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| The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook: More Than 80 Recipes for Irresistible, Old-Fashioned Treats | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Appel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $26.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (27 reviews)
Sales Rank: 67676
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0743205790
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.815
EAN: 9780743205795
ASIN: 0743205790
Publication Date: October 2, 2001
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Not one to rest on her sugary laurels after cofounding and running the famed Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village, Jennifer Appel headed to midtown Manhattan and opened the Buttercup Bake Shop. Already praised across the country in publications ranging from Glamour to The New York Times, the Buttercup Bake Shop offers a creative and mouthwatering selection of old-fashioned dessert delicacies. Revealing the secrets of luscious homemade treats to bakers of all skill levels, Appel invites readers to return to the comforts and rewards of baking from scratch.Including a chapter of seasonal and holiday delights and a delectable assortment of breakfast treats, The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook serves up more than eighty old and new classic recipes, including Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies, Whole Wheat Maple Syrup Muffins, White Layer Cake with Chocolate Chips (try it with Peanut Butter Icing), German Chocolate Pie, and White Fudge with Walnuts and Dried Cranberries.
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Think Caramel Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting, Strawberry Banana Muffins, Lemon Meringue Pie, and Sour Cream Coffee Cake. These old-fashioned comfort sweets are among those that Jennifer Appel turns out at her Buttercup Bake Shop. And while The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook evokes lazy afternoons in small towns, white picket fences, well-worn aprons, and warm fruit pies cooling on the window sill, the Buttercup Bake Shop is actually in Manhattan. Appel has included 80 bakery favorites in this little gem of a book, and the recipes are easy to follow and easy to make, and read like a list of favorite American desserts: Rice Krispies Treats, Gingersnaps, Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Pie, Glazed Pumpkin Squares, and Rice Pudding. Keep this wonderful cookbook in the kitchen, close at hand, so that with just a moment's notice you can whip up a special sweet something that'll make everyone smile. --Leora Y. Bloom
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 Yummy! July 30, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this cookbook! It's got some great desserts. I have always loved the Magnolia and Buttercup Bakery's in NYC, and now I can have all of my favorite treats at home!
 Magnolia v. Buttercup -- I think Magnolia wins the book battle May 30, 2007
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
So, most people who buy this cookbook are aware of the falling out between the owners of Magnolia Bakery -- that's how Buttercup came to be. Since Buttercup is essentially a spinoff of Magnolia, you might suspect that the recipes are similar. They are.
Certain recipes are identical. For example, the "Buttercup Golden Layer Cake" is the same as Magnolia's "Traditional Vanilla Birthday Cake". There are a few other examples. With the same heritage, it's inevitable that this type of thing would happen. To the reviewers who didn't bother to read the recipes, cupcakes are simply the cakes with the batter poured into cups.
So, the difference is in the other recipes. Buttercup tends to pick some really strange ones. Orange Marble Pound Cake anyone? There are a lot of "white cakes" -- cakes without egg yolks. White cakes are definitely not for the beginner because they require a little more of a delicate touch than the "mix and bake" of a Duncan Hines box. Also, a lot of recipes call for cake flour, an ingredient that may not be familiar to a lot of beginners. The Milk Chocolate Layer Cake sounds good, but like many of the cakes in this book, the flavoring is really subtle and slightly disappointing. Same goes with the Red Velvet Cake.
In contrast, the cakes in Magnolia are very straightforward and usually require ordinary ingredients and preparation. And they're much more flavorful. They're simpler and faster. And in my opinion, they're more useful recipes. I can't think of a time when I would want to make a "Fireside Orange Cake with Brandy Glaze" from Buttercup's instead of a "Chocolate Buttermilk Layer Cake" from Magnolia's.
Which is a shame, because Buttercup is the superior bakery when it comes time to compare the two bakeries in person.
But this isn't to say the Buttercup book is bad. They always turn out if you follow the sometimes convoluted instructions, and they do taste like what you get in the store. But for my money, I'd just stick with the Magnolia Cookbook.
Where are the cupcakes? March 20, 2007
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I should have read the other reviews when I bought this -- I did specifically buy it because I'd been to the Buttercup Bakery and loved their cupcakes and wanted to make them. There are some cake recipes and some frosting recipes, and I expect I'll be able to cobble together something yummy that I can bake in a cupcake wrapper (though for how long, not too sure...and I hate guessing). The recipes sound lovely, in any case.
But really, guys, if you put cupcakes on the cover, people are going to expect cupcakes inside.
[I write knitting books and if I put a sweater on the cover of one of my books without putting the pattern in the same book, I'd never hear the end of it. :-)]
DELICIOUS RECIPES September 4, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I LOVE THIS COOKBOOK GREAT RECIPES EASY AND FUN TO MAKE EASY TO FOLLOW STEPS GREAT TASTEING OLD FASHIONED TREATS I HAVE BOUGHT OTHER BOOK LIKE THE MAGNOLIA BAKERY COOKBOOK AND MORE FROM MAGNOLIA THOSE BOOK ARE GREAT TOO GOOD AND YUMMY OLD FASHIONED BAKING .
Ok, OK, Maybe good recipes but where are the cupcakes?? July 18, 2006
31 out of 38 found this review helpful
Ok, so is anyone else dissappointed that Buttercup Bake Shop is known and famous for their cupcakes and there aren't any in this book? Recipes are fine but they sell you on the cupcakes on the cover. Not the best baking book ever either and I really would be qualified to know as I have a baking business.
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