50 Easy Party Cakes

by Debbie Brown

Crammed with ideas for creative cakes, 50 Easy Party Cakes features a stunning range of colorful designs from best selling cake decorating and sugarcraft author Debbie Brown.

If you are planning a party, and are pushed for time, then look no further! This collection of striking yet simple cake designs is guaranteed to provide an easy solution to the problem of creating the perfect cake for any birthday party or celebration. Debbie Brown combines her exceptional flair for color and design with her unique fondant modeling skills to simplify her eye-catching cake designs, some of which you may have never dreamed you could achieve.

This cake cookbook is filled with cakes which will appeal to children of all ages. Instantly lovable animal cakes include a Friendly Frog, Sporty Spider and Noah's Ark, while the Fairy Toadstool, Dotty Dragon and Alien Spaceship are among a number of fantasy ideas. Sports fans will enjoy the Soccer Player and Formula 1 Car. Keep older children entertained with the Glitter Bag and Make-up, meanwhile younger children will adore the Playful Kitten on a Ball of Wool and the Cute Yellow Chick.

Ideal for beginners and experienced cake makers alike, each easy-to-follow cake recipe is clearly illustrated with step-by-step photographs and a full-page color picture to guarantee success every time.

Cake recipes

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

112 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 1999

About the author

Debbie Brown is a world-renowned cake decorator and the best-selling author of over 20 cake decorating books. Known for her imaginative novelty cakes and sugarcraft models, she has inspired countless decorators, including Paul Bradford. Debbie continues to lead the industry with her creativity, expertise, and influential contributions to cake design.

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one definitely has cute cakes, but I just don't get that fondant stuff. Does that stuff even taste good? I just can't imagine sinking my teeth into a gigantic cat made out of fondant. This book definitely has cakes of the look-but-don't-eat variety.

Hooray for buttercream!

[Paradise Ike · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a nice book

[Wendy Unsworth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really am in two minds about this book.
It's bright, colourful and beautiful and it has some really lovely and imaginative designs. There is a basic madiera recipe at the beginning with different flavourings and a table for quantities for the various cakes. Also some information about icings. Then on to the designs - a large colour photo of each and below the instructions some smaller photo's showing construction.
So far, so good.
What I found a little disappointing is the sheer amount of fondant icing used - everything totally covered and lots of decorative extras made of it. For me, the designs look so perfectly crafted rather than tasty. I am going to try some of the designs because they are so very good but will use butter icing predominantly maybe with a little fondant icing for moulding figures etc. I am sure that my efforts will not look so professional but I don't think small children will notice (hope not!) I would have loved to have seen some of these designs done by the author in alternative icings/frostings to see how it would be done by an expert.

[Robin Hall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has super cute cakes for kids. Israel wants ALL of the boy ones and Eliza LOVES the fairy cake and castle cake. Israel's favorite is the race track with fast cars. I love the realistic frog. The directions are very detailed which I need. It is an all fondant book and I don't love the taste, but can't deny how amazing that stuff is in character cakes.

[Paul (formerly known as Current) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rebecca loves the formula 1 racer. Someone needs to invent a material like this frosting that people can build real houses with.

[Sherry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute, fun children's party cakes. Some fondant know-how required, but mostly just patience and basic art abilities.

[Sebah Al-Ali · Rating 2 out of 5]

لطيف. الأشكال فيه حلوة، نوعا ما.

[Just - The romance reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has some really adorable party cake ideas. The visuals are great, and help make the instructions easy to understand.

[Lia · Rating 3 out of 5]

The designs are really cute and simple but I won't say that it's easy to make. Definitely needs a lot of practice to be able to make it like the pictures in the book.

[Anu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent - simple and creative!

[Brandi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The cakes are beautiful however I do not care for all of the fondant.

[Mckinley · Rating 2 out of 5]

All fondant.