Decorate Cakes Cupcakes And Cookies With Kids

Decorate Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies with Kids is a craft book for adults and kids who want to share fun baking/decorating experiences, while learning valuable skills they will use for a lifetime.

Get the kids involved with Decorate Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies with Kids by Autumn Carpenter. This instructional craft book is filled with fun baking and decorating experiences that you can share with your children or grandchildren, while teaching them valuable skills they will use for a lifetime. With adult supervision, kids can learn to decorate cookies, cupcakes, and cakes for holidays, special events, or to share with friends. Within these pages, you’ll learn baking and preparing of cake, cupcakes, and cookies, starting off with the basics: utensils needed, measuring instructions, and kitchen safety tips. After the basics, the book continues with baking, filling, and icing—50 to 60 techniques in all—with eye-appealing, tasty designs for children to create that incorporate the methods taught. Instructions include piped icing as well as rolled fondant. Additional decorating techniques include edible frosting sheets, products to add sparkle, and using store bought candies to decorate. The last chapter includes instructions on hosting a cake or cupcake decorating party for children. A convenient glossary in the back will be a quick reference for children to discover new culinary terms. The book is designed with 8-12 year olds boys and girls in mind, and includes instructions clearly labeled for difficulty and time allowance, and instructional pictures that show children using the tools. Kid-inspired cake and cookie themes are perfect for birthdays, seasonal celebrations, and other special events.

A sugar-coated feast for the eyes and the imagination—this exciting 1,000 collection presents glorious full-color photographs of beautiful, outrageous, and deliciously decorated desserts, from extravagant wedding and birthday cakes to cupcakes and cookies that are miniature works of art. Like all of the books in our 1,000 series, this is not an instructional book, rather, it is a visual showcase designed to provide endless inspiration for anyone who loves decorative baking and entertaining.

Cake Decorating with the Kids: Get messy in the kitchen with 30 gorgeous, easy-to-follow contemporary cake decorating projects to make at home with the kids. Children of all ages will love to get involved and take charge of spreading the fillings and toppings, rolling out fondant icing, cutting shapes and making sugar decorations to help create delicious sweet treats, from cupcakes and cookies to cake pops, whoopie pies and tiered party cake ideas. Cake decorating is a fun, exciting craft for children and each recipe includes tasks for younger and older kids. The cake designs are perfect for school events, birthday cakes for children, parties, or simply rainy day fun in the kitchen, but as they are so professional-looking they are would also suitable for adult parties as well! Includes essential safety information for working with children in the kitchen, as well as storage, transportation and presentation advice, perfect for children's parties! You will also find yummy cake recipes and all the basic cake decorating techniques you need to know to create the projects. Comes with lay-flat binding to keep the book open when your hands are covered in flour!

In Recipes from a Normal Mum, Holly Bell transforms the daily chore of cooking for the whole family with her collection of inventive, economical and simple recipes. With colour photographs of every dish (in response to the feedback Holly always hears from mums!), this is the must-have book for any mum who is short of time but still wants to cook delicious food for her family. Each recipe is written in straightforward steps and made with ingredients that you can buy at the supermarket. Split into 8 chapters including The More the Merrier, Dinner for 2 in A Flash, Switch to Baking Mode and Food for the Great British Outdoors, Holly has recipes to fit every family occasion. And no longer will you be stumped when you are left with a little-used ingredient or an excess amount of a dish as Holly has supplied ideas for using up the surplus, ensuring you waste absolutely nothing. Recipes include the Mix It Up Breakfast Muffins, Lemony Salmon Pasta with Courgettes & Peas, Tortilla Traybake and Lemon Button Biscuits. Holly is a real mum cooking in real time and 'normal' mums of every variety regularly turn to her blog for advice and fail-safe recipes. Whether it is a speedy recipe for feeding little people, cooking for a hungry crowd, baking for children's parties, or conjuring up grown-up weeknight suppers, this is a book to which you can turn no matter what aspect of family life you're approaching that day.

Budding bakers will love these 35 recipes for making super-cute cakes! In this book you'll learn how to make delicious cupcakes, cookies, cake pops and more – and transform them into fantastic creations. In Cool Cupcakes, you will find marvellous mini strawberry cakes, scrumptious spotty cupcakes and much more. In the next section, Cake Pops, you'll find all sorts of adventurous creations like sailboat pops, goldfish pops and butterfly pops. Then, try your hand at Brownies, Cookies and Gingerbread, here you will find everything from brownie owls and ladybug cookies to a gingerbread family and snowy village. There are basic recipes so that you can make the cakes in any flavour you want, and a techniques section that will teach you all you'll need to know. All the projects are clearly graded with a difficulty level and include adorable artworks to guide you along the way. With all these recipes and so much more, you'll be a brilliant baker in no time.

Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes has created confections as elaborate as a platter of sushi, a wine bottle in a crate, and a designer handbag. Now she focuses her talents on her younger fans with this enchanting collection of cakes, cookies, and cupcakes for kids. Strauss starts readers off with 20 delicious recipes and all the basic techniques needed to complete any project in the book. Then she offers step-by-step instructions for 24 jaw-dropping designs that can become the centerpiece of any celebration. Projects span the imagination -- from a charming sock monkey, to an MP3 player, to playful hula gingerbread girls and boys -- and will appeal to anyone looking for the perfect way to thrill a child with a delectable, spectacular creation.

Cake decorating has always been popular, and with the success of TV shows such as Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes, its appeal is stronger than ever. Bakers and crafters looking to create standout desserts for every occasion will find a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration, along with delicious recipes and complete step-by-step instructions in Bake & Decorate. People who think cake decorating requires advanced baking skills and expensive equipment will be surprised how easy it is to create the beautiful and clever cakes, cupcakes and cookies presented in Bake & Decorate. Whether for a child's birthday party, an elegant afternoon tea or a holiday buffet, these recipes and decorating schemes are surprisingly doable, even for novice bakers. Fiona Cairns, a pastry chef well-known in the UK for her cakes shares her secrets and "easy cheats" for creating these stunning desserts. All too often beautiful cakes look better than they taste. These cakes not only look amazing, they taste delicious. Choose from more than 30 recipes for cakes, cupcakes and cookies in the first part of the book-Bake-and over 50 decorating schemes in the second part of the book-Decorate. Top an orange and pistachio flavored cake with fresh flowers and you have the perfect dessert for a summer celebration. Celebrate Easter with a chocolate truffle cake adorned with sugar eggs and fresh spring greenery. Delight the birthday girl or boy with adorable ice cream cone cakes that look just like the real thing! The author also provides an additional 25 simple ideas to help you to create a fabulous cake with a minimum of fuss, cost or effort.