Cake Decorating for Dummies

by Joe LoCicero

Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids' cakes

Easy at-home instruction for making and decorating fabulous cakes

Want to make beautiful cakes? This fun, instructive guide gives you simple techniques for creating cakes for all celebrations. You get expert advice in all the basics -- from baking to icing to decorating with style. You'll also find delicious foolproof recipes, great ideas for themed cakes, and savvy tips for starting a cake decorating business!

Discover how to:


* Find ingredients and supplies
*

Make a cake from scratch
*

Use frostings and fillings
*

Cut and serve a cake
*

Troubleshoot cake catastrophes
*

Master creative techniques

Genres: Cooking, Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Ebooks

362 pages, Paperback

First published April 9, 2007

Reviews

[Ben Kellermann]

Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids' cakes

Easy at-home instruction for making and decorating fabulous cakes

Want to make beautiful cakes? This fun, instructive guide gives you simple techniques for creating cakes for all celebrations. You get expert advice in all the basics — from baking to icing to decorating with style. You'll also find delicious foolproof recipes, great ideas for themed cakes, and savvy tips for starting a cake decorating business!

Discover how to:

Find ingredients and supplies
Make a cake from scratch
Use frostings and fillings
Cut and serve a cake
Troubleshoot cake catastrophes
Master creative techniques

[Marie]

I read this for the summer reading program at my library. I was interested to see if I could really learn how to decorate cakes by reading a book. I'm not so sure, the designs don't look or sound so easy. I did enjoy some of the tips and the recipes sound good.

[Melissa Bond]

Very easy to follow, but most of what it tells you comes straight from the back of tubes of icing, and backs of cake mixes. However, the brief section on fondant and recipes/handling methods/materials for making fondant was worth the read. Otherwise, this is best for someone creating their very first cake from scratch. More experienced bakers will most likely tend to speed read to find some helpful tips, but not very many.

[DC]

More of an impulse buy >_>; Have always been wanting to do cake decorating ever since I attended a seminar on making cakes. (Actual review to follow)

[Katy]

Just an all around excellent book for those of us who don't have much of a clue about cake decorating. Best chocolate mousse cake filling recipe ever!

[Theresa Mantzke floyd]

Quite informative, I enjoyed it.

[Megan]

Cool, but after reading it I decided I'm not interested in cake decorating any more.

[Kiki]

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