Review: Not impressed. At all.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
I really wanted to like these recipes; I mean, cupcakes are one of my favorite things.I'm a pro with a cookbook collection of over 100 cookbooks. The recipes in this cookbook concern me for a variety of reasons.First off, the beginning of the cookbook had some good content hidden in the wordy narrative. The history part was good. The last parts were somewhat like an overprotective mom.The first recipe, Snickerdoodle cupcakes, says it's for 6-8 (given the ingredients would make 7-8 cups of batter, that has to be wrong) cupcakes and calls for 1 whole cup of butter! Although this recipe calls for only stevia, in many of the recipes in this book it calls for stevia and sugar, odd. Also stevia seems to be the author's sweetener of choice. The egg measurements are often in cups?  This same first recipe calls for 1 cup of eggs-that's 6 eggs; then again, you'd need that many eggs to make that much butter rise.On to frosting, the author allocates 1/4 cup frosting per cupcake. The Simple Vanilla Frosting has1 cup of butter,  2 1/2 cups powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon vanilla extract-for 12 cupcakes that's more than 1 tablespoon of butter per cupcake; not to mention that's a lot of vanilla for that amount of frosting. Let's guesstimate the Snickerdoodle cupcake recipe actually makes 12 cupcakes, if you first them with the recommended amount of Simple Vanilla frosting, that's almost 3 tablespoons of butter per cupcake!All in all, there are many cupcake cookbooks out there, get one of them. To be honest (me), I'm not sure the author even tested these recipes.