Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts

by Jackie Alpers

Featured On The Food Network * Refinery29 * CNN * The Kitchen * The Cooking Channel * Taste Cooking ... and more!  Ready, set, sprinkles! Bake dozens of delicious desserts with a colorful twist.

Sprinkles!  features step-by-step recipes for making the world a sweeter and sparklier place, one pinch at a time! Inside you'll

Breakfast  Colorful ways to start your day, including Belgian Pearl Sugar Waffles , Sprinkles-Stuffed French Toast , Fairy Bread Sandwiches, Homemade Pop Tarts , and addictive Gingersnap Cookie Butter .

Cookies, Cakes, and  Sprinkley recipes for everything from classic baked goods like Black and White Cookies and Rainbow Layer Cake  to such modern favorites as Holiday Cake Pops and Orange Dreamsicle Cookies .

Snacks and Party  Share the sweetness with crowd-friendly fare, including Brazilian Chocolate Truffles , Meringue Kisses , Chocolate Bark , Dark Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream Cones , and Birthday Cake Martinis .

Plus a guide to identifying sprinkles (so you can tell your sequins from your nonpareils), recipes for homemade sprinkles (to customize to your heart's desire), and tips and techniques for sprinkling like a pro. Make everything magical with  Sprinkles!

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Food and Drink, Cooking

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2013

About the author

Author of The Unofficial Yellowstone Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by the Dutton Family Ranch (Media Lab Books 2023); Taste of Tucson: Sonoran Style Recipes Inspired by the Rich Culture of Southern Arizona (West Margin Press 2020); and Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicous Desserts (Quirk Books 2013).

Reviews

[Rebecca Eve · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book through the Goodreads first reads program. It's an adorable book. I love flipping through it. The pictures and ideas are great fun. I recommended it for any sprinkle lovers, bakers, moms who like to get creative with kid food, and people who like easy ideas for food styling. I like leaving this book out because people love flipping through it. However, this book works better for me as an idea generator than a cookbook. I had some trouble with the first recipe I tried, which was mostly due to lack of detailed info. Googling techniques helped when I went to try more recipes. When I used it to give me and idea for working sprinkles into recipes I already loved, it was a great success.

[Mehta · Rating 4 out of 5]

*note: I won this book through a GoodReads drawning*
This book is just too much fun. My 5 year old niece and I had an amazing time looking through this book, talking about the different types of sprinkles and being rather amazed and the photos and recipes. My favorite was a recipe for sprinkle butter to which my niece replied, "That's serious." I made the Confetti Layer Cake (pg 71) which I sprinkle coated (pg 72), and it turned out quite well, though it is difficult to find sprinkles in large enough quantities to sprinkle coat and even more difficult to cover the cake in sprinkles without getting sprinkles all over your kitchen (they make it look so easy in the book!). All in all, a fun cookbook with fantastic ideas for adding a bit of fun to your day.

[Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! So many great ideas and recipes! I am a big fan of sprinkles and this book just has soooo many uses for them! Wonderful, colorful photos! Even a section on how to make tour own candy sprinkles! Must own book!

[Alexa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Average desserts and the sprinkles often take away WAY more than they add. Maybe a little kids birthday party, the classic sprinkle cake (seen on the cover) would be fun but the breakfast foods, drinks and “little bites” are all things I would never make.

[Lisa]

Exactly what you'd think! A fun book to flip through.

[Deb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Author Jackie Alpers, photographer, cook and food stylist from Jackie's Happy Plate blog, has created a colorful cookbook full of interesting and tasty uses for different types of sprinkles--sure to please children and the 'inner child' of any candy lover. Besides the assorted cookies and cakes toppings, you can add them to drinks and cocktails rimming glasses with Mix-and-Match Cocktail Rims or making Sparkling Stone Fruit White Sangria. Create swizzle sticks for hot and cold beverages like Rock Candy Garnishes or Hot Chocolate Stir Sticks coated in crushed candy canes. You can also top your own Gingersnap Cookie Butter or Homemade Pop Tarts. Alpers even teaches you how to make your own homemade Sprinkles, Fondant Pearls, Rock Candy and different sugars.

I tried the Fudge Puppies--mini waffles dipped in chocolate and decorated with (holiday in this case) sprinkles. Easy, fun and cute--a lot like this book. To see my full review, the recipe and photos, go to my blog post here: http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com/20...

3.5 stars

Note: A review copy of "Sprinkles" was provided by the publisher in return for a fair and honest review. I was not compensated for this review and as always my thoughts, opinions and experiences cooking from it are my own.

[Chip Bell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sprinkles! is a treasure trove of amazingly creative recipes and stunning life-like photographs. Even if you lack a sweet tooth, this extraordinary book belongs in your life. Buy a copy for your kitchen; buy another one for your living room coffee table. The recipes range from the serious to the whimsical-- all illustrated with award-winning photographer Jackie Alpers’ gorgeous camera artistry.

[Debra Emery · Rating 3 out of 5]

My teenagers love this cookbook for really fun recipes and clever ideas. I enjoy the recipes as well. Well written with lots of pics. We can't wait to try some of the recipes, like pop tarts, key lime pie and a whole sprinkled cake.

[Mrs. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun, colorful book loaded with decorating ideas using sprinkles, sugars, etc. There are even recipes in here for making your own marshmallow fondant and for making sprinkles. The sprinkle butter is brilliant in its simplicity and the effect it creates!

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

good book.

[Ley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just wish there were pictures for all the recipes!!!!

[Mary Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just plain old-fashioned fun.

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

LOVED the pictures but a lot of recipes didn't look that appetizing. Pretty book though!