Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetimeincluding Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam...
All Cakes Considered-- Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake All Cakes Considered is an essential addition to every baker's library. The New York Times - Christine Muhlke Don't look for any restaurant credentials or fancy farmers' market ingredients in All Cakes Considered. Melissa Gray's sassy-pants prose will inspire even food snobs to shamelessly lube a tube pan with Pam before pouring in Crisco-filled batter…Her chattiness runs from the titles…to the instructions…[Gray] unapologetically worships Dorie Greenspan and Paula Deen in equal measure, takes recipes from old church cookbooks, To Kill a Mockingbird and Southern Living magazine, and has a ball throughout. May a thousand Cake Ladies arise from this project.
\ Library JournalSelf-trained baker and NPR producer Gray offers a delectable collection of 50-plus recipes that will please both beginners and more established bakers.\ \