Begin Baking Seasonal Cakes from Scratch
With farm-fresh ingredients that you can feel good about when your family gathers, Cake Stand: Fresh from the Market Farmstead Cakes offers 30 beautiful cakes to impress your guests.
Let’s Celebrate!
A party without cake is just a meeting. – Julia Child
Celebrations are an integral part of the way we interact with one another. It’s the foundation upon which some of our most fond memories are built. Our past remembrances of food fill our souls, knitting us together in the fabric of life, every bit as much as the food itself first filled our bellies.
A little slice of cake has come to be a familiar way to commemorate the special days in our lives, a bite of sweetness for the sweetest moments. The collection of scratch-baked recipes in Cake Stand: Fresh from the Market Farmstead Cakes allows you to embrace those memorable times with dessert that conveys your commitment to serving your family the very best.
{Farm Fresh Cakes in Cake Stand}
In Cake Stand, you’ll find beautiful cakes that are made without artificial colors, flavorings, and preservatives that can’t even be pronounced. You’ll find recipes that include farm-fresh fruits, vegetables, and cheeses whether you grew them yourself, purchased them at the local farmers market, or had them delivered in your CSA box.
You can incorporate your healthy living lifestyle into your celebrations and feel good about the choices you’re making without resorting to a box cake and foil covered tub of frosting, the display cakes on the supermarket bakery shelf, or even no cake at all.
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Cake Stand will introduce you to scratch cake baking and walk you through the process of baking a standard layer cake. It will help to break down the wall of foodie legalism that has been preventing you from enjoying the occasional sweet with your family without being burdened by guilt. It will give you the freedom to enjoy a slice a cake or pie again and be able to focus on making precious memories with your loved ones that will last so much longer than any food will in your system. It will give you 30 scratch-made cake recipes, 23 frostings and fillings, and countless combinations to create your own unique cake. Cake Stand will help you to know the extraordinarily gratifying feeling of setting a beautiful scratch-baked cake on the table and watching your family’s eyes light up and smiles beaming.
Some of the cakes you’ll find in Cake Stand are:
• Maple Pecan Cake with Fried Apples
• Zucchini Cake
• Peach & Blueberry Bundt Cake
• Strawberry Chamomile Cake
• Sweet Potato Molasses Cupcakes
• Toasted Coconut Cream Pound Cake
• Harvest Apple Cake
• Cocoa Beet Root Cake
• Caramel Pear Upside Down Cake
• Blackberry Apple Wooden Spoon Cake
and more!
{Sweets As Part of a Healthy Lifestyle}
Through the passionate sharing of knowledge now available on the internet, the barrier between the general public and information about healthy eating has been lifted. We no longer are dependent on the USDA to draw us pictures of what a “healthy” diet should look like. What a blessing!
Healthy eating is a journey and many of us are on different parts of the path. Some are just starting out, learning to read labels, asking the question, “Is that really food?” Others have been working hard to educate themselves for a while and have many kitchen skills in their tool belt. Some have learned that the way they’ve been eating has created problems with their health and must start making the changes so they can feel better.
Our family has been conscientiously participating in our food production, scratch-cooking and baking, and constantly making changes to improve our diets for well over a decade. We didn’t start making changes because of medical reasons, we just wanted a feeling of overall well-being. We wanted children who were healthy, active, and could grow to become productive, useful adults who could have their own healthy & active children.
Wherever we are on the path, we should be working diligently to encourage one another. Not condemning those who aren’t where we are on the journey.
Can a slice of cake to celebrate your child’s birthday be part of a healthy lifestyle? Absolutely!
It’s not so much the piece of cake that will matter to your overall health and well-being, but what you eat the rest of the time.
Cake Stand is a part of my healthy living journey. I’ve worked hard to create recipes that I could feel good about bringing into our families celebrations without feeling guilty and that showcased the work we do as part of the local food movement. I was able to weave our food philosophy and beliefs into the very fabric of our celebrations.
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Join me in celebrating life, love, and joy with a slice of cake!
{Praise For Cake Stand}
“Cakes are inherently a special thing and the recipes in ‘Cake Stand’ take it to another level by including plenty of fresh, homegrown ingredients. Beautiful photos provide inspiration to the home baker while the recipes and tips guide the reader to perfect execution and delicious cakes for every occasion.” – Kathie Lapcevic www.homespunseasonalliving.com
“The beauty of Cake Stand is that it really is for every baker seeking to bring the homemade back into their kitchen. If you’re just beginning to move away from boxed cake mixes, there’s so much quality instruction here that you’ll feel empowered to bake any of the sumptuous recipes you find in this book. For those who are already on the foodie path, there are plenty of cakes to bake that will float your whole foods boat; look out for that Chocolate Kale Cake. If you’re simply a lover of quality cookbooks, you’ll fall in love with the gorgeous pictures and divine recipes. Cake Stand is simply delicious!” -Tessa Zundel www.homesteadlady.com
“With Cake Stand, Quinn gives us permission to add dessert back into our healthy lives. Made with real ingredients and lots of fresh fruits (or vegetables!) I couldn’t help but think of the Little House on the Prairie books; surely these would be a perfect addition to Ma’s trestle table. If the ingredients list alone isn’t enough to send you off to the kitchen, the gorgeous photos will. “ – Kris Bordessa www.attainable-sustainable.net
