Vintage Cakes: Timeless Recipes for Cupcakes, Flips, Rolls, Layer, Angel, Bundt, Chiffon, and Icebox Cakes for Today's Sweet Tooth

264 Pages·2012·6.44 MB·English

by  Julie Richardson

Copyright © 2012 by Julie Richardson
Photographs copyright © 2012 by Erin Kunkel All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicaion Data
Richardson, Julie, 1970–
Vintage cakes: timeless recipes for cupcakes, flips, rolls, layer, angel, bundt, chiffon, and
icebox cakes for today’s sweet tooth / by Julie Richardson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Cake. I. Title.
TX771.R527 2012
641.86’53—dc23
2011041262
eISBN: 978-1-60774103-9
Cover design by Toni Tajima
Food styling by Robyn Valarik
Prop styling by Ethel Brennan
v3.1
For all my grandmothers.
And for Hazel, who stuck with me
every step of the way and was always ready
when a chance morsel fell to the floor.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Adeep thanks to the wonderful folks of Baker & Spice Bakery and
SweetWares, for your support and patience while I took time away
from the bakery to work in my home kitchen. Thanks too for your
honest critique of the many cakes that found their way to the break
table. Kathy High, thank you for your contributions to this book. And an
extra special thanks to Ashley Claybaugh and Kelly Smith for keeping
things running smoothly in my absence—you both are positively super
duper!
I am forever grateful to my recipe testing/tasting team, who were
never afraid to say it like it is: Julie Beeler, Karolyn Cross, Gina
Fleschner, Laura Gordon, Nellie Hester, Kathie Newbie, Beatrice Pickett,
Marguerite Rogers, Barbara Slaughter, Barbara Stollberg, and Lamar
White.
A thousand thanks to my dear friend Joy Ellis for helping me pull this
book together and bring some order to the stacks of yellow notepads that
have littered my kitchen for the past year.
To the amazing people at Ten Speed who honored me with the
concept of Vintage Cakes, I offer my sincerest gratitude for trusting me to
create the book that you envisioned. Special thanks to Jenny Wapner for
her insightful editing, Toni Tajima for her inspired design, and to Ethel
Brennan and Robyn Valarik for their vintage styling. Erin Kunkel, you
are a true talent! Thanks for sharing your gift of photography with
Vintage Cakes.
Finally, this book could never have happened without one person in
particular who washed all my dirty dishes, tasted all my trials and
errors, went to the store on a moment’s notice for a forgotten ingredient,
and made me wholesome meals to offset all that butter, sugar, and flour
we consumed on a daily basis as these recipes took shape. Matt, you are
without a doubt the sweetest part of my life! Thank you for always
believing in me.
I am blessed to be surrounded and supported by my family, friends,
and fellow baking allies … thank you all for unknowingly contributing
to my work.
Introduction
The Cake Baker’s Battery
The Cake Baker’s Cupboard
Tips and Techniques
Hasty Cakes
Berry Long Cake with Ginger Crumb
Rhubarb Pudding Cake
Shoo-Fly Cake
Grammy Cake
Wacky Cake
Texas Sheet Cake
Lazy Daisy Oatmeal Cake
Blueberry Cornmeal Skillet Cake
Ozark Pudding Cake
Everyday Cakes
Honey Bee Cake
Pearl’s Chocolate Macaroon Cake
Lemon and Almond Streamliner Cake
Blackberry Chocolate Cream Icebox Cake
Not-for-Children Gingerbread Bundt Cake
Kentucky Bourbon Cake
The Harvey Wallbanger
Little Cakes and Light Cakes
Lemon Queen Cakes with Meringue Frosting
Boston Cream Pie-lets
Mississippi Mud Cupcakes with Marshmallow Frosting
Malted Milk Chocolate Cupcakes
Tropicups
Daffodil Cake
Maple Pecan Chiffon Cake with Brown Butter Icing
Angel Cake with Chocolate and Orange Freckles
Flips & Rolls
Nectarine Oat Upside-Down Cake
Butterscotch Cream Roll-Up
German Chocolate Roll
Coffee Crunch Spiral
Chocolate Apricot Upside-Down Cake
White Chocolate Rhubarb Downside-Up Cake
Layer Cakes
Lovelight Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Whipped Cream
Shinny Cake
Stack Cake
Banana Cake with Coffee Walnut Buttercream
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Red Velvet Cake with Mascarpone Cream Cheese Frosting
Watergate Cake with Impeachment Frosting
Jam Cake with Caramel Chocolate Ganache
Italian Cream Cake
Cassata Cake
Goober Cake
Blitz Torte
Party Cakes
The Classic
The Pink Cake
Black & White Cake
Champagne Cake
Old Vermont Burnt Sugar Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
Double Dip Caramel Cake
Cherry Chip Cake with Cherry Buttercream
Blackout Cake
Gingerbread Icebox Cake with Mascarpone Mousse
Peppermint Patty Flourless Chocolate Cake
Fillings, Frostings, and Icings
Chocolate Ganache
Caramel Chocolate Ganache
Basic Buttercream and Variations
Cherry Buttercream
Chocolate Buttercream
Coffee Buttercream
Coffee Walnut Buttercream
Lemon Butterceam
Raspberry Buttercream
Vanilla Bean Buttercream
Malted Milk Chocolate Frosting
Fudge Frosting
Mascarpone Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream Cheese Frosting
Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
Brown Butter Icing
Peanut Butter Frosting
Marshmallow Frosting
Dreamy Vanilla Frosting
Bibliography
Index