Cake Decorating
How Do They Do It?

Many of us watch the cooking shows such as “Cake Boss” and dream about being able to make cakes as beautiful as they are.  Of course, unless you are a professional baker and cake decorator, decorating cakes like we see on the cooking shows may be out of your realm, but not impossible. 


  Maybe you won’t be able to duplicate a beautiful cake that you have seen right away, but with the help of some of the best cake decorating cookbooks, you can create a beautiful cake that you will be proud of and everybody will enjoy eating. 


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The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible

You can purchase this in three formats:

Paperback
Hardcover
Kindle     

Perfect for the beginner, a great reference book for the experienced.

Detailed instructions

Plenty step-by-step photographic images of every project, as well as tools, molds, cutters, pans, etc.

Color Wheel  section introduces colors that are used in tinting creams, sugarpaste, and dusts.

"Transferring an Image" with scriber and pen were fabulous as getting patterns onto a cake can be challenging. Her "Non-Sugarcraft Tools" was a great idea for showing how you can use regular paper crafting items to help in the cake decorating process

 
Reviews:

Customers love this book.  It has provided them with everything they need to create beautiful cakes, cookies, cupcakes.

The only negative was a review from a user who had the skills already and was opening a bake shop of their own.  Here is an excerpt of what this user had to say

Disappointed that only about 30 pages didn't feature or deal with fondant decorating or some similar form of cake covering.

If you want to know about this form of cake covering (fondant) this book is for you. I have to say that the pictures are great, the cakes are special and the price is a bargain. Just don't expect to find anything other than the most basic information on tradition decorating. 

Who Doesn't Like Chocolate!!!

Cake Decorating with Modeling Chocolate

If you don’t like or are tired of using fondant, this cake decorating cookbook is one to add to your collection. 


Kindle and Paperback formats

 380 color photos and over 40 tutorials demonstrate how to approach birthday cakes, wedding cakes, groom's cakes, and 3D sculpted cakes using modeling chocolate. This book demonstrates how to:

·        Make modeling chocolate from scratch

·        Wrap a cake in patterned chocolate

·        Make realistic bows, flowers, and leaves made of chocolate

·        Sculpt 3D cakes and figurines 
Kindle Version

Reviews

Finally-clear simple directions for successful modeling chocolate

By MB on October 23, 2013 (Amazon)

As a home hobby baker it is simply too expensive for me to purchase commercial tubs of modeling chocolate. I've tried numerous recipes and had poor results. Using this book I successfully made my own Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, and White Chocolate modeling chocolate clay.

Another user says: Ultimate guide for working with modeling chocolate

Others: Great information, Great Book, Awsome

 

Sensational Buttercream Decorating: 50 Projects for Luscious Cakes, Mini-Cakes and Cupcakes 

Buttercream has been a popular cake for years. Buttercream (also known as butter cream, butter icing, and mock cream) is a type of icing or filling used inside cakes, as a coating, and as decoration. In its simplest form, it is made by creaming butter with powdered sugar, although other fats can be used, such as margarine or lard. Colorings and flavorings are often added, such as chocolate, fruit purees, and various extracts. Buttercream is a common and popular topping for cupcakes, sponge cakes, butter cakes, and other desserts.

Whether buttercream with no butter or a butter equivalent can rightly be called buttercream is debated among bakers, pastry chefs, and cake decorators.

Source and learn more about Buttercream

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