Super Simple Baking Cupcakes and Cakes for Young Chefs is a graphically appealing simple dessert cookbook with recipes aimed at young readers by Mia Morselo. Released 15th May 2024, it's 80 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats.
It's well photographed throughout in color and written in simple accessible language. The short introduction covers tools and how to use them, through measuring tips and some general kitchen advice.
The bulk of the book is the recipes, divided thematically: cupkakes, and cakes each in their own chapter. Recipes include a title followed by a bullet list of ingredients. Measurements are given in imperial (American) measurements with measured weights (in oz.) in parentheses. No metric equivalents are given. Ingredients will be readily available at any well stocked grocery store in North America (and indeed most will already be available in a moderately well stocked home kitchen). Nutritional information is not provided.
The step by step preparation instructions are easy to follow, and almost all of them have clear, unobstructed photos of each step. There is no index, no background information, and no links or further information.
The recipes are simple and quite basic (chocolate, vanilla, lemon, oreo, blueberry, cheesecake, carrot cake, etc). It might be valuable to have a one-volume go-to book for a young baking enthusiast, but none of the recipes in the book would be difficult to find online.
Four stars. It is quite well illustrated and, as said, would be a good addition for public or school library, or for gift giving/activity with a young family member.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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