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.
Arranged as a twenty-lesson coursebook, The International School of Sugarcraft, Book One teaches how to make perfect cakes, icings, frostings, runouts, ribbon work, frills, collars, lettering, modelling, and piped decorations.
This is a text book for sugarcraft courses, designed to provide a basic understanding and a starting point for anyone embarking upon sugarcraft as a creative hobby or career. There are different sections that cover the basics such as baking simple cakes, and recipes for a selection of icings, marzipans and sugarpastes.
The International School of Sugarcraft Book Two(Bk.2)
This volume, created for more experienced decorators, teaches the intricate and sophisticated skills of tube and brush embroidery, lace, figure modeling, sugar flower sprays, bas relief, pastillage and filigree.