Synopsis
From the lovable little restaurant in Hell's Kitchen, New York City--the popular Cupcake Cafe--here are recipes for delicious baked goods: muffins, scones, waffles, sticky buns, doughnuts, and especially the elaborately decorated cakes and cupcakes frosted with the Cafe's own fabulous buttercream.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-09-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 192 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 8.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 22.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
A uniquely idiosyncratic New York establishment, The Cupcake Café is a cozy mecca for lovers of all kinds of delicious homemade baked goods, including muffins, scones, coffee cakes, waffles, pies, sticky buns, and doughnuts. But it is best known for its fanciful cakes and cupcakes, elaborately decorated with homemade butter cream frosting. From many-tiered wedding cakes to tiny cupcakes covered in fresh fields of flowers, to sheet cakes embellished in vivid colors with virtually any scene you can describe or imagine, The Cupcake Cafés baked goods are renowned for tasting even better than they look.In The Cupcake Café Cookbook, Ann Warren shares all her secrets, teaching the home cook not only how to bake all of the Café's ambrosial products, but also how to decorate with butter cream in her own wildly fanciful style. Photographs in color and black-and-white, as well as detailed instructions for mixing colors, shaping flowers, and creating balance, bring even the most elaborate decorating techniques well within the ability of any home baker.Writing not only with incomparable expertise, but also with the irreverence and wit that characterize everything she does, Ann Warren has re-created the entire unique Cupcake Café experience in book form.
Located in the heart of New York's Hell's Kitchen, The Cupcake Cafe is a cozy--some would say funky--mecca for all kinds of delicious homemade baked goods. In this book, co-owner Ann Warren shares the secrets of the cafe's success, plus a wealth of fabulous recipes. Illustrations & photos.
Industry Reviews
"The recipes in the book are all rather basic--and they work--so the pages in my copy will not remain pristine and stain-free for long."
New York Times - Florence Fabricant (09/23/1998)
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