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Introducing My First Book: Anyone Can Cake!

November 1, 2022 · In: Featured, Lifestyle

BIG NEWS! I’ve been keeping a little (huge) secret for almost a year now, and it’s finally time to tell you that I WROTE A BOOK! It’s called Anyone Can Cake and it’ll be at all your favorite book stores in February 2023, but you can pre-order it right here, RIGHT NOW!

I wrote this book for you, whether you’re just starting out with cakes or you’ve been baking for awhile and want to improve. My vision was to break away from the traditional cookbook model of an overwhelming amount of recipes, vague instructions on how to make each one look like the photo, and rarely any information on what to do if things go awry. Instead, Anyone Can Cake will teach you everything you need to know to bake, build, and decorate the perfect layer cake, plus inspire you to have fun in the kitchen with tons of amazing recipes you’ll only find in this book.  

Collectively, this book will help you make cakes that taste as good as they sound and actually look like the photos! 

Anyone Can Cake by Whitney DePaoli

Anyone Can Cake is divided into two halves, designed to take you from square one all the way through to a finished cake. The first half covers how to make the cake. You’ll learn how to bake the perfect cake layers then use them to build a structurally sound layer cake. Then, you’ll learn how to decorate it in all sorts of ways – frosting a cake with a super smooth finish, creating buttercream ombrès, stripes, painterly textures, lambeth piping, using cake combs, and more. I’ll show you how to mix the color palette you’re imagining, master the art of the ganache drip, and add finishing touches like sprinkles and pretty piping. We’ll even cover how to troubleshoot problems like air bubbles in your frosting, fixing your buttercream consistency, and basically everything I could think of when it comes to preventing cake-tastrophes. 

Anyone Can Cake by Whitney DePaoli

The second half of the book is all the recipes you could need to practice everything you learned in the first half of the book. I’ll start with my favorite go-to recipes like my one-bowl chocolate cake, favorite vanilla cake, a brand new extra-fluffy white cake that I wrote up just for this book, and all the frosting and ganache recipes I’ve come to depend on for all my cakes. These are foundational recipes that you can build on for years to come. Then, you’ll get what I’m calling Next Level Recipes. These are the ones that will blow people’s minds when you show up with a cake – a rainbow striped milk & cereal cake infused with Lucky Charms, a Ferrero Rocher cake with a Nutella ganache drip, a Snickerdoodle Cake rolled in cinnamon sugar, and so much more. 

Snickerdoodle Cake by Sugar and Sparrow
ferrero rocher cake by Sugar and Sparrow

My hope for this book is that you would gain so much confidence with your layer cake making and go on to make beautiful cakes that make people’s day. I hope to bring you joy as you bake and learn, and then I hope you go and spread that joy to everyone you’re making these cakes for in your community – like a ripple effect of happiness! 

Pre-Order Anyone Can Cake TODAY from any of these fine retailers:

  • Amazon (US)
  • Amazon (UK)
  • Amazon (CA)
  • Barnes and Noble
  • Books-a-Million
  • Find more retailers on my book page

The official launch date is February 28th, 2023 and I will be updating you as everything moves along. And side note: a pre-ordered copy of Anyone Can Cake (along with some of my favorite baking tools) would make an excellent holiday gift for those bakers in your life! Just thinking ahead for you!

Anyone Can Cake by Whitney DePaoli of Sugar and Sparrow

A million thanks to Page Street Publishing for helping me write the book of my dreams and allowing me to carry out my full creative vision. I had the best time working with them and am so happy they chose me to write this book. I can’t wait for you to have it in your hands!!

By: Whitney · In: Featured, Lifestyle · Tagged: anyone can cake, book, cake book, cookbook, recipe book

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  1. Joann Fields says

    February 6, 2023 at 12:22 pm

    Congratulations Whitney. I’ve tried so many of your recipes and love them all. Ordered my book and can’t wait to get started on more baking. You are my go to for recipes.

    Reply
    • Whitney says

      February 9, 2023 at 2:10 pm

      Yay, Joann! Thank you so much for pre-ordering. I can’t wait for you to get the book and I’m cheering you on in all your cake baking!!

      Reply
  2. Ann says

    November 1, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    Congratulations Whitney!!!!!! How awesome! A majorly delicious professional accomplishment in life, so enjoy the attention and results of all your efforts……looking forward to putting a copy in my hands!

    Reply
    • Whitney says

      November 1, 2022 at 8:56 pm

      Thank you so much, Ann!! I can’t wait for you to have this book! Thank you for cheering me on!

      Reply

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Full recipe (with video + detailed instructions) linked in my bio or at https://sugarandsparrow.com/salted-caramel-recipe/
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SALTED CARAMEL 
Yield: 1.25 Cup⁣s
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Ingredients:⁣⁣ 
1 Cup (200g) white granulated sugar⁣⁣ 
6 Tbsp (85g) unsalted butter, room temperature, cut into cubes⁣⁣ 
1/2 Cup (120ml) heavy whipping cream, room temperature⁣⁣ 
1 1/4 tsp kosher salt⁣⁣ 
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Instructions:⁣⁣ 
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INGREDIENTS
2 1/4 Cups (298g) all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
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3/4 Cup (180ml) vegetable oil
1 Cup (240g) unsweetened applesauce
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2 tsp pure vanilla extract
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BISCOFF CRUST: 
1 8.8oz package Biscoff cookies (250g) 
1/3 Cup (75g) unsalted butter, melted 
 
FILLING: 
16 Oz (452g) full-fat brick-style cream cheese, room temp 
1/4 Cup (50g) powdered sugar 
3/4 Cup (210g) creamy Biscoff cookie butter 
1 tsp ground cinnamon 
1 tsp pure vanilla extract 
1 Cup (240ml) heavy whipping cream, cold 
 
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