More From Magnolia: More From Magnolia

One of my favorite all time baking cook books, I had it years ago and lost it in a move. Just couldn't go without it and re-bought - it is a staple year round and the recipes are so wonderful. I also have their other cook books, can't go wrong.

I purchased this book based on a long-held love of Magnolia cupcakes. A friend took me there one lovely midnight several years ago and I was hooked. Being from Arkansas, no one understood my fascination until the pop culture references started accumulating and everyone wanted a piece of the Magnolia pie. I did not purchase the first cookbook based on the criticisms of several disappointed Magnolia fans/friends. But, on a whim I purchased the second book. The cupcakes, of course, are fabulous. But it was the other desserts that ended up really wowing me. Torey is very creative, but not in such a heavy-handed way. All the recipes are classic with easy to find ingredients and simple preparation techniques. So far I've made: *Raspberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Buns (beyond words, fabulous) *Pumpkin Walnut Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting (great for the fall, produced a very cakey, moist cookie--unique) *Apricot Cream Cheese Struesel Bars (very good, but my least favorite so far) *Brownies w/Caramel & Peanut Butter (Thumbs way up. My friends were on the floor after one bite. "Best ever.") *Apple Tart w/Hazelnut Brown Sugar Crumble (Similar to a traditional Apple Crisp, but with an amazing crust and the hazelnuts provide great texture) *Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Pecan Crust (So simple to make and a lovely combination of tastes) *Peaches and Cream Pie with Sugar cookie crust (just as amazing as it sounds. The cookie crust could stand for a little improvement, but the filling was amazing.) *Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting (One of the best I've ever made) I agree with previous reviewers that more photos would have been nice, but the delicious sweets more than make up for this single missing ingredient.

After visiting the Magnolia Bakery in Manhattan, I couldn't get their cupcakes out of my head - oh! the icing! - If you haven't tried them already and live anywhere NEAR New York, you gotta go there and eat up! So, of course, I live in Australia, and even though I love their cupcakes I couldn't bare flying 16+ hours on a plane everytime I felt like a Magnolia cupcake. That's when I saw this book on Amazon, and along with the first Magnolia book, decided to get them shipped to me. - I don't cook. Period. I burn pasta (yes, it can be done) therefore, I was a bit nervous about cooking ANYTHING from this book. But, I invited my domestic buddy Kathryn over and, we baked together - and they were DELICIOUS! NEARly as good as the real thing. I've tried a number of recipies in this book, mostly all by my lonesom, and they are extremly easy (even for me!) - and you won't be disappointed at all.

Good condition for the book. I wished the book had more pictures and were colored. I also wished the pages were the heavy paper. The service was great, very fast but am disappointed in the book.

The Magnolia bakery in NYC has always been one of my favorite places to visit, and they certainly have blown up over the past 2 decades. They recipes are easy to follow and accurate, if somewhat unorthodox (especially if you are a baker), but why are accurate and the end product is always delicious.

Book arrived in excellent condition. It is full of great and easy recipes. I was very pleased .

This cook book has many wonderful recipes and ingredients I usually have in my pantry. Thank you.

i made abt 4 recipes before posting - vanilla cupcake, chocolate cupcake, strawberry shortcake, black bottom cupcake, apple cake with butterscotch frosting and vanilla icing/buttercream. great blackbottomed and vanilla cupcake recipe. very good icing recipe. the choc cupcake was dry and tasteless -- rather do the blackbottomed cupcake recipe without cream cheese as choc cupcake. very very basic cake recipes - heavy cakes with no sophisticated tastes. all the cakes rose very well but they were all flour-heavy and came out really heavy. they hold their shape well. i recommend the "cake bible" by rose for cakes instead. the strawberry shortcake in this book called for a 3 layered cake with whipped cream, if served a few hours before eating, the whipped cream does not hold up well. "the cabke bible" will take situations like these under advisement, which i have always appreciated. very good for beginner bakers, very encouraging results. wonderfully written. it provides me with new ideas on baking :) but for more sophisticated tastes/scents/texture, go for an advanced book. :) the only reason i gave it 3 stars is because the recipes were a bit overly simplistic for my tastes. it is a good book for a quick bake (at nights for tomorrow's events), instead of a nice cake taking a few days to assemble.