Gardner - Erin bakes cake: Make + bake + decorate = your own cake adventure!

We have a superstar, sweet, rock candy, unicorn crush on Erin Bakes Cake and were headed into the kitchen right this second!

JONATHAN AND RACHEL FAUCETT , Handmade Charlotte

I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid, so combining that concept with my ultimate favourite, CAKEIm in love already! Erin has been sharing her whimsical and approachable cake creations for years, and Ive long admired her ability to combine deliciousness with colourful, rainbow-tinged creative flair. This bright and hilariously written book is stacked with recipes for delicious cakes, fillings, and frostings, as well as attainable and lively designs using easy-to-find ingredients. Erin Bakes Cake will lead you to a buttercream-filled unicorn land of cakey magicyoull always get the happy ending!

LYNDSAY SUNG,creator of Coco Cake Land

Erin Bakes Cake is equal parts fun, creativity, and pure genius! Through intriguing flavour/texture pairings and endless decorating ideas, the structure of the book nourishes our own inner artist and provides the perfect road map for creating the cakes of our dreams. Erins cakes are undoubtedly beautiful, and her easy-to-follow instructions and countless recipe variations provide us with a lifetime of tricks and techniques to try.

TESSA HUFF,author of Layered: Baking, Building and Styling Spectacular Cakes

This book is an absolute unicornucopia of magic, delicious delight, and an enjoyable education on all things cake baking and decorating. Unicorn-approved!

JESSIE OLESON MOORE,CakeSpy.com

Erin Bakes Cake is a modern mash-up of fundamental baking techniques and creative genius. Erin breaks down the nitty gritty details of baking success with relatable charm, whimsical diagrams, rainbow charts, and a heavy sprinkling of fun. In the world of baking books, this one is truly a unicorn.

CARRIE SELLMAN,founder of TheCakeBlog.com

Erin is in baking and with cakes what I try to be in DIY: a fun, you can do this approach that makes it easy to achieve the things you want. This must-get book will have you making cake for days!

NICOLE FARB,founder of Darby Smart

Ordinary cake books are fine for all those other boring bakers out there, but you want to be like me: a culinary rebel who plays by their own rules! Erin Gardner will help show you the way: This technicolor tome will help you unleash the buttery beast, letting you follow your heart to the cake of your dreams.

ALLISON ROBICELLI,chef, James Beard award nominee and author of Robicellis: A Love Story, with Cupcakes

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THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN.

There are many things you are required to do with your time that are not fun: laundry, taking the garbage out, paying taxes, etc. We have many of these un-fun, time-consuming demands in our lives. When you choose to spend some of your precious free time baking, it should be fun. Lots of fun!

Fun is a relative term, though. I know for some fun is getting from point A (recipe) to point B (delicious cake), in the shortest amount of time possible. For others, fun is digging into the baking process and executing recipes as precisely as possible. This book is for both types. I know I fall into either one of those categories depending on how much time I have and who Im baking for.

The nerve, right? Its actually a great question. Recipes are a dime a dozen these days, so you need to know which ones you can trust.

Cake has ruled my baking world for many years now. I started the sweet life working as a professional pastry chef and eventually opening my award- winning wedding cake shop, Wild Orchid Baking Company, in North Hampton, NH. In my time at the bakery, Martha Stewart Weddings and Brides magazines both named my shop one of the best in the country. I trucked my tools down to NYC to compete on Food Networks