Cakes and cake decoration, icing and sugarcraft Books

Book SynopsisSweets master and TikTok sensation Amy Chao shares the secrets for recreating her most beloved designs in this utterly charming collection that packs in the happiness. Learn all the essential tips and tricks behind her signature meringue “floaties,” colorful marshmallows and mouthwatering macarons - featuring a variety of lip-smacking fillings to choose from! - with recipes like: Cutest Corgi Butts Marshmallows Fun Fluffy Sheep Meringue Cookies Sleepy Pandas Macarons Cat Paw Marshmallows Stunning Seashells Macarons with Edible Pearls Adorable Elephant Meringue Cookies . . . and more! With 50 recipes that are as fun to make as they are to eat, there are options to brighten up any occasion. Each design includes step-by-step illustrations that take the intimidation out of these treats, letting you focus on the fun. Meanwhile, comprehensive troubleshooting sections, plus easy-to-trace templates for perfectly piped macarons, make it simple to whip up these specialty sweets in the comfort of your own home. A confection lover’s dream, this is the perfect uplifting addition to expand your baking repertoire.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJason’s love of shaking up tradition is evident. Adding fruits to bolster flavors in familiar baked goods is groundbreaking . . . steering us to experiment, try new combinations of flavors, and expand our baking vocabulary. — From the foreword by Martha Stewart There are many superlatives that can be used to describe Jason Schreiber as a person, a baker, a cake designer, an artist, and now a writer. But here’s my favorite: Jason is simply delightful. This book will not only teach you how to bake better, it will make you feel good. — Ron Ben-Israel, cake designer and television host This exquisitely designed cookbook offers an update to the fruit cake, that retro Christmas classic. The book’s most stunning feature is photographs of cake slices, cupcakes, and other baked goods arranged in repeating patterns and in a brown, orange, and gold color palette that offers a fitting nod to the '70s, the fruit cake's heyday. — Booklist Schreiber debuts with an inspiring collection of recipes for cakes enriched with fruit that will be a revelation for fruitcake skeptics. A sharp design comprising easy-to-follow ingredient grids and modern–vintage-feel photography adds a polished touch. This will tantalize bakers seeking a modern approach to classic desserts. — Publishers Weekly [A] fun, inspiring collection of cakes . . . there is something for everyone. Bakers will enjoy the quirky writing style and delicious flavors. — Library Journal The vibrant cakes, muffins, pastries, and sweets that fill the pages of Jason Schreiber’s new cookbook Fruit Cake will make you forget about the old doorstop studded with dried fruit and try your hand at baking something more fanciful. — Food & Wine Everyone loves a traditional dessert, especially during the festive season. But these creative recipes put a fresh, fruity spin on much-loved favourites. . . . Taking familiar baking recipes, Schreiber adds unexpected fillings to create flavour combinations as diverse as the stories behind them: think pomegranate molasses cake, blueberry ginger muffins and passionfruit lime pavlova. — Stylist (UK)

