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Sugarlicious Paperback – February 7, 2012

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With a dab of bright icing and a sprinkle of color, you can transform drab sugar cookies into glowing planets, plain marshmallows into scary zombies and simple cake pops into blooming flowers. Meaghan Mountford, creator of the blog The Decorated Cookie and the Edible Crafts editor of CraftGossip.com, shares her secrets for producing adorable, edible art.

Full of beautiful color photos and illustrated step-by-step directions, this guide will demystify professional techniques so that anyone can learn how to pipe icing like a pro and have fun with fondant.

With the lively inspiration and foolproof directions in this book, you can discover how to personalize any sweet treat and turn your home kitchen into a studio for sugarlicious works of art!

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240 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Harlequin
Publication date

February 7, 2012
Dimensions

7.38 x 0.44 x 9.13 inches
ISBN-10

0373892543
ISBN-13

978-0373892549
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Meaghan Mountford has been a professional cookie decorator for over a decade. Mountford’s cookies have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Modern Bride and Chocolatier magazine. She is the edible crafts editor at the popular website CraftGossip.com, and her blog, The Decorated Cookie, has been featured on hundreds of sites, including Saveur, Bright Ideas, The Hostess with the Mostess, The Kitchn, Readers Digest, and MSN. Visit her at TheDecoratedCookieBlog.com.

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Recipe ingredients

Almost every recipe ingredient should be available in your supermarket. The exceptions—meringue powder, candy melts and glycerin—should be available in the baking aisle of any craft store. Check the Resources for stores and online suppliers.

Baking soda and baking powder. Both are leavening agents, and baking powder contains baking soda, but even so, don't mix these up.

Butter. Use good-quality, unsalted sticks of butter. But if you accidentally bought salted, you'll be fine. Just reduce the salt in the recipe a smidgen.

Cake flour. The recipe for petits fours calls for cake flour. Cake flour has a lower protein content than all-purpose flour, which means it produces less gluten and makes for a smoother, more tender cake.

Candy melts. These are also known as candy coating, wafers or confectionary coating. Of a similar consistency to chocolate chips and shaped like a disk, candy melts melt smoothly to easily coat sweets. Candy melts come in a variety of flavors (chocolate, peanut butter, vanilla, butterscotch) and colors (white, brown, green, orange, pink, red, purple, black, yellow, blue and more). You'll likely find the Wilton brand in the craft store. Other brands, available in specialty stores and online, include CK Products, Make 'n Mold and Merckens. Check the Resources for tips on where to buy.

Chocolate chips. To melt chocolate, chips are the easiest. Semisweet and milk chocolate are used here.

Clear vanilla extract. If it's not in your supermarket, find this in the craft store or specialty stores. This is handy when making fondant and icing as the color stays a purer white. You may use regular vanilla extract in recipes calling for clear vanilla extract, but you will need to add additional white food coloring if your decoration requires white fondant or icing.

Confectioners' sugar. Confectioners' sugar is also known as powdered or icing sugar. Choose the larger, two-pound bag, as you will use quite a bit of this. If you use organic sugar in recipes for icing or fondant, note that it is not bleached, so your icings will have a brown hue. Simply add additional white food coloring to brighten the icing or fondant.

Eggs. Crack open the large ones.

Flour. Unless otherwise noted, use all-purpose flour.

Fruit preserves. You may brush petits fours with fruit preserves between layers, or coat the tops and sides to enable fondant to adhere when covering petits fours.

Gelatin. Available in the supermarket, this is used to make homemade rolled fondant.

Glycerin. A sweet, clear, viscous liquid useful to prevent icing from drying out, this is used to make homemade rolled fondant. Find it in the craft store.

Granulated sugar. Standard table sugar will do.

Light corn syrup. This is an ingredient in royal icing, fondant and candy clay, but it also makes a great "glue" for edible crafting.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harlequin; Original edition (February 7, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0373892543
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0373892549
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.44 x 9.13 inches

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I've been a professional cookie decorator for over a decade. My cookies have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brides Magazine, and Chocolatie. I'm the Edible Crafts editor at the popular website CraftGossip.com, and I write the blog The Decorated Cookie. My first book is "Cookie Sensations," and my second is "Sugarlicious: 50 Cute and Clever Treats for Every Occasion." I live in Washington, D.C. with my husband, daughter and three cats.

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BB

Perfect book for creating sweet treats!

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2012

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I've been a fan of Meaghan and the Decorated Cookie blog for a while now. What I love about Meaghan....besides her humor and generosity in sharing her "secrets"...is that her treats are accessible to any home cook. The ideas are darling, and with Meaghan's clear written and ILLUSTRATED instructions, they are easy to replicate.

