Bundt Cake Bliss: Delicious Desserts from Midwest Kitchens

I got this as a Christmas present maybe 8 years back but lost it in a move. Which was a real drag because it was my favorite cake cookbook. And it was filled with margin notes about adjustments. Not because the recipes NEED adjustments, just more to suit out taste. (Example, when making Carrot Cake we don't like raisins so we sub dried tropical fruit and add one teaspoon of Chinese 5 Spice.) I was so sad to see I had lost this cookbook that I could only hold off on buying a new copy for 3 days.I now have a new paper copy I can dog ear and make margin notes on and all is right with the world. If you love bundt cakes than this is the cookbook you want in your kitchen.

One of my family's favorite gifts to give at weddings! This book is full of fun recipes and so cute! It's the perfect size and price for a fun gift, and definitely a different recipe book to add to your home.

Blame Bonny Wolf, author of EATING WITH MY MOUTHFUL, essays developed from her NPR reports. Her chapter on the Bundt pan was irresistible. I went to the back of the closet, retrieved mine and bought this book, largely on the basis that it is endorsed by Ms. Bundt (Dorothy Dalquist). With the exception of the chocolate mayonnaise cake that I must have screwed up somehow (I probably should have left it in the pan to cool longer before upending it on the rack--it arrived in pieces), what I have made thus far has worked. I am anti cake mix, so about half the recipes are not for me, but there are enough that are from scratch to make this worthwhile. I've served the low-fat chocolate cake without anyone guessing, so the recipes do work.Why I've nicked it a star: Where's the editor who would have caught the reference to pans, when only one pan is called for? Or the editor who would have noticed that one need not turn to page 136 for the peanut butter frosting recipe because it is also already on page 66 with the cake recipe that calls for it? Or that the two peanut butter frosting recipes are identical except for the amount of peanut butter? There are no photos to suggest how to decorate with frosting (really, I don't know, I only know how to do a Jackson Pollock effect with icing or a glaze). The homespun comments are cute but stop short of obnoxious. In fact, they can be enlightened (there's a "coming out" cake).

My daughter loves bundt cakes and wanted to make her own, this was one of two books I got her. And now I reaped the delicious benefits.

This is a great little cookbook -- good variety of recipes, clear instructions. Best of all (for me), there are recipes for mini-bundts, using various smaller sizes of bundt pans; this makes it easier to adapt recipes to small-sized cakes. I'm glad I bought this, and will use it regularly.

Classic recipes with on-hand (for the most part) ingredients. I give this one as a gift along with a Nordic bundt pan!

While this book has some good tips on preparing bundt cakes, I found it lacking in other areas. Primarily, my biggest complaint is the lack of photos. There are a few cartoon like drawings throughout the book but not one single photo! I prefer to have a photo of what I am preparing. Yes, I know bundt cakes look relatively the same but still I expect photos. My book was prepriced on the label at $16.95 but I paid less than $12 at Amazon.com. I will keep the book to look through the recipes but do not think it is a good buy.

I have only used the book once at this point, but the tunnel of fudge cake was delicous. I am planning a luncheon next month and will be making at least three cakes from the book. I am sure they will be great.

I am somewhat disappointed with this book. There are too many recipes based on cake mixes. I'm a "from scratch" baker. I haven't tried the other recipes yet but have marked a few to try soon.

lots of old recipes, love the old fashioned look of pages,cannot wait to use.easy clear recipes.wipeable cover , in case of spillages.

Ich liebe es!Sichere BäckerInnen, die nicht auf die Darstellung von 'so-soll-es-aussehen-Photos' angewiesen sind,werden hier richtig Spaß haben.Traditionelle, umsetzbare Rezepte, verständlich beschrieben.Keine Zutaten, die man erst auf den Märkten der Welt zusammentragen muss, bevor man starten kann.Rundum gelungen!

I brought a bundt pan with me when I moved here from America and bought this book to make sure I used it. I've had success with every recipe I tried. Our family loves the Tunnel of Fudge cake--the first widely known bundt cake in America. There is some reliance on American-style cake mixes, but there are enough from-scratch recipes to balance it out. One of the easiest to make and one of my favorite "fall back" desserts is the Chocolate Cherry Fudge Bundt. Fast, easy and delicious. Cake mixes can be expensive, but they go on special a few times a year so I wait until then and stock up.I gave it 4 stars because there are a couple of editing errors, like the Tunnel of Fudge glaze recipe calls for 4-6 teaspoons of milk when it should be tablespoons. But overall, a good bundt book!

Good if you live in the USA!! Many of the recipes use American measurements and you have to transpose into UK (which is fair enough as it's a US book). However many of the recipes use US proprietary mixes as short cuts and difficult in some cases to find out what they are. It's OK.