My all-time favorite cupcake cookbook is Hello Cupcake, by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson ~ SO many clever ideas that anyone can do. They show how by using a boxed cake recipe, store bought icing, and candy from the candy aisle you can make a good-looking, great-tasting cupcake. If you want to do the scratch cupcake, by all means, they won’t stop you. They’ll even give you a few home-made recipes. These are the pros when it comes to making creative cupcakes, without too much work.
Now, they’ve added Book 2 to their cupcake anthology. It’s put together in a similar format ~ gorgeous photos, easy how-to’s, holiday ideas, a slew of original cupcake ideas, and several easy recipes. This is a great follow-up to the first book.
This month for Cupcake Hero Clara asked her fellow baking bloggers to post creations they had made from one of these cupcake books. Since this was a monthly homework assignment, I had to get the new book!
And here’s the cool part… Houghton-Mifflin, the publisher is letting me give one copy of What’s New Cupcake? away! So here’s the deal, you have up to three chances to win…
- Just leave a comment telling me your favorite kind of cupcake~ chocolate, red velvet, classic white, Diet Coke, etc. Don’t forget to leave me your email, so I can be in touch if you win. Your email will not be posted in the comments.
- Tweet this give-away and leave a second comment letting me know.
- Join the Grin and Bake it Facebook group (which I will be updating regularly) and leave another comment letting me know you joined. If you’re already part of the group, that counts too.
The winner will be selected by Random.org and announced on Monday, May 3rd.
Good Luck!!
UPDATE: Random.org picked #44
Heather from multiplydelicious.comis the winner! (Check out her blog, it’s super cute!)
Congrats Heather!
Thanks for playing along everyone!!
My favorite cupcakes are yellow cake with chocolate frosting!
Just stopping by to say hi, the book is awesome and how funny… I am having the same giveaway this week at my blog. I can’t wait to see some of your cupcakes.
Hey! I LOVE your blog! My favorite cupcakes have got to be chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes! They are AMAZING
(So amazing in fact, that I have converted it and am currently perfecting the cake version for my wedding cake this summer 
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Your wedding cake will be amazing! Your guests are going to love it!! Enjoy the preparations these last few months. So many people get so stressed out with the planning. Take it all in. Your big day will be here before you know it Shonna!
LOVE the original book – it’s a staple in my kitchen. As a matter of fact, I like cupcakes so much that we’re using them instead of cake at my wedding next weekend!
Thanks for the giveaway.
….also a FB friend.
My favorite is Red Velvet though I would really like to try to make Diet Coke cupcakes!
I was thinking about picking up this book.
Lemon cupcakes with tart lemon glaze- yum!!
And love this book too.
So happy to follow you on FB too.
My favorite kind of cupcakes are lemon cupcakes. I love lemon in pretty much any form, but it makes such a delicious, moist cupcake.
Just tweeted about this… HomemadeHolman
I made homemade hostess cupcakes and they are the bomb! Anything with chocolate!
I also tweeted your give away!
Just joined FB!!!!
My favorite cupcake is RED VELVET!! But I also love carrot cupcakes…which work really well with the sunflower cupcakes from Hello Cupcake!
My favorite would have to be banana with chocolate or pb frosting. YUM!!!
I also tweeted.
Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese icing will win me over EVERY TIME! YUM!
..and I joined your Facebook group as well!
My favorite right now are strawberry. With fresh strawberries being so cheap right now, I love anything with them in it!
I love vanilla cupcakes with chocolate icing. My second favorite are the carmel frapachino cupcakes that I tried in your kitchen that day. Oh my!!!!
Keri
I love a good classic chocolate cupcake with ganache on top, yum!
Classic white with a big dollop of frosting!
I made Neapolitan cupcakes for my husbands birthday last year. They were awesome! Instead of just one flavor, I had three!
I joined the FB group!
red velvet !!! and im so going to go join on facebook!!!!
I love chocolate with white frosting…or peanut butter if that’s a choice!
I have been drooling over the first cupcake book for a while now. Would love to get my hands on the new one.
Classic white cupcakes with buttercream (and sprinkles) are my favorite! I don’t care for the frills. Maybe you can add a cherry on top, if you felt adventurous, but I’m happy with simplicity!
I’d love to win this! I love love love to bake.. and to be honest, I never really enjoyed cupcakes until I tried a mature red velvet one!
I am also a Facebook fan!
hands down…..ice cold chocolate with white frosting. YUMMMMMM! Close second would be a butter yellow one right out of the oven before I even get the frosting on it! Great…now I have to bake cupcakes tonight!
red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting! delicious
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Anything chocolate rules at my house! But the comments about lemon are totally making me crave those now!
Just tweeted your giveaway from @invitationsink
And joined the FB group as well! Excited about the giveaway, thanks!
My favorite cupcake is German Chocolate with coconut frosting
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Carol Anderson Ezovski
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I have to pick just one? A single favorite? Wow…this is hard. No no, I just can’t do it! Cupcake favortism?!? I’ll tell you this…my favorite cupcake is the one that is in front of me at the time!!!
My favorite cupcake to eat is chocolate with vanilla frosting. YUM!!! My favorite cupcake to make is red velvet with cream cheese frosting.
just tweeted your giveaway! @emilykasik
also a facebook fan!!
I want to win – can you tell? ha
What a great giveaway! I’m a lover of all cupcakes, but I have to say the last cupcake I had has stuck in my mind as being amazing. It was a chocolate cupcake with a yummy peanut butter filling and then drizzled with peanut butter chocolate.
RT your tweet.
Chocolate and coconut! Mmmm!
There’s so many…current favorite is red velvet!
Now a facebook fan!
Amy Sheppard
I think vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. It’s a tough choice, though!
Tweet!
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