Booze Cakes... Review and a Giveaway

Booze and cake.  What could be better?  (Okay, maybe you could throw some bacon in there....)

Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone have joined the two together to create a book of awesomeness named "Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked with Spirits, Wine and Beer".  From "Classic Booze Cakes" like Golden Rum Cake and Honey Spice Beer Cake (I am sooooo going to try that one!) to Tipsy Tiramitsu (three different versions!!) to Cake Shots (Blue Hawaii Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes!), this book is full of desserts that will make you sit up, take notice, and run to your liquor cabinet.

Along with the recipes and mouth-watering photography is a great section on Booze Cakes Basics.   This section had me hooked with the line "Technically, baking is chemistry" - I love a cookbook of any kind that knows it's science. Their basic rule of not baking with any liquor that you wouldn't drink - a rule of thumb for any cooking!  You can also learn in this section about different types of booze, how much booze stays in the baked goods, garnishing and tips for success - everything you need to bake!

Oh, and did I mention the chapter, Homemade Booze?  No?  Ever want to try to make your own coffee liqueur or limoncello?  Now you can.  In the Homemade Treats section, learn how to make candied flowers and marzipan carrots.  Enough baking, boozey fun to keep you busy for quite some time, lol!

Personally, I plan to make every single cake, drink and garnish in this entire book.  Seriously.  If you aren't convinced, a look at the luscious pictures of each cake will do the trick.  Or check out this sample recipe from the book: German Black Forest Cupcakes.

And if you'd like to try it, too, well, Quirk Books has agreed to give one lucky reader a copy of Booze Cakes for their very own!  Here's how to enter:

Requirements to enter:

• Have an blog accessible through your user name or leave an email address with each entry.
• Visit  Irreference.com, come back here, and leave a comment about your favorite book offered on the site that does not involve zombies (lol).

For extra chances to win (required post must be made for these to count!), you may do any one or more of the following (leave a separate comment for each):

• 1 entry each (for a total of three possible) - Write about this giveaway on your blog, Myspace or LiveJournal. Leave a separate comment for each and include the URL to the post. (As per the new Facebook TOS,  Facebook can NOT be used as an entry for giveaways.)
• 1entry: (per day/separate comment for each) - Twitter the following message: RT @MrsBsConfession Visit silvermoonwitch.blogspot.com to enter to win Booze Cakes from @irreference publishers! (Do to my blog code, you will have to delete the "read more" comment if you copy and paste the twitter message.)
• 1 entry - Be or become a follower on Twitter of @irreference
• 1 entry - Be or become a subscriber to Irreference TV on YouTube.
• 1 entry - Be or become a friend of Quirk Books on Myspace

This giveaway will end on July 6 at noon EST, with the winner being announced soon thereafter. Good luck!

PLEASE NOTE: 

• If your blogger profile is set to private, I will be unable to find your blog or email via your profile.  If you don't leave an email address in your comments, and your profile is private, the entries DO NOT count.
• Entries that are not on separate posts will be counted as one entry. 
• Entries that contain links not related to the giveaway (capital "s", rhymes with "ham") will be deleted, and those entries will not count.
• Entries must be in English.
• If you are actually reading these comments, leave the word "rules" in comments for an extra entry!