Are you familiar with the amazing blog i am baker? If not you should be. If you are, then you know how super duper talented bloggess Amanda Rettke is with cakes.
She is always known for her her stunning sugary creations, but most well know for her Surprise-Inside Cakes.
This cookbook is wonderful for special occasion cakes, sure to wow your family & friends. Amanda shares clear directions for each recipe in her cookbook. These surprise inside cakes are de-mystified for beginner to advanced bakers. She teaches the basics of cake making and a great collection of frosting recipes as well.
What makes a Surprise-Inside Cake? Well it’s a thing of awe & beauty. Amanda designs cakes that have special themes on the outside & inside. When you cut into them ~ all kinds of beauty is unveiled.
Some of my favorite cakes include:
- Bee Cake (with a cute little honey bee inside)
- Cherry Cake (so cute for summer holiday parties)
- Maypole Cake (delicately colored to add splash to Spring celebrations or little girls birthday parities)
- New Year’s Eve Cake (a stunning chocolate layer cake great for any time!)
- The Candle Rose Cake (romantic for Valentine’s Day or weddings)
- Vampire Cupcakes (adorable for Halloween with little fangs inside)
Above are some beautiful photos from the book, taken by Amanda. Purchase your book now & enter my giveaway! Congrats Amanda on your wonderful talents & to be able to share them with the world!
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Chocolate
That would be like picking a favorite child. Love chocolate anything though!
black forest cake
I like chocolate cake with mocha icing.
My favorite is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream but I make it a rule to never turn down any variety!
I like vanilla cake
My favorite cake is strawberry, or coconut.
I love multi-layer cakes that mix flavors.
I love a good dark chocolate fudge cake to satisfy my chocolate cravings, but I am also a big fan of carrot cake, and cakes that have an unique flavor twist in either the cake or icing and the filling.
My favorite cake is a chocolate sour cream cake my daughter makes! So Delish!
I love cake over any other type of dessert…it is really a challenge to pick one fave..but, I seem to make southern buttermilk chocolate chocolate sour cream the most as it is most requested .. this wasn’t easy to pic from so many faves..thanks.
I really enjoy a vanilla cake with milk chocolate frosting.
I also like a banana cake with cream cheese frosting.
Tiramisu 🙂
I love yellow cake with chocolate frosting!
My favorite cake is chocolate with ganache frosting!
My favorite cake is Strawberry Shortcake
I love lemon cake with whipped lemon buttercream frosting and a few strawberries.
Angel food cake!!
i love a super yummy moist white cake, hungry just thinking about it. thanks for the chance to win
Red velvet!
I love Amanda’s cakes! Always something special to look forward to. Would love to own the cookbook!
My favorite cake is maple cake with maple buttercream.
Obviously I don’t follow directions well. Being from the South my favorite cake is yellow with a cooked caramel icing. Many layers!
My daughter and I love to bake! This would be such a fun book!!! Thanks for the chance
Oops! German Chocolate Cake is my favorite 🙂
Would love to try these cakes
Chocolate or anything citrus-y! 😀
Love me some spice cake!
Chocolate
Vanilla cake.
Carrot cake, tres leches cake, a really moist kind of cake.
Vanilla cake with strawberries and coconut!
I recently made a white chocolate lemony cheesecake that was yummy and I love chocolate mousse cake too!
White cake with buttercream frosting. Basically a quality wedding cake!!
black cherry forest and carrot cake with cream cheese!
Carrot cake!
Hummingbird cake!
I love angel food cake with homemade whipped cream!
I had this amazing champagne cake flavor recently when trying wedding cakes.
I can’t wait to try the spotty cake.
Cold oven recipe for vanilla pound cake.
Black Forrest has to be my favorite and I would love to win!
My favorite is German Chocolate!
German Chocolate!!
I’m pretty simple… yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
My favorite flavor of cake is lemon cake.
I love marble cake with chocolate icing.
