Buddy's Best Cupcakes & Little Cakes (from Baking with the Cake Boss): 10 Delicious Recipes--and Decorating Secrets--from the Cake Boss
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Cake Boss desserts are in high demand, with fans clamoring for more of Buddy Valastro’s delicious cupcakes and little cakes. This collection of recipes includes easy-to-follow instructions, along with mouthwatering recipes for butterfly pastries, beautifully decorated cupcakes, and charming Cassatini. Stunning photographs and a helpful decorating guide provide clear directions for making your treats even more appealing with an assortment of flowers, Christmas trees, and decorative flourishes.
Whether you’re looking to impress with your decorative flair or you just need a quick-and-easy reference for perfect buttercream frosting, Buddy’s winning recipes are here for your convenience and baking pleasure.
Buddy Valastro
Buddy Valastro is the star of TLC’s hit series Cake Boss and Next Great Baker and Food Network’s Buddy vs. Duff, as well as the author of four cookbooks, including the New York Times bestsellers Cake Boss and Baking with the Cake Boss. He is the owner of Carlo’s Bake Shop and lives with his wife and four children in New Jersey.
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Buddy's Best Cupcakes & Little Cakes (from Baking with the Cake Boss) - Buddy Valastro
Buddy’s Best Cupcakes and Little Cakes
(from Baking with the Cake Boss)
10 Delicious Recipes—and Decorating Secrets—from the Cake Boss
Buddy Valastro
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Contents
Cupcakes
Sunflower Cupcakes
Puff Flower Cupcakes
Flat-Petal Flower Cupcakes
Daisy Cupcakes
Buddy’s Cabbage Rose Cupcakes
Piping Buttercream Roses
Red Rose Cupcakes
Christmas Tree Cupcakes
Basic Cake Recipes
Vanilla Cake
Chocolate Cake
Decorator’s Buttercream
Butterflies and Cassatini
Syrup
Italian Custard Cream
Cassatini
Cannoli Cream
About the Author
Cupcakes
Long before I had any idea that they would lead to my own television show, cakes were the Promised Land of my baking existence. When you’re a young buck just learning the basics of mixing, baking, decorating, and piping, cakes are what you aspire to, what your entire professional arc is directed toward achieving.
For me, cakes felt like a certain kind of destiny because my father, Buddy Sr., was so renowned for his deft touch with a pastry bag, and for his distinct designs. Dad didn’t do the kind of theme cakes we’re famous for today—nobody did in those days—but he had a remarkable ability to decorate cakes the way a painter paints on canvas. There was an effortlessness, a weightlessness, to his work—buttercream and whipped cream almost seemed to hover above the cake like clouds; chocolate shavings, too, appeared to dance in the air like confetti; and when he wrote on a cake, well, the words popped like a neon sign. You can teach a baker a lot, but at some point either you’re born with great hands or you’re not. He had them. So do I.
The good news is that you don’t have to be born with the hands of a master to achieve success in cake making and decorating. It’s like anything else in baking: If you take the time and effort to get good at the component parts, the big picture is easier than you might have ever imagined.
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