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| Crazy About Cupcakes | 
 enlarge | Author: Krystina Castella
Publisher: Sterling
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 2609
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1402719949
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9781402719943
ASIN: 1402719949
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Condition: Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: S20081204095656G
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good one June 24, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Had this book and have tried some of the recipes. Love the Black bottom cupcake and mousse cupcake recipes and the decoration is quite easy to follow. It's just that I found the icing is a little bit too sweet to my liking, so I have to improvise a little bit. Generally love this book.
Great book! June 21, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am thoroughly enjoying this book. The recipes are unique and I can't wait to make all of them! There are varying levels of difficulty, so there is something in this book for everyone. Lots of pictures. Get this book!
Fantastic Cupcake Options June 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this book because it gives countless ideas cupcakes, fillings, frostings and decorations. The recipes are straight forward with readily available ingredients. The steps are very basic, easy to follow. I wish she could have been more precise, esp with cupcake yield. I've looked everywhere and cannot find information on how many cupcakes her recipes yield. Am I to assume that since she calls for a 12-cup pan that the batter will make 12 cupcakes? Other than that gripe, this book is a wonderful asset to my cookbook collection. It's a ready reference for my work (as a cake designer) and play (as a mom)
 super cupcakes May 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful. It has a lot of great recipes that are fun and pretty easy using ingredients you already have around the house. But it also has some neat decorating ideas as well. I would recommend it for sure.
Enjoy your status as "Cupcake Goddess"... April 15, 2007
43 out of 44 found this review helpful
I admit to owning six cupcake books (to date...)I know, I know...but cupcakes are just so perfect: Fun to make and decorate, easy to serve and oh, so cool to enjoy eating. This is the most "complete" book I've seen so far.
There is a cupcake for everyone, for every occasion, for all baking and decorating skills. The recipes include the basics found in all the other books, but the variations presented are staggering. Many, many different flavorings, add-ins and batter combinations as well as interesting icings and toppings guarantee lots of opportunities for moving well outside the standards. The presentations range from sophisticated dinner-party-finish to a child's delight.
The book is well organized and the introduction explains the basics of baking, frosting, toppings, substitutions, choices of pans, transporting and storing, plus a bit of cupcake history. (A previous reviewer commented that there is no indication of how many cupcakes the recipes make, or how much frosting you will have...the author states in the introduction that each recipe makes 18-24 medium cupcakes, with some recipes calling for two or more batches; the frosting recipes are geared to the number of cupcakes.)
The decorations are also quite comprehensive with most requiring little cake decorating skills, i.e. pastry bags and Wilton tips. Instead, the author makes great use of small candies, shaved chocolate, fruit and fondant, all of which are described in detail in the introduction so that when you see the pictures, you already have a pretty good idea how she accomplished the finished product.
If there is one slight criticism, it would be that the photos are not usually next to the recipes; sometimes several different cakes are grouped together in one photo. I have become spoiled by the other books which have large, glossy photos of the decorated cupcakes on the page with the recipe or on the facing page: A small price to pay for such a wealth of information and excellent recipes.
And the raves from my girlfriends on chick-nite for the Screwdriver Cupcakes with Spiked Orange Frosting was as enthusiastic as my 17 year-old son's for the Mint Chocolate Chip cupcakes with the Dark Chocolate Icing.
I do so enjoy being considered a cupcake goddess....Thank you, Krystina!
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