I haven't had much luck with this book yet. First I want to say I love to bake, and I know what I'm doing in the kitchen, so I'm kinda frustrated that I'm having issues. I've used this book twice and each time my cupcakes have burned. Now I know everyone's probably thinking that I cooked them too long or that my oven temperature is off. First time the cupcakes burned after they were only in the oven for 17 minutes (yellow cupcake recipe), and tonight I set the timer for 15 minutes and they were already burnt. According to the recipe they should cook for 20-25 minutes. Both times I used foil liners, fist time it was intentional, and tonight I discovered they were foil lined when I opened the package. I also have an oven thermometer in our oven and it was reading 100 degrees cooler, so I had to set the oven at 450 for the thermometer to read 350. I have a feeling that the foil liners are causing some sort of problem??
I've made the yellow cake recipe, and it's okay. Tonight I made the chocolate, which is very bland, and the yellow cake again. I've never had homemade cake/cupcakes so maybe I'm used to the taste of box mixes. And maybe the 4 standard recipes are meant to be used in the rest of the recipes in the book and not alone? Oh, and the vanilla buttercream frosting is WAY too sweet. So sweet that I had a stomach ache. I'm going to buy a new oven thermometer and paper baking cups- if that corrects my problem I'll definitely change my review and give it more stars. I'll also try a couple more recipes and see how I like them. I have been just making one of the 4 basic cake flavors, and picking one of the frostings from the begining of the book.
I do agree with other posters about the layout of the book- it's great!! I'd be happier if the cake itself had more flavor and if my cupcakes would stop buring. I'm not giving up though.
UPDATE 3/2013: So my oven thermometer was off way back then. As for the foil liners, I was using a cupcake tin and I bought foil liners only because I wanted silver liners. I won't be buying those again. I just had a party for my kids and I wanted to make the cupcakes. I once again used the yellow cake recipe. They didn't burn, but it seemed like there was too much butter ( I used the right amount). The liners looked grease soaked. I practiced making them about a week before the party. BUT I still wasn't crazy about the taste. I frosted them with a buttercream recipe I found online, and we all ate them. I will still keep trying out some recipes though- I'll take the advice and use the ones deeper into the book. There are some good looking recipes. For my kids party I ended up using a box of Duncan Hines cake mix and I used butter and milk vs the oil and water the box called for, and I added a TBSP of vanilla. They turned out good. Maybe I'm used to cake box flavors when I'm making something pretty plain.
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This is a fantastic book of you like to really put some effort into cupcakes periodically. I’ve made several recipes from it and all have been delicious. The Margarita cupcakes are perhaps the most crowd pleasing ones I’ve ever made.
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