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Learn to COOK - 500 Cupcakes: The Only Cupcake Compendium You'll Ever Need
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List Price: $15.95
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Manufacturer: Sellers Publishing, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9781569065976
ISBN: 1569065977
Label: Sellers Publishing, Inc.
Manufacturer: Sellers Publishing, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Publisher: Sellers Publishing, Inc.
Release Date: 2006-03-01
Studio: Sellers Publishing, Inc.
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Once upon a time, cupcakes were only a kid-friendly party favorite. No longer! Cupcakes are now the treat of the times, at once simple and chic. 500 Cupcakes is just that: a storehouse of recipes, written in clear instructions and appealingly packaged in bright, modern colors. 500 Cupcakes from front to back provides what bakers of all levels need to produce tempting creations. The introduction provides a comprehensive look at equipment and ingredients, plus a description of the cupcake-making process, from getting started to storing and transporting the yummy results. The collection of recipes span from classic flavors and shapes to new favorites for every style and taste including recipes for alternate diets. Each recipe is written in clear language (great for the novice baker), and every one features three variations on the basic recipe (great for the experienced baker seeking new flavors). The page design is attractive, featuring over 200 enticing pictures of cupcakes in the pan and on the serving plate 500 Cupcakes really is the only cupcake compendium you ll ever need !
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Summary: A few important tips before purchase
Comment: The Good:
- The variations are clever- and often inspire me to new and delicious ideas!
- There are lots of pictures and cute, simple decorating ideas.
- There really is something for every occasion and every person- A section for gluten free, sugar free, and some that can easily be made vegan.
What you should know:
- Maybe half of the recipes are "sweet" treats, the rest are more in the muffin category (but really- who doesn't love amazing muffins?)
- The instructions are a little vague, unless you are familiar with baking (As in- don't just dump it all together like the directions indicate- cream the butter and sugar first, and put the eggs in last so you don't over beat them)
The Bad:
-The book is small and bulky, so it's often difficult to keep it open to the right page if you don't have a book stand.
- And now I can't seem to find enough occasions to bake for! Hahaha
Overall:
Fantastic and fun book, I would certainly buy it again!
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Summary: Food Porn
Comment: This is a very attractive cookbook. The photos of the cupcakes and muffins are breathtaking and have really inspired me over the past few months to adapt my own time-tested recipes to create new things. Past that, though, the book's usefulness has run out.
I don't have a problem with the fact that the recipes are largely variations on theme, or that not all 500 are "true cupcakes." My problem lies in the recipes' inaccuracies. Due to the lack of milk, the batters have consistencies closer to scones than real cupcakes, and when a recipe tells me the yield is "one half dozen" I shouldn't end up with twelve. Two cups of flour, a cup and a half of zucchini and a half cup of olive oil is way too much for six muffins, unless you're using a giant muffin pan, and those weren't even mentioned. These little problems make me wonder if the recipes were even tested at all.
Use the book for inspiration, but stick to your own trusted recipes.
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Summary: 500 Cupcakes, the only cupcake compendium you'll evr need
Comment: I am very disappointed in this book. I was looking for a book with lots of cupcake recipes. The last 90 pages of this book are muffins. I don't know about you but in my book, muffins and cupcakes are entirely two different items. Then, for each recipe, they have three variations of the recipe and will call that four different cupcake recipes. Any idiot can do the variations. They are simple as if you want lemon cupcakes, substitute the vanilla extract for lemon juice. If you want walnut cupcakes, substitute the pecans for walnuts.
I haven't counted them but I bet there aren't a dozen different cupcake reciples in the entire book. The only thing that makes them different is the way they are iced or decorated. The cupcake is basically the same recipe and using self rising flour at that. There are not nearly as many pictures as I would like to see which makes some of the decorating instructions hard to visualize.
It is a pretty little book and the pictures that are there look wonderful but the title of the book should be how to ice and decorate 75 different cupcakes, not advertise as being 500 recipes.
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Summary: A great idea... but fails
Comment: I bought this book over a year ago, thrilled at the thought of 500 cupcake recipes. I'd read the reviews which stated there were a lot of muffin recipes, but I was ok with that- they're not cupcakes, but I do like a good muffin now and then. There are some great ideas in this book, with a lot of flavor combinations that I never would have thought of.
However, my gripe with the book is that I have yet to have a recipe turn out well. They are almost always dry and tasteless. I have been baking for many years, especially cupcakes, so I know my technique is not the issue. I haven't yet nailed down what the problem with the recipes is, but I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, unless you're just looking for some inspiration.
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Summary: Not worth it!
Comment: I too, was like most others thinking.. omg the only cupcake book I will EVER need! BIG FAT JOKE! The cupcakes do not taste good! They are mediocre at best
This book, while having many varieties does not have 500 completely different recipes. The cupcake recipes are mostly all the same with some minor changes, adding chocolate, or vanilla.
The book should really advertise as 500 frostings, because that is the only thing that consistently changes.
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