La liste du mercredi : les livres qui donnent faim !

Aujourd'hui je commence un nouveau rendez-vous qui vous plaira, j'espère !

Chaque semaine, je ferai une petite liste de livres selon un thème... ce pourra être des choses sérieuses ("les meilleurs livres qui se passent sous l'Angleterre victorienne") comme des choses anecdotiques. Les listes ne sont pas exhaustives bien sûr, et si vous pensez à d'autres livres à rajouter, n'hésitez pas à le dire !

Pour commencer, une liste gourmande : vous connaissez les cupcakes ? Ces petits gâteaux venus d'Amérique qui ressemblent à des muffins et sont surmontés d'un glaçage aussi beau que bon. 

Les livres avec ce genre de gâteaux sur la couverture sont bien alléchants !

It's raining Cupcakes

Twelve-year-old Isabel is dying to get out of Oregon. She spends her free time in the library, reading and dreaming about faraway places. When her mom decides to open a cupcake shop in their little town of Willow, Isabel feels just like buttercream frosting to a cupcake-stuck. It seems as if it will be another disappointing summer, until Isabel learns of a baking contest. If she can come up with a winning recipe, she might have a chance of competing in the bake-off in New York City! 

The cupcake queen

When her mother moves them from the city to a small town to open up a cupcake bakery, Penny's life isn't what she expected. Her father has stayed behind, and Mom isn't talking about what the future holds for their family. And then there's Charity, the girl who plays mean pranks almost daily. There are also bright spots in Hog's Hollow - like Tally, an expert in Rock Paper Scissors, and Marcus, the boy who is always running on the beach. But just when it looks as though Penny is settling in, her parents ask her to make a choice that will turn everything upside down again.

Buttercream Bump off

Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura's Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery is gearing up for Valentine's Day. Unfortunately someone has iced Baxter Malloy on his first date with Mel's mother. Now Mom's a suspect, and Mel and Angie need to find time around frosting to dig into the man's shady past and discover who served him his just desserts.

Three wishes

Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane. Meanwhile, their divorced parents have been behaving very oddly indeed.

 

 Emma's table

From the moment Emma Sutton walks into the FitzCoopers auction house, the disgraced media darling knows exactly what she wants: an antique dining table. What she gets is a chance to set things right.
Fresh from a yearlong stretch in prison, Emma finds her life just as she left it—filled with glittering business successes, bruising personal defeats, rolling television cameras, and awkward Sunday dinners at home. She needs a clean slate—a second chance that might be provided by two unlikely saviors: Benjamin Blackman, a terminally charming social worker and Emma's part-time assistant, and one of Benjamin's most heartbreaking wards, an overweight little girl from Queens named Gracie.

The icing on the cupcake

The Waller women have a tradition of baking their way out of sorrow. So Ansley mixes batch after batch of creative cupcakes—Black Bottom Heartache, Moving Blues Banana Caramel, Tres Leches Made Small. Before long, she’s opening up her own cupcake shop and even trying her hand at dating. But the ways of Manhattan’s eligible bachelors are altogether different from their Southern counterparts, and Ansley’s nearly fail-safe tactics fall flat. And worse, someone’s got a half-baked scheme to sabotage Ansley’s new life. It’ll take a cup of courage and a dash of Southern charm, plus a few secret ingredients, if Ansley hopes to pull off her recipe for success.

Tout ça donne faim n'est-ce pas ? Si vous vous sentez d'attaque à faire de la pâtisserie, allez sur ce magnifique blog qui regorge d'idées et de recettes !

Ou sinon, si vous vivez à Paris, je vous recommande de tester les cupcakes de Berko. Un peu chers, mais ils valent le coup ! 

23 rue Rambuteau, 4ème arrondissement
(c'est juste à côté du centre Pompidou, idéal pour faire une pause après une visite !)

 

Bon appétit et bonne journée !