Review: Needs pictures
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
I picked up the book for free on a deal day with Amazon. Free is good.There were no glaring spelling issues in this book thankfully. One problem noted was a recipe said "stir properly". I have no idea what that means. Most of the recipes are very basic, only a few steps, this is the nature of dump cakes. However, "stir properly" is an odd instruction. It doesn't take away from the book as a whole, but it did make me wonder what it meant.Overall, this is a good book, jump in and start baking. If you don't like the term dump cake, try cobbled cake, or lazy cake as my cousin terms it.Many recipes in this book include nuts. Nuts are optional in a dump cake, so do not be put off by it. If you hate nuts, omit them. The only exception is where nuts are used for streusel like topping. For this, you can peek in another book for a topping without nuts, some use oats or flour/butter/sugar instead.Be creative and try your own dump cake versions. Substitute another cake flavor, use a different kind of fruit. Be sure if you use fresh fruit to adjust the sweetness, some fruit needs more sugar. Omit the pineapple if you don't like it, add a little more fruit or a second kind. (You can even try water or rum soaked raisins.) Dump cakes can be fun to try your hand at whipping up, tweaking and tasting. I have used gingerbread mixes with cherry filling. Brownie mix with peaches. Marble cake with whatever filling.You have the basic recipes here, pick a favorite or put on your creative cap and open the cupboards. Dump cakes are like coloring books, stay inside the lines, but use your own colors.