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Cake Sculpture & Sculptured Figure Piping

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This is the only book by this Author that i have been disappointed in.The idea of this book is great,cake sculpture's would be a great thing to be able to do.I find this book to be beyond any cake decorator i know.Decorating the cakes themselves is easy enough but to make the sculpture you also need to be a carpenter.Or at least know someone who has all these wood cutting tools & the ability to make the bases for these cakes.You have to have several different wooden bases which act as your cake board & they are in layers throughout the cake.Its like your making a cake inside of a shelf.If you can do these your a very talented person and have my admiration!You could also charge alot for them & make some good money because people would want to buy them.Examples of the cakes that are in it is ; a bird,elephant,tiger,hobo,bull,rabbit,bear,scarecrow,man's head,crab,a very cute baby,foot,beer bottle,woman,and a man.If your not up to this challenge{ as i am not} look at this author's other books.The figure piping book is great as well as the cone figures.

I have always admired Roland Winbecklers' "works of art," so when I ordered this book I knew it would take great skill and patience to do cake sculpturing. When I received this thin 35 page 'booklet' (not a book by any means!) with very few 'actual' picture illustrations (it only contained sketches), not to mention the very few pictures it did contain were black and white, I felt very cheated and didn't learn anything from it!
Again, Roland Winbeckler is a master at cake sculpturing, he just needs to work on writing a BETTER and FULLER book if he truly wants to show his readers how to learn this craft; rather than charging [price] for this OLD worthless 'booklet'.

I really wish I had read all the reviews to find out that this is not really a "book" but a "booklet". It is OK, but not enough information to justify the price of $12.95.

The information provided is simple and to the point. I do think you need to have some artistic background when it comes to the carving and forming...that was difficult. If you want to create something simple it will do.

This was way over my head. I purchased this book because it was a roland winbeckler book and it was such a cheap price. This book attempts to instruct readers how to construct large cake sculpting projects that require PCV pipes. I'm just not there yet.

THIS BOOK IS VERY INTERESTING. IT IS AMZING TO SEE HOW CAKE CAN BE USED AS A CONTRUCTION MEDIA.

The latest edition (2007) of this book (purchased on Amazon.com) has lots of color pages and step-by-step photos of a sculpture being created. The price is very reasonable to be able to learn from 30 years of experience from the master of cake sculpture. The only way to not learn from this book would be to not read it.

You will be amazed by the cake pictures in this book. Some full, life-size famous figures all made out of cake and decorated to look like the real person.