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
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
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