when you bite in?
Cake, as I knew it, felt like a throwaway, a statue that told no story, and wasn’t that awesome to eat. But it’s tradition. We’re told it’s decadent, so we turn a blind eye, or turn off our taste buds, and lift our forks anyhow. We can do better than that! If the world is really going to embrace life and dive face first into a dessert, we deserve more than that. Cake should have personality! Integrity! Texture! And a visual appeal that draws you in and gets you excited about eating!
I had a lot of work to do. I believed cake had the potential to be a great vehicle for many things—perspective, point of view, flavor, bits and pieces of goo, graham, glaze, and goodness. But first I had to define a formula for myself, then get the world to trust me and dig in.
I needed to make a direct contradiction to all the reasons cake let me down in the past, and so I decided these would be my cake ground rules:
The cake must have a strong point of view, a flavor “story.”
Every single layer must be amazingly delicious on its own.
Hidden gems of texture within are key.
And there is no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks we’re going to hide ALL that ingenuity behind a thick coat of frosting. I want to let the people IN, and so I won’t frost the sides of the cake.
And so it began, my little love story with cake. I’d make it every day. Multiple times a day. I’d use ANY cake-worthy opportunity in life to test out this new perspective. A friend’s birthday. A dog’s birthday. A wedding. First day of vacation. Last day of vacation. A housewarming. I got in there, all for the love of the game, to start loving cake, to make cake lovable.
Once I found someone to bake for, I’d analyze their favorite desserts, and I’d set about devising their cake, layer by layer. Love for strawberry shortcake, lemon chiffon pie, and classic New York cheesecake inspired the Strawberry-Lemon Layer Cake (page 221), a goingaway party for someone who loved making tropical cocktails gave birth to the Pineapple Upside-Down Layer Cake (page 237), and someone’s love for pancakes, any time of day,
paved the way for the Pancake Layer Cake (page 255).
I became a woman possessed in this new universe of layer cakes—curious sponges, soaks, outside-the-box fillings, crumbs, crunches, ganache, unfrosted sides. Occasion by occasion, I baked my way into my now deep and abiding love of cake.
No one teaches you how to be prepared for the things you chase down in life. And so I never really considered that this internal, deep-dive study of mine would be something that inspired others . . . and would maybe change the dessert world forever.
In 2008, when me and my guy and gal pals opened the doors to Milk Bar, we challenged the way lots of people think about baked goods: cookies with sweet and salty bits, cereal-flavored anything, “crack” bars and pie, rainbow-sprinkled “birthday” flavor . . . and especially cakes. I must admit, people were confused at first by the naked-looking sides of our layer cakes, with composed flavors and bits and bobs peeking out. But we gave them the Milk Bar Sweat Down, where resistance is futile, where we keep shoving slices of cake their way until they cave in.
Nowadays, at Milk Bar, it’s no secret that we love cake. It has quickly become a way of life. From layer cakes to cake truffles, cake is what makes our operation go ’round. This book is our ode to that. We’re so cuckoo for cake, every weekend at our Milk Bar shops, we throw impromptu parties, where we stop the madness for just a moment or two and celebrate over a #cakebreak. We dance, jiggle, and shake alongside our guests and neighbors to celebrate our everyday lives over cake! When our local school needs to raise some funds, our cake shows up, too.
And cake follows us off the clock, beyond the doors of Milk Bar. After all, when you are that obsessed with something, you find it and carry it with you in any and every form. Real Talk: When I’m home, sometimes the last thing I want to do is fuss over a layer cake, which is when a simple bundt or pound cake comes in. And if I’m being really honest, even turning on the stove sometimes feels like a chore. So enter: Crock-Pot and microwave cakes—if you’re into the warm and fudgy, my friend, I’ve got your back.
Sometimes your crew of friends is more the sheet-cake crowd. And other times, the young ’uns in your kitchen, dying to get up in the mix, are more the cupcake type (the only reason we’ll allow for them). We’re so into spreading the love of cake that we have recipes for those who don’t have a baking bone in their body. As for cake balls, cake pops, or call them what you will, we whisper our secrets for transforming bites of cake into our legendary “cake truffles” in the pages that follow, too.
And, for those fussier perfectionists and pros who just can’t get enough, we’ll get down in there, too, with recipes, processes, tips, and tricks from our classic 6-inch layer cake all the way up to our insane multitier wedding cake architectural feat, if you’re really set on going for it!
I went from being a cake hater to a cake revolutionary. And if there’s one more thing you must know about me, it’s that talk is cheap, especially in the kitchen. Seeing, tasting, is believing. Come on in, tie that apron ’round your waist. A headscarf for flair will get your imagination in the right place, or put on some tunes to get you bouncing. Heat the oven and start nosing around in your fridge and cupboards. I want you all in, as I welcome you into our wild, wonderful world of CAKES!
