Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Photo -- Introduction: Happy Birthday! -- MAKING, BAKING, AND DECORATING FABULOUS BIRTHDAY CAKES -- BASIC CAKES -- Yellow Cake -- Quick 'n' Easy Yellow Cake -- Dark Chocolate Cake -- Quick 'n' Easy Chocolate Cake -- White Cake -- Hot Milk Sponge Cake -- Angel Food Cake -- Spice Cake -- Carrot Cake -- Banana Cake -- BASIC FROSTINGS, BUTTERCREAMS, AND FILLINGS -- Confectioners' Sugar Frosting -- Fluffy Meringue Frosting -- Italian Meringue Buttercream -- Seven-Minute Frosting -- Rich Egg Yolk Buttercream -- Fudgy Chocolate Frosting -- Milk Chocolate Frosting -- Chocolate Ganache Glaze and Frosting -- Sour Cream Chocolate Frosting -- Caramel Frosting -- Cream Cheese Frosting -- Whipped Cream Frosting -- Pastry Cream -- Lemon Curd -- Candy Plastic -- THE BIRTHDAY CAKES -- Amarette-Chocolate Cheesecake -- Angel Food Cake with Berries -- Applesauce-Raisin-Walnut Spice Cake -- Bananarama Cake -- Banana Split Cake -- Basket of Flowers Cake -- Beginner Baker's Birthday Cake -- The Big Birthday Cake -- The Birthday Cake You Can Mail -- Boston Cream Pie Birthday Cake -- Buttercream Roses Birthday Cake -- Butter Pecan Cake with Brown Sugar Fudge Frosting -- Caramel-Walnut-Spice Birthday Cake -- Chock-Full-of-Chips Cake -- Chocolate Almond Apricot Cake with Chocolate Glaze -- Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcake Tower -- Chocolate-Dipped Banana Birthday Cake -- Chocolate Extravaganza Birthday Cake -- Chocolate Soufflé Cake Roll -- Coco-licious Cake -- Coconut Rum Cake -- Confetti 'n' Sprinkles Cake -- Espresso Hazelnut Dacquoise -- German Chocolate Cake -- Gilded Candy Roses Birthday Cake -- Hairy Caterpillar Cupcake Cake -- Heart of Gold Chocolate Raspberry Cake -- Hummingbird Cake with Fresh Fruit -- Ice Cream Birthday Cake.

Liqueured-Up Layer Cake with Vanilla Buttercream and Crystallized Flowers -- Luscious Lemon-Blueberry Meringue Cake -- Mocha 'Nana Birthday Cake -- Mocha Toffee Crunch Cake -- No-Guilt Chocolate Angel Food Cake -- The Office Birthday Cake -- Orange Chiffon Cake with Rose Petals -- PB.C.B. Cake -- Polka Dots and Cupcakes Birthday Cake -- Pretty-in-Pink Cake -- Red Velvet Cake with Cooked Vanilla Icing -- She's a Doll Cake -- Sour Cream-White Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberries -- Tantalizing Fruit "Tart" Birthday Cake -- Teeny Tiny Milk Chocolate-Orange Cake -- Tropical Carrot Cake -- White Chocolate Extravaganza "Present" Cake -- Winter Wonderland Chocolate Peppermint Cake -- Resources -- Birthday Cakes by Categories -- Measurement Equivalents -- Index.