First Steps in Cake Decorating: Over 100 Step-by-Step Cake Decorating Techniques and Recipes

by Janice Murfitt

Here are over 100 step-by-step cake decorating techniques and recipes needed to make and decorate cakes that are simple to create yet look stunning. If you are thinking of taking up cake decorating or have experience and want to add techniques to your repertoire, you'll find everything you need *All the most popular methods of icing and decoration *Buttercream, sugar paste, chocolate, marzipan, and flower paste *Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions *The basics of preparing and using different types of icing *Recipes for imaginative cakes for each method *And more! There are fantastic cakes to suit adults and children alike. Everyone will think these amazing cakes came from the best bakery in town. From a chocolate porcupine to candied petals, the options shown in this lush guide are seemingly endless, and all are presented in a way that even beginners can easily follow. Pretty sugar paste creations embellish a marzipan-covered cake. Nuts, sugar-frosted fruits, candy, and cinnamon sticks make beautiful decorations in an instant. And there are embossed patterns, ruffled borders, sugar paste cutouts, and other eye-catching ideas, all with instructions, recipes, and templates, to provide inspiration for every occasion. Decorating cakes for birthdays, anniversaries, children's parties, christenings, or weddings is a perennially popular subject. Nothing is nicer than receiving a cake that has that personal touch.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1993