Cupcake Handbook : Your Guide to More Than 80 Recipes for Every Occasion

You are going to want to bake every cupcake in this cute little book!

• 80 cupcake recipes include classic favorites for kids and grown-ups, plus special occasion and special diet recipes
• Lays flat on your countertop for easy reference with a handy hardcover hidden-spiral binding
• Beginner-friendly chapter on getting started briefs you on equipment, ingredients, and accessories
• Basic recipes get you started with simple plain, chocolate, and lemon cupcakes, buttercream and cream cheese frosting, ganache, icings, and more
• Classic combinations include recipes like mint chocolate chip, strawberries & cream, and black forest
• Children's favorites include chocolate and peanut butter, butterfly cakes, flapjacks, and more
• Grown-up favorites offer more refined tastes like caramelized banana and cinnamon, rum raisin, lavender cakes, Earl Grey, and more
• Celebration cupcakes include recipes for Halloween, Christmas, weddings, birthdays, Valentine's Day, and more
• Special diet recipes include reduced fat, egg-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free options to ensure no one is left out of the fun

This pretty little book provides 80 kitchen-tested cupcake recipes, including classic children's and grown-up favorites, themed cupcakes for special occasions, and special diet cupcakes.

With a hardcover hidden-spiral binding that lies flat on your kitchen counter for easy reference, it offers a myriad of shapes, sizes and toppings to tempt you!

Cupcake Handbook begins with a getting-started chapter that covers all the equipment needed, followed by a wonderful selection of recipes for icings, frostings, buttercream and toppings.

The heart of the book consists of 80 kitchen-tested cupcake recipes, including classic cupcakes, favorites for kids and adults, themed cupcakes for special occasions (such as weddings, birthdays, christenings and festive holidays), and finally a chapter on cupcakes for special diets that includes mouthwatering gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, reduced fat and reduced-sugar recipes.

Every cook who loves cupcakes will find something delicious to try in Cupcake Handbook!

Sue McMahon is Cookery Editor for Woman's Weekly magazine. Although she's happy to take on the challenge of any culinary recipe, her passion is cakes and she travels the world teaching cake decorating.

Over the last few years she has demonstrated in America, Malaysia and Japan, as well as in several European countries. Sue is a member of the Guild of Food Writers, Craft Guild of Chefs and the British Sugarcraft Guild.