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Cake Decorating for the first time

Cake Decorating for the first time
By Jaynie Maxfield

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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. See how to whip up fondant, ice petits fours, and use a pastry bag to write greetings and create adornments. The all-important wedding cake is here, too. And while the focus is on decoration, there are also basic cake and icing recipes, too.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #240608 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-12-31
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 112 pages

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About the Author
For 30 years Jaynie Maxfield has been testing recipes, experimenting with colours and textures, and delighting clients in America with her stunning, imaginative, often whimsical, and always delicious creations. Maxfieled's fine cakes and her company, Ambrosia Exquisite Wedding Cakes, have been featured in American Bride magazines. She has been recognised for her unique sense of style, wit, and especially for her use of colour. Her cakes are centerpieces at weddings throughout Utah. She also mentors, teaches and travels. Mostly, she indulges her passion for the science of baking and the art of cake design.

Customer Reviews

Why I like this book5
I am a cake decorator and my son bought me this book as a gift when I was just starting out.

It isn't the BEST cake decorating book on the market, but probably is the most informative book about the tools and utensils that you will need. It gives very basic instructions on how to make certain flowers (simple enough for a beginner to achieve) though they are probably not the best flowers you will ever see, it's enough to get your confidence going and your artistic juices going. I don't like the flower making methods in this book.

Some of the cakes are sloppy, though the ideas are good. The cake recipes are mediocre and this is certainly not a "good all rounder"....but a good addition to your library when you are starting out.

This was a wonderful gift and extremely useful, but not the best cake decorating book on the market.