Oh, My! I won... Cupcakes, Cookies and Pie, Oh, My!

I did something this morning I promised I would never do after I got

my new Mini-Cooper... I checked e-mails while driving to work! And,

just as I was warned... I lost control. But in a Good way! You see, the first

e-mail I read was from Liz, the creative force behind the wonderful blog

Hoosier Homemade telling me that I'd won her most recent give-away

for the fabulous new book, Cupcakes, Cookies and Pie, Oh, My!

Oh, My indeed!

I am so excited! I've been baking cupcakes since I was a very little girl,

and still feel that hardly anything else brightens the day quite like peeling a

pretty paper liner off your very own cupcake! Lately, I have been on a cupcake

kick, baking cupcakes and, mini cupcakes I affectionately call, cuppies every

weekend. I used to think a cupcake was a cupcake was a cupcake but in 2008,

Karen Tack and Alan Richardson turned the cupcake world upside down with

the introduction of their hugely successful book, Hello, Cupcake! The very

second these cupcakes were featured on Martha's April 2008 show, I began

stocking up on cupcake liners and everything else needed to create the wildly

imaginative and expressive cupcakes on the pages of Karen and Alan's book!

If you haven't already discovered Karen and Alan's books and you love

creating cupcakes as much as I do, then do yourself a favor and add

the whole series to your library today. You'll find them all here!

And, don't forget to add the Hello, Cupcake! Blog to your

list of favorites. I'm there everyday watching helpful videos

and discovering tips to improve every aspect of my Cupcake

baking and decorating adventures, and you can bet I'll be adding

the Hello, Cupcake app to my iPad the moment it is available!