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Christina Tosi is the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Milk Bar. Known for baking outside of the lines and turning dessert on its head, Christina founded Milk Bar in 2008, with locations now in New York City, Toronto, Washington DC, Las Vegas, with a Los Angeles location coming soon. Christina has been a judge on Fox's MasterChef series, and was featured on the hit Netflix docu-series, Chef's Table: Pastry. She is also the author of two additional cookbooks, Momofuku Milk Bar (2011) and Milk Bar Life (2015).
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The book is separated into different styles of cakes (i.e. Cake Truffles, bundt and loaf cakes, crock pot and mug cakes, double-layer cakes, and her well-known triple layer cakes.
I haven't baked any of the truffles or crock pot/mug cakes because they don't appeal right now and if I can't freeze them and then bring them into work I probably won't make them. I live alone....I'm not going to eat a whole cake by myself. :) I have focused mainly on bundt, loafs, and double/triple layer cakes.
My absolute favorites were the Key Lime Pie cake. Oh lord, that one is good. Sour Cream frosting, a buttery graham crumble, lime curd and graham sponge. I love my curd, so I always *double* the curd recipes by Tosi. And actually because I find her method too "involved" (i.e. using a blender, straining, etc), I usually do my curds in a one-pot over a water bath. Put all the ingredients together....whisk over a hot bain marie.....7-8 minutes later you have a curd (unless you double the recipe, in which case it'll take longer).
My second favorite cake was the Corn and Blueberry cake. Again, the sour cream frosting was lovely, and it paired well with the barely cooked blueberry compote & sponge. When I made the sour cream frosting, i found I could sit down on a couch and eat the whole bowl with nothing else.... It's that good!
I made the chocolate and yellow cake frosting double layer. It was good, and I liked the yellow cake crumble. The same goes for the German Chocolate Layer cake. I found that one, however, to be *really* rich. All the components are delicious and I decreased the coconut I added to the coconut crack layer by 30%. The milk chocolate frosting in the german chocolate cake is bonkers crazy good. The German Chocolate cake calls for Feuilletine to be mixed into the Pecan Crumble. I forgot to order it online from Amazon, so I made my OWN! I followed Stella Park's (Bravetart) online recipe. The key to her recipe, though? set up 3-4 pans with silicon mats (not parchment!!!), and when you finally mix, it spread them all out IMMEDIATELY very thin...paper thin....on all the pans. If you let it sit, it congeals and you won't be able to spread it and it'll be too thick. Trust me. Making your own Feuilletine is quite easy, but you need to work fast. See attached pic of my feuilletine. It's perfect and delicious and crunchy. Anyway! Got side-tracked there....
Her Pineapple Upside Down cake was equally as delicious, and very tropical. I first poached the pineapple (in dried thai peppers, a white sauvignon, cardamom, etc), and I must say that for two hours the smell of the pineapple poaching was absolutely disgusting. truly. gag-worthy. All I could think to myself was, "wow, this is going to taste awful". I put the pineapple and poaching liquid in the fridge to marinate & chill overnight, and when I tasted it the next day it was MAGICAL. Seriously, a truly fantastic flavor. And when you whip the rest of the frosting with pureed poached pineapple and then fold in chunks of pineapple, it becomes a wonderful dessert. Tip for poaching pineapple.....get one of those large turkey oven baking bags, and a very large turkey pot with lid. Put the pineapple laying down in there in the liquid, and cleanup will be a breeze!
When it comes to making her layer cakes, you can convert her recipes to 8" cakes, by doubling the sponge recipe, and doubling most of the ingredients. Sometimes her frosting (because she doesn't always have you make enough), you have to multiple by 2.5. Because her cakes can be crumbly & messy, I usually cut them directly out of the freezer when they're solid. I have a really viciously sharp Japanese knife and it goes through it with just a little bit of muscle, but i find I get cleaner lines when I cut it when frozen, and let them sit out at room temp. Oh, and also, make the middle layer the one that's cobbled together with scraps! Make the bottom and top layers the whole complete cake cutouts.
I made the Cherry Cola Bundt Cake, and I must say it wasn't that good. It looks and sounds fantastic, but it was just meh....kind of bitter? She redeemed herself with the Raspberry Bundt cake (which had the pulp of Red Grapefruit throughout). Her Compost Pound cake as good, but I found it to be dry. Perhaps I overbaked it? And I have to say my least favorite cake was her Dulce De Leche cake. Totally one-note. Very boring. for Thanksgiving last year, I ruined a Yuzu curd tart I had made, so I had her Dulce De Leche in my freezer, so I served that. I got courtesy compliments. It's not great. I saw someone online transform it by adding coconut, and I think the cake could use some sort of offset to lift it a bit. It needs something sharp.
