My girlfriend and I have had this book for over a year, and after just throwing out another batch of inedible, expensive baking from this book we're finally through with it. We've both visited the bakery in New York and loved everything we tried. It must be something in the New York water that makes these recipes work, because even the woman working the night we visited Babycakes said that most people don't get very good results using this cookbook and they've had a lot of complaints. Take it from the source and avoid the expensive disappointments!

We do a lot of vegan and gluten-free baking and this is the only book that consistently disappoints. The ingredients are impossible to track down in one location (and we're in Vancouver), and after enduring the expensive grocery safari that precedes each recipe the least we could hope for is something edible!

After the first couple of disappointments, we really followed the next recipe to the letter to try and narrow down where we were going wrong. You can't substitute *anything*, but that's not too surprising. Even when we were scientifically calibrating each ingredient with a painful amount of attention to detail, the results were terrible. I have tried a lot of cookbooks and this is the only one that yields such consistently abysmal food.