HELLO CUPCAKE!

Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make

Recipes and Food Styling by KAREN TACK, Text and Photography by ALAN RICHARDSON

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Brand new large softcover book, 232 pages, lots of gorgeous, mouthwatering colour photos and step-by-step instructions

Decorating these cupcakes is as much fun as eating them.

Witty, one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using easy-to-obtain ingredients.

America's favorite food photography team, responsible for the covers of America's top magazines, shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces, using a zipper lock 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
• plant candy vegetables on Oreo earth cupcakes for a garden party
• trot out a line of confectionery "pupcakes" for a dog fancier
• serve sausage and pepperoni pizza cupcakes for April Fool's Day
• bewitch trick-or-treaters with chilly ghost chocolate cupcakes
• create holidays on icing with turkey cupcake place cards, a white cupcake Christmas wreath, and Easter egg cupcakes

No baking skills or fancy pastry equipment is required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun.

Hello, Cupcake! shows you how to use easy cupcake decorating and fun cupcake design to turn your neighbors into cupcakes, make a tasty treat out of your pet, or serve up a platter of spaghetti and meatball cupcakes so real looking your friends will have to taste them to realize they are made out of frosting pasta, hazlenut chocolate meatballs, and strawberry spaghetti sauce. There are no hard-to-follow techniques or hard-to-find ingredients for cupcake decorating. These cupcake designs use candy, lollies and snacks available at your favorite supermarket, convenience store or even the petrol station. So bake a batch of cupcakes, grab a handful of your favorite lollies, and let's get this cupcake party started.

This is a US publication and measurements are in imperial - pounds, ounces, inches, cups and spoons. As most of the designs in the book are more about technique and good ideas than measurement, the fact that measurements are in imperial shouldn't really matter. You could also use your own favourite cupcake recipes, then decorate.

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About the authors

Karen Tack is a Connecticut cooking teacher and a food stylist for Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart Living, Parents, Real Simple, Family Fun, Nick,Jr., and many more magazines. She has a passion for playful cupcake designs and easy cupcake decorating ideas.

Alan Richardson is a best-selling cookbook author and photographer living in New York. His photographs can be seen in many major magazines and in dozens of books and cookbooks. He is the coauthor of The Breath of a Wok, winner of two prestigious awards from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and The Four Seasons of Italian Cooking.

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Hello Cupcake! - Karen Tack & Alan Richardson