Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids' cakes
Easy at-home instruction for making and decorating fabulous cakes
Want to make beautiful cakes? This fun, instructive guide gives you simple techniques for creating cakes for all celebrations. You get expert advice in all the basics -- from baking to icing to decorating with style. You'll also find delicious foolproof recipes, great ideas for themed cakes, and savvy tips for starting a cake decorating business!

Delight family and friends with exquisitely decorated cakes for birthdays, dinner parties, or just as a special treat. Through a simple question-and-answer format, with every procedure shown in color photographs, beginners will find out how to decorate without icing (just use a powdered sugar design); how to make chocolate curls and gumpaste flowers; how to prepare the drizzled chocolate icing known as ganache; and how to embellish tiered, bundt, and raspberry-filled cakes.

Everything you need to create stunning cake decorations.Cake decorating is an art with specific skills that must be studied and practiced before they can be mastered. Professional Cake Decorating is the first guidebook, reference, and at-your-fingertips resource to the special methods and techniques unique to cake decorating.

34 page booklet for the beginner, printed on high quality paper with photos. Contents include Getting Started, Icings, Decorating Bags, Decorating Tips, Children's Party Cakes, Teen Cakes, and how-to's for 15 great party cakes. A pamphlet, 'Complete Instructions for Baking & Decorating Happiness Heart Cake' included.

Colette Peters's one-of-a-kind wedding cakes -- for which she charges hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars -- have made her America's most sought-after culinary artist. Now, with this dazzling cookbook, brides-and-grooms-to-be can bake their own Colette's wedding cake -- or commission a professional baker to follow one of Colette's designs.

The newcomer to cake decorating will be encouraged to great things by this colourful title, while more experienced decorators will be excited by the choice of recipes and techniques. Whether it's a simple chocolate buttercream house for a child's sticky birthday party, or a royal-iced wedding cake for fifty guests, the clear instructions and beautiful photography will reassure and inspire.

Designed to cover all the skills presented in a trade school course, this photo-illustrated self-teaching guide can help the reader land an entry-level cake-decorating job or start an independent business. And those who already work in the field will find it an excellent way to enhance their expertise. It goes through everything, from the basic equipment—such as turntables, icing bags and tips, spatulas and combs, stencils and picture presses—to working with marzipan, sugarpaste, and royal icing, to advanced techniques such as piping, crimping, and creating sugar flowers. With detailed instructions for cake storage and transportation, conversion tables, and a comprehensive recipe section, this an invaluable kitchen reference for any baker.

This book is designed for those who admire beautifully decorated cakes consider the art too difficult to lean at home.

Step-by-step cake decorating course in DjVu format (viewer software included).
Wilton Course 1 Cake Decorating
Wilton Course 2 Flowers and More
Wilton Course 3 Fondant and Tiered Cakes
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Even those who have never baked and decorated a cake before in their lives will be able to make beautiful cakes with the help of this book. The first section of the book looks at the equipment you will need and demonstrates the standard cake and icing recipes required to bake and cover all kinds of cakes. Subsequent sections explain techniques for decorating with sugarpaste, royal icing, marzipan and buttercream. There are instructions on making sugar flowers and leaves, and many other sugarcraft techniques such as fabric effects, piping royal icing, modelling figures and animals--all accompanied by beautiful cake designs that are simple to create by following the clear, step-by-step instructions.

Even those who have never baked and decorated a cake before in their lives will be able to make beautiful cakes with the help of this book. The first section of the book looks at the equipment you will need and demonstrates the standard cake and icing recipes required to bake and cover all kinds of cakes. Subsequent sections explain techniques for decorating with sugarpaste, royal icing, marzipan and buttercream. There are instructions on making sugar flowers and leaves, and many other sugarcraft techniques such as fabric effects, piping royal icing, modelling figures and animals--all accompanied by beautiful cake designs that are simple to create by following the clear, step-by-step instructions.

With your Wilton Method Instructor as your guide, you will see how easy and rewarding it is to decorate wonderful cakes and other desserts that will delight your family and friends. 3 tutorials for cake decorating.

Wilton Method Cake Decorating Course 1
Thousands of people just like you have experienced the excitement of decorating their first cakes in a Wilton Method Class. With your Wilton Method Instructor as your guide, you will see how easy and rewarding it is to decorate wonderful cakes and other desserts that will delight your family and friends. Course I is the perfect place to start. Your Instructor will show you the right way to decorate, step by step. You will share the fun with other students, who encourage you along the way. As you learn each new decorating skill, you will gain a sense of pride in your accomplishments. Plus, you will be able to share your delicious results with family and friends!

Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques in this valuable 4 lesson Course. Begin with intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, stringwork, garland and ruffle borders. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including lovely holiday blooms like poinsettias and Easter lilies and other advanced flowers like petunia and morning glory. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a towering tiered cake with beautiful stringwork, flowers and borders.

A great cake makes any celebration more fun! There’s no better place to find that unforgettable decorated cake or dessert than this new edition of the Wilton Yearbook.

A great cake makes any celebration more fun! There’s no better place to find that unforgettable decorated cake or dessert than this new edition of the 2010 Wilton Yearbook. It’s our biggest Wilton Yearbook ever, with more than 220 designs for cakes, cookies, candies and more. You’ll find a look perfect for your event, from exciting theme birthday cakes and colorful holiday treats to dramatic tiered wedding designs that capture the moment beautifully. In the 1st Birthday Bash special section of the 2010 Wilton Yearbook, we’ll help you make the day a smashing success with the ideal theme ideas.