The Essential Cake Boss: Recipes & Techniques You Absolutely Have to Know to Bake Like the Boss

Here are the essentials from Buddy Valastro’s instant classic, the New York Times bestselling Baking with the Cake Boss, in a condensed, more affordable paperback package with a dynamic, new design. Here are extensive explanations and step-by-step photos that show how you can bake—and decorate—just like the Boss! Everyone who works at Carlo’s Bake Shop gets an on-the-job education on how to bake like a pro. Now you can get that training in The Essential Cake Boss, a collection of Buddy’s recipes and techniques that are the building blocks of his show-stopping desserts. You’ll learn to work with baking and decorating equipment, bake perfectly moist cupcakes and cakes, and work magical effects with frosting and fondant. With Buddy’s inspiring enthusiasm and stories from the bake shop told in his inimitable voice, The Essential Cake Boss provides you with the tools for making his most popular, signature creations. A unique chart lets you mix and match cake flavors, frosting, and liqueur syrup to create your own personal trademark cakes. Plenty of gorgeous, step-by-step instructional photos let you follow Buddy as he shows how to create his artistic flourishes and decorations. An incomparable dessert education, The Essential Cake Boss will become a beloved reference for aspiring and skilled bakers alike. Bursting with delicious, tried-and-true recipes, how-to boxes and sidebars, and numerous tricks of the trade, The Essential Cake Boss is a rare treat—a fun, accessible guide to baking, all in a gloriously designed, fully illustrated package worthy of the Cake Boss’s unique artistic vision. Here are the essentials from Buddy Valastro's instant classic, the New York Times bestselling Baking with the Cake Boss, in a condensed, more affordable paperback package with a dynamic, new design. Here are extensive explanations and step-by-step photos that show how you can bake—and decorate—just like the Boss! Bake Like the Boss! The Essential Cake Boss is a perfect slice of Buddy Valastro's beloved bestseller Baking with the Cake Boss —a sweet collection of Buddy's core recipes and techniques; the building blocks of Buddy's show-stopping desserts; and many of his most popular, signature creations. You'll learn to work with baking and decorating equipment, bake perfectly moist cupcakes and cakes, and work magical effects with frosting and fondant. Gorgeous photos let you follow Buddy as he shows how to create his artistic flourishes and decorations. The Essential Cake Boss also features charts that let you mix and match cake flavor, frosting, and liqueur syrup to create your own trademark cakes. Bursting with delicious, tried-and-true recipes, handy tricks of the trade, and stories told in Buddy's inimitable voice, The Essential Cake Boss is a rare treat— a fun, accessible guide to baking that inspires home bakers to new culinary heights, all in a gloriously designed, fully illustrated book worthy of the Cake Boss's unique artistic vision. "...The Essential Cake Boss" is a perfect slice of Buddy Valas-tro s beloved bestseller "Baking with the Cake Boss" a sweet collection of Buddy s core recipes and techniques; the building blocks of Buddy s show-stopping desserts; and many of his most popular, signature creations. You ll learn to work with baking and decorating equip-ment, bake perfectly moist cupcakes and cakes, and work magical effects with frosting and fondant. Gor-geous photos let you follow Buddy as he shows how to create his artistic flourishes and decorations. "The Essen-tial Cake Boss" also features charts that let you mix and match cake flavor, frosting, and liqueur syrup to create your own trademark cakes. A master course in baking, "The Essential Cake Boss" starts with a tour around the kitchen, including your pantry essentials and equipment, and the basic baking techniques at the foundation of any baker's success..."--From the publisher **Here are the essentials from Buddy Valastro’s instant classic, the __New York Times__ bestselling __Baking with the Cake Boss,__ in a condensed, more affordable paperback package with a dynamic, new design.Here are extensive explanations and step-by-step photos that show how __you__ can bake—and decorate—just like the Boss!**__The Essential Cake Boss,__ __The Essential Cake____Boss____The Essential Cake Boss____The Essential Cake Boss__ Here are the essentials from Buddy Valastro's instant classic, the New York Times bestselling Baking with the Cake Boss, in a condensed, more affordable package with a dynamic, new design. Here are extensive explanations and step by step photos that show how you can bake and decorate just like the Boss! Presents a selection of the celebrity baker's core recipes and techniques, and provides tips on selecting baking and decorating equipment, matching cake flavors, and creating effects with frosting and fondant.