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Book SynopsisOne-Tier Party Cakes features 12 elaborate, single-layer cakes for a variety of occasions from birthdays to baby showers, friendship celebrations to Christmas festivities. Lindy Smith demonstrates how to transfer a template to the cake and decorate each of the three-dimensional designs in the book, while providing plenty of inspiration and encouragement for the reader to develop their own designs. This book features recipes for two delicious layered cakes (Madeira and chocolate fudge); plus the ingredients you need to make successful cake coverings and fillings including sugarpaste (fondant), flower paste, modelling chocolate, ganache and royal icing. It also includes new and popular cake techniques such as achieving sharp edges, working with modelling chocolate, airbrushing, cocoa butter painting and mastering double-height cakes. Trade ReviewLovely book full of great ideas and helpful recipes. Step-by-step instructions easy to understand and follow. Will be a well-used book in my home. Used with layered sponges so that the inside is as stunning as outsides. Would recommend this book. -- Tina Youell * Amazon Customer Review *Create 12 intricately designed cakes for all occasions! With guidance and inspiration from sugarcraft expert Lindy Smith, learn how to decorate your single tier cakes with impressive embellishments that will be the centrepiece of the party. Using easily attainable tools and straightforward techniques, you will soon be equipped to create eye-catching cakes for birthdays, baby showers, housewarmings, or Christmas. Lindy Smith demonstrates how to transfer a template to the cake and decorate each of the three-dimensional designs in the book, while proving plenty of inspiration and encouragement for the reader to develop their own designs. This book features recipes for two delicious layered cakes (Madeira and chocolate fudge); plus, the ingredients you need to make successful cake coverings and fillings including sugarpaste (fondant), flower paste, modelling chocolate, ganache, and royal icing. Well-known and highly respected in the cake decorating industry; Lindy Smith has over 28 years' experience in sugarcraft and is an established author of 15 cake decorating books including the International Gourmand award-winning Creative Colour for Cake Decorating and internationally best-selling The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. * Sugarcraft *Lindy Smith is back with another elaborate and artful cake decorating book, One-Tier Party Cakes. It features 12 exquisite single tier designs covering every special occasion you can think of from birthdays to baby showers, friendship celebrations to Christmas festivities, turning regular bakes into works of art. Jam-packed full of detailed, visual instructions, One Tier Party Cakes will take your cake decorating to new creative heights! * Cake Geek Magazine *This book is a beauty. Clear step-by-step instructions accompanied by beautiful photographs, this book will guide you through creating stunning cakes learning techniques as you go. -- Angela Harkness * Amazon Customer Review *I just love this book it has some really brilliant ideas for cake decorating. My absolute favourite projects are Brenda the Brandhill and the Sheep project. Being a knitter this lovely animal is sure to be my first make out of this book. It will make a perfect birthday cake for one of the ladies in my knitting group. -- Sue Gaunt * Amazon Customer Review *Great Book! The instructions were really easy to follow. -- Jess McGuire * Amazon Customer Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Tools and materials Cake recipes Techniques The cakes: Welcome Home Heart Design Dancing in the Rain Dandelion Clock Brenda the Brandhill Sheep Sarah's Miracle: Baby Shower 50 and Fabulous Klimt's Cat Puffy the Puffin Echinacea Toadstools Winter Wonderland Templates Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive beginner''s guide to making macaronsLearn how you can make the kinds of beautiful and delicious macarons you''d expect to find in a Parisian patisserie in the comfort of your own kitchen. French Macarons for Beginners provides foolproof instructions for mastering these notoriously finicky confections.From whipping up the meringue to properly folding and piping the batter, this macaron guide takes you through the process in detail, step-by-step, to help ensure successstarting with your very first batch.This French pastry cookbook includes: Macaron basicsHead off to macaron school and bake up picture-perfect macarons with the assistance of complete, easy-to-follow directions. A range of flavorsMix and match 30 shell recipes and 30 filling recipes to satisfy your personal taste. Cookie troubleshootingSolve problems like cracked shells, grainy ganache, curdled buttercream, and more. With this macaron cookbook, you''ll learn how easy it is to create incredible, colorful sweets in any flavor you can imagine.

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Book SynopsisThese days, people are accustomed to seeing chocolate labeled 54%, 61%, or 72% on grocery store shelves, but some bakers are still confused by what the labeling means and how to use it. In Seriously Bitter Sweet, Alice Medrich presents 150 meticulously tested, seriously delicious recipes—both savory and sweet—for a wide range of percentage chocolates. “Chocolate notes” appear alongside, so readers can further adapt any recipe using the percentage chocolate on hand. The book is a complete revision of Alice’s 2003 Bittersweet, which was named the 2004 IACP Cookbook of the Year. Since 2003, the world of chocolate has grown exponentially and terms like “bittersweet” and “semisweet” no longer suffice as chocolatiers everywhere are making chocolates that are labeled with specific percentages of cocoa.Alice clearly outlines the qualities of different chocolates as she explains how to cook with them. With tricks, techniques, and answers to every chocolate question, Seriously Bitter Sweet will appeal to a whole new audience of chocolate loversTrade Review“Learn everything you need to know about baking and cooking with chocolate in this comprehensive guide.”—Better Homes Gardens “I recommend Alice Medrich’s recent revision of her classic Bittersweet. Now called Seriously Bitter Sweet, the book offers recipes substitutions that allow you to use whatever percentage chocolate you favor.”

