Cupcakes Year Round

Includes recipes ranging from a one-bowl cake with creamed butter icing to chocolate ganache covered cupcakes with gold-leafed chocolate shards on top. This book shows how each cupcake can be kept simple or embellished to personal taste with flavoured syrups and fillings. It shows the average home cook how easy it is to bake and decorate cupcakes.

Cupcakes have always been crowd-pleasers at school birthday parties and neighborhood bake sales. But today they are also among the hottest culinary trends for sophisticated adults. Cupcakes Year-Round offers a platter full of delicious, grown-up recipes—Black Forest Cherry Cupcakes, Hot Buttered Rum Cakes, Carrot and Zucchini Cakes, and many more—along with kid-friendly PB & J's, Snowballs, and Spelling Bee Alphabet Cakes. In addition to 50 tasty recipes, organized by season (Easter Egg Nests for spring, Reindeer Snacks for winter), the book includes helpful information on the basics of making cupcakes, from mixing to icing, as well as instructions for piping techniques and tips on customizing cupcakes with syrups, fillings, and decorations. Mix-and-match batter and icing combinations give the baker more than 100 delectable cupcake options. With its unique easel format and retro design, this book proves that cupcakes are just as much fun to make as they are to eat.