Tuesday, April 03, 2012

HOW TO EAT A CUPCAKE by Meg Donohue

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Who doesn’t LOVE cupcakes? Yeah, thought so, and with a book titled How to Eat a Cupcake, well, that just begs to be read, right? My only problem when I first picked up Meg Donohue’s debut novel was that it wasn’t a scratch ‘n’ sniff book! THAT would really be the ICING on the cake! Ha, I’m on a roll here, aren’t I?

Free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clair’s housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia’s San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls oblivious to class differences could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship.

A decade later, Annie bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother’s death and a painful secret jeopardizes Julia's engagement to the man she loves. A chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, but when a mysterious saboteur opens old wounds, they must finally face the truth about their past or risk losing everything.

You can begin your culinary delight by diving into this excerpt here!

If you’re now craving cupcakes like I am, here’s an exclusive cupcake recipe for the readers and fans of How to Eat a Cupcake: MEYER LEMON CUPCAKES by San Francisco pastry chef Alyce Shields.
And if you’d like to win a copy of How to Eat a Cupcake tell me what your favorite flavor cupcake is! I probably would choose a lemon with cream cheese frosting or red velvet cupcake. And if you ask me HOW to eat a cupcake, I would say IN THE CLOSET SO I WOULDN’T HAVE TO SHARE WITH ANYONE!!

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93 comments:

  1. Can't ever go wrong with chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting!

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  2. Strawberry cupcake with a cream cheese buttercream frosting! YUM!

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  3. Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting, always! Melissa Rem

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  4. Almost anything with cream cheese frosting! Meyer lemon sounds delightful, can't wait to try out the recipe.

    Wendy
    wendy@wendychenbooks.com

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  5. Lemon with lemon icing and rainbow sprinkles!

    I love cupcakes and always eat the icing first!

    Susan

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  6. chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting...and I prefer mini-cupcakes because they aren't so messy (but give me twice as many!!)

    jcsites2002 at hotmail dot com

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  7. Only one?!!?

    I guess it would have to be the Baba Booey from Crumbs Bake Shop. It's a chocolate cupcake filled with peanut butter frosting, topped with peanut butter and chocolate cream cheese frosting and rimmed with peanut butter chips. So insanely good.

    There is also a local cupcakery that occasionally has a Caramel Macchiato cupcake. OMG!

    - jobella

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  8. red velvet with cream cheese frosting, for sure!

    Denise F.

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  9. A cupcake place in my town (oh its brutal) has a peanut butter cup/chocolate cupcake. words can not describe!!!!

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  10. red velvet...and the best way to eat them is two smushed frosting to frosting... less messy.

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  11. Becki****6:17 PM

    My Mom's famous chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese/chocolate chip centers.

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  12. Bridget6:25 PM

    Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting. Yummy.

    Iambtinrb

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  13. Vanilla with vanilla frosting. I know I'm plain!
    Qweska8402

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  14. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting...yum yum!! :) Took bad it is 10 o clock or else I would make one :)

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  15. Chocolate with a mocha frosting yum!

    Margaret(singitm)

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  16. Funfetti with vanilla icing :-)
    kndyer

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  17. Anonymous8:26 PM

    Lemon with lemon icing!

    Colbey J

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  18. Any cupcake!! I have to admit, I haven't tried any fancy cupcakes at the new shops...

    -tmd636

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  19. TaraUB3:55 AM

    Almost any cupcake is my favorite. Chocolate with chocolate buttercream is my standard pick. Can't go wrong there. The local shop here has a Dulce la Leche and it was fabulous.

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  20. chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting!

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  21. I'm in love with carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!
    Eloisepeaches

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  22. ncsuloges5:37 AM

    chocolate with white icing or funfetti

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  23. Anonymous6:20 AM

    My favorite cupcake is chocolate with a cream filling.

    -Donna W.

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  24. Emma S.6:22 AM

    red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting!

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  25. Juliet Farmer6:47 AM

    chocolate on chocolate!!!

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  26. BrendaL717:04 AM

    It's by far red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting.

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  27. I do love a good red velvet with cream cheese icing, but really, I've never really met a cupcake that I didn't like!

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  28. accidentalgypsy8:00 AM

    I can't say that I would ever pass up a hostess cupcake with the little white curly q's on top and the cream filling, but since I just made them a couple weeks ago, my current favorite is guinness chocolate with bailey's cream cheese frosting! Yum!!

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  29. My latest love is lemon cake with cream cheese frosting. It's a YUMMY little springtime treat! :)

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  30. Bernadette78:34 AM

    For my birthday this year my future sister in law made me the most delish cookies and cream cupcakes that had an oreo cookie at the bottom and on the top...yum!

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  31. I am loving strawberry cake/cupcake with vanilla frosting!

    crystal717

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  32. Anonymous11:03 AM

    Red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Yum!! - lauren royall

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  33. Boston Cream cupcakes! YUM!

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  34. lucy87211:43 AM

    Good old chocolate cupcake with a whipped cream frosting and sprinkles...of course!

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  35. A chocolate cupcake with a peanut butter frosting!! YUM!!!

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  36. As much as I like red velvet cupcakes, I love green tea ones a bit better.

    lilianxchengATgmailDOTcom

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  37. DaphneSFL12:24 PM

    Red velvet from Bennison's Bakery. Absolutely to die for!

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  38. DaphneSFL12:25 PM

    Or an old fashioned Hostess cupcake. Those were such an incredible treat when I was a kid :)

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  39. Tina B1:40 PM

    I like any and all flavor cupcakes!!! Mmmm mmmm mmmm!!
    Brannanflooring@aol.com

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  40. Almost any cupcake would do ... as long as there is some yummy frosting.

