"This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all of the most popular cake decorating techniques, including piped frosting, fondant, and hand modeled figures. For each technique, there is an overview of the tools and materials used and complete instructions with photos. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects allow the reader to try the techniques...

Master step-by-step techniques, discovering how to prepare icings and coverings; use specialist equipment; and build, pipe, emboss, model, and airbrush superstar cakes.

A baking food blogger offers her tips, tricks, and recipes for making creative cakes, each starting with a humble box of cake mix, including shamrock shake cake with vanilla mint buttercream, double funfetti cake, and dark chocolate raspberry cake.

Take your holiday cookie decorating to impressive new heights! Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer will have you sprinkling powdered snowflakes onto cheery snowmen and adding a sugary glimmer to multicolored strands of licorice lights. With more than 60 fabulous designs for Christmas cookies, plus festive delights for New Year’s and Hanukkah, Cookie Craft Christmas gives you the inspiration and simple instructions you need for batch

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After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper Donavan returns home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at the family bakery, the Icing on the Cupcake. Piper is pleased to be preparing the cake for the upcoming wedding of her friend Glenna Brooks, the star of A Little Rain Must Fall ... but then a cyanide poisoning of one of Glenna's co-stars and her former lover, Travis York, threatens to derail the wedding....

Cake pops are candy-covered little cakes on a stick, which vary from decorated balls to more ambitious shapes such as monkeys, baby chicks, ice cream cones, and a variety of holiday designs.

With cake decorating becoming an increasingly popular skill and one that's currently very in-demand, this book is aimed both at those looking to start up their own business and those who want to improve their skills.Offering expert advice throughout, "Cake Decorating" takes you through the essential basic equipment and important skills with marzipan, sugarpaste and royal icing, and techniques such as marbling and crimping.A detailed section on piping...

Have your cake and laugh at it, too, with the sweet treat known as Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong. From the creator of the ultra popular blog CakeWrecks.com, here are the worst cakes ever, including the ugly, the silly, the downright creepy, the unintentionally sad or suggestive, and the just plain funny. With witty commentary and behind-the-scenes tidbits, Cake Wrecks will ensure that you never look at a cake the same way...

Everyone loves a cupcake, but one little cupcake isn't appropriate for sharing. Combining the fun of a cupcake with the generous portions of a larger cake, Danielle Levy serves up some incredible creations that will satisfy a party full of people. Delight children with a smiling, curling Caterpillar Cake made up of one large cake for the head and fifteen smaller sprinkle-covered cupcakes for the body. Make your Valentine drool with a vase full of...

Small cupcakes, big taste! Enjoy the deliciousness--but avoid the guilt! These cupcakes are a yummy pleasure, but because they're only a few nibbles each, they're not TOO much of an indulgence. In fact it's even possible to enjoy two or three without going overboard. And that's a good thing, because with cupcakes this scrumptious, who would want just one? Viola Goren, a renowned pastry chef, cooking teacher, and restaurant owner, teaches all the...