The All-color Cake Decorating Course

The All-color Cake Decorating Course
Author: Elaine MacGregor
Publisher: HP Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1989-11-30
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Provides recipes for cakes, fillings, and icings, demonstrates special decorating techniques, and shows each step in making festive, fantasy, and celebration cakes.

Professional Cake Decorating

Professional Cake Decorating
Author: Toba M. Garrett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-01-24
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0470380098

The comprehensive guide to amazing cake decoration—now fully updated Professional Cake Decorating is a must-have resource for professional and aspiring cake artists, baking and pastry students, and cake decorating hobbyists, drawing on years of experience from master cake designer and IACP Award nominee Toba Garrett. This Second Edition has been completely revamped with gorgeous new photography and a fresh new design. The New Skills have been re-organized into a user-friendly, step-by-step format, and line art and photos throughout the book provide a visual reference for each new technique. The book begins with an introductory chapter on all the fundamentals of the cake designer's art, from covering a cake board to assembling and icing a layered cake to stacking cake tiers with pillars or columns. Subsequent chapters cover decorating techniques including Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Piping Skills, The Art of Writing and Painting, Royal Icing Design Skills, Hand Modeling Skills, Pastillage Construction, Gumpaste Flowers, and much more. A chapter on Miniature Cakes and Decorated Cookies includes techniques for making petit fours and other small treats, while the Cake and Confectionery Gallery provides inspiration for decorators with nearly 20 full-page photos of breathtaking cakes and information on the techniques needed to complete each one. Garrett also includes recipes for cakes, fillings, icings, cookies, and more, as well as an appendix of templates to help decorators replicate the designs shown in the book.

Wedding Cakes with Lorelie Step by Step

Wedding Cakes with Lorelie Step by Step
Author: Lorelie Carvey
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540462473

Experience the Joy and Delight of Creating Amazing Wedding Cakes from Scratch. Lorelie Carvey will show you how to make and decorate the perfect wedding cake. The award-winning pastry chef has spent over thirty years perfecting her techniques and now offers advice that will ensure a sweet memory for your bride's special day. From the first idea to the spectacular result, Carvey guides you through everything you need to know to make the ultimate dream dessert. She includes her favorite recipes, like her chocolate buttermilk cake, hazelnut cake, chocolate mousse, lemon cream cheese, Italian meringue buttercream, and so much more. Carvey personally perfected each recipe during her baking career. In addition to recipes, Carvey clearly and comprehensively explains and demonstrates (with detailed photos) the baking and decorating techniques so you can create your unique cake design. With her own guide to ingredients, cooking methods, baking utensils, and decorating tips, you'll have everything you need to create a magnificent wedding cake that will be remembered and cherished by everyone. Your purchase comes with benefits including...a membership to Lorelie's exclusive cake support group, step by step video, a discount coupon for Cake Stackers, printable guides to pan sizes with number of servings, cups of batter, baking temperatures, baking times and cups of icing to frost and decorate. It also includes a guide to bakers measures and equivalents, emergency substitutions, cake ingredients, functions, fails and causes, a photo tutorial of delivering your cakes, plus cake decorating ideas and instruction.

How to Cake It

How to Cake It
Author: Yolanda Gampp
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1443453900

From Yolanda Gampp, host of the massively popular, award-winning YouTube sensation “How to Cake It,” comes an inspiring “cakebook” with irresistible new recipes and visual instructions for creating spectacular novelty cakes for all skill levels. On her entertaining YouTube Channel, “How to Cake It,” Yolanda Gampp creates mind-blowing cakes in every shape imaginable. From a watermelon to a human heart to food-shaped cakes such as burgers and pizzas—Yolanda’s creations are fun and realistic. Now, Yolanda brings her friendly, offbeat charm and caking expertise to this colorful cakebook filled with imaginative cakes to make at home. How to Cake It: A Cakebook includes directions for making twenty-one jaw-dropping cakes that are gorgeous and delicious, including a few fan favorites with a fresh twist, and mind-blowing new creations. Yolanda shares her coveted recipes and pro tips, taking you step-by-step from easy, kid-friendly cakes (no carving necessary and simple fondant work) to more difficult designs (minimal carving and fondant detail) to aspirational cakes (carving, painting and gum-paste work). Whatever the celebration, Yolanda has the perfect creation, including her never before seen Candy Apple Cake, Party Hat, Rainbow Grilled Cheese Cake, Toy Bulldozer Cake and even a Golden Pyramid Cake, which features a secret treasure chamber! Written in her inspiring, encouraging voice and filled with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photos, How to Cake It: A Cakebook will turn beginners into confident cake creators, and confident bakers into caking superstars!

