Betty Crocker's New Cake Decorating [Spiral-bound]

Betty Crocker Editors (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 1999

Make any occasion special with a just the right cake; an incredible edible Teddy Bear Cake or a Dinosaur Cake makes a birthday magical. Surprise your son or daughter with a Play Ball Cake or a Ballet Slippers Cake after a long day of practices and lessons. And don't forget Dad -- make a unique Father's Day T-Shirt Cake. Share the good news and give your sister a Baby Bib Shower Cake.

You'll also find specialty cakes, including wedding cakes and holiday cakes, as well as show stoppers such as French Silk Filbert Cake and Mocha Cream Torte.

Each recipe has clear, concise directions with simple drawings that show you how to properly assemble the cakes. Plus, you can use either cake mix or scratch recipes, so making these cakes is truly easy. Now available in an easy-to-use practical comb-bound format, you'll enjoy each step toward baking and creating the perfect cake!

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Here are 70 cake recipes for special occasions--baby and wedding showers, housewarmings, graduations, birthdays, and holidays, such as Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Hanukkah, President's Day, Mother's Day, and Father's Day. With decorative gels, candy, chocolate, mint leaves, coconut, food coloring, nonpareils, and sprinkles, an assortment of cake decorations can be created: gym shoes for an athlete, a car to send friends off on a trip, ballet slippers for an aspiring ballerina, basketballs, soccer balls, baseball caps, sailboats, snowmen, spaceships, trains, and teddy bears. There is a chapter on cake basics that offers tips on batter, on measuring ingredients, on using shortenings, eggs, and chocolate, on removing layer cakes from pans, on using dowels, on freezing and storing cakes, on using decorating bags, and on making rosettes, flowers, borders, and leaf designs. The finished book will have 57 color photographs and 96 line drawings. George Cohen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Betty Crocker's New Cake Decorating Let Betty Crocker show you how to make special occasions even more special—from children's birthday parties to New Year's Eve—with creative, homemade cakes that everyone will love to eat and love to remember. This easy-to-use book covers every season and celebration, offering creative designs and decorating techniques to dress up layer cakes, cupcakes and sheet cakes. You'll find all the step-by-step help you need to make the experience a "piece of cake."

• Every cake photographed in color
• More than 90 line drawings show you just what to do
• Lots of cake designs that can be made with cake and frosting mixes in addition to the scratch recipes
• Easy tips and techniques throughout—from using fresh flowers to decorate cakes to the best way to cut a wedding cake

Both beginners and experienced bakers will have fun making the adorable Panda Cake, the Easter Bunny Cake with coconut "fur" and the incredible, edible Dinosaur Cake. The Chocolate Heart Cake and the mini Bûche de Noël Cakes are festive holiday treats that are surprisingly simple to make. And, there's an entire chapter devoted to the elegant and sophisticated recipes reminiscent of a European bakery, including French Silk Filbert Cake, Caramel-Pecan Torte and Decadent Chocolate Cake. Whether you want fun or fancy, challenging or easy, Betty Crocker's New Cake Decorating is the book that everyone will enjoy! Visit Betty Crocker online at www.bettycrocker.com

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 160 pages
• Publisher: Betty Crocker (April 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028625277
• ISBN-13: 978-0028625270
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 0.9 x 10.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #723,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since 1921, the Betty Crocker name has symbolized the General Mills continuing tradition of service to consumers. Although Betty was never a real person, her name and identity have become synonymous with helpfulness, trustworthiness and quality.

Betty Crocker has survived the decades by providing consumers with food information and food products that are contemporary without being faddish. The first hardcover cookbook, Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook was published in 1950 and quickly became a national best seller. Since then, more than 250 Betty Crocker cookbooks have been published.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars betty crockers new cake decorations., December 8, 1999

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Julissa (Okinawa, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Betty Crocker's New Cake Decorating (Spiral-bound)

I love this book, if you are first time cake decorator, this will help you with not only how to use the equipment, but give you recipes as well. Good book for the begginer and the advanced.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The proof of the pudding is in the eating, October 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Betty Crocker's New Cake Decorating (Spiral-bound)

Not only have I bought this book - I actually tried a few recipes.

I must say that I was sooooo deeply disappointed because some of the recipes were just not "it" - especially after having such high hopes with this title.

On the positive side, I will say that the graphics and the decorating ideas are great - you will just need to use your own recipes for cakes (at least the ones I tried).

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm having so much fun., July 9, 2000

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[e-mail] (Santa Rosa Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Betty Crocker's New Cake Decorating (Spiral-bound)

I became interested in cake decorating and found this wonderful book. It gives step by step directions for baking and decorating a wide variety of cakes (and cupcakes) for all sorts of occasions and holidays. It also provides time-saving tips for when you don't have time to make cakes and frostings from scratch. I had no experience at creating pretty cakes before but now I can't wait for an occasion to make one.