Witty, one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store.

America's favourite food photography team, responsible for the covers of America's top magazines, shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces, using a zipper lock bag and common candies and snack items.

With these easy-to-follow techniques, even the most kitchen-challenged cooks can

• raise a big-top circus cupcake tier for a kid's birthday
  
• plant candy vegetables on Oreo earth cupcakes for a garden party
  
• trot out a line of confectionery "pupcakes" for a dog fancier
  
• serve sausage and pepperoni pizza cupcakes for April Fool's Day
  
• bewitch trick-or-treaters with chilly ghost chocolate cupcakes
  
• create holidays on icing with turkey cupcake place cards, a white cupcake Christmas wreath, and Easter egg cupcakes.
  

No baking skills or fancy pastry equipment is required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun. 

This book includes more than 100 illustrations.

About the Authors:

Called "the cake whisperer" by Gourmet, Karen Tack is a cooking teacher and food stylist. Her work can be seen on the covers of Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Martha Stewart Living, Parents, Real Simple, Nick Jr., and many others.

Alan Richardson has photographed dozens of best-selling cookbooks, and his work appears in many leading food and women's magazines. He is the coauthor of The Breath of a Wok, which won two coveted awards from the International Association of Culinary Professionals.