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3 reasons to buy this recipe book	Customer Rating:
1 - the easy Blueberry pie recipe 2 - the easy cupcakes recipes (duh) 3 - the easy instructions/explanations

loved it	Customer Rating:
I loved almost every recipe in this book. Just what I was looking for, tasty "comfort food" desserts. Easy recipes and helpful hints. The photos looked good enough to eat! The preface was even well worth reading. It gave me a down home, flash back to my childhood. I highly recommend it.

vanilla vanilla cupcakes disappointing, but other recipes good

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I've tried the red velvet cake (made them into cupcakes to fill that craving) with the cream cheese frosting. These were fabulous! I keep the frosting in a bag in the refrigerator and eat them when I have the urge. (I keep the cupcakes in the freezer and defrost when the craving strikes.) They are very light and fluffy and were the best "from scratch" cake I've had. I just baked this morning the vanilla vanilla cupcakes with signature frosting and, after just moments ago tasting one, was disappointed. It turned out dense and with a strange subtle taste to them that I suspect was imparted by the self-rising flour. I've never used self-rising flour and was shocked to find salt among the many ingredients in the flour. The cupcakes just tasted a little funny, and even a tad salty despite my using less than the recipe called for (again, maybe the flour??). The frosting was a little sweet for me. Perhaps adding some cream instead of all milk would have mellowed it a tad. I usually make my frostings with some cream for consistency and taste. I read the cautionary reviews that these turn out great for baking novices and disappointing for those with lots of baking experience. I'm an avid baker, and so this was unfortunately a correct predictor in my case. I'll keep trying the others, but will continue to hunt for another recipe.

Mixed results

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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!!

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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.