Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked with Spirits, Wine, and Beer

by Krystina Castella, Terry Lee Stone

Overview

Indulge in your sweet and boozy cravings with these step-by-step recipes for spiking delicious confections with spirits, wine, and beer
 
Mix, bake, buzz! These delightfully tipsy desserts are perfect for dinner parties, potlucks, and pitch-ins. You’ll find recipes for:
 
Classic Booze Cakes: All the recipes your grandparents used to bake, including salty-sweet Honey Spice Beer Cake, bourbon-filled Lane Cake frosted with decadent bourbon buttercream, and teeny-tiny yet potent Tropical Fruitcake Cupcakes.

Cocktail Cakes: These brand-new recipes are based on classic cocktails and mixed drinks: A tropical Piña Colada Cake, Mint Julep Cupcakes made with Kentucky bourbon, and creamy, chocolatey Rum-and-Coke Whoopie Pies.

Cake Shots: For the perfect party snack, try bite-sized Long Island Iced Tea Cakes, decadent little Wine-Tasting Cakes, and every imaginable flavor of Jelly Cake Shot.

Cakes with a Twist: These extraordinary cake recipes are made even better with alcohol. Enjoy a Jägermeister-powered Deutsch German Chocolate Cake, Shamelessly Rich Carrot Cake infused with 151-proof rum, and frosty, delicious Spiked Ice-Cream Cake.
 
Featured throughout are tips and tricks on baking with alcohol, serving suggestions for fun cocktail-cake parties, and yummy cocktail recipes to accompany your confections—plus a handy “Booze Meter” that tracks the total alcohol content in each of these decadent desserts. Indulge yourself!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594747410
Publisher:	Quirk Publishing
Publication date:	02/11/2014
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	974,866
File size:	68 MB
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About the Author

Krystina Castella enjoys creating books and products that inspire play. She lives and works near Los Angeles as a writer, industrial designer, and professor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. The author of the popular books Crazy About Cupcakes and Pops! Icy Treats for Everyone, Krystina has also designed dozens of unique products ranging from housewares and clothing to furniture and toys.

