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The Contemporary Buttercream Bible
Buttercream icing is the most delicious cake decorating medium, is very accessible and needs very little specialist equipment.
This essential guide demonstrates more than 50 innovative techniques via easy to follow step-by-step photographic tutorials and includes over 40 stunning cake designs to create at home, from simple cupcakes to three-tiered wonders.
Valeri & Christina start by showing you how to perfect a basic buttercream recipe and then how to pipe simple textures and patterns, and an array of flowers. They then demonstrate how to create a myriad of creative effects using diverse techniques such as stamping, stencilling, palette knife painting and much more.
Chef Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes has reviewed the book: "The Contemporary Buttercream Bible is an absolute game changer in the industry of cake art. I've never seen techniques and talent presented in such a way as to be concurrently hugely aspirational yet completely approachable. I look forward to learning all the skills that I, as an artist in rolled fondant, have only the most rudimentary grasp of. Not since Cakewalk by Margaret Braun have I been this excited about a cake book. Bravo!"
Sonya Hong - Americancakedecorating.com has also reviewed the book and her main take-away was that buttercream designs are limited only by one's imagination. "The authors' examples are inspirational and a demonstration of what is possible if you 'put your whole heart into it.' Overall, Valeriano and Ong have created a book full of inspiration and encouragement that re-energizes the use of buttercream in modern cake design."
This essential guide demonstrates more than 50 innovative techniques via easy to follow step-by-step photographic tutorials and includes over 40 stunning cake designs to create at home, from simple cupcakes to three-tiered wonders.
Valeri & Christina start by showing you how to perfect a basic buttercream recipe and then how to pipe simple textures and patterns, and an array of flowers. They then demonstrate how to create a myriad of creative effects using diverse techniques such as stamping, stencilling, palette knife painting and much more.
Chef Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes has reviewed the book: "The Contemporary Buttercream Bible is an absolute game changer in the industry of cake art. I've never seen techniques and talent presented in such a way as to be concurrently hugely aspirational yet completely approachable. I look forward to learning all the skills that I, as an artist in rolled fondant, have only the most rudimentary grasp of. Not since Cakewalk by Margaret Braun have I been this excited about a cake book. Bravo!"
Sonya Hong - Americancakedecorating.com has also reviewed the book and her main take-away was that buttercream designs are limited only by one's imagination. "The authors' examples are inspirational and a demonstration of what is possible if you 'put your whole heart into it.' Overall, Valeriano and Ong have created a book full of inspiration and encouragement that re-energizes the use of buttercream in modern cake design."
160 pages, Hardcover
First published April 25, 2014
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January 24, 2015
A good reference book for cake decorators. With saying this, the book needs re-edited,in the tutorials, some of the tips do not match the techniques demonstrated.
February 22, 2016
Didn't really care for the designs
Step by step is good and the techniques used can be practiced for future cakes.
However, I personally didn't like the designs offered in this book. I am looking to do a two tiered cake for an upcoming birthday, and the designs offered isn't what I am looking for.
Step by step is good and the techniques used can be practiced for future cakes.
However, I personally didn't like the designs offered in this book. I am looking to do a two tiered cake for an upcoming birthday, and the designs offered isn't what I am looking for.
December 31, 2014
A must have...
November 18, 2015
Good book.
Excellent book. Couldn't put it down. Don't know which one to try first. Wish there were some American resources though.
Excellent book. Couldn't put it down. Don't know which one to try first. Wish there were some American resources though.
March 19, 2017
Good.
This is really good for technique review for established decorators and a good start for beginners. A good recipe and great tutorials.
This is really good for technique review for established decorators and a good start for beginners. A good recipe and great tutorials.
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