The Essential Cake Decorating Guide

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.

Customer reviews:

 This book has some of everything in it. If you are interested in exploring methods beyond basic buttercream this is your book! Well written for the average beginner to cake decorating it gives you step by step instructions for so many decorating techniques. A great book for anyone attempting a new technique. You will learn enough to know whether or not you want to persue the technique further.

I always loved to learn cake decorating techniques and this book is giving me everything I need to start, practice and even go more advance. It starts with the basics but it also has elaborated cake designs once you get more experience. It give you all the basic cake recipes as well and the different choices for icings and fondants. It shows various techniques and gives you a great variety of cakes to practice. It even recommends what is a good cake to start if you are a beginner. If you are looking for a book that get you started and moving forward with cake decorations I will definitely recommend it.