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Cupcake Decorating Lab: 52 Techniques, Recipes, and Inspiring Designs for Your Favorite Sweet Treats!
Discover easy, accessible, and fun techniques for making beautifully decorated cupcakes with Cupcake Decorating Lab! This inspiring guide starts out with basic techniques, such as frosting cupcakes with an offset spatula; using a piping bag and tips; flooding cupcake tops with icing; frosting with chocolate ganache; and tinting buttercream.
The labs in the book cover a wide variety of exciting decorating techniques, such as how to make sugared and candied fruit and flower garnishes; stamping, stenciling, and piping on fondant; and scroll work, writing, and borders. You’ll also find fun ideas for children, weddings, holidays, entertaining, nature themes, and more. Plus, the author includes all of her favorite cake and icing recipes! Create the most delicious and stylish cupcakes imaginable with Cupcake Decorating Lab!
The labs in the book cover a wide variety of exciting decorating techniques, such as how to make sugared and candied fruit and flower garnishes; stamping, stenciling, and piping on fondant; and scroll work, writing, and borders. You’ll also find fun ideas for children, weddings, holidays, entertaining, nature themes, and more. Plus, the author includes all of her favorite cake and icing recipes! Create the most delicious and stylish cupcakes imaginable with Cupcake Decorating Lab!
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First published January 1, 2013
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May 19, 2013
Despite their popularity, I don’t make a lot of cupcakes. It’s not that I don’t like them – I adore them – but if I am honest, its too small a canvas for me. I love decorating cakes, and the flexibility that offers. When I look at a cupcake, my decorating mind goes blank, so when I was given the opportunity to review this book, I jumped at the chance.
Bridget Thibeault ran her business Flour Girl, out of her home for five years before opening a commercial outlet in the form of Luna Cafe, in Ohio. This book offers recipes and techniques for decorating cupcakes. The book has a couple of introductory chapters covering what materials you will need in your armoury. This is followed by 10 Units, or labs, each one covering a different theme or technique.
The pictures are clear and simple. There are often step-by-step which really helps with some of the techniques if you are unfamiliar. The techniques themselves start off at the very basic such as applying your frosting with a spatula, to candying your own fruit, so there is something here for all levels.
I whipped up a dozen vanilla cupcakes (there is a recipe in the book, but I used my own), and some buttercream and had a go at a few of the different techniques. Interestingly, for me at least, is that I have used buttercream or fondant to decorate cakes, but never really thought about using fondant on a cupcake. I had a bit of a DUH! moment.
The best technique I learned, which I tried (and I need practice) was using stamps and food colouring to print a design on your fondant. I shall be using this again, and may even try it on cookies. If you enjoy making cupcakes, or want to give it a go for the first time, this is a great book to start you off.
Bridget Thibeault ran her business Flour Girl, out of her home for five years before opening a commercial outlet in the form of Luna Cafe, in Ohio. This book offers recipes and techniques for decorating cupcakes. The book has a couple of introductory chapters covering what materials you will need in your armoury. This is followed by 10 Units, or labs, each one covering a different theme or technique.
The pictures are clear and simple. There are often step-by-step which really helps with some of the techniques if you are unfamiliar. The techniques themselves start off at the very basic such as applying your frosting with a spatula, to candying your own fruit, so there is something here for all levels.
I whipped up a dozen vanilla cupcakes (there is a recipe in the book, but I used my own), and some buttercream and had a go at a few of the different techniques. Interestingly, for me at least, is that I have used buttercream or fondant to decorate cakes, but never really thought about using fondant on a cupcake. I had a bit of a DUH! moment.
The best technique I learned, which I tried (and I need practice) was using stamps and food colouring to print a design on your fondant. I shall be using this again, and may even try it on cookies. If you enjoy making cupcakes, or want to give it a go for the first time, this is a great book to start you off.
July 11, 2013
Thibeault, Bridget. Cupcake Decorating Lab: 52 Techniques, Recipes, and Inspiring Designs for Your Favorite Sweet Treats! Quarry: Quayside. 2013. 144p. illus. ISBN 9781592538317. pap. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781610587679. COOKING
cupcakes062813 Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, June 28, 2013Thibeault is no stranger to baking. Starting her own custom cake and dessert business in 2006 before opening Luna Café (www.lunacafe.com) in 2011 in her hometown, Cleveland, she has icing in her blood. Thibeault’s latest foray into the industry is a new cookbook featuring 52 “mini-lessons” on designing beautiful cupcakes. Bakers will find inspiration and success here, whether by using basic equipment found in most kitchens or by purchasing more advanced tools at baking supply stores or websites (a resource list is appended). Some of the author’s favorite recipes are included.
Verdict The beautiful graphics and the current popularity of cupcakes make this work a solid choice for public library collections. Even casual browsers will pick up useful tips for improving their baking.—Jane Hebert, Glenside P.L. Dist., Glendale Heights, IL
cupcakes062813 Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, June 28, 2013Thibeault is no stranger to baking. Starting her own custom cake and dessert business in 2006 before opening Luna Café (www.lunacafe.com) in 2011 in her hometown, Cleveland, she has icing in her blood. Thibeault’s latest foray into the industry is a new cookbook featuring 52 “mini-lessons” on designing beautiful cupcakes. Bakers will find inspiration and success here, whether by using basic equipment found in most kitchens or by purchasing more advanced tools at baking supply stores or websites (a resource list is appended). Some of the author’s favorite recipes are included.
Verdict The beautiful graphics and the current popularity of cupcakes make this work a solid choice for public library collections. Even casual browsers will pick up useful tips for improving their baking.—Jane Hebert, Glenside P.L. Dist., Glendale Heights, IL
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