Death by Chocolate cake
My Grandma was from Denmark. She made the best recipes. She made the best strawberry cake. I always requested this for my birthday when I was growing up! When I moved to America I learned that my cousins favorite cake was also Grandma’s strawberry cake! I was talking to my sister on the phone the other day and she said for her son’s birthday she was making Grandma’s strawberry cake!
Not sure I can pick a favorite! Right now I will go with chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting, but that could change at any moment.
My favorite cake is caramel. Thanks for the giveaway. Good luck everyone.
Cheesecake and Angel food cake!
Carrot cake with walnuts, pineapple, and coconut with cream cheese frosting!
Chocolate
I really love Carrot Cake! Especially the one I make ♥
chocolate!!
Chocolate is my favorite. I am so taken with the surprises in the cake…maybe a star for July Fourth
Any cake with chocolate – yum!
I like pistachio cake 🙂
My favorite type of cake is chocolate buttercream cake made at my local bakery! Its not too sweet and it practically melts in your mouth 🙂
chocolate
I love Lemon Cakes.
Banana Cream Poke Cake is my fave!
Vanilla!
Dark chocolate fudge cake, warm from the oven .. OR … cooled and filled with peanut butter cup filling! Mmmmmm!
I love carrot cake
Lemon!
Triple Salted Caramel Cake
Key Lime Coconut Cake!!
Chocolate
Love Amanda’s work. She is such an inspiration.
I love chocolate cake!
Red velvet
My favorite cake is tiramisu!
Carrot cake with sour cream frosting!
Gooey ooooie German Chocolate…..yum
Thanks for the chance to win.
Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Frosting! YUM!!!
chocolate with PB icing!
White cake with vanilla almond buttercream frosting!
vanilla with strawberry buttercream.
I love a yellow cake with chocolate frosting
CHOCOLATE!
I love all cakes….they are all delicious! If I had to pick one type, it would be German Chocolate Cake.
I love casatta cake!
I love chocolate cake the most.
What a beautiful book! Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is my favorite.
My mother-in-law’s Cold Coffee Cake!!
Yellow cake with thick fudgy chocolate frosting! Yummmm, really want some now!
Burnt almond torte!!
Yellow cake with chocolate icing!
Chocolate, with cream cheese buttercream frosting!
Cheese cake
Chocolate!
Yellow. Thanks.
I love banana cake with cream cheese frosting.
Carrot Cake is my favorite
I love banana cake with peanut butter frosting.
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!!
Favorite cake is a classic white cake with lemon curd filling, and swiss meringue buttercream.
coconut cake
Funfetti cake will always be my favorite!
Chocolate cake, please.
Banana Cream cake is by far my favorite!
My favorite all time cake is vegan lemon cake made with fresh lemons. Thanks
If I have to pick a favorite cake it would be German chocolate loaded with coconut pecan frosting. YUM! 🙂
Moist chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.
I love a simple vanilla cake with vanilla frosting!
My favorite cake is probably lemon. There is something so fresh and light about it and so delicious!!!
I’m a plain kind of person vanilla. Or cheesecake. ^.^
A dense, moist chocolate cake with frosting!
We always do banana cake with whipped cream frosting for family birthdays.
red velvet!
Angel food cake is my absolute favorite!
I love vanilla cake with whipped cream fristing and filled with custard.
Im a pretty simple kind of girl with the cakes I like
vanilla with vanilla icing
hummingbird!
chocolate pumpkin marble cake with brown sugar glaze (for now…. )
I love Coffee Crunch Cake with crushed coffee-flavored honeycomb candy pressed into the whipped cream frosting….YUM!!
Old fashioned vanilla birthday cake with lemon or strawberry filling topped with buttercream icing of course!
Cheesecake! or Ice Cream Cake! Or anything with chocolate, really… agh, who am I trying to kid, I love them ALL!
I like chocolate cake with butter cream frosting.
Red Velvet is my favorite kind of cake, but I like the old fashion kind that doesn’t call for cocoa – it’s more like a spice cake.
vanilla cake with vanilla frosting
Chocolate with vanilla frosting.
Carrot
Red velvet cake
🙂
Vanilla