I've made three recipes so far from this book and plan to make them all. They are unique, wonderful, and my family devours them. Next best thing to living close to one of Warren Brown's bakeries!

If I could rewrite my life I'd have been a baker. I loved this cookbook and he makes it so easy and fun that a novice or a life-long baker would enjoy using it. Great gift idea for the cake baker in your life. Maybe if you are a good boy or girl they'll bake one for you?!

I made the buttercream frosting. It was really good. The baking style in the book is too structured. Good frosting though.

I collect cookbooks and have quite a few on baking. I have to say that this is one of my top books on baking. The pictures are wonderful and the step by step instructions can't be beat.

I've tried his cupcakes and cakes at cake love and I just wasn't impressed.
I've had better cupcakes at my local grocery store (and cheaper too), so I just didn't understand why he would come out with a cook book.

I find his cakes to be dry and crumbly, frostings to be mediocre.
For $3 a cupcake, I'd expect it to be made out of imported chocolate from Belgium or something. I checked out his book but I didn't buy it...

I've been waiting for months for this book to come out. I enjoyed reading it (I read cookbooks for fun -- I need a life), and when my youngest son graduated from university, I decided to make the "Sassy" cake to celebrate. Mostly when I make a cake -- and I make a good cake -- everyone enjoys a great big piece of it, and the rest of the cake waits around for a week or so. That's when the whole, big family is here. I made "Sassy" and there were only three of us home, and it was gone the next day. My son thought it was from a bakery (which he thought was a compliment.) Anyway, that is the only cake I've made from this book so far, and it was splendid. That one recipe would have been worth the price of the book, but there are more, more, more -- I can't wait.

I saw Warren speak at a book event just yesterday. He was not only both inspirational and funny but truly down-to-Earth and excited to share his story. Despite being urged by his editor to shorten the book and include only base recipes and enhancements, Warren opted to create a book for the users. One that is much more user friendly and makes it seem like he's there coaching you every step of the way. Warren is a true entrepeneur but morese a man who loves his craft. His passion and enthusiasm pour from his heart and onto the page with this top-quality book.

I first heard about Warren years and years ago one time on Oprah. She did a show about people who changed career paths - weren't afraid to take risks. He had been a lawyer or accountant or something, and yet in his spare time he made cakes and his friends were always telling him how great they were and how he should make them for sale. Realising this was his passion, he opened up his own store in Washington DC and the rest is history. I'm so glad this book is finally out.
He starts out by listing 10 things you can buy to be a better baker (scales, sifter etc) and talks about how the ingrediants are so important (butter makes better tasting cakes rather than a substitute). He talks about how he likes cakes with heaps of butter, sugar, eggs and flour and doesn't feel guilty about eating them (but he mentions he exercises and does the eating in moderation). From there he goes on with Pound Cakes, Butter Cakes, Foam Cakes and the frostings and fillings that come with them etc.
It's a beautiful book (big) and the photos are stunning. My favourite has to be the picture of the Chocolate Sponge Cake on page 129. That picture alone would make me buy this book regardless of anything else.
I really love this and can't wait to get started on making some of these delicious looking cakes soon.

There were a couple of recipes of Warren's in an issue of Cuisine at Home around the holidays a year or two ago. I have made those two cakes SO many times to amazing reviews that there was NO way I wasn't getting this book. It was well worth the wait (I ordered it last August when it was first announced.)

The recipes are quite simple, ingredients readily available and the fact that he gives "alcohol free" options makes it so much more useful. The Italian Buttercream frosting is one of my favorite things to make as it ALWAYS turns out. He reminds us that cakes need not be complicated and hard to make. With a few skills that are easy to master, you can turn out the most amazing baked creations.

This book and The Cake Book by Tish Boyle are really all you need for an amazing array of easy to difficult cakes for any occasion...as if you need an occasion for cake ;-)