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The Complete Book of Cake Decorating With Sugarpaste

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When I bought this book, I thought I'd be getting a book which tells me more about using sugarpaste to decorate cakes, new techniques, designs, etc.... I was wrong. It doesn't even have the drapes in sugarpaste.

As it turns out, it is basically a book with pictures of cakes, which have been decorated on a base of sugarpaste. Even the parts where there is some modelling done in sugarpaste, it doesn't seen very well described, or illustrated. Definitely something of a dissapointment. It spends as much time on piping icing as it does on sugarpaste.

I also have 'The International School of Sugarcraft' for beginners, and that tells me all that I need to know, and is better illustrated. However, if you need pictures of cakes for ideas, this may be an okay book for you.

DEFINITELY not a book for beginners!! It has directions like 'Shape the shoe from sugarpaste'!!! I mean, if I knew how to do that on command, then I won't be needing directions - I'd just be buying books with cakes in them, and making them myself. So much for step by step instructions....

This book is more for someone who makes European style cakes and already has the knowledge of fondant and gumpaste. Instructions would not be easy to follow for beginners, especially since the wording is European, hence the title "Sugarpaste". The cakes in this book, while most of them very pretty, are all fondant with ribbons and painting on them. The designs seem mostly to be for a pretty look and not a creative or "stand out" look.

This is a fantastic book for learning to work with sugarpaste. It was step by step and very informative, just makes you want to jump right in and get busy making pretty cakes. The book is in excellent condition and the price was great. I am very pleased that I bought it. I am sure that I will be buying more from Amazon.

Expected more....flowers too thick and chosen colours of cakes look like beginner's work. Not the standard I would strive for.

This book illustrates the use of sugarpaste / fondant icing decoration of cakes in the European style. the designs are classical and traditional by todays standards but make for a good reference book as well as providing a variety of different techniques. some books are specialist in nature such as 'run-outs,' 'piping,''flowers' etc., so this is a good all rounder.

The Complete Book of Cake Decorating With Sugarpaste by Sylvia Coward is filled with 50 original cake designs and step-by-step instructions for completing the cakes. The techniques encompassed in this book include floodwork (color flow), sugarpaste (rolled fondant), buttercream piping techniques, and pattern transfers.

The book includes an introduction that gives basic instruction in using decorating cones (parchment bags), decorating tubes (tips), glass stencils, ribbon work, and flowers (piped and sugarpaste). The final section of the book, and the most valuable for me, was a section of patterns. The author provided patterns for making sugarpaste flowers, floodwork collars, alphabet variations, and embroidery accents.

It's a nice and interesting book with different technics of how to use and make sugarpaste.