Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne are the stars of the hit series DC Cupcakes on TV's The Learning Channel (TLC), as well as authors of the scrumptious national bestseller The Cupcake Diaries. Now they're back with Sweet Celebrations, a second helping of delectable cupcake recipes and decorating tips for every special occasion, including birthdays, cocktail parties, weddings, bridal showers, pool parties and more. A cupcake cookbook chock-full of wonderfully inventive dessert ideas for enthusiastic home bakers--including frozen cupcake pops for summer picnics and blue and pink "reveal" cupcakes for baby showers--Sweet Celebrations is a treasure trove of absolutely delicious recipes, offering many reasons why stars and celebrities--from Martha Stewart to actor Russell Crowe to musician Stevie Wonder--can't get enough of the sisters' incomparable sweets!

Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune's beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers' stories It's cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and there's nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart. A celebration of the rich traditions, creativity, and taste of the region, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book collects the best-loved recipes and baking lore from fifteen years of the Star Tribune's popular holiday cookie contest. Drop cookies and cutouts, refrigerator cookies and bars; Swedish shortbread, Viennese wafers, and French-Swiss butter cookies; almond palmiers; chai crescents and taffy treats; snowball clippers, cherry pinwheels, lime coolers, and chocolate-drizzled churros: a dizzying array and all delightful, the recipes in this book recall memories of holidays past and inspire the promise of happy gatherings to come. These are winning cookies in every sense, the best of the best chosen by the contest's judges, accompanied by beautiful photographs as instructive as they are enticing. A treat for any occasion, whether party, bake sale, or after-school snack, each time- and taste-tested recipe is perfect for starting a tradition of one's own.