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Wedding Cakes (Victoria Magazine)

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I make wedding cakes, so I buy every book and magazine on the subject. If you're a bride, just buy this book to look at the photos of the cakes, but take the advice with a grain of salt. There are so many inconsistencies and just blatantly incorrect information about cakes in it that I was actually getting mad while reading the text. Some of the descriptions of the photos are obviously wrong, the descriptions of the various icings aren't right in a few cases, and that's just a couple of examples. In one case there are three conflicting statements about how to cut the cake...on one page it gives one size per slice, on another it gives a different size, and on a third there's a picture of a wedge of cake and it says that's how it's done. In another case they talk about toxic flowers, and specifically say that if you're going to use sweet peas you should make them out of sugar. On a page fairly close to that, there's a photo of a cake covered in real sweet peas...huh??? It might seem like no big deal, but if you're trying to become educated about wedding cakes before buying one, this isn't the book to buy. The photos of cakes are okay, but I was disappointed by the fact that none of the photo descriptions gave credit to the cake decorators, or listed any contact information for the bakers. The photo credits at the back only list the photographers, so if you want more information about a certain cake you're out of luck.

This book was a huge disappointment. I love Victoria Magazine, and the reason I bought this book was that I was told that one of my cakes was featured in the book (without my permission, I might add). Well, not only did they use the photo of my cake, but they didn't even give me credit. The only people in the book who received credit were the photographers. And 75% of the photos that they did use were either out of focus or of cakes that were sadly so amateurish, I'm embarassed to be in the same book. The cover of the book isn't even the same as the cover shown above.
Many of the facts they have in the book are wrong, also, like who was doing cakes in the early 80s. They could have used a fact checker for that .
Wedding cakes have come a long way since the 80s, and if this is the best they could come up with, then someone is truly misguided.

I have been buying from Amazon for years, and this is the first review I have written... and NOT to rave about this purchase, but to convey my disappointment. I was expecting a more professional book... this is certainly not it... I also decorate cakes, and was confused as to how this one got the description it did.... and yes... WHY IS THE COVER OF THE BOOK NOT PROVIDED??? The picture here is located way in the back of the book, and is much smaller... I also thought I received the wrong book... I have to say, that the picture they did choose to advertise the book was the best of the bunch.... so just look at this picture and forget the book.

I liked the cake on the cover (which happens to be the same cover listed on amazon.com) but the photos inside were horrible. They were very fuzzy and you couldn't see the detail of the cakes that well. The cakes were just okay, nothing fabulous to look at.

First of all, this is not a book for those of you who want to learn how to decorate cakes. This is a book for the bride who wants to learn about the right cake to ORDER. My cover matched the one shown so, maybe the book has a couple different covers, not a big deal. Anyway, I enjoyed the book but, if you are looking for a how-to on how to bake and decorate your own cake, this is not for you.

"Wedding Cakes" first of all I thought I got the wrong book, the cover does not match the same book shown for that title. Being a person who does wedding cakes for a living, I was truly disappointed with the quality of cakes shown(very amateur).

The pictures are sloppy and amateurish. The editorial is very inaccurate. The author/editor appears to have done little or no research and clearly does not know the first thing about cake decorating. There are so many great cake decorating books out there. Don't waste your money on this one.

Note to the idiot from Ilford, England whose review suggests that this is a bad book because it only features American bakers instead of British bakers: there are plenty of books that only feature American style cake decorating which are GREAT. There are two different styles: british decorating covers everything with some sort of rolled icing and cement-tasting flowers. American usually uses soft, piped icings. Both styles can be incredibly complex in their own way and require great skill. This reason this book is bad is not because it is a typical example of american skill, as you sugggest. It's bad because it's NOT typical. The author wasn't really interested in showcasing the best examples.

The cover of this book does not match the one above...but does that really matters?????!!!!!!!! Is a nice cover anyway. The pictures inside???....I dont see anything wrong in them!!!!!!!
Give this book a chance. The designs of the cakes could have been better but the bakers featured are not british..at the end of the day the book shows the kind of work american bakers do.