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

Description

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