Layer Up!: The Ultimate Glow Up Guide for Cakes

by Yolanda Gampp

Overview

Layer it on. Layer it in. Level it up!

In her newest book, beloved celebrity cake master Yolanda Gampp teaches you how to level UP your cakes by layering IN explosive flavors and delicious desserts.

In this ultimate glow-up guide for cakes, How to Cake It and Crime Scene Kitchen star Yolanda Gampp plays with flavor profiles and shares twenty-one “stuffed-cake” recipes (plus seventy-two delicious stand-alone desserts, toppings, and buttercreams) to help you level up your cake game and prove that it really is what’s inside that counts.

Talk About a Surprise Inside. Sprinkles spilling out of cakes? That’s great but your fave ooey gooey desserts, bursting out of cakes? YES!! You can expect an explosion of flavor (and actual desserts!) in every stuffed-cake recipe thoughtfully developed and rigorously tested by Yo herself.

Layers on Layers of Flavor. Modern caking is all about layering! Each stuffed, “dessert-inside” cake recipe will also include recipes for other stand-alone desserts, such as key lime pie or cheesecake, that get sandwiched between or placed on top of delicious classic cake layers.

Stylish Cakes, Flavor First. The outside of these mouth-watering, fondant-free layered cakes are aesthetically aspirational and insta-worthy; however, the primary focus of these recipes is indulgent flavor profiles.

Big on Baking, Short on Time? Don’t have time to make a layered cake? No problem! The stand-alone dessert and cake recipes included in each stuffed cake recipe can be used on their own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938447808
Publisher:	Kayppin Media
Publication date:	05/03/2022
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	263,631
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

With over 4.5 million YouTube subscribers and 2.8 million Instagram followers, the star of How To Cake It, Yolanda, is completely self-taught with over twenty years of experience and has been featured on the Today show, Good Morning America, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Live with Kelly and Ryan, Netflix’s Nailed It, Best Baker in America, Cake Wars, and Crime Scene Kitchen to name a few.

While turning cake into pretty much anything, Yolanda, a bestselling author known as the “Beyoncé of Cakes,” entertains with her irresistible personality, laughs at her own mistakes, and is one of the most respected and celebrated celebrity cake artists in the world.

Table of Contents

Love letter 8

Layering up 10

Tools 14

Ingredients 16

Part 1 How to cake it 18

How to Bake a Cake 20

How to Level & Layer 22

How to Simple Syrup 24

How to Fill & Stack 26

How to Crumb Coat & Chill 28

Part 2 Layer up! 30

Bountiful breakfast 32

Cinnamon bun cake 34

Coffee & donuts cake 42

Lemon blueberry pancake cake 48

Cherished chocolate 60

Chocolate coconut cake 62

Chocolate mint cake 70

Chocolate peanut butter cake 76

Dreamy desserts 88

Caramel cone cake 90

Tropical upside down cake 98

Velvet cheesecake brownie cake 104

Fan favorites 114

Chocolate chip cookie cake 116

Cookies & cream cake 126

S'more cake 132

Noticeably nutty 140

Baklava cake 142

Chocolate hazelnut cake 150

Fall harvest cake 158

Playful pies 168

Apple pie cake 170

Banoffee pie cake 182

Key lime pie cake 190

Wonderfully whimsical 202

Cakefetti cake 204

Movie night cake 212

Pink lemonade cake 220

Part 3 Core recipes 232

Layer up 234

Chocolate cake 236

Vanilla cake 240

Banana cake 248

Carrot cake 250

Coconut cake 252

Red velvet cake 254

Crumb crusts 255

Simple syrup 256

Vanilla buttercream 260

Rich buttercream 264

Brown sugar buttercream 266

Chocolate buttercream 268

Dark chocolate ganache 270

Cream cheese frosting 272

Peanut butter frosting 273

Caramel 274

Hump day 276

Mix & match 278

Let them eat cake! 280

How to store it 282

Xo, yo 283

Thank you 284

Index 286

About the author 288

Editorial Reviews

"Yolanda is a cake genius! Inventive, delicious, and always stunning, Yolanda takes celebration to a whole other level." - Curtis Stone

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