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World-renowned cake designer, Shelly Baker, has whipped up a veritable hand-held course on baking and decorating beautiful cakes with her new title, The Complete Book of Icing, Frosting & Fondant Skills. Whether the covering of choice is fondant, royal icing, buttercream, marzipan or sugar paste, readers will find everything they need to create fresh-baked perfection, including:
A variety of cake recipes and instructions for prepping cakes to take decoration
Techniques for working with various frostings—from piping buttercream to rolling fondant
Instructions for creating cake toppers, marzipan fruits, gumpaste flowers, and other delicious details
More than 50 step-by-step projects for creating stunning tiered cakes, cupcakes, cake pops, and more
Readers will also find a detailed review of essential tools and materials as well as a troubleshooting chapter for help with fixing or avoiding common mistakes plus there are more than 400 full-color photos.
Review: I have been decorating cakes for four years now and there is still so much I would love to learn. I wish I would have had this amazing book when I got started and am so glad that I have it now. There is seriously everything you need to know about getting started or improving upon your cake, cupcake, and cookie decorating. There are simple as well as more advanced techniques so regardless of where your experience stands, there is probably something in this book for all. I was pleased to see sections on icings and skills I have yet to even try such as marzipan and modeling chocolate. All the of the instructions were extremely easy to follow with helpful, high quality photographs. In addition to showing you step-by-step how to do specific techniques, there are also examples of great cakes and cupcakes for you to try. 
Besides the Wilton classes I took, this is by far the best collection of tutorials I have ever come across and it is an absolute must-have if you have any interest in decorating cakes! I don't give it out very often, but this book definitely gets my seal of approval!
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