Book of Enchantments is a collection of short stories written by American fantasy author Patricia C. Wrede.

Two stories ("The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn" and "Utensile Strength") are set in the world of Wrede's own Enchanted Forest Chronicles.

A story about a successful wizard, who, seeking everlasting fame and wealth, offers his beautiful daughter in marriage to whichever god helps him achieve his goal.

Princess Elyssa's happy home life (i.e., a kind father, loving stepmother, and friendly stepsisters) is constantly disrupted by the King's councilors, who feel that things should be more traditional.

In order to annoy the councilors who make her life so difficult, Elyssa runs away (with her family's blessing) to seek her fortune by disguising herself as a maid in the castle of her stepmother's friend Queen Hildegard.

On her journey she falls in with a talking cat, who leads her into the Enchanted Forest, claiming that Queen Hildegard is bossy and unpleasant.

He turns into a handsome prince and explains that he was changed into a cat by Queen Hildegard when he refused to marry her daughter.

A young woman named Adrian is bitter and jealous of her younger sister, Sam's, success, popularity, and looks.

Each rose contains a possible future for Adrian, success in work, love, failure, death, or continued bitterness against her sister.

Evan is proud, but years of war and leadership have made him a better man than he was, and he offers his life to the Earth in exchange for help for his people.

Mechanical trouble with the tour bus forces the class to stay at a hotel on high cliffs overlooking the Rhine.

However, since she is unable to prove her suspicions, Janet walks out to the cliffs where she hears faint music growing louder.

It is decided to hold a tournament with a bake-off appended in an effort to match up the weapon with the hero destined to wield it; since only the rightful wielder can handle the pan without an oven mitt, the idea is to grant it to the knight who can touch it without getting burned.

The attempt of one of the tournament knights to champion her is interrupted when the princess stands forth, unwilling for anyone to be harmed on her behalf (she has been hiding out incognito as a scullery maid, in true fairy tale fashion).

To fend off her uncle she grabs the object nearest to hand, which turns out to be the frying pan, and beans him with it with ... interesting results.