Cake Decorating At Home

Special treats for special occasions: A renowned cake artist’s recipes and designs for desserts worth celebrating. Discover over thirty delicious homemade treats from baker and designer Zoe Clark—including cakes, cupcakes, mini cakes, fondant fancies, and cookies—to delight your friends and family all year round! There’s something for every occasion, from the Mad Hatter’s tea party and a seaside celebration to a lacy white wedding and some sweet Christmas gifts. Step-by-step illustrated instructions and detailed techniques guide you through each stage of baking and decorating, so even beginners can create colorful, awe-inspiring desserts—and kids can join the fun too!

The home guide to cake decorating features both easy to follow instructions for beginners, from baking the cake to simple piping, and inspirational ideas for experienced sugarcrafters seeking new challenges. It also includes a brief history of cake decorating and a full glossary of the terms used.

From Yolanda Gampp, host of the massively popular, award-winning YouTube sensation “How to Cake It,” comes an inspiring “cakebook” with irresistible new recipes and visual instructions for creating spectacular novelty cakes for all skill levels. On her entertaining YouTube Channel, “How to Cake It,” Yolanda Gampp creates mind-blowing cakes in every shape imaginable. From a watermelon to a human heart to food-shaped cakes such as burgers and pizzas—Yolanda’s creations are fun and realistic. Now, Yolanda brings her friendly, offbeat charm and caking expertise to this colorful cakebook filled with imaginative cakes to make at home. How to Cake It: A Cakebook includes directions for making twenty-one jaw-dropping cakes that are gorgeous and delicious, including a few fan favorites with a fresh twist, and mind-blowing new creations. Yolanda shares her coveted recipes and pro tips, taking you step-by-step from easy, kid-friendly cakes (no carving necessary and simple fondant work) to more difficult designs (minimal carving and fondant detail) to aspirational cakes (carving, painting and gum-paste work). Whatever the celebration, Yolanda has the perfect creation, including her never before seen Candy Apple Cake, Party Hat, Rainbow Grilled Cheese Cake, Toy Bulldozer Cake and even a Golden Pyramid Cake, which features a secret treasure chamber! Written in her inspiring, encouraging voice and filled with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photos, How to Cake It: A Cakebook will turn beginners into confident cake creators, and confident bakers into caking superstars!

What better way to celebrate a special occasion than a beautifully iced, home-made cake? But cake decorating is a specialised art, which can be difficult to pull off without the right guidance. Luckily, this new cake decorating bible from the amazing creative team at the Good Housekeeping Institute offers just that – expert advice and step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear photographs to help you get the techniques just right. From birthdays to Christmas, children's parties to weddings, Good Housekeeping's Complete Book of Cake Decorating contains attractive cake designs for every occasion. Covering all aspects of icing, piping, modelling, chocolate and sugar decorations, this book shows you how to handle every type of cake decorating, whether a simple sandwich sponge or an elaborate three-tiered wedding cake. You'll learn how to model perfect flowers, animals and figures, pipe intricate lettering and designs, as well as mastering run-out, crimping, extension and template techniques. In addition to large-scale celebration cakes, this book includes imaginative, easy-to-achieve cupcake designs, and simple tricks for finishing off any cake with an impressive flourish. With the latest advice on equipment and ingredients, and troubleshooting to save any disasters, this book is all you need to create stunning home-decorated cakes that will wow your family and friends. Word count: 60,000

Experience the Joy and Delight of Creating Amazing Wedding Cakes from Scratch. Lorelie Carvey will show you how to make and decorate the perfect wedding cake. The award-winning pastry chef has spent over thirty years perfecting her techniques and now offers advice that will ensure a sweet memory for your bride's special day. From the first idea to the spectacular result, Carvey guides you through everything you need to know to make the ultimate dream dessert. She includes her favorite recipes, like her chocolate buttermilk cake, hazelnut cake, chocolate mousse, lemon cream cheese, Italian meringue buttercream, and so much more. Carvey personally perfected each recipe during her baking career. In addition to recipes, Carvey clearly and comprehensively explains and demonstrates (with detailed photos) the baking and decorating techniques so you can create your unique cake design. With her own guide to ingredients, cooking methods, baking utensils, and decorating tips, you'll have everything you need to create a magnificent wedding cake that will be remembered and cherished by everyone. Your purchase comes with benefits including...a membership to Lorelie's exclusive cake support group, step by step video, a discount coupon for Cake Stackers, printable guides to pan sizes with number of servings, cups of batter, baking temperatures, baking times and cups of icing to frost and decorate. It also includes a guide to bakers measures and equivalents, emergency substitutions, cake ingredients, functions, fails and causes, a photo tutorial of delivering your cakes, plus cake decorating ideas and instruction.

"Super easy step-by-steps will guide you through cake decorating techniques, like smoothing or texturing frosting, handling a pastry bag, piping rosettes, creating a drip effect, hand lettering, and much more. Then, put your skills to the test with 10 amazing cakes you'd be proud to share with your loved ones―not to mention your social media feed."--Back cover.

Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating will show even those who have never baked and decorated a cake before in their lives how to make beautiful cakes.

“From her rainbow no-bake cheesecake to a blueberry galaxy cake, these eye-catching desserts promise to brighten spirits (and plates) everywhere.” —Food Network As a follow-up to Layered, Tessa Huff returns with Icing on the Cake to dive deeper into dessert decoration and the presentation of layer cakes and other showstopping treats. Providing the confidence home bakers need to get creative, Icing on the Cake guides readers from cake pan to presentation to dessert plate. Organized by style, each dessert showcases a different decorative element, artistic pastry technique, or presentation idea. With hundreds of beautiful photos, including lots of step-by-steps, Icing on the Cake is a richly illustrated guide for creating delicious, beautiful desserts that will be the grand finale of any gathering. “Icing on the Cake delivers on every level—delicious recipes, gorgeously styled treats, and easy-to-follow instructions. Tessa is a true teacher, carefully walking readers through her process while inviting them to explore their own creativity. One flip through this book and you’ll be firing up the oven and breaking out the piping tips!”—Erin Gardner, author of Procrastibaking “Tessa’s cakes strike a beautiful balance between timeless and fresh, creating new, stunning classics for cake decorators of all levels. This book bursts with gorgeous color, delicious recipes, and tons of inspiration.” —Molly Yeh, author of Molly on the Range “There’s no arguing that Tessa is the cake decorating queen! Through beautiful styling, easy-to-understand direction, helpful kitchen tips, and deliciously creative recipes, Tessa takes the intimidation out of fancy decorative desserts.” —Sally McKenney, author of Sally’s Baking Addiction