Cupcakes Year-round

Tuesday August 5, 2008

Cupcakes Year-Round

Sara Neumeier

Stewart, Tabori & Chang

$29.95

Buttermilk cupcakes crowned with marshmallow bunnies. Coconut cupcakes embellished with coloured ruffles like a Spanish dancer's skirt. Cupcakes disguised as spiders, sandcastles and snowballs. Others smothered in strawberry cream swirls, dark chocolate ganache and crushed peppermint brittle. It's like a wild ride through Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. A cupcake master class cum mardi gras of "scrumdidilyumptious" ideas and inspiration. The book itself cleverly folds out to free-stand, A-frame-style. Part one covers pretty much everything you need to know about cupcakes: history, tools, techniques, ingredients, recipes, frostings, fillings, and the cupcake science of mixing, baking, icing and piping, while the flip-side follows the seasons in 50 recipes. This is the first book by former Martha Stewart Living food editor, recipe developer, food stylist and writer, Sara Neumeier, and it's definitely one to buy if you're keen to get the kids back in the kitchen for some seriously good fun. -- MICHELLE POTTS

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