Pinkalicious Cupcake Cookbook

by Victoria Kann, Victoria Kann (Illustrator)

Overview

The New York Times bestselling author and artist of Pinkalicious, Victoria Kann, brings Pinkalicious fans the first Pinkalicious cookbook, and it's filled with cupcakes galore! Pinkalicious loves pinkatastic cupcakes—and now readers can make all their cupcakes Pinkalicious cupcakes. The Pinkalicious Cupcake Cookbook features more than 20 cupcakes straight from Pinkalicious's world. Bake everything from a classic Pinkalicious cupcake with a cherry on top to a princess cupcake and castle, a snowman cupcake, or a cake pop flower! There are cupcakes for every occasion—birthday parties, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and more—and tips to help get kids into the kitchen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062023575
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/22/2013
Series:	Pinkalicious Series
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	212,118
Product dimensions:	8.16(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.78(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Victoria Kann is the award-winning illustrator and author of the picture book series featuring the whimsical and effervescent character Pinkalicious. Victoria coauthored and illustrated the first two books, Pinkalicious and Purplicious, and cowrote the play Pinkalicious: The Musical. She wrote and illustrated the New York Times number-one bestsellers Goldilicious, Silverlicious, and Emeraldalicious, as well as Aqualicious. Currently she is working on several more books about the adventures and antics of Pinkalicious. Readers can follow Pinkalicious on Facebook and Twitter.

Victoria Kann is the award-winning illustrator and author of the picture book series featuring the whimsical and effervescent character Pinkalicious. Victoria coauthored and illustrated the first two books, Pinkalicious and Purplicious, and cowrote the play Pinkalicious: The Musical. She wrote and illustrated the New York Times number-one bestsellers Goldilicious, Silverlicious, and Emeraldalicious, as well as Aqualicious. Currently she is working on several more books about the adventures and antics of Pinkalicious. Readers can follow Pinkalicious on Facebook and Twitter.

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2013
Gr 2 Up—After plugging the books in the Pinkalicious franchise, Kann instructs readers in cake-decorating techniques for more than 20 projects. Recipes for homemade frosting and cake, including gluten-free variants, are included, most requiring brand-specific products, though reasonable substitutions are sometimes provided. Readers are also encouraged to use prepackaged mixes and frosting as the book's slant is heavily on decorating, not baking. Templates for some recipes are provided, as are source lists for procuring supplies since many ingredients are only available in specialty shops. While marketed to an elementary school audience, it is obvious quite early on that the book's actually for experienced cake decorators. Though beautifully impressive, these creations are not practical for even the average layperson. The basics of cooking with children and kitchen safety are suspiciously absent, while hand washing is not even mentioned until rather far along. Symbolic bubbles containing ideas for child involvement are brought to readers' attention, a feature inconsistently executed and questionable in usefulness. Some bubbles are absent of ideas, while others contain tasks far too simplistic to balance the complexity of the recipes. For those wanting to introduce kids to baking or to enliven the world of Pinkalicious, this volume is far too sophisticated. For adult collections, it is purely a secondary purchase, and entirely unnecessary for juvenile collections.—Rebecca Gueorguiev, New York Public Library

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