There’s a new cupcake baking cookbook coming out in April 2025!
“Let Them Eat Cupcakes: 100 Cupcake Recipes to Rule Them All” is by Gabrielle Cote (Cider Mill Press, April 8, 2025)
Chapters include:
- Essential Techniques & Tools
- Fundamental Recipes: Buttercreams & Batters
- Weddings & Other Special Occasions
- Big Fish Classics
- Modern Twists on Tradition
- Spring
- Summer
- Fall
- Winter
- Holidays
- For the Kids
The Weddings chapter offered a delicious sounding champagne cupcake recipe, and there’s a lovely recipe for Bridal Cupcakes. I giggled when I saw that she’d included a Pupcakes recipe – perhaps we’ll celebrate my puppy’s housetraining with a pupcake treat. (Hopefully soon!)
There are some quirky cupcakes, like Coachella Cupcakes, Whenevah Cupcakes, and Heiress cupcakes.
The “Modern Twists” chapter offers Cannoli cupcakes, Bananas Foster cupcakes, S’mores cupcakes, and Creme Brulee cupcakes. I’ve promised my boyfriend I will make him the Key Lime cupcakes soon. You can really tell that the author had fun creating these fun recipes!
I really enjoyed previewing the seasonal cupcake recipes, such as Strawberry Rhubarb cupcakes and Blackberry Crumble cupcakes in Spring; watermelon cupcakes and Margarita cupcakes in summer; and Maple Pecan or Caramel Apple cupcakes in fall. (Yes, you guessed correctly – there’s a recipe for Pumpkin Spice cupcakes!)
For winter, there are recipes for orange & cardamom cupcakes, eggnog cupcakes, and pear and ginger cupcakes. There are peppermint cupcakes for Christmas and New Year’s cupcakes to celebrate the end of the year.
It’s nice that this cookbook offers a recipe for vegan buttercream, and for vegan and gluten-free batter.
Measurements are given in metric and imperial (cups and grams).
The photography is lovely, the recipes inventive and cheerful, and I can’t wait to bake my way through this cupcake baking book!
Shop for “Let Them Eat Cupcakes” on Amazon (affiliate link).
Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for gifting me an advance reading copy of this new baking cookbook.
Gabrielle Cote/Big Fish Cake Studio:
https://www.bigfishcakestudio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bigfish_cakestudio
-Carrie
Cookbook Divas
