In The Cupcake Diaries, founders of the Georgetown Cupcake franchise, bestselling authors and former stars of the hit TLC series DC Cupcakes, authors Katherine Kallinis and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne inspire readers with more than 30 delicious cupcake recipes and life lessons that led to their success as entrepreneurs. Fans of Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman Cooks will enjoy The Cupcake Diaries and its recipes for treats ranging from banana split cupcakes, white chocolate raspberry cupcakes, and Gluten Free Chocolate-Chip Lava Fudge that Katherine Kallinis and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne have to offer. This inspiring book from the two-sister pastry team whose cupcakes “beat Magnolia Bakery’s by miles and miles,” according to Frank Bruni of the New York Times, is destined to be your go-to guide to blissful baking.

Mia tries to balance two friend groups in this special deluxe paper over board edition of the second book in the Cupcake Diaries series with foil on the cover, stained edges, and a ribbon bookmark. When Mia arrives at her new school, her motto is to be open to and friendly with everyone, but everyone at Park Street School fits into a clique. When the Popular Girls Club takes an interest in Mia’s awesome fashion style and wants to recruit her, Mia has to decide between them and her great new Cupcake Club friends. It’s like choosing between her divorced mom and dad and her old house and new house. Is it always going to be Mia in the middle, or can she mix it up?

Alexis Becker has to keep everyone happy so that things get done.

Katie needs the help of her friends to cope with the changes of her mother getting a boyfriend and when she gets an e-mail from her dad saying that he wants to meet her.

For fans of Debbie Macomber comes Recipe for Love, the second installment in the Cupcake Diaries series Relationships can be tricky, but will Mike the magician convince Rachel to break her two-date rule? Rachel Donovan believes first dates are fabulous, second dates are fun, but third dates? She never sees a guy three times in a row for fear he'll break her heart, but she's tempted to make an exception when her coworkers, Andi and Kim, hire Mike Palmer to drive their Cupcake Mobile. Mike meets Rachel when he's wearing his black-masked magician costume at a Creative Cupcakes birthday party and then tries to saw her in half. He draws closer while helping Rachel devise promotion plans to outsmart the arrogant new French pastry chef threatening to put the shop out of business. When a rat runs through the middle of her glitzy promo party and the video is uploaded to YouTube, Rachel fears she won't be able to save the shop, help her mother pay for her grandfather's medical treatment, or win back the heart of the one guy she's come to love . . . or will she?

Alexis is the clear leader of the group. She's organized, punctual, and happy to take on the stuff like scheduling, budgets, invoicing, and the things that the other girls in the CC don't really want to do. In other words, the "unfun" things. One day, in a burst of feeling unappreciated, Alexis informs the Cupcake Club that she is no longer "in charge." But when deadlines get missed and supplies aren't bought, the girls realizes somebody definitely needs to be the leader. And Alexis realizes being the leader is kind of cool; as long as you know when to ask for help when you need it!

Mia is excited to enter a Design-a-Dress contest, but she’s pressed for time. And when she tries to finish working on her dress during a Halloween cupcake party, it’s a recipe for disaster! When Mia reads about a Design-a-Dress contest in a magazine for “budding designers ages 12–16” she is excited. But she doesn’t realize how much work designing—and sewing—a dress truly is until she starts on her contest entry. While Mia stresses out about all the work she has to do, she and Katie have an argument about, of all things, fashion preferences! Katie offers suggestions that don’t really go with the outfit Mia has in mind. And when Mia makes (what she thinks) is an offhand joke about Katie’s fashion sense, it turns into a full-blown argument. As Mia tries to finish working on her dress during a kids’ Halloween cupcake party, she realizes that kids plus cupcakes plus silk dresses plus frosting equals a recipe for disaster!