Cake Simple: Recipes for Bundt-Style Cakes from Classic Dark Chocolate to Luscious Lemon-Basil

I love bundt cakes. One of my favorite books is "kiss my bundt." Cake simple comes very close. The recipes are well laid out and the flavor combinations are mostly very good. I love the homemade nutella recipe!Not every recipe has a picture but most do. The ingredients are easy to find and the directions are easy to follow. There is a section on mini bundts and one called bundt cakes for food snobs that have the little more unusual cakes like Persimmon, Kumquat coconut with tarragon, cornmeal lime with chili and so on.The majority of recipes in here are ones I will bake again and again. Some of our personal favorites are Lady bird Lemon, carrot minis with maple cream cheese icing, brown butter minis, gingerbread with orange cream cheese frosting, apple butterscotch, and the boozy chocolate bourbon cake with drunken bourbon sauce. The two chocolate cakes, dark and milk, are also good. I like the nutella frosting on the chocolate cake, and by the spoonful.I have not had a failure using this book. There are a few books I will reach for automatically if I want something I know will be successful, this is one of those books.

I love cookbooks and I love to bake. I'm a big fan of bundt cakes. Mostly they are homey, uncomplicated and don't require a special trip to the grocery for ingredients. For me a good bundt cake is for grownups, not overly sweet, mostly don't need frosting. Perhaps best of all a bundt provides lots of portions for your effort so it had better be good.I was surprised at how uninspired I was by the the recipes in this book.Unless this is your first baking book you probably already have recipes for most of what's in the first chapter of this book. The second chapter is more innovative, but the cakes are overly sweet. The third chapter "for food snobs" has the oddest recipes. If Fuyu Persimmon, Lemon Basil (the third lemon recipe in the book), Mojito, Kumquat-Coconut with Tarragon, Olive Oil Rosemary, Honey Jalepeno or Cornmeal Lime with Chili, sound good to you, this may be your book.Also, this author likes Creme Fraiche a lot and tells how to make it, but it alone takes two or three hours.I think you can do much better. Try Maida Heatter (possibly the best baking author ever) Dorie Greenspan or Nick Malgieri all are excellent. If you're looking for out of the ordinary and don't mind a special trip to the grocery try David Lebovitz whose recipes are innovative and delicious.

Elegant Hardcover cake recipe book with 126 pages of gorgeous recipes, pictures and ideas that will tease your palate. This cookbook is for the gourmet baker and for those that enjoy combining more unusual ingredients into confectionary delights. There is a Kumquat Coconut Tarragon cake recipe with a pink grapefruit tarragon glaze! The chapter in this book is called "Bundt Cakes for Food Snobs". Other cakes in this chapter include Cornmeal Lime with Chile, Olive Oil Rosemary, Saffron Almond....I grow my own herbs during the warmer months so I am looking forward to being able to incorporate them into some of these culinary delights. The print on the book is very small, and I must wear my glasses to read it in good light. All of the recipes are made from scratch ingredients and there are some rather unusual and fabulous combinations I this book. If you like to bake boozy cakes, this is the book for you!

I'm a successful for Bundt cake pans, so I needed a good number of recipes to use with them. This book is great. Most everyone has been excellent, only maybe 2 we slightly too sweet for me, but all the other eaters loved them. I recommend the real maple syrup walnut cake and the olive oil Rosemary cake. These are two very different styles, but both are amazing! I've made full sized, mini, cupcake, and tea cake sized cakes with these recipes. Just make sure to spray your pans with baking spray, which is oil and small particle flour. My cakes come out of the pans easily with this spray and these recipes.Enjoy!

This book was really good for a beginner Bundt maker! I like that it is all from scratch - I live in New Zealand and we simply don't have many options for the box mixed that other books use. Really well-priced Kindle book that is worth the small investment.

I wanted to give this book 5 stars, as it has some really great Bundt recipes. However, it is lacking in pictures (I was really disappointed that there were not more), and, the section on "mini" Bundt cakes has some wonderful recipes but the mini recipes do not have conversions/equivalents for converting the recipes for regular size Bundt cakes. Disappointed.

Im in love with this book!! it really does honor its name, as recipes are somewhat simple to make, super well explained, yet the results can satisfy even the pickiest palate!! Following the other reviews I started by the milk chocolate cake on page 46... heaven in a bundt! I did my own version by mixing both milk and dark chocolate instead of milk alone, it was fantastic! everyone who tried it is hooked for good! it is super moist, rich, dense! yum yum!Tonight Im going for the Lady Bird lemon, which sounds soooo good!The only critic I can offer is that the book would be enhaced if it had more pictures...not that it would affect the fantastic end result, but just a note from a cookbook lover!two thumbs up for Christie Matheson! way to go!!

I've made some pretty yummy cakes from this book. They're pretty simple, as the title states. Everything has been a hit.

Unfortunately I didn't realise that every recipe in this book was American (which I should have done, I suppose). I am not a great fan of using cups instead of weighing everything, and their recipes put too much liquid into their cakes because of their different flour. Our flour doesn't need as much liquid and consequently I have had a couple of disasters. But I am adapting their recipes gradually to produce a better cake.

I love bundt cakes but get frustrated that most bundt recipe books are written using American cup measurements. That means hours of converting it all to grams before I can start to bake. This books has gram measurements!!! And the recipes are simply gorgeous! My go-to book for bundts.

Really good recipe book. Clear titles telling you exactly what you're hoping to make (you wouldn't have thought that would be an issue, but trust me, some books...). Really clear, easy to understand recipes which have conversions in them!!! As a UK reader, this alone makes this book worth buying!

This book has very good recipes and lots of good tips. Simple and easy steps to follow. Although this book is American ingredients are also measured in grams. I would definitely recommend this book. The only question I would ask is what size eggs you should use, small, medium, large or extra large. A few more pictures would be nice.

An excellent book for bundt enthusiasts, so far every recipe works brilliantly. And especially great for UK bakers as it has metric measurements. There are quite a few bundt books but this is the best in my opinion.