Picture Yourself Decorating Cakes
Picture Yourself Decorating Cakes
From birthday parties, to baby showers, to holiday dinners, cakes play a special and delicious part in each celebration. Whether you have dabbled in cake baking and decorating before or you have never attempted to create a cake from scratch, "Picture Yourself Decorating Cakes" will introduce you to the pleasures of creating an edible work of art in your kitchen to share with family and friends. This primer on cake decorating includes recipes, methods, and tips that show you step-by-step how to bake and frost cakes that not only taste good but look beautiful. Full-color photographs illustrate each step of the cake creation process, including the ingredients to buy, the basic tools you will need, baking secrets, and decorating techniques from the simply striking to professional quality. Learn how to create cakes for a variety of occasions using buttercream, cream cheese, royal, and fondant icings. And if you want to take your cake decorating to a more advanced level, follow along with the accompanying DVD as co-author Linda Shonk shows you how to apply and mold her Choco-Pan? fondant frosting into beautiful flowers and other designs to crown your cake with. Discover how fun and easy it is to create tasty and stunning cakes, cupcakes, petits fours, and more with "Picture Yourself Decorating Cakes!"
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Ever wonder “how do they do that?” when you’re in a bakery? This shows you how: make those beautiful frosting roses, work with fondent, learn what tips you use to make which decoration AND there’s a DVD you can follow. Watch the author as she walks you thru several techniques step-by-step.
YOU CAN DO IT! Amaze family and friends with your creations. And when they has you “how’d you do that?” you can simply say, “oh, it was a piece of cake!”
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Simply stated, “Picture Yourself Decorating Cakes” by professional pastry chef Linda Shonk and freelance writer and book editor Sandy Doell is the ideal instruction guide and manual that will enable even the most novice kitchen cook to turn out superbly and imaginatively decorated cakes of all kinds for any and all events. Enhanced with an accompanying instructional DVD, “Picture Yourself Decorating Cakes” leads off with chapters dealing with ‘Pantry Basics’ and ‘Tools of the Trade’. This is followed by ‘Baking the Cakes’, a comprehensive chapter offering a culinary wealth of easy-to-make frostings and fillings. Then aspiring chefs are instructed with chapters focusing on ‘Simple Decorating Techniques’ and ‘Decorating Cakes using Fondant and Royal Icing’. Of special note are the appendices ‘Things That Are Good To Know’ covering various aspects of measuring, and ‘The Fondant Class on DVD’. Profusely illustrated on every page, “Picture Yourself Decorating Cakes” is truly exceptional and enthusiastically recommended for personal, professional, highschool and community library collections.
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I,m so excited about this book. The receipes and decorating are written so I can do them. The cakes are the ones that are tried and true, that can be passed from mothers to daughters or sons.
The tips are simple but make the difference in the taste of the cake.
We even have a CD to help me with decorating.
Can’t wait to bake the silver cake with buttercream frosting for my daughter’s birthday. She’ll think that I bought it.
Thank you Linda and Sandy for your wonderful, inspirational book.
Yum!