Synopses & Reviews
A giant collection of cupcakes from the classic to the contemporary What could be better than a cupcake? How about 150 cupcakes? In this new cupcake compendium from Better Homes and Gardens, you'll find tons of creative recipes and decorations for everyone's favorite little treat. From traditional cupcakes to fancy new ideas, you'll find a cupcake here for any and every occasion, from tried-and-true favorites to creatively decorated designs for celebrations and holidays. Beautiful full-color photos accompany every recipe while an entire section on cupcake basics covers simple recipes, converting cakes to cupcakes, and cupcake decorating tools and techniques.
- Includes 150 diverse and delightful cupcake recipes
- 200 beautiful full-color photographs offer plenty of inspiration and how-to instructions
- Features fun and informative tips and sidebars throughout
- Covers special occasion cupcakes for birthdays, showers, holidays, and more
For anyone who loves cupcakes, this delicious cupcake cookbook offers tasty treats for any and every occasion.
Synopsis
This exciting 1000 collection presents glorious full-color photographs of delicious, decorated desserts. From extravagant wedding cakes and clever birthday cakes to cupcakes and cookies that are miniature works of art, these delightful delectables will provide endless inspiration for anyone who loves decorative baking and entertaining. An appendix in the back of the book includes basic recipes for cakes, frostings, and fondants.
Synopsis
1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes features a vast collection of decorated dessert inspiration, with page after page of gorgeous photos. This book is a feast for the eyes and the imagination that will never leave you stuck for an idea.
Get your creative juices flowing and see how bakers and decorators around the world have creatively used fondant, buttercream, gum paste, sugar paste, royal icing, and piping and molded designs to create cookies, cupcakes, and cakes that are true works of art. See elegant cupcakes decorated with pearls and piping, colorful hand-painted cookies, tiered cakes with dimensional flowers, and much more.
Discover unique cupcake decorations that use royal icing, edible markers, and fondant; wedding cakes adorned with gum paste accents and debossed designs; vibrant Christmas cookies; whimsical children's birthday cakes; specialty Easter cakes, and much more. Get great year-round ideas for dessert presentations and gift giving. Recipes for several types of frosting are included in the book, and an image directory identifies key materials and techniques for each photo.
Among the amazing featured creations are:
- Cupcakes topped with sweet fondant flowers
- Fanciful characters and animals made from fondant and gum paste
- Cookies decorated with imaginative royal icing designs
- Lush buttercream roses atop cakes and cupcakes
- Hand-painted fondant accents
- Delicate chocolate motifs
- Cakes enrobed in decadent ganache
- Simple buttercream designs that dazzle
This is the one book you'll turn to again and again for the best cupcake, cookie, and cake design ideas. Start exploring this delicious world today
These visual catalogs are both a practical, inspirational handbook and a coffee-table conversation piece.
Like all of the books in our 1,000 series, these are not instructional books; rather, they are a visual showcase designed to provide endless inspiration.
Synopsis
A sugar-coated feast for the eyes and the imagination—this exciting 1,000 collection presents glorious full-color photographs of beautiful, outrageous, and deliciously decorated desserts, from extravagant wedding and birthday cakes to cupcakes and cookies that are miniature works of art.
Like all of the books in our 1,000 series, this is not an instructional book, rather, it is a visual showcase designed to provide endless inspiration for anyone who loves decorative baking and entertaining.
Synopsis
This sugar-coated feast for the eyes and imagination presents full-color photography of beautiful, outrageous and deliciously decorated desserts. A visual showcase designed to provide endless inspiration for anyone who loves baking and entertaining.
Synopsis
A cupcake cornucopia with delightful treats, from satisfying classics to inventive, new ideas.
About the Author
Sandra Salamony, author of 1000 Jewelry Inspirations, is a creative director, writer, and artist living in Traverse City, Michigan. Her sister, Gina M. Brown, is an architect and textile artist, also living in the Traverse City area. They are coauthors of 1000 Artisan Textiles (Quarry Books, 2010).