Product Details

• Actors: Martha Stewart, Ann Warren, Fran Jacobs
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Martha Stewart Living
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000WMRKDQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,385 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Video tape with "Recipes and Icing Tips" booklet! Learn the secrets of creating simple but elegant cakes directly from Martha Stewart. Follow along with your own pastry bag and decorating tips as she shows you step-by-step how easy it is to make some of her favorite designs -- impressive ruffles, basket weaves, leaves and ribbons. With a little practice, you'll soon be designing your own wonderful decorations on cakes for special occasions. Watch as Martha decorates a traditional Easter lamb cake in Swiss meringue and a delightful carrot cake complete with a tiny marzipan vegetable garden. Martha also fully explains the surprisingly simple architecture of building a four-tier wedding cake. Special guests demonstrate their celebrated techniques. Ann Warren of New York's Cupcake Cafe reveals methods for making vibrantly hued buttercream flowers, and pastry pro Fran Jacobs creates petits fours.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it for the Ann Warren segment, February 12, 2008

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This review is from: Cake Decorating ~ The Best of Martha Stewart Living (VHS Tape)

The best part of this tape is the Ann Warren segment, where she does all the beautiful, realistic-looking flowers (as opposed to the rather plain, stiff-looking flowers you see on most shop-decorated cakes . Next best is Martha demonstrating basic techniques (basket weave, leaves, etc.) with the decorating bag and tips. The remaining segments are interesting as well.

The booklet is not essential. Cake recipes abound, and the Ann Warren buttercream frosting is in both her book The Cupcake Cafe Cookbook (which also has some useful tips for using and fixing this frosting), and in the February '96 issue of Martha Stewart Living. She also mentions quantities of ingredients on the tape, so you can get the recipe from it as well.

However, good as it is, it is not worth over $20 used--I bought it for $5 here on Amazon. I hope it will be re-released on DVD at some point in the future.