Spread Love (and Buttercream!): Recipes and Reflections Where Love is the First Ingredient and a Sweeter World is Ours for the Baking

Life's too short not to have dessert first... or at least put some extra love into it. With Spread Love (And Buttercream!): Recipes and Reflections Where Love is the First Ingredient and a Sweeter World is Ours for the Baking , you have everything you need to show some extra love to yourself, your relationships, and your sweet tooth. Among delicious cupcake recipes, Author Coltan J. Schoenike, MS sprinkles in supportive and meaningful conversations about how we can make the world a sweeter place with more love and affirmation in our lives and relationships. This cookbook is a journey from start to finish. It opens with beginner-friendly cupcake basics and lays a solid foundation for enhancing our most important relationship-our relationships with ourselves. As you get further into the book, the recipes advance with more intricate and show-stopping recipes and the conversation turns toward how we can put more love and kindness into our relationships and the world as a whole. As with any important self-journey, there may be difficult conversations and hard truths along the way. But don't worry, you're not in it alone. Rather than the detached voice of some expert or instructor, Author Coltan J. Schoenike discusses these topics in an intimate way where you feel as though you're having a loving conversation with a lifelong friend. As a book about putting more love into the world, you feel loved and supported as you engage with the discussions throughout. Anything else would be simply hypocritical. Between the recipes and reflections, this book is guaranteed to be a treat for your heart, soul, and sugar cravings. Cover Page Social Media Title Page Legal & Copyright Acknowledgments Contents Introduction: Getting Started Allow Me to Introduce Myself About This Book Baking 101 Substitutions Substitutions: Wheat, Flour, or Gluten Substitutions: Milk and Other Dairy Substitutions: Sugar Substitutions: Butter Substitutions: Eggs Other Substitution Tips and Tricks Part One: Loving Yourself Throw Out That Shame, It's Expired! Cupcake Recipes: The Basics Basics: Vanilla Basics: Chocolate Basics: Red Velvet Basics: Carrot Cake Basics: Cookies 'n' Creme Basics: Pupcakes Basics: Frosting! Imitation Vanilla is the Imposter, Not You Recipe: Rainbow Confetti Fat Free is for Dairy, Not People Five Things More Important For You to Know Than Your BMI - Contributed by Maria Cauley Recipe: Lemon Lavender Shoot, I'm Out of Sugar Part Two: Loving Others Love is a Two-Way Sweet Recipe: Lemon Cheesecake Recipe: Root Beer Float Wait, I Thought it was in Metric? Recipe: Chocolate Chip Recipe: New York Cheesecake Oh, You Had Called Dibs on That? Guide: Buttercream Flowers The Relationship's Nutrition Label Part Three: Loving Our Way Forward Fave Flavors are Opinion, Hate Isn't Recipe: Crème Brûlée Recipe: Pink Champagne Don't Judge a Cupcake by its Paper Recipe: Orange Creamsicle Recipe: Summer Sparkler Not Everyone has a Dishwasher Recipe: Tiramisù Love Each Other, Lend Some Sugar Bonus Recipe: Cocoa Wacky Cake References Recommended Additional Readings You Deserve Love & Support About the Author & Contributor "Among delicious cupcake recipes, Author Coltan J. Schoenike, MS sprinkles in supportive and meaningful conversations about how we can make the world a sweeter place with more love and affirmation in our lives and relationships. This cookbook is a journey from start to finish. It opens with beginner-friendly cupcake basics and lays a solid foundation for enhancing our most important relationship-our relationships with ourselves. As you get further into the book, the recipes advance with more intricate and show-stopping recipes and the conversation turns toward how we can put more love and kindness into our relationships and the world as a whole."--Amazon.com