Cookbook baking: Homemade cupcake high heels and fish and buzzard cupcakes

Blogger Life's a Bowl of Cherries used the new cookbook Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh My! by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson to make these cupcake fish, buzzard and high heels!

Win a copy of the cookbook Home Baked Comfort

Our latest contest gives you the chance to win a copy of the new cookbook Home Baked Comfort, which has various cupcake recipes, including coconut cupcakes with lemon curd and red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, plus lots more. enter at Formstack by March 9th at 7 pm EST. US only.



More about the book:

Imagine a book that combines the most beloved home-baked treats with a sprinkling of favorite recipes from the country’s most well known bakers and bloggers, from the likes of Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman, La Tartine Gourmand’s Beatrice Peltre, and Bakerella’s Angie Dudley. Editor Kim Laidlaw’s new book Home Baked Comfort makes it so easy, it’s harder not to bake.

Bay Area cookbook editor and food writer Kim Laidlaw’s passion for baking as well as her experience shines through in each of the 100 featured recipes that mix classic comfort food and contemporary flavors like flaky rhubarb turnovers and family-favorites like maple pumpkin pie. Readers will be inspired to dip their hands into the staple ingredients flour, sugar, eggs, and butter and transform them into mouthwatering dessert creations.

Divided into five chapters, breakfast; bread; cookies & bars; cakes & cupcakes; pies & tarts; custards & soufflés, sink into some of the most delectable re-imaginings of classic comfort recipes

Cupcake water lilies and ladybugs and book tour dates from Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh My!

Our last two sneak peeks at Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh My! in honor of today's publication date. Check back this week for our contest to win a copy. And below are author Karen Tack and Alan Richardson's book tour dates. We'll be meeting up at the New York City event; more info on that soon. If you're in New York, be sure to join our meetup group for the latest news and local events. And because they have proven so spectacularly popular, I'm posting the cupcake high heels again! Follow them @whatsnewcupcake on Twitter for the latest news and hellocupcakebook.com for more decorating tips.









Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh My! book tour dates with Karen Tack and Alan Richardson

Boston

Northeastern University Barnes & Noble Xhibition Kitchen event, Demo/Q&A/Signing, Feb 1 at noon

Natick, MA: Sur La Table cooking class, Feb 1 @ 6:30pm

Connecticut

Canton, CT: Sur La Table cooking class, Feb 2 @ 6:30pm

New York

Manhasset, Long Island: Sur La Table cooking class, Feb 4 @ 1pm

Manhattan: Sur La Table cooking class, Feb 15 @ 11:30am at 306 W. 57th St. (the Hearst Bldg)

Hartsdale: Chef Central cooking class, March 3 @ 1pm

St. Louis

Event at L'Ecole Culinaire culinary school for ~75 students, demo/talk/signing, Feb 7 @ 3pm

Left Bank Books event, demo/talk/signing, Feb 7 @ 7pm

Kansas City

Offsite event at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 W. 47th St.), hosted by Rainy Day Books, Feb 8 @ 7pm

Culinary Center at Kansas City Luncheon (Overland Park, KS), Feb 9 @ 12:00pm

Denver

Tattered Cover (Highlands Ranch location), Feb 10 at 7:30pm

The Cupboard Kitchen Store(Ft. Collins), demo & signing, Feb 11 from 10:30-12:30

Milwaukee

Offsite event at Discovery World Pilot House co-hosted by Boswell Book Company and Iron Cupcake, Feb 12 at 2pm

Sur La Table cooking class (Glendale), Feb 13 @ 6:30pm

New Jersey

Chef Central cooking class, Paramus, Feb 16 @ 6:30pm

Wegmans cooking class, Cherry Hill, Feb 17 (4-6pm)

Wegmans cooking class, Bridgewater, Feb 18 (12-2pm)

Ocean County Library, Toms River, March 25 @ 2pm

Dallas

Central Market class, Feb 20 @ 6:30pm

Austin

Central Market class, Feb 21 @ 6:30pm

Houston

Central Market class, Feb 22 @ 6:30pm

San Antonio

Central Market class, Feb 23 @ 6:30pm

Ft. Worth

Central Market class, Feb 24 @ 6:30pm

Central Market class, Feb 25 @ 11:00am

Plano

Central Market class, Feb 25 @ 6:30pm

Chicago

Housewares Show, March 11 @ 4:30pm (Goho Cooking Theater)

Housewares Show, March 12 @ 11:30am (in HMH booth)

The Bookstall (Winnetka, IL), demo & signing, March 12 @ 7:00pm