Celebrate with a Cake: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating 15 Memorable Cakes

by Lindy Smith

Celebrate with a Cake
Learn how to make 15 amazing celebration cakes with step-by-step instruction from Lindy Smith, author of the bestselling The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible .

From eye-catching stacked, tiered and column cakes, to romantic hearts and novelty ideas, Celebrate with a Cake has a cake design for every occasion! Lindy also includes instructions for co-ordinating cupcakes, variations and ideas to customize each cake design to your own celebration, as well as baking recipes, preparation techniques, shortcuts, and advice on colour and decoration – everything you need to know to bake and decorate perfect cakes!

Inside Celebrate with a Cake :

Expert Techniques – learn how to bake, assemble and cover cakes, how to make and use sugarpaste (rolled fondant), buttercream, royal icing and modelling paste, and how to use sugar shapers and cake decorating tools to cut out and create special modelled sugarcraft embellishments.

Gorgeous Projects – create 15 different celebration cakes for a wide variety of occasions, including:

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

World renowned for her designs, writing and teaching Lindy Smith is a highly experienced and talented British cake designer & sugarcrafter. Recognised for her exquisite attention to detail and eye for colour Lindy has been translating her designs into sugarcraft for many years From humble beginnings in her home kitchen, experimenting with the 'basics' she learnt from an inspirational teacher, she soon discovered that sugar was the perfect medium through which to express her creative abilities and original ideas. In 1997 Lindy entered her first set of competitions and much to her own amazement received 3 gold awards. She had arrived in the 'cake' world! In 1998 she started writing regular features for "Cakes and Sugarcraft Magazine". Her first cake decorating book was published in 2000. She has continued to write books ever since, loving the freedom it gives her to be highly creative and original. Lindy travels extensively for her work, gathering inspiration along the way, she has been very privileged to see first hand how sugarcraft and cake decorating is constantly evolving around the globe. Lindy runs a successful company, Lindy's Cakes Ltd, based in Buckinghamshire, UK. The online shop side of the business specialises in sugarcraft products that she has 'hand picked' herself and uses in her books. She teaches sugarcraft at regular workshops throughout the year and continues to write about sugarcraft on a regular basis. Lindy Smith is passionate about her art and brings a fresh contemporary look to sugarcraft and cake design.

Reviews

[Sinar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is to be read and seen repeatedly. Full of detail information and ideas and VERY INSPIRING. As I'm not really into 'copying' the artworks, I AM indeed inspired and 'burnt' by this author!