New York Times Bestseller: Sweeten special occasions with these easy recipes for creative cupcakes using common candies.

With hundreds of brilliant photos, this cookbook features witty, one-of-a-kind, imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store, no baking skills or fancy pastry equipment required. Create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces using a ziplock bag and common candies and snack items.

With these easy-to-follow techniques, even the most kitchen-challenged cooks can:

• raise a big-top circus cupcake tier for a kid's birthday

• plant candy vegetables on Oreo earth cupcakes for a garden party

• trot out a line of confectionery "pup cakes" for a dog fancier

• serve spaghetti and meatball cupcakes for April Fool's Day

• bewitch trick-or-treaters with eerie alien cupcakes

• create holidays on icing with a white Christmas cupcake wreath, turkey cupcake place cards, and Easter egg cupcakes