Anyway...another stellar book by Ms. Tosi. By the way, one of my pictures is of her Strawberry Shortcake Cake, which is not in the book here. But it's on the Milkbarstore website under the Recipes section (at least it is as of today). I highly recommend that one. It's phenomenal, if only for the Sweet Cream frosting. If any of you have made any other items from the book that you would recommend I make next, I would appreciate a comment! Thanks!
UPDATE (12/20/20) - I finally got around to making Tosi's Pumpkin Pie Cake. As indicated in other reviews, I decreased her salt from 1TB to 1tsp. It was a delicious cake. The cheesecake layer was also delicious, as was the white chocolate pumpkin ganache. All put together, though? It was a bit one-note just like the Dulce de leche. It's a tasty cake, though. I'm not a fan of pumpkin in general, so I would probably need to eat it with a good hot cup of coffee. That being said, my neighbor (who I gave a piece to last night) was RAVING about this cake. So, I guess it's just about personal preference.
UPDATE (5-26-2021) I got around to making her Rhubarb Elderflower Pound Cake, as well as her Mint Chocolate chip Cake. See two pictures attached. I have never tasted elderflower, and generally try to stay away from anything of a floral scent, but this flavor was magnificent. Mixed with the rhubarb, I loved the combination, and I actually doubled the recipe to make extra jam for myself. The pound cake was good too, but it's all about the rhubarb elderflower "goo". The Mint Chocolate chip cake was good as well. The chocolate chip sponge is excellent. Truly excellent. I made a mistake on the mint cheesecake! I added the extract and coloring *before* it baked, which made it smell a bit "off". I should have made the cheesecake and then afterwards added the extract and coloring! The "frosting" for the Mint CC cake was interesting. Sort of like edible play doh. Tasted very good, but such a weird texture. All in all, I really liked both of these cakes. Two thumbs up!
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The book is separated into different styles of cakes (i.e. Cake Truffles, bundt and loaf cakes, crock pot and mug cakes, double-layer cakes, and her well-known triple layer cakes.
I haven't baked any of the truffles or crock pot/mug cakes because they don't appeal right now and if I can't freeze them and then bring them into work I probably won't make them. I live alone....I'm not going to eat a whole cake by myself. :) I have focused mainly on bundt, loafs, and double/triple layer cakes.
My absolute favorites were the Key Lime Pie cake. Oh lord, that one is good. Sour Cream frosting, a buttery graham crumble, lime curd and graham sponge. I love my curd, so I always *double* the curd recipes by Tosi. And actually because I find her method too "involved" (i.e. using a blender, straining, etc), I usually do my curds in a one-pot over a water bath. Put all the ingredients together....whisk over a hot bain marie.....7-8 minutes later you have a curd (unless you double the recipe, in which case it'll take longer).
My second favorite cake was the Corn and Blueberry cake. Again, the sour cream frosting was lovely, and it paired well with the barely cooked blueberry compote & sponge. When I made the sour cream frosting, i found I could sit down on a couch and eat the whole bowl with nothing else.... It's that good!
I made the chocolate and yellow cake frosting double layer. It was good, and I liked the yellow cake crumble. The same goes for the German Chocolate Layer cake. I found that one, however, to be *really* rich. All the components are delicious and I decreased the coconut I added to the coconut crack layer by 30%. The milk chocolate frosting in the german chocolate cake is bonkers crazy good. The German Chocolate cake calls for Feuilletine to be mixed into the Pecan Crumble. I forgot to order it online from Amazon, so I made my OWN! I followed Stella Park's (Bravetart) online recipe. The key to her recipe, though? set up 3-4 pans with silicon mats (not parchment!!!), and when you finally mix, it spread them all out IMMEDIATELY very thin...paper thin....on all the pans. If you let it sit, it congeals and you won't be able to spread it and it'll be too thick. Trust me. Making your own Feuilletine is quite easy, but you need to work fast. See attached pic of my feuilletine. It's perfect and delicious and crunchy. Anyway! Got side-tracked there....
Her Pineapple Upside Down cake was equally as delicious, and very tropical. I first poached the pineapple (in dried thai peppers, a white sauvignon, cardamom, etc), and I must say that for two hours the smell of the pineapple poaching was absolutely disgusting. truly. gag-worthy. All I could think to myself was, "wow, this is going to taste awful". I put the pineapple and poaching liquid in the fridge to marinate & chill overnight, and when I tasted it the next day it was MAGICAL. Seriously, a truly fantastic flavor. And when you whip the rest of the frosting with pureed poached pineapple and then fold in chunks of pineapple, it becomes a wonderful dessert. Tip for poaching pineapple.....get one of those large turkey oven baking bags, and a very large turkey pot with lid. Put the pineapple laying down in there in the liquid, and cleanup will be a breeze!