In response to another reviewer who said the recipes and techniques are on her blog, as an avid reader of Meaghan's blog...I am pretty confident that most of the projects are new for the book. Yes, some of the techniques are on the blog, but would I rather search a blog, bring my computer to the kitchen, mess with it going into "hibernate mode" while my fingers are sticky with sugar and fondant, OR would I rather have a beautiful book? A book I can hold in my hands, a book I can make notes in, a book I can use without having to get my computer keys sticky? I always choose the book. :)

If you're looking for a book full of easy-to-recreate, fun, and colorful treats, you'll find it in Sugarlicious.

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BB (Virginia

Well Done with a wide range of fun sweets

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2012

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I placed an advance order for this book as soon as I knew it was possible. Meaghan topped her last book by expanding the use of many different materials in novel and whimsical ways. I love her clear writing style, illustrations, photos and supply sources which make is simple to learn new techniques. Best of all, she makes the process fun and engages children in a fresh way. Many of the sweets can be completed quickly within the attention span of little ones. All of the treats are very doable. And the results are amazing! Meaghan makes the sweet crafts very approachable and not at all intimadating. She lures the reader into absolute confidence that they will be able to have fun with the process proud to share what they make. Great gift and party ideas too!

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Gina C. Dowd

Sugarlicious-A great book for anyone who wants great ideas.

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2012

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I have been following The Decorated Cookie site on facebook for quite awhile. I love that he has original ideas that are simple enough for a novice, but creative enough to use for a party or event. When I found out she had a book, I pre-ordered it immediately. I didn't care if it had stuff from her site. I was hoping it did. Going back to the computer to look for an item is a pain. So to have it all at my fingertips is great. She breaks the book up into sections so if you just need techniques you can go to that section, etc. I absolutely love this book and just keep reading it over and over.
For the people who bought it who are not happy, well, I don't really know what they expected. If they knew her site and knew her work they would have known what to expect.
Buy Sugarlicious. I promise, you won't be disappointed. And continue to check out her site. It is great. She even has giveaways. She is wonderful. The book is awesome. Don't know what else to say. If I could give it more than five stars, I would.

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J. Tsao

Gorgeous pictures

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2012

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The creations in this book are gorgeous. I know I'll never be able to make treats that look as good as these, but I love looking at the pictures. I will say that there are definitely ideas in this book for every level of sweet crafter. There are ideas in here that I could do right now and ideas that I could probably do with some practice. There are also a few fairly complicated ideas that I'll never have the patience for, but I do like looking at the pictures anyway!

I've been reading The Decorated Cookie Blog, and while some of the ideas in there have been previously published on the blog, many of them are new.

The book has everything from cookie & cupcake decorating to working with sugar paste. There are simple sugar cookie projects and complex projects that have multiple types of sweets. What I like most about the book though (aside from the beautiful pictures) is that Meaghan spends half the book actually explaining what ingredients are what, how to use them and how to use the techniques shown in the book.

There are tips throughout the book and each idea clearly lists the materials and tools needed and references pages that go through the detailed techniques.

I've bought a lot of other books that don't really have the pedantic step-by-step that a beginner needs and this one does and I love it. In addition to the project instructions and tips, there is an entire section on techniques from simple (frosting cupcakes with a decorating bag) to more complex (using edible icing sheets and working with candy clay).

There is even a section on how to package your treats if you will be sharing with others and Meagan also provides sources (online & brick & mortar) to buy all the materials she uses in the book.

If you are looking for additional ideas for sweet creations and/or a book that actually gives you enough information to make complex creations - this is the book for you. If you just like looking at pretty colorful pictures of treats, you should also get this book!

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Beth Cox Murray

Too Beautiful To Keep With The Cookbooks!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2012

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I love, love, love this book! The pictures are so vibrant and adorable, and every recipe I've tried is delicious. Sugarlicious is perfect for a crafty beginner, with all of it's tips and clear instructions, and just as perfect for an ambitious crafty baker that wants a challenge. The designations of "easy," "moderate," or "challenging" help you choose which recipe or craft to take on next.

The tips and shortcuts are really helpful and insightful. I am especially excited to make the Christmas petits fours, since I have been known to spend an obscene amount buying them in the past. The author has such a fresh take and new vision for desserts and treats, every page is a gift!

I love Meaghan's blogs, but to have a hard copy of her beautiful pictures and great ideas in the kitchen is inspiring!

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J. Williamson

Fun with icing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2012

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For a cake decorator looking for new ideas or a mum wanting to do something different for their child's cake, this is a good book. I fall into both those categories. Only downside is that it is an American book, so you might have trouble getting some of the items she uses but apart from that it is full of ideas, is bright and cheery and makes you want to have a go.

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Julia

Schöne Ideen

Reviewed in Germany on May 13, 2013

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Viele schöne Ideen, doch leider fehlen die besonderen Highlights.
Wer bereits mehrere Bücher hat, z.B. Martha Steward, dem wird das außergewöhliche fehlen.

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