I bought this book for a friend who had just come back from New York as a birthday gift. She had visited the Magnolia Bakery and we have been using their cupcake recipe for a few years as the base to many a 5 tiered cup cake cake! The book is great, different recipes to their first book, on the whole. Just a word of warning, I love American cake recipes and am happy to use cup measurements, if not all the recipes will need converting, but there are several sites that will do this for you. A stick of butter is 4 oz by the way!