Trying cakes from a book called The World of Cake

I love to bake and I love to cook.  I always thought of making my own show with a friend of mine who loves to cook too.  She is of Italian and Spanish origin and I am of Lebanese.  We both have great recipes to share, and love to laugh and have fun when we cook.  We have just formed a gourmet club and we learn different recipes every time we get together once a month.  We have so many friends who love to cook too and like to share their recipes with us.  So maybe I should start my own gourmet club with all of you.  But first I'd like to share with you the first cake that I made.  It is an Iranian cake (since the book is from all over the world) made with pistachios and rose water.  I can't tell you how delicious it turned out to be.  My husband ate most of it...So if you need the recipe, I will be glad to share it with you or you can buy the book and try your own and post your comments.  I want to make sure that all the cakes that I am going to try from the book are as good as they look in the pictures.
I also made another cake, the most popular these days: Velvet cake.  I did not realize that is all made with chocolate.  The only thing I did not have is the Red Coloring ingredient and that is why my cake was not red velvet but brown velvet, but it still tasted good. I did it for a friend of mine for her birthday and it was a total SUCCESS.  I loved the cream cheese icing because it is mixed with boiled milk and sugar and it gave a different flavor from the rest of the cheesecake icing.  As a matter of fact, I will use this recipe for cheesecake icing from now on, whether it is a carrot cake or pumpkin cake etc.
If you ever used that book and tried any recipe, please let me know your input.  I don't want to waste the time and money to make something that is not good.  I mean DELICIOUS.  I only make good cakes and I brag about it, so I don't want to bake something that will have a disappointing result.