Introduction --; Happy birthday! --; Making, baking, and decorating fabulous birthday cakes --; Basic cakes --; Basic frostings, buttercreams, and fillings --; The birthday cakes. Basic cakes (Yellow cake --; Quick 'n' easy yellow cake --; Dark chocolate cake --; Quick 'n' easy chocolate cake --; White cake --; Hot milk sponge cake --; Angel food cake --; Spice cake --; Carrot cake --; Banana cake) --; Basic frostings, buttercreams and fillings (Confectioners' sugar frosting --; Fluffy meringue frosting --; Italian meringue buttercream --; Seven-minute frosting --; Rich egg yok buttercream --; Fudgy chocolate frosting --; Milk chocolate frosting --; Chocolate ganache glaze and frosting --; Sour cream chocolate frosting --; Caramel frosting --; Cream cheese frosting --; Whipped cream frosting --; Pastry cream --; Lemon curd --; Candy plastic) --; The birthday cakes (Amaretto-chocolate cheesecake --; Angel food cake with berries --; Applesauce-raisin-walnut spice cake --; Bananarama cake --; Banana split cake --; Basket of flowers cake --; Beginner baker's birthday cake --; The birthday cake you can mail --; Boston cream pie birthday cake --; Buttercream roses birthday cake --; Butter pecan cake with brown sugar fudge frosting --; Caramel-walnut-spice birthday cake --; Chock-full-of-chips cake --; Chocolate almond apricot cake with chocolate glaze --; Chocolate and vanilla cupcake tower --; Chocolate-dipped banana birthday cake --; Chocolate extravaganza birthday cake --; Chocolate soufflé cake roll --; Coco-licious cake --; Coconut rum cake --; Confetti 'n' sprinkles cake --; Espresso hazelnut dacquoise --; German chocolate cake --; Gilded candy roses birthday cake --; Hairy caterpillar cupcake cake --; Heart of gold chocolate raspberry cake --; Hummingbird cake with fresh fruit --; Ice cream birthday cake --; Liqueured-up layer cake with vanilla buttercream and crystallized flowers --; Luscious lemon-blueberry meringue cake --; Mocha 'nana birthday cake --; Mocha toffee crunch cake --; No-guilt chocolate angel food cake --; The office birthday cake --; Orange chiffon cake with rose petals --; PB. C.B. cake --; Red velvet cake with cooked vanilla icing --; She's a doll cake --; Sour cream-white chocolate cheesecake with raspberries --; Tantalizing fruit "tart" birthday cake --; Teeny tiny milk chocolate-orange cake --; Tropical carrot cake --; White chocolate extravanganza "present" cake --; Winter wonderland chocolate peppermint cake).
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Wilson has created 75 recipes for special cakes that are sure to make anyone's special day a memorable one. The book begins with a set of master batter and frosting recipes that can be mixed and matched and used as the basis for fun, inspired cakes.