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Cake Decorating Step by Step
London-based author Giovanna Torrico provides everything you need to know in order to create beautiful, stylish and fun cakes in her gorgeous book Cake Decorating Step by Step.
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced baker, Cake Decorating Step by Step is designed to provide you with all the baking and decorating techniques you’ll need to become a creative cake, cupcake and cookie making pro. With easy-to-follow directions, advice about essential tools and reliable recipes, this lovely volume guides you through the planning and preparation stages in baking, including tips for how to layer, ice and stack a cake.
With step-by-step photography, Giovanna teaches the reader how to create personalised masterpieces for all occasions. From show-stopping cake projects, such as Vanilla cake with strawberry ganache and Ombre cake, to handcrafted sugar flowers (peonies, poppies and daffodils) and animals (bumblebees, ladybirds, dogs), Giovanna provides everything you need to cake decorate confidently and, most importantly, to make delicious creations perfectly, every time.
KEY SELLING POINTS
Step-by-step photography and clear instructions teach even novice cooks how to create stunning results
Everything you need to know to bake, stack and decorate using colourful frosting and fillings, stylish designs and handcrafted sugar-paste flowers and animal figurines
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced baker, Cake Decorating Step by Step is designed to provide you with all the baking and decorating techniques you’ll need to become a creative cake, cupcake and cookie making pro. With easy-to-follow directions, advice about essential tools and reliable recipes, this lovely volume guides you through the planning and preparation stages in baking, including tips for how to layer, ice and stack a cake.
With step-by-step photography, Giovanna teaches the reader how to create personalised masterpieces for all occasions. From show-stopping cake projects, such as Vanilla cake with strawberry ganache and Ombre cake, to handcrafted sugar flowers (peonies, poppies and daffodils) and animals (bumblebees, ladybirds, dogs), Giovanna provides everything you need to cake decorate confidently and, most importantly, to make delicious creations perfectly, every time.
KEY SELLING POINTS
Step-by-step photography and clear instructions teach even novice cooks how to create stunning results
Everything you need to know to bake, stack and decorate using colourful frosting and fillings, stylish designs and handcrafted sugar-paste flowers and animal figurines
160 pages, Hardcover
Published April 27, 2016
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June 23, 2016
now to try it out!
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Have you ever wondered how professional cake makers manage to make their cakes look so desirable, so delicious, and so perfect? I have. I have felt in awe of some of the wonderful decorations and often wondered just how did they achieve such precise and colourful edible art?
I am not suggesting that I have instantly become a professional cake decorator but this step by step guide has removed some of the fear of failure and given me confidence to try some of the examples here. And there are a range of techniques – from simple frostings and icings, to piping, decorating with sugar paste, using moulds and templates, layering, covering and stacking; there is a technique here for all levels of competency.
Giovanna Torrico also provides foundation recipes for your baking; biscuits (cookies) cupcakes, lemon and poppy seed, coffee cake, red velvet cake… and more. There are some beautiful layered cakes that will make prefect birthday cakes for a certain grandson I can’t wait to try them out.
Have you heard of edible glue? What a fantastic product to make decorating easy! And decorating moulds? Yes there are plenty of “tools” to help you achieve a professional finish to your cake decorating. I wish I knew of such things when I was courageously attempting to decorate my children birthday cakes.
With the ingredients to hand I have made a delicious coffee and walnut cake with coffee cream. Perfect for afternoon tea, this cake transported me back to a time when shopping in the city was not complete without stopping at a particular Scandinavian pastry shop for coffee and a slice of mouth-watering cake; so adult! Do you have any special “cake memories”?
This book is truly inspiring and there are skills and techniques to suit all levels of decorating confidence.
My View:
Have you ever wondered how professional cake makers manage to make their cakes look so desirable, so delicious, and so perfect? I have. I have felt in awe of some of the wonderful decorations and often wondered just how did they achieve such precise and colourful edible art?
I am not suggesting that I have instantly become a professional cake decorator but this step by step guide has removed some of the fear of failure and given me confidence to try some of the examples here. And there are a range of techniques – from simple frostings and icings, to piping, decorating with sugar paste, using moulds and templates, layering, covering and stacking; there is a technique here for all levels of competency.
Giovanna Torrico also provides foundation recipes for your baking; biscuits (cookies) cupcakes, lemon and poppy seed, coffee cake, red velvet cake… and more. There are some beautiful layered cakes that will make prefect birthday cakes for a certain grandson I can’t wait to try them out.
Have you heard of edible glue? What a fantastic product to make decorating easy! And decorating moulds? Yes there are plenty of “tools” to help you achieve a professional finish to your cake decorating. I wish I knew of such things when I was courageously attempting to decorate my children birthday cakes.
With the ingredients to hand I have made a delicious coffee and walnut cake with coffee cream. Perfect for afternoon tea, this cake transported me back to a time when shopping in the city was not complete without stopping at a particular Scandinavian pastry shop for coffee and a slice of mouth-watering cake; so adult! Do you have any special “cake memories”?
This book is truly inspiring and there are skills and techniques to suit all levels of decorating confidence.
August 6, 2021
3.5 stars
This book gives a good rundown on sugar paste decors and buttercream borders basics. It's definitely a great book for beginners: lots of easy-to-follow instructions for decor and great cakes recipes. The pictures were nice and comprehensible but I was disappointed by the lack of professionalism in some result pictures (both for the picture and the cake: it was sometimes blurry, or the cakes had a sloppy finish). I guess the imperfection of the cakes could be charming for some but it didn't feel like that for me.
It was cute but I probably wouldn't get back to it.
This book gives a good rundown on sugar paste decors and buttercream borders basics. It's definitely a great book for beginners: lots of easy-to-follow instructions for decor and great cakes recipes. The pictures were nice and comprehensible but I was disappointed by the lack of professionalism in some result pictures (both for the picture and the cake: it was sometimes blurry, or the cakes had a sloppy finish). I guess the imperfection of the cakes could be charming for some but it didn't feel like that for me.
It was cute but I probably wouldn't get back to it.
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