Cupcakes: Luscious bakeshop favorites from your home kitchen

by Shelly Kaldunski, David Matheson (Photographer)

Cupcakes are everyone's favorite little indulgences. They're loved by kids and adults alike because they're playfully sweet as well as utterly charming. These days, cupcakes can be found in bakeries everywhere, but with just a little know-how, you can easily bake your own tempting boutique-bakery cupcakes at home and decorate them with flair.

Cupcakes contains recipes for every palate: Here you'll find classic Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream for the traditionalist, Triple Chocolate Cupcakes for the chocaholic, PB & J Cupcakes for the kids, Salted Caramel Cupcakes for the epicurean, as well as seasonal holiday cupcakes, and dozens more. Whether you are a novice or experienced baker, inside these pages you'll find friendly advice about ingredients and equipment, cupcake-making and baking tips, and a collection of ideas for decorating your cupcakes with either elegant minimalism or grand flourishes.

With this book as your guide, cupcakes have never tasted—or looked—so good!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2008

Reviews

[aWallace · Rating 5 out of 5]

The decorative educational information is true to the bakeshop quality one may learn and provide because traditionally at a gathering dessert is usually good for many to flourish

[Catherine Woodman]

This is not a cookbook by an author known to me (and Klivans wrote a cupcake cookbook recently, but I thought this one was more interesting looking), but I really thought this had some great ideas, and was fairly good about covering all the decorating basics in a good introduction (which also includes some reasons why cupcakes are different from larger cakes from a baking standpoint, and why things that might not matter all that much if you are making a whole cake really matter when you are making small cakes. the thing I really love about this book is that it elevates the cupcake up to a miniature version of a larger cake, and allows you to serve small (and fancy) portions of a cake that would be veryhard to get into this size--I especially like the cupcake with lemon curd, and the german chocolate cupcake--but there are quite a number of these, and they are really lovely--and give you ideas for miniaturizing other favorite cakes.

[M. H. · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want a basic, lots of options, not too odd cupcake cookbook this one is excellent. Thus far I've made four of the recipes in here (other cupcakes were from other recipes) and they all turned out fine.

[Mira Tabsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yummy recipes, very easy to make. They never let me down!

[Karin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have made almost every cupcake in this book, and I, as well as others who ate them, loved them all! The buttercream frosting recipe gets rave reviews from everyone!

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starts with basics, covers icing techniques then moves onto recipes. Includes standard flavors appealing to all.

[Beka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice pictures, but the recipes are fairly basic.