Terry Lee Stone is a graphic designer, educator, knitter, and design-trends writer who has authored several books on design; Booze Cakes is her first cookbook. Terry lives in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, in The Brady Bunch’s old neighborhood, with her husband and two pugs.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Booze Cakes Basics
     Why Put Booze in Cake?
     Baking with Spirits, Wine, and Beer
          Beer
          Brandy
          Liqueurs
          Rum
          Tequila
          Vodka
          Whiskey
          Wine
     How Much Alcohol Stays in My Baking?
     The Booze Cake Rating System
          Type of Cake
          Occasion
          The Booze Meter
     Please Bake Responsibly
     Garnishing Cocktails & Cakes
          Citrus
          Berries & Cherries
          Flavored Sugars
          Miscellaneous Fruit
          Tropical Fruits
          Flowers & Herbs
     Seven Tips for Success
Classic Booze Cakes: Recipes that traditionally contain alcohol
     Bananas Foster Gingerbread Flambé
          Banana Nut Gingerbread Flambé
          Cranberry Banana Gingerbread Flambé
     Black Forest Cupcakes
          Three-Layer Black Forest Cake
          Black Forest Cupcakes with Chocolate-Covered Cherries
     English Trifle
          Peach Trifle
          Sherry Trifle
          Traditional Trifle
     Golden Rum Cake
          Chocolate Rum Cake
          Nutty Golden Rum Cake
          Spiced Golden Rum Cake
     Honey Spice Beer Cake
          Beer Pound Cake
          Devil’s Food Beer Cake
          Devil’s Food Spice Beer Cake
          Stout Black Walnut Cake
     Jamaican Ginger Cakes with Vanilla Butter Rum Sauce
          Ginger Cakes with Candied Rum Ginger
     Lane Cake
          Whiskey Lane Cake
          Six-Layer Lane Cake
     Pink Champagne Cake
          Chocolate Champagne Cake
          White Champagne Cake
     Sweet & Salty Nut-Roll Torte
          Apple-Raisin Nut-Roll Torte
          Chocolate Nut-Roll Torte
     Tipsy Tiramisu
          Berry Tipsy Tiramisu
          Eggnog Tiramisu
          Fast & Easy Tipsy Tiramisu
     Tropical Fruitcake Cupcakes
          Berry Fruitcake Cupcakes
          Chocolate-Cherry Fruitcake Cupcakes
          Layered Fruitcake Cupcakes
Cocktail Cakes: Recipes based on cocktails and mixed drinks
     Amaretto Almond Delight Cake
          Chocolate Almond Delight Cake
     Eggnog Cream Cupcakes
          Chocolate Eggnog Cream Puffs
     Harvey Wallbanger Cake
     Mint Julep Cupcakes
          Grasshopper Cupcakes
     Peachy Keen Fuzzy Navel Cupcakes
          Barbed Navel Cupcakes
          Fuzzy Pucker Cupcakes
          Naked Navel Cupcakes
          Sex-on-the-Beach Cupcakes
          Woo-Woo Cupcakes
     Piña Colada Cake
          Snow White Piña Colada Cake
     Pumpkin Martini Cakes
          Pumpkin Apple Raisin Martini Cakes
          Pumpkin Chip Martini Cakes
     Punch Drunk Marble Cake
          Holiday Punch Drunk Cake
          Sherbet Punch Drunk Cake
     Rum-and-Coke Whoopie Pies
          Kid-Friendly Whoopie Pies
     Strawberry Daiquiri Shortcakes
          Banana Daiquiri Shortcakes
     Tequila Sunrise Cake
          Caribbean Sunrise Layer Cake
          Tequila Sunset Cake
     Top-Shelf Margarita Cheesecake
          Melon Margarita Cheesecake
          Peach Margarita Cheesecake
          Strawberry Margarita Cheesecake
Cake Shots: Recipes for the ultimate party snack
     Blue Hawaii Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes
     Jelly Cake Shots
          Appletini Cake Shots
          Blue Hawaii Cake Shots
          Cherry Cake Shots
          Chocolate Cake Shots
          Coffee Cake Shots
          Cosmo Cake Shots
          Kamikaze Cake Shots
          Licorice Cake Shots
          Margarita Cake Shots
          Mojito Cake Shots
          Piña Colada Cake Shots
          Pineapple Cake Shots
          Rum & Coke Cake Shots
          Screwdriver Cake Shots
          Strawberry Daquiri Cake Shots
          Tequila Sunrise Cake Shots
          Watermelon Cake Shots
          Wine Cake Shots
     Long Island Iced Tea Cakes
          Frosted Long Island Iced Tea Cakes
     Mexican Chocolate Cakes with Tequila Cajeta Caramel Sauce
     Mocha Rum Brownie Bites
          Bourbon Brownie Bites
     Mudslide Cake
          The B-52 Cake
          Irish Coffee Cake
     Wine-Tasting Cakes
          Blackberry Wine Cakes
          Rosé Wine Cakes
          Simple Merlot Cakes
Cakes with a Twist: Popular recipes spiked with alcohol
     Black Jack Praline Cake
          Brown Sugar Black Jack Cake
     Brandy Apple Chai Cake
          Hard Cider Apple Cake
          Pear Brandy Ginger Cake
          Whiskey Apple Cake
     Chocolate Lava Cakes
          Chocolate Lava Cakes with Rum
          Chocolate Lava Cakes with Spiked Whipped Cream
          Chocolate Lava Cakes with Whiskey
          Make-Ahead Chocolate Lava Cakes
          Milk Chocolate Lava Cakes with Coffee Liqueur
     Coffee Liqueur Cake
          Hazelnut Coffee Liqueur Cake
          Mocha Chip Liqueur Cake
          Toffee Coffee Liqueur Cake
          White Russian Coffee Liqueur Cake
     Deutsch German Chocolate Cake
          Double Chocolate Deutsch German Chocolate Cake
     Lone Star Liquor Cake
     Rosemary Limoncello Cake
     Screwdriver Cupcakes
     Shamelessly Rich Carrot Cake
     Spiked Ice-Cream Cake
          Bourbon Chocolate Caramel-Vanilla Ice-Cream Cake
          Champagne Pistachio Ice-Cream Cake
          Golden Rum Chocolate Ice-Cream Cake
          Rum Mocha Ice-Cream Cake
          Vodka Mint Chocolate Ice-Cream Cake
     Tres Leches Cake
          Fruity Tres Leches Cake
Homemade Booze: for flavored liqueurs and homemade mixers
      Coffee Liqueur
     Cranberry Liqueur
     Crème de Menthe
     Eggnog
     Flavored Vodka
     Irish Cream Liqueur
     Limoncello
     Simple Syrup
     Sour Cherries
     Sweet-and-Sour Mix
Homemade Treats: Recipes for toppings, frostings, and fancy garnishes
     Candied Cherries
     Candied Flowers
     Candied Raspberries
     Candied Rum Ginger
     Candied Strawberries
     Chocolate-Covered Cherries
     Cream Puffs
          Chocolate Cream Puffs
     Flavored Sugars
          Lemon
          Orange
          Lavendar
          Herbal
     Fluffy Marshmallow Crème
     Gingersnaps
     Marzipan Carrots
     Meringues
     Mocha Rum Frosting
     Spiked Buttercream
     Spiked Whipped Cream
Metric Conversions

Editorial Reviews

Well-designed—and beautifully photographed—title that makes a perfect summer gift.”—Publishers Weekly

“Filled with intoxicating color photographs and an easy-to-read layout, Booze Cakes contains over 40 recipes with numerous variations for cakes of all kinds.”—Library Journal

“As Booze Cakes says, ‘The great thing about baking practice is that you get to eat your mistakes.’ So true. There were no leftovers.”—McClatchy News Service

“From Piña Colada Cake to Rum and Coke Whoopie Pies, there's a dessert in this book that will satisfy every lush's sweet tooth.”—Lemondrop.com

“Whether you buy Booze Cakes as a house-warming gift or for yourself, it's the ultimate dessert cookbook to have on hand for your next party.”—Examiner.com

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