When it comes to making her layer cakes, you can convert her recipes to 8" cakes, by doubling the sponge recipe, and doubling most of the ingredients. Sometimes her frosting (because she doesn't always have you make enough), you have to multiple by 2.5. Because her cakes can be crumbly & messy, I usually cut them directly out of the freezer when they're solid. I have a really viciously sharp Japanese knife and it goes through it with just a little bit of muscle, but i find I get cleaner lines when I cut it when frozen, and let them sit out at room temp. Oh, and also, make the middle layer the one that's cobbled together with scraps! Make the bottom and top layers the whole complete cake cutouts.
I made the Cherry Cola Bundt Cake, and I must say it wasn't that good. It looks and sounds fantastic, but it was just meh....kind of bitter? She redeemed herself with the Raspberry Bundt cake (which had the pulp of Red Grapefruit throughout). Her Compost Pound cake as good, but I found it to be dry. Perhaps I overbaked it? And I have to say my least favorite cake was her Dulce De Leche cake. Totally one-note. Very boring. for Thanksgiving last year, I ruined a Yuzu curd tart I had made, so I had her Dulce De Leche in my freezer, so I served that. I got courtesy compliments. It's not great. I saw someone online transform it by adding coconut, and I think the cake could use some sort of offset to lift it a bit. It needs something sharp.
Anyway...another stellar book by Ms. Tosi. By the way, one of my pictures is of her Strawberry Shortcake Cake, which is not in the book here. But it's on the Milkbarstore website under the Recipes section (at least it is as of today). I highly recommend that one. It's phenomenal, if only for the Sweet Cream frosting. If any of you have made any other items from the book that you would recommend I make next, I would appreciate a comment! Thanks!
UPDATE (12/20/20) - I finally got around to making Tosi's Pumpkin Pie Cake. As indicated in other reviews, I decreased her salt from 1TB to 1tsp. It was a delicious cake. The cheesecake layer was also delicious, as was the white chocolate pumpkin ganache. All put together, though? It was a bit one-note just like the Dulce de leche. It's a tasty cake, though. I'm not a fan of pumpkin in general, so I would probably need to eat it with a good hot cup of coffee. That being said, my neighbor (who I gave a piece to last night) was RAVING about this cake. So, I guess it's just about personal preference.
UPDATE (5-26-2021) I got around to making her Rhubarb Elderflower Pound Cake, as well as her Mint Chocolate chip Cake. See two pictures attached. I have never tasted elderflower, and generally try to stay away from anything of a floral scent, but this flavor was magnificent. Mixed with the rhubarb, I loved the combination, and I actually doubled the recipe to make extra jam for myself. The pound cake was good too, but it's all about the rhubarb elderflower "goo". The Mint Chocolate chip cake was good as well. The chocolate chip sponge is excellent. Truly excellent. I made a mistake on the mint cheesecake! I added the extract and coloring *before* it baked, which made it smell a bit "off". I should have made the cheesecake and then afterwards added the extract and coloring! The "frosting" for the Mint CC cake was interesting. Sort of like edible play doh. Tasted very good, but such a weird texture. All in all, I really liked both of these cakes. Two thumbs up!
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I also managed to make a pie with the recipe of a curd (from a cupcake recipe), I just improvised and it was great! There's a lot of content enough for you to play with the flavor and mix it to your taste.
Book is great! You'll be the star of the diner for sure. Make sure to follow all her tips and recommandations. It's gold.
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I also managed to make a pie with the recipe of a curd (from a cupcake recipe), I just improvised and it was great! There's a lot of content enough for you to play with the flavor and mix it to your taste.
Book is great! You'll be the star of the diner for sure. Make sure to follow all her tips and recommandations. It's gold.
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das Buch hat sehr viele verschiedene und auch ausgefallene Rezepte.
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I am going to bring out one soon
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UPDATE: I wrote this review when I had only made one cake from this book but can happily report that I have since made many more and all have been fantastic. The one I enthusiastically described above is my go-to birthday cake for anyone I really care about (it is, undeniably, time-consuming). I even took it on a plane for my sister’s birthday. But several more have become part of my regular rotation. The Bundt/loaf cake chapter is particularly good because the cakes are simple but each still has a point of interest (e.g. whole lemon pieces in the lemon & poppyseed Bundt cake, a homemade sesame brittle that then gets ground up and swirled through the cake batter for a sesame loaf cake, grated celery root in another with pickled celery to serve alongside) as well as being delicious. The multiple component recipes that some people find irritating actually make it really easy to make up your own cakes so I was able to turn one of the cupcakes that I liked the sound of into a sheet cake fairly easily (and with delicious results) by following the sheet cake formula and pulling ideas from other recipes around the book. Still five stars from me!