Dress Your Cupcake: Bake Them! Dress Them! Eat Them!

Give your baking a makeover and add a whole new lease of life to everyone's favourite sugar-sweet treat, the cupcake! Whether you want to whip up a batch of fairytale faces, or pile a plate high with adorable animals, this book has no end of decorating inspiration. Even everyday objects like cars, flowers, and rubber duckies have never tasted so good! And with plenty of holiday-themed suggestions perfect for parties from Valentines to Christmas, your cupcakes are sure to always be dressed for the occasion. Including four foolproof cupcake recipes and a comprehensive introduction to ingredients, icing techniques and equipment, cupcakes have never been so simple...or so sweet!

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: The Cupcakes: Vanilla, Chocolate, Carrot and Lemon, Making Buttercream and Other Frostings, Decorating Tips, Finishing Touches, Useful Equipment; DECORATING INSTRUCTIONS: Christmas tree, Sleigh bells, Heart, Witch, Snowman, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Ghost, Jack O'Lantern, Grave, Present, Skull & bones, Wedding cake Puppydogs, Polar bear, Hedgehog, Monkey, Spider, Shark, Octopus, Spring chicks, Butterfly, Kangaroo, Hippo, Lion, Horse, Flower garden, Rose Ice cream soda, Funnyface, Ballerina, Cartoon Bomb, Wormy apple, Handbag and shoes, Burger, Robot, Mouse, Dartboard, Golfers bag, Big Surf, Car, Rainbow, Mole on hill, Teddy bear, Rubber duckie, Happy clown, Fairy, Dragon, Sugar monster, Tea party

Author Biography

Joanna Farrow is no stranger to playing with her food, having given cookies a whole new look in Dress Your Gingerbread. A home economist and food writer, she has also contributed to numerous food magazines and has written a number of other titles, including Ready Steady Cook for Kids, Good Fast Family Food and Cake.