Recipe for Trouble: The Cupcake Club [Paperback]

<p><strong>Meet Lexi Poole.</strong><br><br>To Lexi, a new school year means back to baking with her BFFs in the cupcake club. But the club president, Kylie, is mixing things up by inviting new members. And Lexi is in for a no-so-sweet surprise when she is cast in the school's production of Romeo and Juliet. If only she could be as confident onstage as she is in the kitchen. The icing on the cake: her secret crush is playing Romeo. Sounds like a recipe for trouble.</p><p>Can the girls' friendship stand the heat, or will the cupcake club go up in smoke?</p><p><strong>Includes reciples and tips to try at home!</strong></p><p>"Kids and cupcakes are the perfect recipe."—Sophie and Katherine, stars of TLC's <em>DC Cupcakes</em></p><p/>The minute Lexi Poole's laptop sang out "You've got mail!" she dropped her sketchbook and colored pencils, and raced over to her desk to check her messages. <p>She hoped it was an email from one of her friends saying they'd arrived home from summer break. But no such luck. It was just an ad for a back-to-school supplies sale at New Fairfield Stationery. "Ugh!" she moaned.</p><p>Most kids loved summer vacation: sun, fun, and no homework! But Lexi missed Blakely Elementary School. She missed her teachers. She missed art class. And she especially missed Peace, Love, and Cupcakes, the cupcake club that had grown to mean so much to her in fourth grade. It was where she had learned to pipe beautiful designs in frosting and sculpt fancy flowers and figures out of gum paste and chocolate. But most importantly, it was where she had met her three BFFs: Kylie Carson, Jenna Medina, and Sadie Harris.</p><p>At first, none of them were eager to join Kylie's baking club-it sounded a little lame. But then, something magical happened. Though they were all very different people, they came together to form an awesomel#Ä