All-in-One Guide to Cake Decorating

All-in-One Guide to Cake Decorating
Author: Janice Murfitt
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1620082411

This comprehensive and accessible guide to cake decorating teaches all of the techniques and tricks that aspiring sugarcrafters need to create stunning and impressive cakes. Everyone will think these amazing cakes came from the best bakery in town! First Steps in Cake Decorating reveals dozens of expert cake decorating ideas that are simple to achieve yet look stunning. All the most popular methods of icing and decoration are covered, including buttercream, sugarpaste, chocolate, marzipan and flower paste. Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions explain the basics of preparing and using different types of icing, illustrated with step-by-step color photographs. There is a delicious array of fantastic cakes here to suit adults and children alike. Beginners will pick up the basics fast, and even experienced cake decorators will find inspirational new ideas. About All-in-One Guide to Cake Decorating: A complete, structured course in the beautiful art of cake decorating from first steps to expert skills. Teaches techniques that can be used to decorate all kinds of cake from a novelty birthday cake to a memorable wedding cake. Over 300 instructional step-by-step color photographs show how to decorate more than 50 finished cakes. Clearly written, straightforward text covers every aspect of sugarcrafting skill. Includes covering cakes, filling and layering, icings, chocolate, sugarpaste, marzipan, piping, flower paste, and quick and easy decoration ideas. ""A 'must have' for anyone with the slightest interest in cake decorating"" -- Publishers Weekly

The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating

The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating
Author: Autumn Carpenter
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2012-02
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1589236696

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all of the most popular cake decorating techniques, including piped frosting, fondant, and hand modeled figures. For each technique, there is an overview of the tools and materials used and complete instructions with photos. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects allow the reader to try the techniques in each section. Galleries of decorated cakes by various artists offer the reader examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Zoë Bakes Cakes

Zoë Bakes Cakes
Author: Zoë François
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1984857371

IACP AWARD FINALIST • The expert baker and bestselling author behind the Magnolia Network original series Zoë Bakes explores her favorite dessert—cakes!—with more than 85 recipes to create flavorful and beautiful layers, loafs, Bundts, and more. “Zoë’s relentless curiosity has made her an artist in the truest sense of the word.”—Joanna Gaines, co-founder of Magnolia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME OUT Cake is the ultimate symbol of celebration, used to mark birthdays, weddings, or even just a Tuesday night. In Zoë Bakes Cakes, bestselling author and expert baker Zoë François demystifies the craft of cakes through more than eighty-five simple and straightforward recipes. Discover treats such as Coconut–Candy Bar Cake, Apple Cake with Honey-Bourbon Glaze, and decadent Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake. With step-by-step photo guides that break down baking fundamentals—like creaming butter and sugar—and Zoë’s expert knowledge to guide you, anyone can make these delightful creations. Featuring everything from Bundt cakes and loaves to a beautifully layered wedding confection, Zoë shows you how to celebrate any occasion, big or small, with delicious homemade cake.

Creative Color for Cake Decorating

Creative Color for Cake Decorating
Author: Lindy Smith
Publisher: David & Charles
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781446302385

Learn how to choose and use colours creatively in your cake decorating projects with 10 amazing cake designs from Lindy Smith, author of the international bestseller The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. Discover how to adapt cake designs to your own colour schemes, how to take colour inspiration from objects and environments around you to create your own unique palettes, and how to use the food paste colours available to best effect on stunning decorated cakes. Includes 10 colour-themed chapters each with an amazing cake decorating design and additional cupcake or cookie projects in alternative colourways, to show how selecting different colours can dramatically change the feel of your design. Step-by-step illustrated instructions cover every stage of cake design, from baking cakes and mixing colours to sugar modeling and adding finishing touches - perfect for both beginner and experienced cake decorators alike! Featuring a fully comprehensive index of all of the food paste colours available from the main suppliers in the UK, and full instructions on how to alter their tone, hue and intensity to suit your cake decorating needs.

The Essential Guide to Cake Decorating

The Essential Guide to Cake Decorating
Author:
Publisher: Merehurst
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Cake
ISBN: 9781853919541

The newcomer to cake decorating will be encouraged to great things by this colourful title, while more experienced decorators will be excited by the choice of recipes and techniques. Whether it's a simple chocolate buttercream house for a child's sticky birthday party, or a royal-iced wedding cake for fifty guests, the clear instructions and beautiful photography will reassure and inspire.

The Cookie Companion

The Cookie Companion
Author: Georganne Bell
Publisher: Front Table Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781462116959

Craft the ultimate cookie creations for holidays and parties! In this comprehensive guide, master sugar artist and internationally popular blogger Georganne Bell shares all her insider tips and inspiring ideas. Learn how to create decadent designs and colorful cookies that look and taste amazing! With a wealth of resources you won't find elsewhere, this book is perfect for beginning decorators and seasoned pros alike.