Even those who have never baked and decorated a cake before in their lives will be able to make beautiful cakes with the help of this book. The first section of the book looks at the equipment you will need and demonstrates the standard cake and icing recipes required to bake and cover all kinds of cakes. Subsequent sections explain techniques for decorating with sugarpaste, royal icing, marzipan and buttercream. There are instructions on making sugar flowers and leaves, and many other sugarcraft techniques such as fabric effects, piping royal icing, modelling figures and animals-all accompanied by beautiful cake designs that are simple to create by following the clear, step-by-step instructions.
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A complete introduction to all the basic tools and techniques for cake decoration. The inspiring recipes cover everything for the novice, from cake-making to basic royal-icing finishes.
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This review is from: Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating (Paperback)
This is a good decorating book but not great. If you're an American ordering, be aware it is published in Great Britain and includes terms, cakes recipes, metric measuring system that can be hard to understand. The cakes are beautiful to look at in the pictures they include but not too easy to make. Some of the ingredients are hard to find here is the USA and the glossary of terms is more for European cooks. I love to browse the book but find my "Betty Crocker Cake Decorating Book" is more realistic to use.
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This review is from: Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating (Paperback)
Great book - great ideas.many many different techniques - buttercream. royal icong, chocolate, fondant. lovely pictures. though I'm a beginner - I made some great cakes out of this book, and they were all a success!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Not what I was expecting,
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This review is from: Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating (Paperback)
This book has good information but when I read the title as "Beginner's" guide I thought I would get something that would allow me create decorated cakes with simple techniques. This book uses a lot of fondant and "european" style cakes. I was looking for a more informal type of instruction book. Overall, the book is O.K. but not what I expected.
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