Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make

336 Pages·2011·21.47 MB·English

by  Karen Tack

Hello, Cupcake!
Irresistibly
playful
creations
anyone can
make
Karen Tack and Alan Richardson

Hello, Cupcake!
Karen Tack and Alan Richardson
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALAN RICHARDSON
RECIPES AND FOOD STYLING BY KAREN TACK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston New York
For Chris, Erik, and Liam,
the sprinkles on my cupcakes
—K.T.
For Larry
and his tremendous devotion to dessert
—A.R.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richardson, Alan, date.
Hello, cupcake! / Karen Tack and Alan Richardson;
text and photographs by Alan Richardson;
recipes and food styling by Karen Tack,
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-82925-5 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-618-82925-3 (alk. paper)
1. Cupcakes. 2. Cake decorating. I. Tack, Karen.
II. Title.
TX771.R52 2008
641.8'653—dc22 2007040029
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We didn't get this cupcake crazy on our own. We want to thank the many editors
and art directors who collaborated with us over the years and contributed their
own zany ideas. Whether working with you as a team or separately, we've picked
up a lot of inspiration from all of you. A special thanks to Doug Turshen for first
stimulating our cupcake imagination and also to Susan Westmoreland, Babs
Chernetz, Frank Melodia, Marisol Vera, Ruth Reichl, Richard Ferretti, Erika
Oliveira, Romulo Yanes, Sally Lee, Clare Lissaman, Linda Fears, Shelley
Wolson, Kate Keating, Diane Lam-phron, Jackie Plant, Fraya Berg, Karmen
Lizzul, Betsy Jordan, Stephanie Saible, Wendy Smolen, Rena Coyle, Tom
Eckerle, Cheryl Slocum, Jan Hazard, Jane Chestnut, and Brad Pallas for making
sure our cupcakes never lost their creative edge.
We've called on many friends to look at projects and give us a thumbs-up (or
down). Special thanks to Allison and Rebecca Kural, Sarah Morris (future
cupcaker extraordinaire), Jennifer Hess and Louise Rooney (our biggest fans),
Richard and Sherry Zucker (our in-house marketing team), Carol Schwartz (our
groupie), and Chris Raymond and Lynne Palazzi (our hometown publishing
touchstones). Friends, school chums, and families in Riverside, Connecticut:
thanks for taking care of all those extra cupcakes we had lying around.
Our friend Carol Prager has been cheering, advising, counseling, and
nurturing this project for a great many years, and we're sure she's glad it's finally
finished.
Without Ellie Ritt and Roy Galaday backing us with their amazing creativity,
we'd be lost. Thanks to both of you for all your help.
Karen's mother-in-law, Barbara Tack, is a talented artist, and we're proud of
the beautiful painting she made of our family tree (see [>]). We hope she
approves of our rendition of her (on the tree's lower-left-hand limb). As for the
rest of our families, thanks for putting up with all the candy and cupcakes around
the house. We want you to know how much we appreciate all of the support and
love. Karen's older son, Erik, constantly graded our efforts. Thanks for giving us
more A's than C's. Karen's husband, Chris, is a man of extreme patience and
turned our mania into his passion. Even when the Tack home overflowed with
old cupcakes, Chris took it all in stride and offered advice, encouragement, and a
beer. Karen's younger son, Liam, doesn't really like cupcakes, but he was always
available when we needed to dispose of an extra gummy bear. Alan's partner,
Larry Frascella, was the best family editor we could want. He offered insight and
astute comments on the writing and photos and kept us on our toes every step of
the way. Laura Mecca and the kids, Sarah, Anna, Lawrence, Stephanie, and
Thomas, tested and tasted their way through a good many of our projects and
proved that Long Island kids make great cupcakers. Karen's parents, Joan and
Bill McCoy, and siblings Kirk and Kim shaped her candy-colored vision and