Customer Reviews

Cupcake Magic: Little Cakes with Attitude

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I love cookbooks. I love to read them, cook from them and collect them. This is one of those books that has lovely photos but precious little content. First the positives -- the lecture about buying eggs produced from free range chickens was quite informative and convincing. Additionally, the book was written with great wit and humor, but unfortunately that's the sum total of the pluses. The cupcake recipes and decorating tips are uninspired. These are designs and recipes that have appeared in one form or another in typical homemaking magazines. And, I am still stumbling over the author's insistence that margarine is better than butter in baking. This is the second cookbook I've read this week that suggested using only the best ingredients and then made a case for a hideous chemical ingredient -- in this case it was margarine, in the other book it was vanilla artificial flavoring. Perhaps it is just me, but that kind of inconsistency is beyond annoying. Either use the best all the way through or don't. Anyway, the author comes across as a lovely person, someone you'd love to have tea with, but the book carries little of value.

It was a gift for my daughter and she likes it! I cannot say that I have looked at it myself. But if it makes my cupcake making daughter happy, then it makes me happy!

Just as it includes more than dessert cupcakes, this delightful book has that touch of spice and savory that makes it my favorite of cupcake books. It is a bit like reading a witty journal, but with fabulous photos and ideas. I wandered into this cupcake world and am now fully caught up and now am wondering if I shouldn't go rescue some chickens?