Cover of Hello, Cupcake

Hello, Cupcake

Witty, one-of-a-kind, imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store, no baking skills or fancy pastry equipment required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun. America's favorite food photography team shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces using a ziplock bag and common candies and snack items. With these easy-to-follow techniques, even the most kitchen-challenged cooks can:* raise a big-top circus cupcake tier for a kid's birthday

Read more

* plant candy vegetables on Oreo earth cupcakes for a garden party

* trot out a line of confectionery "pup cakes" for a dog fancier

* serve spaghetti and meatball cupcakes for April Fool's Day

* bewitch trick-or-treaters with eerie alien cupcakes

* create holidays on icing with a white Christmas cupcake wreath, turkey cupcake place cards, and Easter egg cupcakes

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Hello, Cupcake? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Hello, Cupcake. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Cake Pops: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes for More Than 40 Irresistible Mini Treats Shares cookbooks, cooking, cookbook
  2. Martha Stewart's Cupcakes: 175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat Shares cookbooks, cooking, cookbook
  3. The Cake Bible Shares cookbooks, cooking, cookbook
  4. Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours Shares cookbooks, cooking, cookbook

“People who read Hello, Cupcake tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Crazy About Cupcakes
  2. BabyCakes: Vegan, (Mostly) Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York's Most Talked-About Bakery
  3. The Confetti Cakes Cookbook: Spectacular Cookies, Cakes, and Cupcakes from New York City's Famed Bakery
  4. Cupcakes!: From the Cake Mix Doctor

“If you want more of the same (cooking about food), start with these.”

  1. Jacques Pépin Fast Food My Way
  2. Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
  3. Nigella Express: Good Food, Fast
  4. Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader: Recipes from Mitford Cooks, Favorite Tales from Mitford Books

“If it was the cookbooks that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Baking with Julia: Sift, Knead, Flute, Flour, and Savor...
  2. Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love: More than 100 Recipes and Make-It-Yourself Projects to Create and Share
  3. Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share
  4. The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Big Book of Cupcakes
  2. Happy Birthday, Cupcake!
  3. 125 Best Cupcake Recipes
  4. Big Book of Cupcakes: Little cakes that will make you happy