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Product Description Here Are The Essentials From Buddy ValastroS Instant Classic, The New York Times Bestselling Baking With The Cake Boss, In A Condensed, More Affordable Paperback Package With A Dynamic, New Design. Here Are Extensive Explanations And Step-By-Step Photos That Show How You Can Bake-And Decorate-Just Like The Boss!Bake Like The Boss!The Essential Cake Boss Is A Perfect Slice Of Buddy ValastroS Beloved Bestsellerbaking With The Cake Boss-A Sweet Collection Of BuddyS Core Recipes And Techniques; The Building Blocks Of BuddyS Show-Stopping Desserts; And Many Of His Most Popular, Signature Creations. YouLl Learn To Work With Baking And Decorating Equipment, Bake Perfectly Moist Cupcakes And Cakes, And Work Magical Effects With Frosting And Fondant. Gorgeous Photos Let You Follow Buddy As He Shows How To Create His Artistic Flourishes And Decorations.The Essential Cake Boss Also Features Charts That Let You Mix And Match Cake Flavor, Frosting, And Liqueur Syrup To Create Your Own Trademark Cakes.Bursting With Delicious, Tried-And-True Recipes, Handy Tricks Of The Trade, And Stories Told In BuddyS Inimitable Voice,The Essential Cake Boss Is A Rare Treat- A Fun, Accessible Guide To Baking That Inspires Home Bakers To New Culinary Heights, All In A Gloriously Designed, Fully Illustrated Book Worthy Of The Cake BossS Unique Artistic Vision. About The Author Buddy Valastro Is The Star Of TlcS Hit Seriescake Boss Andnext Great Baker And Food NetworkSbuddy Vs. Duff, As Well As The Author Of Four Cookbooks, Including TheNew York Times Bestsellerscake Boss And Baking With Thecake Boss. HeIs The Owner OfCarloS Bake Shop And Lives With His Wife And Four Children In New Jersey. Excerpt. Reprinted By Permission. All Rights Reserved. Essential Cake Boss (A Condensed Edition Of Baking With The Cake Boss)Introductionit All Started With A Cookie. Everything I Am Professionally. All That IM Capable Of Doing In A Bakery. Every Wedding And Theme Cake IVe Ever Conceived And Created. It All Began With The First Thing I Was Ever Taught To Make When I Started Working At My FamilyS Bakery: Butter Cookies. ItS Been A Long Time Since My First Official Day On The Job-Almost Twenty-Five Years-And It Feels Like A Long Time. When I Look Back Over My Life And Career, I Recall My Skills Growing At The Same Slow Pace At Which A Tree Grows.A BakerS Development DoesnT Happen Overnight. ItS A Painstaking Thing. Even If You Have Raw Talent, You Have To Nurture It, Develop It. You Have To Patiently Back Up Instinct And Intuition With Craft And, Most Of All, Practice. Because In Baking, Practice DoesnT Just Make Perfect. Practice Also Lets You Move On To The Next Level, The Next Challenge, The Next Thing To Be Mastered.Learning To Bake Is Like Learning To Speak. You Pick Up That First Word, Even If You Pronounce It Imperfectly, And Then Pretty Soon You Learn Another, And Then Another. You Might Not Be Able To Say Every Word As Clearly As A Network Anchorman, Or Put Words Together Into Sentences, But Even As A Kid You Know ThatS Where YouRe Headed, To A Place Where You Can String Words Into Sentences, Sentences Into Paragraphs, Paragraphs Into Anything You Want-An Essay, A Story, A Memoir-If You Put In The Time To Get Good At Each Of The Component Parts.ItS The Same With Baking. Those Butter Cookies Were Like My First Word. TheyRe Not Difficult To Make, And TheyRe Still One Of The First Things We Assign To Baking Newbies At CarloS Bake Shop, My FamilyS Business On Washington Street In Hoboken, New Jersey: You Mix A Dough Of Butter, Sugar, Almond Paste, Egg Whites, And Flour; Scrape It Into A Pastry Bag; Pipe Circles Of It Onto A Parchment Paper-Lined Tray; And Bake Them.Next To The Magnificent Theme Cakes We Produce, Those Butter Cookies Might Sound Like The Most Idiotproof Grunt Work You Could Imagine. But TheyRe Not. The Beautiful Thing About Baking Is That I