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  41. Robynn782:44 PM

    Key Lime Pie!!! My own concoction!

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  42. Red Velvet...YUM,YUM,YUM!!!

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  43. ludy22883:56 PM

    I can't think of any flavor of cupcake I DONT like.

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  44. Funfetti with pink vanilla frosting and rainbow sprinkles!

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  45. This is a tough one, trying to pick just one flavor cupcake, lol. But...I love funfetti cupcakes with funfetti icing!!!!


    Emily116

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  46. I'd go with the basic chocolate cupcake with white frosting.

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  47. i love banana cupcakes :)

    karenk
    kmkuka at yahoo dot com

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  48. Joani6:25 PM

    The Cupcake Lady's Elvis Cupcake, bananas, peanut butter and chocolate.

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  49. Tanya Quilts in CO6:33 PM

    Peanut butter and jelly!

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  50. I love any kind of cupcake! But I remember when I was younger my mom used to make these chocolate cupcakes that had this cream cheese stuff on the bottom with chocolate chips. They were so good, I'm gonna need to find that recipe!!!

    ChristinaL

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  51. Lemon poppy seed with cream cheese frosting...yum!

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  52. Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting. Mmmmm. I'd share though.

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  53. Cyndee5:24 AM

    Devil's food with Vanilla icing! Winner Winner, Eat after a Turkey Dinner.
    Cyndee. Thomas0@gmail.com

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  54. CAnative7:02 AM

    Carrot cake cupcake with cream cheese frosting! Yummy.

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  55. yellow cupcake chocolate frosting.

    Carie

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  56. Lizett348:23 AM

    Yum! I would go with Red Velvet and cream cheese frosting or Lemon with Vanilla frosting, delicious!

    lizett34@yahoo.com

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  57. My favorite flavor - Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting. So yummy!!

    Melissa Hightower

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  58. I LOVE Salted Carmel Cupcakes. They are the best!

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  59. Erin G11:06 AM

    My fav is probably yellow cake with chocolate frosting!

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  60. Favorite flavor? Heck, I've never met a cupcake that wasn't my favorite, so I guess my favorite flavor is the one that's in my hand.

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  61. I'm partial to vanilla with white frosting, but there's a cupcake place in my town that offers chocolate peanut butter cupcakes and I'm dying to try one!

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  62. I'm prob the minority here, but I think cupcakes are just nasty.

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  63. I love chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting.

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  64. My mother used to make topsy turvy cupcakes chocolate chocolate chip cake batter mixed with chocolate chip cheese cake batter. So delicious!

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  65. In honor of the Easter Bunny, a carrot cupcake with cream cheese frosting

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  66. Leslie11:48 AM

    My fav is Key Lime...yummy delicious! LeslieGC

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  67. Lesley Davis, esq8:19 PM

    Chocolate w/ chocolate frosting! Although lately cakepops have been my drug of choice :)

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  68. I make a yummy four egg yellow cake with chocolate icing

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  69. Chocolate...just can't beat it.

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  70. It has to be red velvet. I am not a huge fan of cake so a cupcake seems to the right size to get my fix of sweetness.

    Carly H

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  71. Here in Miami, we have MISHA's cupcakes. They have pudding in the middle. When you bite into the middle of one of those of cupcakes after licking the icing off first, of course, you die and go straight to heaven. My particular favorite is ALWAYS chocolate. writeoncindy@yahoo.com

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  72. I love chocolate cupcakes with creamy chocolate frosting! Yum!

    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

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  73. i love ALL cupcakes, so picking one is hard! i had a marshmallow chocolate cupcake a few months ago that was absolutely delicious though...

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  74. Its a tie between peanut butter frosting & chocolate cupcake AND vanilla coconut!

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  75. Jeffie T1:50 PM

    Strawberry with chocolate icing.

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  76. Anonymous3:21 PM

    Vanilla.. Vanilla... and Vanilla
    michelle m!

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  77. Yellow with chocolate frosting.

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  78. Red Velvet!

    Kristen27

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  79. I love the red velvet cupcakes at Sprinkles. Yum!!

    Terri M.

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  80. Chocolate with Oreo Buttercream Icing

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    White Cake with Caramel Icing

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    Banana with Buttercream frosting

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  81. Wanda Z11:19 PM

    Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate...

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  82. Bridget O'Neill11:41 AM

    Red velvet cupcakes, and even more specifically, Magnolia Bakery red velvet cupcakes. The frosting alone is to die for!

    bjoneill@hotmail.com

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  83. Dawn in CA9:00 PM

    I love my best friend's homemade vanilla cupcakes with pina colada frosting! They are the best!

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  84. Anonymous12:34 PM

    Vanilla with Chocolate Frosting - Jill Fay

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  85. Anonymous12:00 AM

    Recently, my favorite cupcake flavor is cookies and cream!

    Kellie

    kyuushuchu@gmail.com

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  86. I love Red Velvet Cupcakes!

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  87. I am not much of a cake eater but I do love carrot cake. And that frosting ---- yummmm!

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  88. Cookies and Cream from Georgetown Cupcake... yummm.

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  89. Chocolate with a peanut butter center and peanut butter frosting---Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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  90. Vanilla with chocolate frosting, yum!!! Then again, you can't really go wrong with any kind of cupcake :)

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  91. Anonymous11:09 AM

    Key Lime.....YUMMY! writeoncindy(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  92. 'How to Eat a Cupcake' has mystery, humor, wit, surprises, sorrow, regret, anger and just about every emotion that you can imagine. At the first, I felt that Anna was just a little too bubbly but she grew on me and so did Julia. I was sad that the book ended.

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