Wilton 902-1066 40-Page Soft-Cover Cake-Decorating Guide, Fondant and Gum Paste

by Wilton

Product Features

• 40-page soft-cover guide explores tips and techniques for working with fondant and gum paste
• For use as a stand-alone or to accompany a Wilton's in-store Fondant and Gum Paste class
• Step-by-step instructions and photography for borders, swags, flowers, appliques, and more
• Great for birthdays, holidays, and other occasions; Cake Decorating Courses 1, 2, and 3 sold separately
• Measures approximately 8-2/5 by 11 by 1/5 inches

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.1 inches ; 4.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00188HNYY
• Item model number: 902-1066
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,468 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

For a fun, hands-on approach to specific techniques within the art of cake decorating, turn to this user-friendly course created by cake-decorating professionals. The 40-page soft-cover guide offers vivid photography and in-depth, step-by-step instructions for a variety of fondant and gum-paste techniques--everything from draping cakes in elegant swags and borders to shaping flowers, creating appliques, and more. Designed to accompany Wilton's in-store Fondant and Gum Paste class, the volume also stands alone as a handy reference guide for novice or professional home decorators alike. Best of all, it can be used as a follow-up to the simpler decorating techniques found in Wilton's Cake Decorating Courses 1, 2, and 3 (sold separately). A great reference when concocting birthday, holiday, anniversary, and other special-occasion or everyday confections, the cake-decorating guide measures approximately 8-2/5 by 11 by 1/5 inches.

Product Description

Student guide for Wilton's Fondant and Gum Paste course. With rolled fondant and gum paste, there's no limit to the incredible decorations you can make for your cakes. These dough-like icings are easy to cut and shape to create breathtaking flowers and beautifully-textured drapes and borders. You'll learn how to handle, cut, and tint fondant and gum paste, cover a cake and board with fondant, and add effects such as ribbon garlands, rope borders, punched strips, inlays, and appliqué s. And you'll create a variety of gum paste flowers, including daisies, carnations, and leaves. 40 pages, soft cover. Intended for participants in Wilton's Fondant and Gum Paste classes, but may also be used as a self-study guide.

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice basic booklet., June 22, 2008

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ThespiSis (Middle Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wilton 902-1066 40-Page Soft-Cover Cake-Decorating Guide, Fondant and Gum Paste (Kitchen)

This little booklet is short and sweet. It offers some basic tools, methods, and projects for working with fondant to decorate cakes. Best is the section on making gum paste carnations. The only downside is that it is geared towards Wilton products, so there are no "from scratch" recipes, which would be really nice. The only recipe is for a buttercream that uses a Wilton powder mix, and I'd rather just make mine from scratch. Also, the Wilton fondant is terrible, so you'll want to get another brand or make your own before trying out the techniques in this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, but Advertisement for Wilton Products, March 9, 2010

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Charlotte Sometimes (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wilton 902-1066 40-Page Soft-Cover Cake-Decorating Guide, Fondant and Gum Paste (Kitchen)

I have limited experience working with fondant. Everything I learned, I learned on my own or through videos online. So when I purchased this book, if you want to call it that (it's more like a pamphlet), I was really excited to to learn new techniques and ways of doing things.
What I like and appreciate about this book is that it explains all of the Wilton tools and what they do. But beware, it doesn't go into great depth about tools--just a simple explanation next to the picture. I was looking more for a book that would explain more about what each tool does and various effects that can be created. This was simply an advertisement for Wilton products, which is fine, but I wish I had known that prior to purchasing the book. In retrospect,I really should have known since it is a Wilton book.
This is a great book for beginners, but moreseo, for children who really want to get into cake decorating with fondant. Apparently this book accompanies a class in real life because the reader is asked several times to speak with our instructor.
All in all, this is a good book for learning how to handle Wilton fondant, how to make a few floral designs, how to cut ribbons using the Wilton ribbon cutter, how to color and dye fondant, how to drape fondant to make it appear like fabric, and even includes simple buttercream recipes.
The cake designs, in my opinion, are really not that impressive. Much of the book includes simplistic designs incorporating cut-outs and draping.
While it wasn't exactly what I had in mind, this book does serve as an excellent starting point and even if you don't particularly like the designs, it can steer your imagination toward another direction.

Thanks for reading. This is just my opinion.:)

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointed, June 25, 2010

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teacher - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wilton 902-1066 40-Page Soft-Cover Cake-Decorating Guide, Fondant and Gum Paste (Kitchen)

The books I purchased were not worth what I paid. I will pay more attention to the number of pages when I purchase anything else. They were over $6.00 apiece, and NOT WORTH WHAT I PAID! VERY DISAPPOINTED!! I should have rated it a minus!