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December 9, 2013

Today's Featured Title and Contest December 9, 2013
 
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book to consider as a holiday gift selection. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Daily Contest by Tuesday, December 10th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of ROBICELLI'S: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes by Allison and Matt Robicelli. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest: ROBICELLI'S: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes, by Allison and Matt Robicelli
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 of Allison and Matt Robicelli 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, 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 $30 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.


-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to watch the book trailer.
-Click here to read Allison and Matt Robicelli's bio.
-Click here to connect with Robicelli's on Twitter.

Click here to enter the contest by noon ET on Tuesday, December 10th.

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