Cake Decorating For Dummies [Paperback]

Joe LoCicero (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 9, 2007

Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids' cakes

Easy at-home instruction for making and decorating fabulous cakes

Want to make beautiful cakes? This fun, instructive guide gives you simple techniques for creating cakes for all celebrations. You get expert advice in all the basics -- from baking to icing to decorating with style. You'll also find delicious foolproof recipes, great ideas for themed cakes, and savvy tips for starting a cake decorating business!

Discover how to:


* Find ingredients and supplies
*

Make a cake from scratch
*

Use frostings and fillings
*

Cut and serve a cake
*

Troubleshoot cake catastrophes
*

Master creative techniques

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids' cakes

Easy at-home instruction for making and decorating fabulous cakes

Want to make beautiful cakes? This fun, instructive guide gives you simple techniques for creating cakes for all celebrations. You get expert advice in all the basics — from baking to icing to decorating with style. You'll also find delicious foolproof recipes, great ideas for themed cakes, and savvy tips for starting a cake decorating business!

Discover how to:

• Find ingredients and supplies

• Make a cake from scratch

• Use frostings and fillings

• Cut and serve a cake

• Troubleshoot cake catastrophes

• Master creative techniques

About the Author

Joe LoCicero is founder of Practical Whimsy, which specializes in fantastically crafted cakes, recipes, products, and entertaining tips. His lifestyle advice and expertise has been featured nationally in newspapers and magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (April 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470099119
• ISBN-13: 978-0470099117
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

LoCicero is the creative director and co-founder, with his wife, Lori, of PRACTICAL WHIMSY, a company that celebrates family style with products, recipes, and tips for gatherings.

The Southern-bred LoCicero has worked in the entertainment industry for the past 15 years as a writer -- having written on series for NBC, FOX and Telemundo -- and marketing consultant. He also works wonders as a cake decorator, accomplished chef, creative instructor, party planner, and entertaining guru.

He and his wife champion the importance of communication, family supper, and celebrations, and have given presentations on those topics to corporations, organizations, and educational institutions including MTV, Paramount, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting,and Loyola Marymount University. His column on entertaining, PRACTICAL WHIMSY: Southern Hospitality, Hollywood Style" is a regular feature in "Y'ALL: The Magazine of Southern People." Additionally, he is the Food Contributor for momready.com. LoCicero has been featured in "Cosmopolitan," "Woman's World," several daily newspapers in the U.S. and Canada; radio outlets including Sirius' Martha Stewart Living Radio"; and network affiliate news programs.

LoCicero lives in Los Angeles, where he cooks dinner every night for his wife and their two young children. They have cake as often as possible.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for first starting out, November 27, 2007

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S. Frost "cake decorating diva" (GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cake Decorating For Dummies (Paperback)

If you are new to cake decorating then you will love this book. Its covers great topics such as decorating tips, transporting your cake, how to cut your cake and even gives you some great receipes too.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, July 13, 2010

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JOANN G. SISCO (Glen Burnie, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cake Decorating For Dummies (Paperback)

I thought the book would illustrate the "how to's" of cake decorating. It really doesn't, there a some recipes and a few decorating ideas, but if you don't already know how to use the decorating tips, this book will not help you.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything for beginners, May 13, 2007

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Purple (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cake Decorating For Dummies (Paperback)

This is very informative one. I have all the answers in this book and you can really build confidence towards getting into cake decorating business! I have bought some books for decorating but mostly is for picture presentation purposes but this one is really a good one to keep well explained as most of the Books For Dummies.