Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook - any good?

I have it and it is ok but i find some of the quantities a bit odd. When the recipe says it makes 12 cupcakes for example but i've found i can only get 9 out of it. I then had the opposite problem with one of the loaf cakes (lemon i think) and i couldnt fit all the mixture in the tin (same size as the one recommended!). Maybe its just me, i dont know. But the actual cakes do taste lovely, but i have had to mess around with the timings a bit as well.

HTH

Don't have the Hummingbird one but do have the Magnolia Bakery cookbook (another famous US bakery) which I've not found to my taste at all. Quantities are odd (American measurements) and don't seem to fit with what comes out. Also everything is too big, too sweet (I would previously have thought this impossible!) and has v long lists of ingredients. Maybe I am just too lazy.

Favourite baking book at the moment is Good Housekeeping's Great Cakes. Lovely recipes that work perfectly and look like the pictures!

You can have a gander at mine if u want to pm me - have leant it to our babysitter but should get it back tomorrow

Thanks so much all. Sorry it's taken me ages to reply, but I've had web connection problems. And thanks for your v kind offer Lizziemh, but I've managed to borrow a copy from the library. It looks good and I'll be experimenting this w/e!