Melissa Ben-Ishay, the baker, mom, and founder of Baked by Melissa, the tie-dyed and fun-loving mini cupcake and desserts chain, shares her secrets in this unique illustrated color cookbook that offers more than 120 recipes for fabulous cakes, frostings, fillings, and toppings for endless delicious combinations.

Melissa believes baking should be fun and easy-and that incredible flavor can be bite-sized. That ethos and her lively, personal style infuse Baked by Melissa. A simple-to-follow crash course in making baking more like crafting, it offers Melissa’s fresh takes on traditional cakes and inventive ideas to make dessert in any form extra sweet. The cookbook will encourage home bakers to be creative and spontaneous in their baking, even including fill-in-the-blank ingredients to individualize their special treats.

From the very recipe that started it all-the tie-dyed cupcake-to peanut butter banana cake batter to icings and crumbles that inspire the baker in us all to create scrumptious desserts, Caked by Melissa is filled with unique and totally irresistible recipes to devour. Replete with 125-150 photographs and stunningly designed pages that mirror the unaffected and colorful Baked by Melissa aesthetic, Caked by Melissa is a celebration of the joys of baking for experts and novices alike, and is a must for Melissa’s fans.