Sweet Celebrations: The Cupcake Diaries v. 2: The Cupcake Diaries Volume II: Recipes and Decorating Tips for Every Occasion from the Sisters of Georgetown Cupcak

GOOD BOOK,nice for making DIVINE cupcakes!

Really disappointed in this book. I knew that the first book was more their story rather than a cookbook so I didn't purchase it and thought with this one it would be much more recipes from the shop (considering the huge amount of flavours shown on their website) but it is just a huge list of stories and tips about organising events again and hardly any recipes to go with them. The recipe list at the front makes it appear to be full but on closer inspection it's not realy flavours they sell either, apart from maybe the simpler ones like lemon and blackberry there really isn't any that appeal to the everyday baker. To me it looks like they want to keep their recipes fairly close to their chest which to me seems ridiculous to do that when taking out a second 'recipe' book. If you own a cupcake shop and don't want people to know your recipes then don't take out cookbooks and get people's hopes up. If the Hummingbird Bakery and the like can do it then why can't they?. The design of this book is also an awful layout, such as why give a tutorial on how to pipe their 'signature swirl' but not give your buttercream recipe right in front of it for people to make and practice with? The recipes are also mostly over the page or a few pages behind of the photography of the finished cupcake which if you are like me will annoy you if you want to see it as a guidance as you work your way through.Overall not what I wanted in a second book from the girls and if i'm honest I can only see myself making 3/4 recipes out of a 278 page book.

Great book !!

Hi, I haven't purchased this book as numerous people have said it has very few recipes in and is mostly made up of stories and other little things, so for anyone that wants some recipes from georgetown cupcakes aka cupcake dc, if you look on YouTube.com, the co owners of georgetown cupcakes have shared several recipes on various tv shows, just type in georgetown cupcakes recipe and the videos will come up, the videos I've found so far include: red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting, Irish cream cupcakes, gingerbread cupcakes, Apple and caramel cupcakes, etc...Here's some of the recipes:Red velvet: https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=dJFVEWwtr7gGingerbread: https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VBiA737_Ld8Candy bar cupcakes: https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=0OnbtkL_UQgButtercream for candy bar cupcakes: https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=7OPbUatxJIIIrish cream chocolate cupcake: https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=X2VID8cXzDoCaramel apple cupcakes: https://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=1j2fcj6c8#/watch?v=_wkDeOcUkbsI think all of the videos tend to have a frosting recipe, either after the cupcake recipe at the end of the video, or in a separate video..There's probably more recipes on YouTube by georgetown cupcakes aka dc cupcakes, than just these ones...Anyway hope that helps... I'm not sure what recipes are in the book as I haven't bought it...