Cake Sculpture & Sculptured Figure Piping (Paperback)

~ Roland A. Winbeckler (Illustrator)

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Product Description

This book covers two aspects of cake decorating, cake sculpture and realistic figure piping of people. The author, Roland A. Winbeckler is famous around the world for his cake sculptures of celebrities. In this book, Roland explains how to create cake sculptures of all types. Most cake sculptures a decorator creates are smaller than Roland's trademark life-size sculptures. This book includes instructions for smaller sculptures to the life-size ones.

About the Author

Roland A. Winbeckler began his cake-decorating career in 1971. He worked in retail bakeries for 10 years, after which he started his own company, Winbeckler Enterprises, from which he produces and sells his instruction books, operates his professional cake decorating classes, and markets some specialty cake decorating supplies through mail order. Born in 1946, he is a lifelong resident of Kent, Washington, U.S.A.

He was a double gold medal winner at the World Culinary Olympics held in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1976.

He is the author of several instruction and pattern books on cake decorating.

He has written many articles for trade magazines dealing with the cake decorating and bakery field including Bakery Production and Marketing and American Cake Decorating.

He has been teaching professional cake decorating since 1975.

He has taught at the Culinary Institute of American in Hyde Park, New York, as well as many other prestigious institutions.

He has been a featured demonstrator at national Retailer's Bakery Association Conventions, the international cake decorators' conventions of the International Cake Exploration Society, and the 1991 Australian National Convention.

He has been featured on several instructional videotapes produced for The Retailer's Bakery Association as well as videos produced for the decorating public.

He has appeared on national television several times on such programs as "To Tell the Truth" and "You Asked for It" and has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles throughout the country.

He has created many life-sized cake sculptures for and/or of famous personalities such as Cher, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Wayne Gretzky, Colonel Sanders, Princess Diana, and others.

In 1992, Roland A. Winbeckler was inducted into the International Cake Exploration Society's (ICES) Cake Decorator's Hall of Fame.

Product Details

• Paperback: 35 pages
• Publisher: Winbeckler Enterprises; 1 edition (July 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930113063
• ISBN-13: 978-0930113063
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #583,216 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You have to be very crafty, October 28, 2000

By	"lrhnancy" (Charlotte, North Carolina) - See all my reviews

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.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars MAJOR WASTE OF MONEY!!!!, February 15, 2002

By	Lori J. Hill (Chicagoland, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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'.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars To the point!, December 16, 2008

By	Lilibeth Garcia "Lilibeth" (Mission, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.