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Flowers
Chocolates & Gifts
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 enlarge | Author: Allysa Torey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $27.00
Buy New: $14.47
You Save: $12.53 (46%)
New (38) Used (18) from $13.94
Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 13249
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0743246616
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.815
EAN: 9780743246613
ASIN: 0743246616
Publication Date: September 28, 2004
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: A20090106200731W
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Mixed results June 3, 2008
I have never been to the Magnolia bakery, though it sounds wonderful. The cookbook is very good, easy to follow and has many helpful tips. I like that many of the recipes are traditional and old fashioned......fewer expensive and unusual ingredients. Most of these are easy to make and fine to make with kids.
Especially nice is the chocolate Buttercream and the seven-minute icing. The blueberry pie is quite good (we made six of them at Thanksgiving). The Devil's food cake was a little heavy and not very sweet, but the devil's food cupcakes were better.
no pictures!! April 30, 2008
This is well written book about old fashion dessert recipes, the hints and tips are great if you have just started baking.
I gave it four stars just for the fact that it doesn't have pictures to go along with the recipes, it only has a few pictures in the center.
So far i baked the following:
-Vanilla cupcakes > they are wounderful
-Chocolate cupcakes > light and yummy
-Hello dolly bars > maybe it was me but i didn't like them at all
-Blondies with white and dark chocolate and walnuts > really liked them
-Peanut butter chocolate chip pecan cookies > great
-Black bottom cupcakes > so and so
-Apple cake with butterscotch cream cheese frosting > the best
I also made the white chocolate buttercream frosting and it was nice but what i really liked was the dark chocolate buttercream icing specially on the the vanilla cupcakes.
overall a really good book.
 Crowd Pleaser April 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has some outstanding recipes!!! And they taste just like the bakery itself...banana pudding...Yum-O :o). Thank you Magnolia <3
The only downside is the inches added to your waist...Be sure to squeeze in a good workout before baking anything from this book ;o).
yummy and easy! February 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm pretty new to baking, this is actually the first recipe book i've ever bought and I am delighted! It's really easy to follow and everything I've tried so far has come out great. Love the vanilla cupcakes and the raspberry creme cheese breakfast buns.
 great cupcake recipe and icing March 28, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
i made abt 4 recipes before posting - vanilla cupcake, chocolate cupcake, strawberry shortcake, black bottom cupcake, apple cake with butterscotch frosting and vanilla icing/buttercream. great blackbottomed and vanilla cupcake recipe. very good icing recipe. the choc cupcake was dry and tasteless -- rather do the blackbottomed cupcake recipe without cream cheese as choc cupcake. very very basic cake recipes - heavy cakes with no sophisticated tastes. all the cakes rose very well but they were all flour-heavy and came out really heavy. they hold their shape well. i recommend the "cake bible" by rose for cakes instead. the strawberry shortcake in this book called for a 3 layered cake with whipped cream, if served a few hours before eating, the whipped cream does not hold up well. "the cabke bible" will take situations like these under advisement, which i have always appreciated.
very good for beginner bakers, very encouraging results. wonderfully written. it provides me with new ideas on baking :) but for more sophisticated tastes/scents/texture, go for an advanced book. :) the only reason i gave it 3 stars is because the recipes were a bit overly simplistic for my tastes. it is a good book for a quick bake (at nights for tomorrow's events), instead of a nice cake taking a few days to assemble.
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