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100 Best-Ever Recipes Cakes & Cupcakes Cakes & Cupcakes Cakes & Cupcakes 100 Best-Ever Recipes Editors of Fine Cooking t sips & sweets iii Text © 2014 The Taunton Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Pp The Taunton Press, Inc. 63 South Main Street PO Box 5506, Newtown, CT 06470-5506 email: [email protected] Editor: Carolyn Mandarano Copy editor: Li Agen Indexer: Heidi Blough Jacket/Cover design: Kimberly Adis Interior design: Kimberly Adis Layout: Cathy Cassidy Cover photographer: Scott Phillips Cover food stylist: Samantha Connell Interior photographers: Scott Phillips © The Taunton Press, Inc., except for p. 2, 9, 10, 11, 130, and 164 by Amy Albert © The Taunton Press, Inc.; p. 19 © Quentin Bacon; p. 165 by Martha Holmberg © The Taunton Press; p. 200-201 by Steve Hunter © The Taunton Press, Inc. Fine Cooking® is a trademark of The Taunton Press, Inc., registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The following names/manufacturers appearing in Fine Cooking Cakes & Cupcakes are trademarks: Ateco®, Callebaut®, Cap’n Crunch®, Chambord®, Cointreau®, Droste®, El Rey®, Grand Marnier®, Guinness®, Jameson®, Knox®, Lyles Golden Syrup®, Myer’s®, Nabisco® FAMOUS® Chocolate Wafers, Pyrex®, Scharffen Berger® Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fine cooking cakes & cupcakes : 100 best ever recipes / editors and contributors of Fine cooking. pages cm Includes index. E-Book ISBN 978-1-62710-488-3 1. Cake. 2. Cupcakes. I. Taunton’s fine cooking. TX771.F56 2013 641.86’53--dc23 2013044079 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 contents 2 snacking cakes 40 layer cakes, cupcakes & other party cakes 82 cool & creamy cakes 118 fruit cakes 170 showstoppers & special-occasion cakes 212 contributors 214 metric equivalents 215 index cranberry streusel pound cake (recipe on p. 25) snacking cakes butter pound cake p. 4 pumpkin and cornmeal cake with orange syrup p. 23 plum coffee cake with brown sugar and cardamom streusel p. 6 espresso gingerbread cake p. 24 bourbon-glazed brown sugar pecan cranberry streusel pound cake p. 25 pound cake p. 8 orange–poppyseed pound cake p. 26 pineapple crumble snack cake p. 9 moist apple crumb cake p. 28 chocolate banana swirl cake p. 10 coffee–cocoa snack cake p. 30 classic crumb cake p. 11 brown-butter banana cake steamed coriander–gingerbread cake with chocolate chips p. 31 with eggnog crème anglaise p. 12 sweet potato spice cake with fresh ginger sour cream coffee cake and pecan streusel topping p. 33 with toasted pecan filling p. 15 vanilla and sour cream pound cake buttermilk cake with spiced with vanilla glaze p. 34 vanilla icing p. 17 pumpkin–pecan cake with chocolate nut upside-down cake p. 18 brown sugar and bourbon glaze p. 36 sour cream pound cake p. 19 blueberry–lemon cornmeal cake p. 38 lemon buttermilk pound cake p. 20 glazed orange pound cake p. 39 cream cheese and wild blueberry pound cake p. 21