Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor: From Cake Mix to Cake Magnificent

The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate! Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession.

It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes and adding just the right extras-including melted semisweet chocolate bars, chocolate chips, or cocoa powder, plus fresh eggs or a bit of buttermilk, dried coconut, mashed bananas, or instant coffee powder-a baker at any level of experience can turn out dark, rich, moist, delicious chocolate layer cakes, time and again. Not to mention sheet cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes and muffins, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and bars. Rounding out the book are 38 all-new homemade frostings and fillings, and a full-color insert showing every cake in the book.

THE CAKE MIX DOCTOR GOES CHOCOLATE - NOW YOU NEVER HAVE TO BAKE FROM SCRATCH AGAIN!

In a marriage made in baker's heaven, baking phenomenon and best-selling cookbook author Anne Byrn brings her easy, no fail, tried-and-true cake mix techniques to chocolate - the ingredient that inspires a love bordering on obsession.

Cake Walk...Anne Byrn tells readers how to turn mixes into masterpieces. (PEOPLE MAGAZINE)

All Chocolate All the Time

CHOCOLATE-Y - Ebony and Ivory Cake, Peanut Butter Cake with Fluffy Chocolate Frosting, White Chocolate Peach Cake

CHOCOLATE-IER - German Chocolate Spice Cake, Mint Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake, Banana Split Fudge Cake

CHOCOLATE-IEST - Kathy's Chocolate Chocolate Chip Chip Cake, Double Chocolate Lime Cheesecake, Molten Chocolate Pudding Cake

Anne Byrn is a food journalist and bestselling cookbook author. She makes frequent appearances on Good Morning America and QVC, and her new column, �The Dinner Doctor,” is running in 35 newspapers with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Ms. Byrn lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and three children.

Introduction

CHOCOLATE FOR THE SOUL

Chocolate Cake Mix 101

Luscious Layers

Chocolate Pound Cakes

Sheet Cakes

Cheesecakes, Pudding Cakes, and So Much More

Chocolate Angel Food and Chiffon Cakes

Muffins, Cupcakes, and Little Cakes

Cookies, Bars, and Brownies

Frostings

Conversion Table

Chocolate Cake Glossary

Bibliography