There’s a cake for every occasion. Birthday parties call for towering creations smothered with frosting and covered in sprinkles; midnight cravings are quelled with a single-serve cupcake snuck from the kitchen; and no sluggish afternoon can’t be improved by a slice of coffee cake, whipped up in a flash.
America’s Test Kitchen’s recent cookbook, “The Perfect Cake: Your Ultimate Guide to Classic, Modern, and Whimsical Cakes” ($35), spans the whole of the cake spectrum. Their definitive guide to the dessert compiles more than 240 recipes perfected over 25 years of testing and retesting—what the Test Kitchen folks do best.
