Step by step guide to decorate your cakes from easy to intricate recipes, how to cover your cakes with icing etc and how to make embellishments The flowers in this book are stunning.
Everyone has seen wedding, birthday, and anniversary cakes decorated with sugar flowers. But Alan Dunn carries this familiar craft to a degree of artistic perfection that’s breathtaking. Now he shares his secrets, providing home bakers with instructions for making the botanically accurate floral designs that have made him a world leader in his field. With plans for modeling 40 different species of flowers and plants, from golden gardenias to the blue butterfly bush, plus sprays and arrangements—along with plans for 14 cakes—this is the last word in the magical art of sugarcraft.
Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques in this valuable 4 lesson Course. Begin with intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, stringwork, garland and ruffle borders. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including lovely holiday blooms like poinsettias and Easter lilies and other advanced flowers like petunia and morning glory. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a towering tiered cake with beautiful stringwork, flowers and borders.
Build on the skills you learned in Course 1. Your helpful Instructor will introduce you to many dramatic techniques to make your cakes unforgettable. Master elegant new borders featuring rosettes, reverse shells and rope designs. Give your cakes incredible dimension with the addition of bold color flow decorations. Create lovely new flowers like rosebuds, daisies, daffodils, mums and more. Use these flowers in a grand finale - an impressive flower basket cake using the interwoven basket weave technique. Medium used will be royal icing and buttercream.
