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The Essential Cookbook

The Essential Cake Decorating Guide

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The Cake Decorating Guide offers hints and notes on unusual ingredients, while step-by-step photographs guide the reader through many tricky techniques. Included is a comprehensive pictorial guide to essential equipment with detailed instructions on the best ways to use and maintain them. Preparation pages with step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions explain different methods that make this book perfect for bakers of all ages and abilities. Beautifully photographed glossaries show unusual ingredients and food varieties with their common and not-so-common names. Snippets of related history add interest while colorful double-page features provide a wealth of information on buying, storing and preparing some of the more unusual ingredients. Over 500 full-color photographs are featured.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published July 22, 2003

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Wendy Stephen

22 books
'Wendy Stephen' is a cookbook editor. Her books have been published by Thunder Bay Press, Whitecap Books, Bay Books and Murdoch Books.

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Lots of examples and step-by-step guides. The only thing I didn't like is the metric measurements.
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