The 8 Best Cupcake Cookbooks For All Your Sweet Treat Cravings
The 8 Best Cupcake Cookbooks For All Your Sweet Treat Cravings
The best desserts aren’t always the most impressive, most elaborate, highest-tiered cakes at the bakery. Sometimes they can be simple little decadent cupcakes that pack amazing rich flavors all in one. Our favorites are the ones made from scratch that can easily be baked at home, either solo, with friends, or as a way to entertain your kids for hours. Baking cupcakes (or any sort of baked good) isn't meant to be just a means to an end (we’re not getting dinner on the table over here), it's meant to be a fun, creative project with a satisfying (and edible!) payoff.
Looking to spend some quality time with your partner or little ones? There’s no better way to bond than baking–work together to create something you’ve never made before (crème br?lée cupcake anyone?) or whip up something quick that’s just as easy to bake as it is to eat. Check out our eight best cupcake cookbooks below.
1) The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook
Mitchell Beazley
amazon.com
From their first shop in Notting Hill's Portobello Road, The Hummingbird Bakery introduced London to the delights of American-style baking. These simple yet spectacular recipes for indulgent cupcakes, muffins, pies, cheesecakes, brownies, cakes, and cookies will ensure you can create some Hummingbird magic in your own kitchen, wherever you live.
2) The Sprinkles Baking Book
Grand Central Life & Style
amazon.com
Treat yourself to this sweet cookbook! The Sprinkles Baking Book is filled with all-American classics that will appeal to everyone in your family and on your dinner party guest list. You'll learn all the secrets for making 50 beloved Sprinkles Cupcakes, from iconic red velvet to new flavors created exclusively for the book, like crème br?lée (yum!).
3) Fantastic Filled Cupcakes
Page Street Publishing
amazon.com
Filling your cupcakes is the best way to take your treats to a whole new level, and every filling in this cookbook is perfectly paired with each cupcake (and frosting!) to bring you an astonishingly delicious flavor. With this cookbook, you’ll soon be whipping up delicious treats that taste as good on the inside as they look on the outside.
4) The Deliciously Easy Cupcake Cookbook
Rockridge Press
amazon.com
Whether you’re a beginner baker or have plenty of experience with a cupcake tin, The Deliciously Easy Cupcake Cookbook provides the best advice for everything from creaming and folding your batter, to whipping up a perfect frosting or buttercream. Featuring 75 scrumptious cupcakes, this cupcake cookbook will help you master go-to recipes with simple flavors before advancing to more stylish sweets.
5) American Girl Baking: Recipes for Cookies, Cupcakes & More
Weldon Owen
amazon.com
We’re big fans of this introductory cookbook with easy crowd-pleasing American and Western European baked goods, including cookies, madeleines, and cupcakes, as well as a number of slightly more advanced recipes for blueberry turnovers, chocolate raspberry tartlets, and a golden layer cake with chocolate frosting. This cookbook is written for young bakers, with copious safety instructions including when to ask an adult caregiver for help.
6) The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook
Simon & Schuster
amazon.com
Ever since the original Magnolia Bakery opened its doors in 1996, people have lined up day and night to satisfy their sugar cravings—and this book is Magnolia’s comprehensive guide to making all of their beloved desserts, including their home-style cupcakes, layer cakes, banana pudding, and other treats.
7) Jamie's Food Tube: The Cake Book By Cupcake Jemma
Penguin Books Ltd
amazon.com
As the owner of Crumbs&Doilies, one of London's most creative cake and cupcake bakeries, Jemma shows you the easiest everyday classics alongside four chapters of show-stopping seasonal cake recipes. With step-by-step instructions, handy hints, and tips, The Cake Book is a beautifully presented collection of recipes you'll want to bake time and time again.
8) Betty Crocker: The Big Book of Cupcakes
Wiley
amazon.com
Get ready for adorably decorated and deliciously flavored cupcakes made easy! Betty Crocker The Big Book of Cupcakes features 175 delightful recipes, all using new and fun decorating ideas anyone can master and simple ingredients available anywhere. And as a unique feature, almost every cupcake can be made from scratch or with a mix.
Get creative with these tasty goods that are easy to make at home.