Late last year I had the pleasure of eating a Coffee Crunch Cake. It was absolutely delicious and I wanted the recipe to try to duplicate it at home. Through research I found that Ernest Weil was the original creator of this amazing cake. What was even better was that he had a cookbook called Love To Bake which had that recipe plus many more.
I'm too young to remember the Blum's bakery and all the wonderful creations which came out of it. One of those creations was the Coffee Crunch Cake and it's a sacred cake mentioned with lots of fond memories by those in the Bay Area. I was lucky enough to score a copy of this cookbook and, when I got home, I realized that it was signed by Mr. Weil himself.
The book itself is a good read. It isn't like the modern cookbooks with tons of food porn. Instead, it reminds me of the older cookbooks with simple, no nonsense recipes with a few pictures here and there. It is a cookbook that could have been created 50 years ago and you'd never know the difference.
Unfortunately the cookbook is no longer available in print form. Apparently it has sold out everywhere and the only way to get it now is via PDF. I feel very lucky to have been able to get a copy of it.
I still have not made anything out of the cookbook yet but I am more motivated to do so now than ever since I know I have a limited edition cookbook
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