Others say...

"Cupcakes: From the Cake Mix Doctor "
Cupcakes: From the Cake Mix Doctor; I love this book as I do the Cake Mix Doctor and the Dinner Doctor. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is pictures - the Cake Mix Doctor has pictures of every cake. I like to see a finished color picture. In the book she talks about taking cupcakes in shirt boxes - not if you have the Oneida Cupcake Holder. I bought both - it was the right thing to do.

"Awesome Cupcakes!!!"
Most cookbooks only have like 5 recipes I use in them but not this one. The Cake Doctor has impressed me with delicious recipe after recipe. She also gives great little tips to use. My favorite recipe so far in this book is the Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Peppermint Cream Cheese frosting, it is out of this world! I have also made some deep chocolate cupcakes and put half an Andes peppermint in the middle and then topped it with the White Chocolate Peppermint Cream Cheese Frosting, yummy. Another good recipe, especially for kids is her Cinnamon Toast Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese frosting, very yummy. If you love to bake I highly recommend this cookbook.

"Nice ideas for special occasion cupcakes"
This is a very handy book for someone who likes easy baking....including several clever special occasion cupcake ideas. I appreciate using cake mixes from a box...with an option of adding a few extra ingredients to punch it up a bit. When baking for a large group, no one will really know that the cakes are not 'from scratch'. Nice illustrations, although I think I would have liked more pictures to show the finished cupcakes and how to display them on nice platters or clever arrangements as a finishing touch.

"Great book for those almost-homemade-but-not cupcakes"
I'll start by saying I've only made one recipe from this book so far, so that's what my review is based off of. It was the "best" birthday cupcake recipe with the chocolate syrup icing. But it was GOOOOOOOD.

I've recently become slightly obsessed with this whole cupcake craze and initially wanted to bake them all from scratch (I had, of course, perfected the out-of-the-box cupcake already). I tried two recipes - peanut butter cupcakes and Paula Deen's red velvet cupcakes. To help describe this experience, I will tell you that my boyfriend took one bite of my peanut butter cupcake and exclaimed, "This is probably the worst cupcake I've ever had in my life!" Nice, I know. My from-scratch cupcakes were dry, the tops became crusty shortly after they came out of the oven, and sorry Paula, but your red velvet was floury tasting and not-so-hot.

So, I thought, what harm could this "cake mix doctor" really do to my diminishing self-esteem when it came to my baking skills? Well, if this birthday cupcake is anything to judge the book by, it's AMAZING. The cupcake was moist and tasty and had enough additions to it that it didn't scream, "I came from a BOX!" The chocolate syrup frosting (I used Hersheys) was DEE-lish, too. It tasted even better after the cupcakes were in the fridge overnight, because it took on sort of a fudge-like consistency. My co-workers devoured them and even those who normally aren't cupcake fans (what?!?!) thought they were fab. I'm trying the red velvet recipe this weekend to take to Christmas.

So my advice is this. Buy the book, follow her recipes, and enjoy yourself a great cupcake!

"Creative fun!"
Great book filled with many creative ideas. The recipes provided are geared towards a large age group. It's as good as her other books.