Marc Notes: Cupcaking techniques -- April Fool's -- Party animals -- Happy birthday, cupcake! -- Hostess with the mostest -- Nightmare before Thanksgiving -- Holiday on icing -- Cupcakes and frostings -- Sources. Brief Description: Witty, one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store. 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. Publisher Marketing: Witty, one-of-a-kind, imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store, no baking skills or fancy pastry equipment required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun. America's favorite food photography team shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces using a ziplock 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 "pup cakes" for a dog fancier- serve spaghetti and meatball cupcakes for April Fool's Day- bewitch trick-or-treaters with eerie alien cupcakes- create holidays on icing with a white Christmas cupcake wreath, turkey cupcake place cards, and Easter egg cupcakes Review Citations: Library Journal 05/01/2012 pg. 42 (EAN 9780618829255, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780618829255, Paperback) Contributor Bio:Tack, Karen Called "the cake whisperer" by Gourmet, KAREN TACK is a cooking teacher and food stylist. Her work can be seen on the covers of Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Martha Stewart Living, Parents, Real Simple, Nick Jr., and many others. Contributor Bio:Richardson, Alan Fellow creator ALAN RICHARDSON has photographed dozens of best-selling cookbooks, and his work appears in many leading food and women's magazines. He is the coauthor of The Breath of a Wok, which won two coveted awards from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Author: Tack, KarenPublisher: Harvest PublicationsBinding: PaperbackPub Date: 2008-04-24BISAC: Cooking|Courses & Dishes|Cakes|Cooking|Courses & Dishes|Desserts|Cooking|Entertaining|General|Cooking|Reference|Cooking|Courses & Dishes|Pies|Cooking|Holiday|General|Cooking|Seasonal|Cooking|Comfort Food|Cooking|Methods|Quick & Easy|Cooking|History|Cooking|Methods|Baking|Cooking|Baby Food|Cooking|Specific Ingredients|Natural FoodsSubjects: Cupcakes|Cake decoratingWeight: 1.65 lbsISBN: 9780618829255ASIN: -SKU: SP-9780618829255