Chocolate from the cake mix doctor : easy recipes for deep, dark, delicious cakes, from devil's food to the tunnel of fudge

The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate! Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession. 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. Offers 150 Recipes That Use Packaged Cake Mixes Enhanced With Additional Ingredients To Create Special Desserts With The Ease And Dependability Of Commercial Cake Mixes. Choclate For The Soul -- Chocolate Cake Mix -- Luscious Layers -- Chocolate Pound Cakes -- Sheet Cakes -- Cheesecakes, Pudding Cakes, And So Much More -- Chocolate Angel Food And Chiffon Cakes -- Muffins, Cupcakes, And Little Cakes -- Cookies, Bars, And Brownies -- Frostings -- Conversion Table -- Chocolate Cake Glossary. By Anne Byrn ; Photographs By Anthony Loew. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 469) And Index.