What's New, Cupcake?: Ingeniously Simple Designs for Every Occasion Review

"Cupcaking," it seems, has joined the ranks of verbs like "scrapbooking."Where once a cupcake was a tasty treat, now it's an arts and crafts project.I must admit that I came to this book with a misconception.I thought the point was to create something good to eat.It is not.What's New, Cupcake is a triumph of style over substance.To eat the creations in this book is not only beside the point, it's bordering on sacrilege.

Clearly, I am an old-fashioned baker, or at least one cut from a different cloth."Recipes" from cake mixes and the use of twinkies and mini-donuts as additional construction elements are anathema to me.Now that my biases have been disclosed, I will admit this:The photographs of the projects in this book are AMAZING.The finished projects are gorgeous--more akin to sculptures than snacks.For the, er, baker who aspires to such feats, this book should be equal parts instructive and inspirational.

For Luddites like myself, who are as interested in the edibility of their cupcakes as the attractiveness, there is definitely useful information.I advise using real recipes as a starting place.But there is much that can be learned about types and manners of icing and frosting, how to achieve textures, creative ways to use candies and other decorative elements, and more.It may encourage you to a more ambitious level of creativity.

This is a book for an extreme cupcaker.Perhaps there are far more of you out there than I realize.For you, this book may well be the bible of cupcaking.For the more moderate cupcakers like myself, take what you can from the book and then ooh and aah over the pretty pictures.

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