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The Holiday Edition · 2026Entry No. 01

Everybody brings a cake. Almost nobody brings a good one.

Forty-five cakes built for the way holidays actually happen — a crowd, a hot afternoon, a folding table and an oven you needed two hours ago — with the bake order for each one, what travels, and the frosting that does not slide off in July.

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The Fourth of July Cake Book

Front-end · The Holiday Edition · 2026
55-page eBook
6 classes
45 cakes
Each with a bake schedule
6 holidays
July 4th first, then the rest
Instant
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Judged on the five below$10 · one-time
01Free recipe Reproduced in full
One page, before you pay

A whole page of it, on the house

Not a summary — the page as it appears in the eBook, with the schedule and the warning that go with it. Bake it this weekend and decide afterwards whether the other pages are worth ten dollars.

The Sheet Cake That Feeds Thirty

Bake the day before · frost in the morning
Recipe No. 04
Prep
20 min
Bake
32 min
Serves
30
Crumb
Tender, close crumb

What you need

  • All-purpose flour3 cups
  • Granulated sugar2 cups
  • Buttermilk1½ cups
  • Unsalted butter, softened1 cup
  • Large eggs, room temperature4
From the fair bench

A sheet cake baked the night before slices better than one baked that morning. The crumb settles overnight and stops crumbling under the knife.

How it goes

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F and line an 18×13 sheet pan with parchment, corners and all.

  2. Beat the butter and sugar for a full four minutes — this is the step people cut short, and it is the one that decides the crumb.

  3. Add the eggs one at a time, then the flour and buttermilk in three alternating additions, ending with flour. Stop the moment it comes together.

  4. Bake 30–34 minutes, until the center springs back. Cool in the pan on a rack for a full two hours before it goes anywhere near frosting.

Contains wheat, dairy and eggs. Check with whoever is hosting before you bring anything to a table with children at it.

That was one recipe, in full and for free. Before anything is asked of you, here is what the rest of them are judged on.

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02The judging card Five criteria

You baked it the morning of. It was still warm when you frosted it.

The recipe was fine. The timing was the problem — and timing is the part recipes leave out. A cake for thirty people is not a bigger version of a cake for six: it is a different bake, a different pan, a different cooling window and a different frosting, and the difference is why the buttercream went to soup in the car.

Judging cardEntry No. 01 · The Fourth of July Cake Book
CrumbHolds a clean slice after four hours out
CrustNo dome to cut off, no dry edge
FrostingStays put at 85°F on a covered table
TravelSurvives twenty minutes in a car, flat
Make-aheadHow far in front you can bake it
03The countdown Nothing left to the morning

The order that keeps you out of trouble

Every recipe carries this, because the schedule is the part that decides whether a cake is ready or nearly ready.

Step 01
Two days outShop, and bake nothing30 min
Step 02
Day before, eveningBake the cake, cool it in the pan, cover overnight1 h
Step 03
Morning ofFrosting, then chill it flat for twenty minutes25 min
Step 04
Ninety minutes outDecorate — berries go on last or they bleed15 min
Step 05
On the tableOut of the cooler, covered, one knife—
04The classes Six of them

What is in the tent

Every recipe is filed under one of six classes, the way a fair does it — so you can find the shape of cake you need before you read a word of it.

Sheet cakes — illustrative photograph
Sheet cakesClass 01
Cupcakes — illustrative photograph
CupcakesClass 02
Loaf & bundt — illustrative photograph
Loaf & bundtClass 03
Layer cakes — illustrative photograph
Layer cakesClass 04
Berries & tops — illustrative photograph
Berries & topsClass 05
Slices — illustrative photograph
SlicesClass 06
05Contents eBook · PDF

The other forty-four are written out exactly like this

  1. The four-hour rule— why a cake frosted warm fails at two in the afternoon p. 49
  2. The sheet cake that feeds thirty— one pan, no layers, no towering p. 5
  3. Berries that do not bleed— the step the night before that keeps red out of white p. 44
  4. The flag cake, without the mush— the assembly order that keeps the stripes p. 6
  5. Frosting at eighty-five degrees— the ratio that holds when butter alone will not p. 39
  6. The cake you can bake on Tuesday— the one that is better on day four p. 10
55-page eBook
6 classes
45 cakes
Each with a bake schedule
6 holidays
July 4th first, then the rest
Instant
Emailed the second you buy
US measures
Cups, ounces, °F
Print-friendly
One cake per page

You have read a whole recipe and the contents. The eBook is ten dollars, once, and it arrives by email in a couple of minutes.

Send me the 45 cakes — $10

Allergens and common sense

Every recipe lists wheat, dairy, egg and nut content at the top. This is a cookbook, not dietary or medical advice — check with whoever is eating, and follow normal food handling for anything with dairy frosting on a warm day.

06Terms of return

Bake one. If it does not earn its place on your table, take the ten dollars back.

Sixty days, no questions and no form — one email to accesssupport.ai@gmail.com is enough. You keep the file either way; there is nothing to return and nothing to cancel.

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What this is

  • All 45 cakes, each with its own bake-ahead schedule
  • The crowd-size chart — pan, batter and bake time for 12, 30 and 60
  • What travels and what does not, tested flat in a car

What it is not

  • A subscription or an app
  • A course with videos to sit through
  • Anything shipped to your door
07Entry form

Ten dollars for the cake,
instead of another year of the same one.

Compare against: One store-bought sheet cake: $34, and everybody knows

P.S. — You already own the pans and the oven. This is ten dollars for knowing which cake to put in it, and when — which is the part that decides whether anyone asks you for the recipe.
Entry formNo. 01 · Front-end
The Fourth of July Cake Book — eBook (PDF)$10.00
Delivery — emailed on purchaseincluded
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Total due$10
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Instant digital download — an eBook in PDF form. One-time payment of $10, billed securely by Digistore24, which acts as reseller and merchant of record. Photographs are for illustration only. Nothing physical is shipped and no subscription is included. 60-day money back.

08Questions Answered in order

What people ask before they bake

Do I need special equipment?

A sheet pan, two round pans, a hand mixer and a cooler. Nothing here needs a stand mixer, a torch or a turntable, and every recipe says so up front.

Is this only for the Fourth of July?

The Fourth is the first chapter and the biggest one. Memorial Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas each get their own, because the problems are the same: a crowd, a borrowed table and an oven with a queue.

I am not a confident baker.

Then start at page 5. The sheet cake has no layers to level, no crumb coat and no decoration you can get wrong, and it is the one people go back to for seconds.

Are the measurements in cups or grams?

Cups, ounces and degrees Fahrenheit throughout, because that is what is in your kitchen. Weights are given alongside for flour and sugar, where it actually matters.

What about allergies?

Every recipe lists wheat, dairy, egg and nut content at the top, and the substitutions chapter covers the three swaps that work. It is a cookbook, not dietary advice — check with whoever is eating.

What do I actually get?

One PDF, 55 pages, emailed the moment you buy. Read it on a phone at the store or print the cake you need. No app, no login, no subscription.