We’re past thrilled to welcome Rose Levy Beranbaum as a Bake from Scratch 2025 contributing editor. Rose shall be sharing a particular essay in every of our 2025 points. A doyenne of baking and a luminary on the earth of meals writing, Rose is a three-time James Beard Award winner and the creator of 14 cookbooks, together with her ever-influential cookbook The Cake Bible. The absolutely revised thirty fifth anniversary version of The Cake Bible is accessible now.
Discover Rose on Instagram at @realbakingwithrose and at realbakingwithrose.com.
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I’d prefer to share some highlights about what it took to provide my guide such long-lasting relevance and to turn into a guide that modified many individuals’s lives and careers. Once I approached Maria Guarnaschelli, editor at William Morrow, with my thought to put in writing a guide about cake, considered one of her first questions was how a lot cash I hoped to earn. My unhesitating reply was that I’d do it with none cash if I may have a photograph of each cake. And her response was that she couldn’t settle for such a beneficiant supply. However I knew that I had gained her notoriously hard-won respect. And years later, Maria informed me I used to be the one one who approached her providing to put in writing the guide with out royalties, and mockingly, I used to be the one one who was really incomes cash!
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“This recipe was despatched to me by Chef Anthony Stella, with a request to enhance its texture. Though there isn’t a butter, the quantity of butterfat contained within the cream is significantly increased than the quantity of butter in my fundamental butter cake. Reformulating the recipe to work in a Bundt pan did wonders for enhancing the feel. It’s now considered one of my high favourite truffles.” —Rose Levy Beranbaum
The doyenne of baking, Rose Levy Beranbaum, shares a glimpse into the thirty fifth anniversary version of her ever-influential cookbook The Cake Bible.
