Cake Bible Debuts on the Oprah Winfrey Network!
Feb 24, 2011 | From the kitchen of Rose
Thanks for fellow blogger Matthew Boyer who forwarded these links, we can now see The Dotted Swiss Wedding Cake from The Cake Bible being produced on OWN on Anna and Kristina's Grocery Bag and their reviews of the book. I couldn't be more thrilled!
This brings to mind a funny story from about two decades ago shortly after The Cake Bible was published. I inscribed a book to Oprah and included a note offering to make her wedding cake. Before packaging it I opened up the book, trying to imagine the impression it would make when Oprah opened it, and to my shock all the entire photo insert was up side down! Needless to say I found her a copy that was perfect but apparently a large section of an entire print run was produced this way. A friend said I should save it as it would be worth a lot of money some day. Somehow, I wonder but there they are in the crawl space in Hope.
Oprah sent me a lovely note saying that if she got married she would certainly keep my offer in mind. Someday I'll have to tell the story of how I came close to making President Clinton's inauguration cake!
Print
Post/Read Comments
Digg
de.licio.us
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Rose Levy Beranbaum in reply to comment from Deb Wolf
03/01/2011 05:14 PM
deb, what a beautiful and moving story! thanks for taking the time to post this.
most bakeries would not welcome the chance to make all those dots! you were fortunate you found a willing baker!
REPLY
Deb Wolf
03/01/2011 05:09 PM
Dotted Swiss was my wedding cake in 2000. I took my treasured Cake Bible into the bakery and asked if they could make THIS cake. Not one that looks like it - THIS ONE. They borrowed my book overnight (I worried I would never see it again), and the next day called and said that they could and would make it. Apparently, they had to make sure they wouldn't be violating any copyright. When I went back to pay the down payment, I noticed that the baker now had her OWN copy. :D
It's a wonderful book and I have never had any failures with those recipes. I'm just a home cook, but I'm now well known in my little circle as "the one who makes those delicious cakes". Thanks for your ongoing inspiration.
REPLY
Flour Girl
02/26/2011 01:54 AM
I will look forward to watching the show.
REPLY
Zach Townsend
02/25/2011 11:08 AM
Watched the video. Very fun to see them using your book and all of their comments. I noticed they said everything came together exactly as the book said it would! I read your comments on the blog about why the cake was falling in the center.
Can't believe they didn't practice this ahead of time. yikes.
REPLY
Zach Townsend
02/25/2011 10:09 AM
The way her love life runs, it might be awhile. :)
Fun story though. That's great about the wedding cake on OWN!
REPLY
Stephanie Hersh is Fine!
A Review on and of Baking Style Diary