Robicelli's: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes Author: Allison Robicelli | Language: English | ISBN:
0670785873 | Format: EPUB
Robicelli's: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes Description
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Acclaimed purveyors of the Best Cupcakes in New York City (according to the blog Serious Eats) and humorous bloggers Allison and Matt Robicelli (who also worked at Lutèce, a respected French restaurant in Manhattan) present a cookbook that reveals the secrets behind the obscenely delicious cupcakes at their eponymous Brooklyn bakery. The Robicellis are dyed-in-the-wool Brooklynites whose refashioned cupcakes go beyond glitter-enhanced pure-sugar bombs and the pink and cutesy... girly aesthetic. Their naughty-but-nice confections are miniature upscale cakes for one, with attitude and adult appeal. By way of themed Love Letters, the Robicelli's pay homage to the iconic cupcake as more than a flash-in-the-pan trend and show how to fashion single servings of love through a witty narrative. Recipe notes, often R-rated, consist of tales of lovers' spats and family foibles; comic strips offer instruction; and in Matt Says sidebars, bakers get tips and encouragement. Recipes commemorate people, events, and food products: an Elvis-inspired cupcake includes candied bacon and overripe bananas; a sophisticated combination of fig, goat cheese, prosciutto, and balsamic vinegar gastrique honors a favorite teacher; chocolate peanut butter pretzel cupcakes showcase a rich buttercream that demands continued tasting until your eyes roll into the back of your head. Chicken 'n' waffles cupcakes are a savory nondessert option, and there are numerous booze-infused cupcakes as well. Photos are lick-the-page enticing and proof that home bakers are going to enjoy the best bleeping cupcakes their side of the Brooklyn Bridge. (Oct.)
Review
“Delicious, decadent, and velvety smooth, the Robicelli’s famous French buttercream recipe alone is worth the price of this book. Such wonderful recipes! And James Joyce's Ulysses stream of conscious has nothing on Allison's stream of Brooklyn. You will laugh-out-loud and ache in pain through the love and struggles of these two great creative pastry chefs. You have to get this book.”
—Shirley O. Corriher, author of CookWise and BakeWise
“You need this book because it’s freaking hysterical. A serious cookbook that doesn’t take itself so seriously. It’s absolutely genius.”
—Johnny Iuzzini, James Beard Award-winning pastry chef and author of Dessert Fourplay
“This book is truly one-of-a-kind! No one until now has had the ‘balls’ (as Allison might say) to write a book like this. And I am so happy the Robicellis did.”
—Amanda Freitag, chef and TV personality
“The Robicellis are a living legend and their baked creations are nothing short of mystical.”
—Cathy Erway, author of The Art of Eating In
“If you think all cupcakes are the same and nothing special, you haven't tried Robicelli's. This book is a beautiful and witty love story filled with passion and amazingly delicious recipes.”
—Fany Gerson, author of My Sweet Mexico
“This is the book for when you need to impress diplomats, TV chefs and future in-laws. Plus you learn how to make the fancy French buttercream that really pisses off other adults at your kid's party.”
—Siobhan Wallace, author of New York a La Cart
“Bonnie and Clyde had bullets; Allison and Matt have cupcakes. That's the major difference between two otherwise old-fashioned love stories.”
—Doug Quint, owner of Big Gay Ice Cream
“This cookbook is tender like fried chicken, sweet like buttercream, and salty like caramel sauce. It does not pussyfoot around. You will never make a better cupcake in your life— take THAT, elementary-school bake-sale suckas!”
—Liz Gutman, author of The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook
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- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Viking Books Studio (October 17, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670785873
- ISBN-13: 978-0670785872
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Yes, this is a good read, so you can curl up in a chair and read cookbooks from cover to cover. In the process, you will learn about the weirdest thing I ever put in my mouth (the Buffalo Chicken Cupcake), the cupcakes my friends have called "orgasms on a plate" (the Iona), the cupcake that features ghost chilies, and the cupcake that my husband proposed to me on (the Brooklyn Blackout.) I loved the Robicelli's cupcakes from the first time I tried them, and I am super excited about sharing their cupcakes with my friends outside of the NYC area.
In Full Disclosure: I also used to work for the Robicellis. That said, the same techniques that I learned in the professional kitchen have been lacking in most home based cookbooks, leading to many disappointments of baking. Why, when I knew the perfect cupcake existed (in the form of the Robicelli's Banana Nutella), did my home creations taste so bad?
Two reasons. 1) French Buttercream. Buy a stand mixer, buy a pot that wont dribble on you while pouring hot sugar, and make some french buttercream. Eat it with a spoon, slather it on cupcakes (or lovers), and amaze your friends with awesomesauce. (They have an american style frosting recipe in the book that is amazing for that style of frosting, but you would be completely missing out if you did not have french buttercream in your life.) Also: the frosting recipes are explained through cursing cartoon figures.
2) Melted Butter. The "creaming" method of baking really sucks, unless you do it perfectly. The melted butter/liquid oil method of cupcakes not only makes better, fluffier, and moister cupcakes, but these last longer (and you can start a stockpile of "emergency cake.
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