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| Cupcakes: From the Cake Mix Doctor | 
 enlarge | Author: Anne Byrn
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 6156
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0761135480
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780761135487
ASIN: 0761135480
Publication Date: April 18, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 love this series of books July 7, 2007
This book has some great ideas and they are all easy and doable! Enjoy!
I LOVE this cookbook June 5, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful cook book with amazing recipes that take a short amount of time, but look like you were up all night baking. I've made the Oreo Cupcakes, Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes, Peanut Butter Cupcakes with a Hershey's Kiss in the middle, Red Velvet Cupcakes, and the Cookie Dough Cupcakes! I now look for excuses to bake cupcakes and people are talking about my cupcakes MONTHS after trying them. Every single recipe I've tried has been a huge crowd pleaser.
I'm shocked there are negative reviews - yes, there could be more pictures, but I the recipes are so easy to follow; it's not a problem at all. I'm shocked that some people had trouble following the recipes, I thought the recipes were so easy to follow!
This cookbook is the best! You will not regret buying it!
Great Ideas May 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love that the writer is a real person, not a baker or pastry chef.
You can follow any idea with any boxed cake and she explains anything else that has to be added to the receipe, example: box of pudding or crunched up cookies, etc.
The only problem was the pictures. They are in the front and back, but not with the recipe. So it can be difficult to see what your end result should look like.
I would go to this book first before my other cupcake books for the recipes, they are good and easy.
 cute ideas April 2, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Has a lot of different ideas. The actual recipes are not much different then the Cake-Mix Doctor.
 Frustrating recipes January 27, 2007
4 out of 26 found this review helpful
While I love the original "Cake Mix Doctor" recipe book (I wrote a review on Amazon.com raving about it), I found the two recipes in this book that I tried to be frustrating. I don't find that she gives enough information about the recipes. I tried the "Pretty in Pink Strawberry Cupcakes" which she mentions she made for her daughters in their Spring and Summer birthdays many times. It is the middle of the winter, and my son wanted Strawberry cupcakes. Knowing how much I love her first book, I made these cupcakes using frozen strawberries (no fresh strawberries around here!) Because of this, there was way too much juice. The cupcakes turned out o.k. The frosting was runny and bad. And the frozen strawberry I sliced and put on top leaked all over the top of the cupcake. They just look bad! This was 2 days before my son's birthday party.
So I switched and made the S'more cupcakes this morning before the party. She mentions to use crushed graham crackers but don't use the finely crushed graham crackers. What the heck does that mean? Am I supposed to make the recipe 3 times to figure out just how crushed they should be? A picture would have been very helpful. Then I made the icing. It's just awful! Runny runny runny runny MESS - sticky. I have to take these cupcakes to the party site. And I can't have a messy runny gooey mess for the kids at the site, they will be completely ruined. Thankfully I had an extra jar of the Marshmallow fluff, and just used that on the remaining cupcakes, after warming it. Also, warming the marshmallow fluff totally got goo all over the top of my microwave. Now I have to clean that and I wasn't even warned. A warning to maybe put wax paper over the fluff when microwaving it would have kept my microwave from getting such goo all over it.
And I don't personally like German Chocolate cake mix. A taste preference of mine. So I don't even like the taste of these cupcakes either.
I was too embarrassed at the Strawberry cupcakes (above) to serve them, so I made these, and I am yet again embarrassed by these. But they are fresher and since I changed out the frosting for just Marshmallow cream, I choose to serve these. I will cross my fingers that folks like them. I sure don't.
It will be a while before I try another recipe in this book. A *long* while.
[I've made exacting Martha Stewart recipes and while it took forever and a boat-load of ingredients, I succeeded, so I'm not really sure it was operator trouble with these things.] I think the recipes in Cupcake Mix Doctor leave some guesswork and experimentation up to the baker. And I don't really want to experiment. I want all the facts and information so I can bang out perfect cupcakes the first time.
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