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Who You Callin' Cupcake: 75 In-Your-Face Recipes that Reinvent the Cupcake
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Michelle Garcia, Valentin Ga |
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Reviews for Who You Callin' Cupcake: 75 In-Your-Face Recipes that Reinvent the Cupcake |
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| | Review: Would love a second try
| | I'm a huge fan of this Chicago bakery. Going there is a real treat, so trying out their own recipes was something that I was really excited about. Other reviews have made mention of the inaccuracies with the measurements, which is true. So you have two options, one never try it at all, or two, find someone to try out your mistakes on, because even the mistakes are delicious. I've had a really good time making the vanilla bean cupcakes three times now and am getting better each time. I really hope they fix their measurement issues and release another book, because I'd like to try those as well. |
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| | Review: You'll never look at cupcakes the same!
| At first glance you may think, oh boy, another designer cupcake book. How cute. I bet they have some cute decorations and a few different flavors. I'm bored.
That is where you would be WRONG.
This is less of a cook book and more of an inspiration showcase. Michelle Garcia's cupcake flavors are each designed with heart and detail no other bakery could match because they are all very unique. BBQ pork cupcakes? Bloody mary cupcakes? They'er not a joke, theyre real recipies that really make sense once you put it all together.
On the note of putting it together: as other reviewers have pointed out these are not the most simple cupcakes to make. While the recipies are straightforward, made with common easy to find ingerdients, (unlike some gourmet cookbooks that suggest you spend a fourtune on rare ingredients), and also include lots of tips and pointers, they are coming from a vegan point of view and have confused some at home cooks. Michelle realized this and put pointers and corrections on the Bleeding Heart Bakery facebook page. So while it is somewhat flawed, the problem was corrected.
So what do you get out of this book? Lots of eye candy, tons of new ideas, and inspiration to experiment in your own kitchen. Just buy it! |
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| | Review: Wrong Measurements!
| | I was so excited when I saw this book...finally a book with some interesting ideas to try out. I tried the Banana Foster recipe, the cupcakes were delicious but sunk a bit in the middle but not to much and I was able to cover it with frosting. I could not figure out why they would sink when this has never happened to me before. Thinking I had over mixed or done something wrong a tried again on 2 seperate occasions with the basic vanilla bean recipe and the same thing happened again! To fill the holes I added in some flavored cream to the huge sinkhole in each cupcake. Obviously the measurements are off. I would suggest getting this book at a huge discount just for the ideas but try them with your own favorite basic cupcake recipe. Another thing I would like to add is that some of the ingredients used are hard to obtain in some areas or are very expensive such as the vanilla beans which I found for $6.00 per bean in Miami! |
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| | Review: Thoughtful Cupcake Tome
| I really like this little book on cupcakes for a few key reasons:
- Vegan inclusion: Instead of being all vegan or all non-vegan, the Garcias integrate vegan stuff where it makes sense. Like their chocolate cupcake recipe and vegan buttercream. They show the benefits of vegan ingredients and don't treat the vegan diet as some kind of kooky sacrifice.
- Professional detail: They haven't dumbed down the book for the home cook. They've included elaborate details, like chocolate work and homemade marshmallow, which turn these cupcakes from kid's bday party treat into serious craft.
- Explanations: Many of the recipes include cautions or directions and then offer explanations or elaboration. Example: the chocolate stout cupcake. The recipe could have just said "use sweet cherries" but goes on to say "use sweet cherries, not pie cherries. pie cherries will react poorly with the stout" or thereabouts. I like it when chefs and bakers do that.
With that said, yes, there are errors in this book, which the Garcias have been upfront about on their Facebook page. I'm sure these errors will not appear in future versions of this cookbook. I don't read cookbooks solely to cook from them. I also read them to get inspired, to dream, to learn. I think what I'll take away from this book is a new sense of how to (and enthusiasm for) combine flavors from all profiles in sweet treats. |
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| | Review: Anything short of a refund is a crime!
| | I excitedly bought this book as a gift for my baker girlfriend. She's a great baker but always looking for something new so she was thrilled to give it a shot and open to recipes that seemed a bit odd on the surface. Well, the first batch of Devil's Food cupcakes came out of the oven completely crashed--seriously just collapsed in the middle. We didn't even know cupcakes could do that! We tried again-same thing. We called the bakery and they explained that it could be "altitude"--ummm...thanks for passing the buck but we live 2 miles from you--and there ain't no ski slopes in Chicago. We tried everything and just kept failing. There are two kinds of reviews here--the sycophantic "can't wait to try this!" 5-star reviews and then the actual "Hey I tried this and they were gross and/or collapsed 1 star" reviews. To say I want my money back is an understatement. I want the time wasted, the money spent on all these ingredients, the disappointment--you can start there. |
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