Magic Cakes is your easy, no-hassle guide to the latest, Pinterest-fueled baking craze! If you dream of a layered cake, but want to avoid the endless, complicated steps it takes to make one, then you're going to fall in love with magic cakes. With only a single batter that magically transforms into three layers of custardy, fudgey, spongey cake, you can have an easy dessert that looks like it took hours to put together (and tastes like it, too!) This book contains 40 recipes for cakes, frostings, icings, and other delightful extras that are simple to make and difficult not to devour. Magic cakes can be your classic chocolate or vanilla, a tiramisu cake reimagined, or even an unconventional cardamom-scented sweet potato cake if you're feeling adventurous. Top each treat with a frosting or a simple dusting of powdered sugar, and you've got yourself a magical dessert to savor and enjoy!

Three cakes in one, this is every cake-lovers dream! Composed of just eggs, sugar, flour, butter, and milk, and with a super simple preparation method, at first glance these recipes look just like any other cake recipe. But the magic in these cakes is in the separation of the egg whites and the cooking. Baked at a low temperature, the cake mixture divides itself into three layers, each with a distinct texture and taste: a dense, moist cake base; a delicate cream filling; and a light and fluffy sponge to top it off. The result is a cake like you've never seen or tasted before - an explosion of textures and flavors in a moreish cake you just can't have one bite of! With chapters covering the Basics; Tutti-Frutti; Special and Occasion Cakes; and Savoury, there are a host of flavors at your fingertips, from the simple vanilla cake or chocolate hazelnut, to more exotic flavor combinations of raspberry and Matcha green tea. Take the magic cake to a whole new level with the occasion cakes - try the Valentine mango passion cake or the intense chocolate Easter cake. More than just cakes, there are recipes for cupcakes, pies, cheesecakes, and brownies - all with the special 'magic' touch. So what are you waiting for? Discover the magic for yourself!

Choose a batter, flavor with syrup, add a frosting—it’s magic! Want something decadent and fudgy? Darkest Chocolate Cake + Caramel Syrup + Malted Milk Chocolate Frosting + crushed candy bars = Candy Bar Cake. Or how about a nutty cake like the Elvis: Peanut Butter Cake + Bacon Syrup + Nutella Frosting, topped with candied bacon. Fit for the king, indeed! This innovative and remarkably easy way to bake luscious, flavorful cakes is a formula for cake bliss. Cake Magic! is a full-color visual cookbook—photos in the front, recipes in the back—and the first step in every baker’s cake adventure. It includes valuable baking tips, vegan and gluten-free variations, plus how to tweak the recipes to make sheet cakes, Bundt cakes, and cupcakes, too.

Three cakes in one, this is every cake-lovers dream! Composed of just eggs, sugar, flour, butter and milk, and with a super simple preparation method, at first glance these recipes look just like any other cake recipe. But the magic in these cakes is in the cooking. Baked at a low temperature, the cake mixture divides itself into three layers, each with a distinct texture and taste: a dense, moist cake base; a delicate cream filling; and a light and fluffy sponge to top it off. The result is a cake like you've never tasted before - an explosion of textures and flavours in a moreish cake you just can't have one bite of! With chapters covering the Basics; Tutti-Frutti; Special and Occasion Cakes; and Savoury, there are a host of flavours at your fingertips, from the simple vanilla cake of chocolate hazelnut, to more exotic flavour combinations of raspberry and Matcha green tea. Take the magic cake to a whole new level with the occasion cakes - try the Valentine mango passion cake or the intense chocolate Easter cake. More than just cakes, there are recipes for cupcakes, pies, cheesecakes and brownies - all with the special 'magic' touch. So what are you waiting for? Discover the magic for yourself!

An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk. From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. Yet, the children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the memorable aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. Alice Hoffman delivers “fairy-tale promise with real-life struggle” (The New York Times Book Review) in a story how the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is “irresistible…the kind of book you race through, then pause at the last forty pages, savoring your final moments with the characters” (USA TODAY, 4/4 stars).

Welcome to the fabulous, mysterious world ofDebbie Brown's Magical Cakes, with its witches, wizards, gnomes, dwarfs, trolls, sprites and goblins. Successful cake decorating and sugarcraft author Debbie Brown has used her unique talents, fondant skills and magical touch to create 20 fun and fantastical cakes. There are amazing party cakes to appeal to both boys and girls, including designs for younger children such as a Mystical Castle Guarded by a Fiery Dragon and a Cute Baby Dragon. From a Star Castle, a Labyrinth and Topsy Turvy Village to Sparkling Pegasus, Beautiful Sea Witch and Wise Wizard Owl, there is an amazingly varied collection of cakes to choose from. There are even humorous cakes--enjoy a giant troll peeking out from a snow-capped mountain, an elfin-eating rock monster and fun witches dancing around a cauldron. With clear, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and photographs, and cake designs for all levels of expertise, this cake cookbook will satisfy both beginners and more experienced cake decorators. Join in the magic of these pages, and you will soon be creating party cakes to scare, surprise, delight and thrill. Cake recipes include: Pirate Dreams Emerald City Star Castle Gold Mine Sea Witch Labyrinth

When the kitchen is finally empty, Old Witch makes her own magic nut cake to enter in the carnival's cake baking contest. First published in 1970, this second book in the Old Witch series is back for a new generation of readers to discover!