I was unfamiliar with the concept of “dump cakes”, when I saw
this book on our “new books” display, and the colorful cake it uses on
its cover (Peace Melba Dump Cake) caught my eye. “Dump Cakes” involve an
absolutle minimum of muss and fuss, frequently encouraging the cook to
use a pre-made boxed cake mix as part of the ingredients — although the
book does have recipes for making a vanilla, chocolate or yellow
“homemade” boxed-cake-mix. The instructions are incredibly simple.
Ingredients are simply placed in layers in a baking pan/dish, without
any real “mixing” necessary. The photographs in this book are gorgeous
and mouth-watering, particularly the “Plum and Port Dump Cake”, the
“Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake”, the “Rocky Road Dump Cake” and the
aforementioned “Peach Melba Dump Cake”. My only complaint is that there
aren’t photos of each recipe — in fact they’re there for only about half
the recipes in the book. None-the-less, for cooks who who don’t have
the time or patience for creating complicated desserts, this book
provides lots of terrific ideas for sweet dishes that should please any
discerning diner.
[ official
Plugged Into Cooking website — Rosanne Wyss and Kathy Moore ]
Recommended by
Scott C. Bennett Martin Public Library
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