Oh, my, it's a good thing the photographs of all these cupcakes don't have calories!Each cupcake is illustrated with a closeup picture so you can see both what you're getting and details on the decorations. The standard flavors are all present: vanilla, yellow, chocolate, and devil's food (a big winner and highly recommended!) along with a nice list of specialty flavors and toppings such as Malted Chocolate Chip, Black Forest, Salted Caramel, and Lime Meringue to name a few. The directions for each cupcake flavor are completely explained and simple to follow.While I don't care for the author's choice of buttercream frosting recipe (it's a personal preference; I don't care for the cooked type of frostings), there are plenty of add in flavorings suggested that work quite well with my preferred buttercream recipe. There are recipes for glazes, fruit curds, various other frostings, and a caramel drizzle in addition to the basic buttercream frosting.The decorations are explained well and are very do-able by moderately experienced home bakers with minimal decorating equipment such as basic frosting tips. There are a few special occasion cupcake flavors and decorations illustrated including a few for holidays such as Christmas, Halloween, and the Fourth of July.The best part of this book is that the recipes yield 12 cupcakes (or six jumbo, 24 mini) each, a reasonable and manageable number for most households.My one and only complaint is about the font that has been used for the recipe ingredients lists. The main listings are presented in a bold-faced font that is easily read, but for some reason the fractional amounts are NOT in bold and in their positions next to the boldface ingredients and amounts are difficult to read by making the fractions seem tiny in comparison and making it hard to distinguish between 1/2 and 1/3 and so forth unless you're working in very bright light. I hope if a second edition is printed, the publishers will fix this problem by printing the fractions in the same bold font as the rest of the numbers, amounts, and ingredient lists.Recommended.