Product Description

No one can resist the cute and compact confection called a cupcake, and Betty Crocker Just Cupcakes: 100 Recipes for the Way You Really Cook shows you how to make everyday, elegant, holiday-themed, and special occasion cupcakes that are easy to make and fun to decorate. Affordable and conveniently formatted with a lay-flat binding, this book includes quick tips, directions for substitutions, and advice on make-ahead cake to save you time. Fifty-five photos accompany recipes like Key West, Peanut Butter and Jelly and Midnight Molten cupcakes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12040 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover-spiral
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470327296
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

If you need a cookbook to help you use a cake mix....
...then this is the cookbook for you! Okay, so it's not my nature to argue with the editors over at Betty Crocker. I own many Betty Crocker cookbooks, and some of them rank as favorites in my rather extensive cookbook collection. Unfortunately, I think this one is lacking.

Unlike the two other cupcake cookbooks I purchased at the same time (Crazy About Cupcakes and 125 Best Cupcake Recipes), there are very few "from scratch" recipes in this cookbook. It is mainly augmentations of cake mixes. While I appreciate the Sandra Lee-esque ease of this, it's just not my preference. This is not to say there aren't appealing ideas in this book -- but I think many of us could "invent" these without a cookbook.

I do think that there are several good decorating ideas here -- especially for kids -- which is what warrants at least 3 stars. The photos are great, and I feel like I could replicate many of the decorating ideas. I will take these ideas and apply them to the recipes I have in the other two cupcake cookbooks.

Disappointed ...
I don't like using box cake mixes for anything so I was extremely disappointed in how many recipes used them. Granted, perhaps I should have guessed because the cookbook was from Betty Crocker ... but they make many items. There are some things I can make using this cookbook but there are so many good cupcake books out there now, this is probably not the one I would grab first. If you like it easy and fast and out of a box, then you'll enjoy this one. I didn't.

Betty Crocker Just Cupcakes: 100 Recipes for the Way You Really Cook
More like a Cake doctor book, to many cake mix recipes....but full of great decorating itea.