{"id":3832,"date":"2012-12-28T11:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2016-04-13T00:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T23:14:38","slug":"cupcakes-from-the-primrose-bakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3832","title":{"rendered":"Cupcakes From the Primrose Bakery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cupcakes-Primrose-Bakery-Martha-Swift\/dp\/1856268470\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cupcakes_book-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cupcakes From the Primrose Bakery\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3833\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was given this book as a present a couple of years back but have only started to use it regularly recently.  <\/p>\n<p>I have to agree with other reviewers on amazon.co.uk who say that the basic recipes are mostly terrible.  The vanilla and lemon cupcakes are dry and stodgy.  I think I remember the chocolate cupcakes being dry too, but am not 100% sure as it&#8217;s been a while since I tried the recipe.  The Earl Grey cupcakes are ok but still quite dry.  I didn&#8217;t like the lemon icing and the chocolate icing is far too sweet and doesn&#8217;t set unless it goes into the fridge.  The icing quantities are way out of whack too &#8211; they seem to make far more than the amount needed; usually half will suffice.<\/p>\n<p>The only recipe I have liked from this book is the carrot cupcake recipe with cream cheese icing, which I have made several times and always turns out moist and, when using a food processor, quite light.  Another plus is that the photography in the book is lovely, but what good is that if the recipes are wrong?!<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the magic ratio 4:4:4:2 is not to be messed with!<\/p>\n<p>13 Apr 16<\/p>\n<p>As part of a declutter (from The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up) I have decided to say goodbye to this book.  I know that Mark bought it with love for me as he knew I was interested in making cupcakes.  I appreciate the thought he put into it.  I&#8217;ve saved what I value from it in my Cookery folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was given this book as a present a couple of years back but have only started to use it regularly recently. I have to agree with other reviewers on amazon.co.uk who say that the basic recipes are mostly terrible. The vanilla and lemon cupcakes are dry and stodgy. I think I remember the chocolate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}