Robicelli's: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes Author: Matt Robicelli | Language: English | ISBN:
B00C1N5WQG | Format: EPUB
Robicelli's: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes Description
The ultimate guide to gourmet cupcakes, featuring grown-up flavors (figs! whiskey! fried chicken!) and the delicious story of a family saved by a love of sweets No food coloring. No fondant. No red velvet. Upscale bakery Robicelli’s has become a buzzed-about, in-demand purveyor of decidedly adult cupcakes. Nixing cutesy, pastel-colored dollops of fluff for real ingredients and rich French buttercreams, the husband and wife team have reinvented the cupcake craze for a more sophisticated palate, making each a small piece of the greatest cake ever made. Now their extraordinary recipes are available to the home cook.
Now their extraordinary recipes are available to the home cook, including:
The Laurenzano (fresh fig cake topped with goat cheese buttercream, fig balsamic gastrique, and crisp prosciutto flakes) The Brooklyn Blackout Cake (chocolate cake with chocolate custard buttercream, dipped in homemade fudge and rolled in chocolate cake crumbs)
This book captures not only the Robicelli’s unique take on baking but also their edgy, unapologetically hilarious take on life, including how they survived severe economic setbacks to launch the country’s hottest cupcake brand— a venture begun with thirty dollars in borrowed quarters.
Offering both cupcake recipes and a recipe for life that calls for a stash of “emergency cake,”
Robicelli’s: A Love Story, with Cupcakes is a baking book like you’ve never seen before.
- File Size: 52003 KB
- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: Studio (October 17, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C1N5WQG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,969 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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.
Robicelli's: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes Preview
Link
Please Wait...