Professional Cake Decorating

by Toba Garrett

Everything you need to create stunning cake decorations Cake decorating is an art with specific skills that must be studied and practiced before they can be mastered. Professional Cake Decorating is the first guidebook, reference, and at-your-fingertips resource to the special methods and techniques unique to cake decorating. Professional Cake Decorating is: Using more than 200 step-by-step and finished cake color photographs, as well as over 125 illustrations, this highly visual book covers a wealth of techniques for cake borders, piped flowers, cake writing and piping, royal icing designs, marzipan fruits and figurines, rolled icing, floral patterns, petit fours, gumpaste floral art and design, and much more. Thorough coverage also includes such foundation skills as making shells, rosettes, reverse shells, zigzags, fleur-de-lis, rope, garlands, scrolls, rosebuds, and other confectionary designs. Complete with more than three dozen tried-and-tested recipes, Professional Cake Decorating is the only book that places the rewards of thirty years of training, traveling, teaching, and private practice in your hands! It is a must-have for today's bakers, cake decorators, specialty shop owners, and independent cake designers.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

368 pages, Hardcover

First published September 18, 2006

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, clear resource for a specific kind of cake decorating.

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

a definitive guide to learning basic decorating techniques. I'm just bummed that I could never get the chocolate fudge cake recipe to work. Maybe now that I have different oven....

[Edi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous illustrations and wonderful step-by-step directions to acquiring each skill.

[Eileen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Great reference book for cake decorators.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic go to for anybody who likes to bake

[Syahira · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its a good book to find ideas. But the problem is, you can't learn this from a book.