Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love bundts! Not much of a cake fan but I love a good bundt. Weird, eh? With the exception of one, every recipe (so far) has been easy to make and tastes very, very good. The basic vanilla bundt recipe is worth the price of the cookbook alone. It can be dolled up in a variety of flavors! The techniques for baking a truly delicious, wonderfully textured bundt have helped me tremendously. The recipes allow for your own creativity and still have fabulous results. Gotta love that! So far I've made: *Banana~ (replaced the milk w/ buttermilk), it had a lovely texture. *Blueberry~ (added homemade blueberry jam to the smash), the blueberry flavor really came out in the finished cake, I was surprised! *Pumpkin~ everyone LOVED this cake and thought it had the perfect amount of spice. *Cinnamon pecan Coffee Cake~ LOVE! (I doctored up the filling a bit by cutting back on the sugar and adding a bit of butter and oatmeal) *7UP pound cake~ Sweet. Make sure you add all the zest that the recipe calls for! Nice texture. *Fresh Ginger~ Different, not your typical 'gingerbread' style recipe. Light, warm flavor. I drizzled with vanilla glaze and sprinkled with candied ginger, as suggested. Yum! *Mocha~ Really moist. It seemed like an absolute ton of coffee in the recipe, but the flavor is very faint in the finished cake. For the glaze (ganache), I whisked instant espresso powder into the hot cream and poured over bittersweet chocolate. Allowed it to firm up a bit and then poured it over the cake. I think it added a deeper mocha flavor. *Marbled~ She gives half-sized recipes, that allows you to be creative with your flavor combinations. I made my own 'Neapolitan' and it was BRILLIANT! *Basic Chocolate~ A very good 'base'. My mind is racing with flavor options. *Peanut Butter Lover's~ I'm a true PB LOVER and couldn't wait to try this one. What a dud!! I removed a star from my review because it's such a bad recipe. I have reworked it 3 times now and FINALLY have a fabulous cake! The original recipe is terribly greasy. Oily, greasy and tasteless. Very little peanut butter taste at all. Awful, IMO. The original recipe has nearly 2 cups of fat to 2 cups of flour. Add in another 2/3 c. of whole milk? No way is that ratio going to work for me. Sorry. My revamped recipe omits an entire stick of butter and uses 1% milk. I also reversed the sugar amounts to 1 c. brown and 1/2 c. white. It is PERFECT! Moist, peanut buttery, melt-in-your-mouth texture with an outer crust that tastes like a great PB cookie. I'm looking forward to trying several others and incorporating my own ideas. Highly recommend!! Oh, one more thing: It is a tiny book with the most bizzaro pictures. If you're looking for a cookbook with gorgeous photos of bundt cakes, this is NOT it! Not one picture showcases these beautiful bundts. Kinda scary.