Welcome to the Cookie Madness leg of the CakeSpy Presents Sweet Treats for a Sugar-Filled Life
While Jessie signs copies of her book at bakeries across the country, some of her biggest fans are writing posts on why they like the book and mentioning recipes. As it happens, Peabody and I both went straight to the Toaster Pastry Ice Cream Sandwiches.
Which leads me to one of the greatest things about Jessie the CakeSpy. She’s a dessert lover open to treats of the hyper-whimsical (and sweet!) variety, to potluck and office party standards such as Sweet & Salty Brownies, Behemoth Crumb Cake and Rolling Scones.
Plus, this is one of those rare cookbooks that Fuzz and I love equally. I appreciate Jessie’s humor, artistic talent, and creative scratch recipes, while the 10 year old loves all of the above plus the over-the-top ideas such as Cadbury Creme Eggs Benedict and Glazed Cinnamon Roll Stuffed with Cookie Dough. If you’re looking to give a cookbook as a child’s gift, this is it, because even if they don’t make one recipe (and they will), they’ll like the robots, unicorns and good old Cuppie the cupcake, Jessie’s signature cartoon.
You can buy a copy of the CakeSpy book here or click over to a few of these links and see what other bloggers have to say.
October 10 – Cupcake Project
October 11—Bake It in a Cake!
October 12—Culinary Concoctions by Peabody
October 13—Dessert First
October 14—Cookie Madness
October 15—Bake and Destroy
October 16—Piece of Cake
October 17—Not Martha
October 18—Scoopalicious
October 19—Big Girls, Small Kitchen
October 20—Blondie and Brownie
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Looking forward to the CakeSpy in person book tour coming to NY in early November.
Take some pictures! She’s going to be at Baked. If I could, I’d travel to Brooklyn just for that.
I posted something related over at Peabody’s, but am I the only that that doesn’t like frosted pop tarts as much as unfrosted (blueberry or strawberry… mmmmmm)? We can’t get them in Canada, so whenever my brother’s head to the States I make them get me a box
. And pop Tarts and Ice cream sounds like my kind of crazy, I haven’t been following CakeSpy, but I think I’m going to start 
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Adam, I have a soft spot in my heart for Pop Tarts, therefore even a bad Pop Tart will taste good to me. I do think they are much, much, better toasted and I don’t understand how these crazy kids today can eat them untoasted. As for frosting, I respect your opinion but I’ll take the frosted type any day. I think it’s mainly the eye appeal, though. The frosted ones have the sprinkles and the unfrosted ones just look naked.
I forgot to mention that particular Pop Tart was Autumn themed and that the ice cream was pumpkin.
I still remember when there were only two flavors of Pop Tarts–frosted and unfrosted blueberry or strawberry and only came 6 to a box. What a revelation the chocolate, s’mores, and brown sugar cinnamon ones were! I haven’t eaten them in years, but I used to be such a processed food fiend as a kid I liked to eat one toasted and one untoasted–you know, for a balanced diet
Have you ever heard Paula Poundstone’s Pop Tart monologue, btw? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLP1Wtrg0U
I’m not sure I’ve ever eaten a Pop Tart.
Growing up in the 60s and 70s I ate my fair share of them..The pop-tart history is kind of interesting…they are flammable! Never thought to use them as ice cream sandwiches, but it is a great idea!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Tarts