35 fabulous recipes. Insider tips and helpful hints create successful results every time. See the secrets behind expert effects like marbling and woodgraining. There's a roaring dinosaur, and a mouthwatering burger-and-fries for children's birthday parties, and a set of cakes for every other occasion that might come up. Now, you don't need to go to culinary school to look as if you did!
Carol Deacon began cake decorating by accident when a friend asked her to make a birthday cake. The idea of combining creativity with model making and something that also tasted great really appealed to her. Early designs won her gold medals in competitions and even a car in an icing competition run by a food magazine. Carol left her then job in advertising and worked for a year at Jane Asher's cake shop in Chelsea, London. Carol then went freelance and as well as running a succesful wedding cake business and writing books, Carol has designed and written for many food and cake magazines and has demonstrated her edible artistic skills in the UK, abroad and on TV. Carol lives in England with her husband, three children and a kitchen full of ideas and sticky bits of icing as she works on ideas for her next book.
