Celebrate with a Cake!: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating 15 Memorable Cakes

Lindy Smith

ISBN 10: 0715318454 / ISBN 13: 9780715318454

Edité par David & Charles, United Kingdom, Newton Abbot, 2005

Celebrate with a Cake Learn how to make 15 amazing celebration cakes with step-by-step instruction from Lindy Smith, author of the bestselling The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. From eye-catching stacked, tiered and column cakes, to romantic hearts and novelty ideas, Celebrate with a Cake has a cake design for every occasion! Lindy also includes instructions for co-ordinating cupcakes, variations and ideas to customize each cake design to your own celebration, as well as baking recipes, preparation techniques, shortcuts, and advice on colour and decoration - everything you need to know to bake and decorate perfect cakes! Inside Celebrate with a Cake: Expert Techniques - learn how to bake, assemble and cover cakes, how to make and use sugarpaste (rolled fondant), buttercream, royal icing and modelling paste, and how to use sugar shapers and cake decorating tools to cut out and create special modelled sugarcraft embellishments. Gorgeous Projects - create 15 different celebration cakes for a wide variety of occasions, including: Weddings Engagements Anniversaries Christenings Birthdays Valentine's Day Mother's Day. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR002568932

Synopsis :

Celebrate special moments such as weddings, anniversaries, Christenings and birthdays with a cake as memorable as the occasion. Well-known novelty cake designer Lindy Smith offers a comprehensive guide to making a range of beautiful celebration cakes, and guides the reader step by step from baking and carving to icing and adding special finishing touches. A clear techniques section introduces the wide range of equipment available to today's cake maker, and explains how to make sponge, fruitcake, fondant, buttercream and other recipes required. The 15 projects have easy-to-follow illustrated steps revealing how to create and decorate the cakes. Handy tips for short-cuts and creative variation ideas throughout allow you to tailor each cake to your timescale and taste, resulting in bespoke cakes for any occasion. Handy templates and cutting guides are provided to ensure professional results every time.

À propos de l?auteur: Lindy Smith is a British Sugarcraft Guild accredited demonstrator with over 20 years experience in sugarcrafting and is the author of eight cake decorating books, including the worldwide best-seller The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. She runs a successful cake decorating business and online shop, called Lindy's Cakes Ltd, and teaches cake decorating and sugarcraft courses all around the world. Visit her website at: www.lindyscakes.co.uk

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Celebrate with a Cake!: A Step-by-Step Guide...
Éditeur : David & Charles, United Kingdom, Newton Abbot
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good