The recipes range from plain chocolate cakes that are simple to make and can be prepared and cooked in less than an hour, to those like Tipsy Cake or Chocolate Brandy Cake that are rich with dark chocolate, liquer and cream. Also included are some novelty cakes like the Butterfly Birthday Cake and the enchanting Fairy Castle Cake, and some individual cakes and buns. All the recipes are delicious and each one is illustrated with a mouth-watering colour photograph.
A collection of breathtaking wedding and celebration cakes from an internationally acclaimed cake stylist. Sure to delight, Romantic Wedding Cakes includes engagement and groom cakes, making this the ideal wedding cake design source book for brides-to-be and cake decorators alike.
Even those who have never baked and decorated a cake before in their lives will be able to make beautiful cakes with the help of this book. The first section of the book looks at the equipment you will need and demonstrates the standard cake and icing recipes required to bake and cover all kinds of cakes. Subsequent sections explain techniques for decorating with sugarpaste, royal icing, marzipan and buttercream. There are instructions on making sugar flowers and leaves, and many other sugarcraft techniques such as fabric effects, piping royal icing, modelling figures and animalsall accompanied by beautiful cake designs that are simple to create by following the clear.
Kate's Cake Decorating: Techniques and Tips for Fun and Fancy Cakes Baked with Love
Kate Sullivan has baked wedding cakes and party cakes for some of New York?s most interesting weddings and events. Her sought-after recipes, designs, and tips are compiled in this new volume, Kate?s Cake Decorating. This book features her recipes and cake-decorating tips as well as personal stories about creating and delivering cakes. She has used cookies as cake toppers, made dozens of multicolored flowers on a hat-shaped cake, and created cakes in the shapes of taxis and diner coffee cups. Whether a lush, vibrant ?Monsoon Wedding? cake or a larger-than-life, 3D ?Cup o? Joe to Go,? Kate?s cakes always inspire people to ask, ?How did she do that??
This is a really great book, it explains how to make some unbelievable cakes, the designs can be adapted for women & kids also. There is one cake in there, that is a swimming pool with all these women around it with no tops on! it is really funny, I've made it several times, sometimes even the girls have their shirts on! really funny book with great ideas! def. a good buy for your library
