Heavenly Cake Recipes From The “Diva of Desserts”

Twenty-one years after writing her award-winning book The Cake Bible, Rose Levy Beranbaum–a.k.a the “Diva of Desserts”–shares more amazing cake recipes in her new book Rose’s Heavenly Cakes. Featuring detailed directions and instructional photographs that guide readers step-by-step through her recipes, the book makes it easy for any home baker to create Rose’s mouth watering cakes. The book features butter and oil cakes, fluted-pan cakes, baby cakes, sponge cakes, and the bravest bakers can even attempt one of her wedding cakes!

In the spirit of the Julie and Julia project, Rose’s fans are baking every one of the cakes in Rose’s Heavenly Cakes and blogging about it at heavenlycakeplace.blogspot.com. Rose also has her own blog, Real Baking with Rose, where she shares her thoughts about baking, lists her upcoming appearances and has a complete list of all of her popular cookbooks.

Learn a little bit about baking a great cake by watching Rose’s video:

Click here for a larger version of the video.