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Book SynopsisNothing beats chocolate chip cookies still warm from the oven, freshly baked shortcake, or a perfect apple pie cooling on the windowsill. 250 Treasured Country Desserts is packed with tried-and-true recipes for the homey treats you’ve loved all your life, with practical tips on how to make gingery ginger snaps, clean-cut brownies, dreamily frosted layer cakes, and much more. You’ll turn to this reliable guide again and again for sweet, satisfying dessert classics.

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Book SynopsisThis gift set edition captures the essence of teatime at Downton Abbey, pairing an exclusive tea towel with the Afternoon Tea Cookbook, featuring classic recipes for sweets and savories, etiquette notes, and lavish imagery.The Official Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook - Gift Set Edition presents over 55 recipes of the revered and treasured English teatime tradition. With an exclusive tea towel and an alluring and vibrant cookbook, fans of the PBS series and anglophiles alike can stage every stylish element of this cultural staple of British society at home. Spanning sweet and savory classics—like Battenberg Cake, Bakewell Tart, toffee puddings, cream scones, and tea sandwiches—the recipes capture the quintessential delicacies of the time, and the proper way to serve them. This charming cookbook also features a detailed narrative history and extols the proper decorum for teatime service, from tea gowns and tearooms to preparing and serving tea. Gorgeous food photographs, lifestyle stills from the television series and recent movie, and character quotes bring the characters of Downton Abbey—and this rich tradition—to life in contemporary times. • Includes 1 Tea Towel; 100% cotton. Size: 15" x 24" inches.

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Book Synopsis"Gorgeous and Gruesome Cakes for Children" features 30 fun and original birthday cake designs suitable for both boys and girls alike. With designs by the UK's bestselling sugarcraft modelling author, all the cakes are tasty, easy to create and will be the star of the show at any child's birthday party. The book begins with a comprehensive section on getting started with cake decorating, including useful advice on the basic tools and equipment needed. There are also delicious cake recipes, providing the all-essential base to the added decorations. With such a compelling mix of pretty and horrible designs, whether they're into monsters or princesses there's something for all children here. Girls will love the gorgeous Frog Prince and Cinderella's Glass Slipper cake, whilst boys will find the gooey Alien Egg or gruesome Swamp Monster simply irresistible!

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Book SynopsisOne of the New York Times Best Cookbooks of 2023 • One of WBUR Here & Now's Best Cookbooks of 2023 London’s East End meets Northern California in 75 indulgent bakes from the author of The Violet Bakery Cookbook.Trade Review"Claire’s desserts are more than just a conclusion to a great meal; they’re bites of special memories for me . . . Her cakes have been at the center of some of our most cherished family moments." -- Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex - New York Times"Claire Ptak, the California-born owner of Violet Bakery in London, brings her seasonal West Coast sensibility to a classic roster of British desserts in Love Is a Pink Cake, her second cookbook. The results are dazzling, at once innovative and homey. Her rice pudding—a creamy, easy-to-make marvel that calls for toasting the rice in brown butter before baking it in cream—has become my go-to recipe. Buy this for the baker in your life, and hope they’ll thank you with bakewell bars or apricot chamomile scones." -- Melissa Clark - New York Times"Delightful . . . Claire has also given us a very delicious recipe for a dessert of muscat wine and raspberries, which I have already bookmarked for my own Easter lunch." -- Nigel Slater - Guardian"Indispensable . . . Not only is Ptak’s book compelling—her baking is excellent." -- Rachel P. Kreiter - Eater"Love Is a Pink Cake offers glimpses of Ms. Ptak’s personality, as well as of her personal life . . . Rich in color (a pistachio-green plum cake with candied violets) and texture." -- Emilia Petrarca - New York Times"It’s the transferable wisdom that makes Love Is A Pink Cake invaluable . . . And you will find that even the classics—yellow sheet cake with chocolate frosting, treacle tart with whipped cream—can be improved upon by following Ptak’s advice." -- Hayley Maitland - Vogue"Thoroughly appealing in every way. . . . The recipes called to me to turn on the oven and get out my apron. I baked the Chocolate Hazelnut Cake, and it was so moist and full of rich, dark chocolate flavor that I knew it would become a regular part of my dessert repertoire." -- Kathy Gunst - WBUR"Claire Ptak, the Chez Panisse alum who runs London’s Violet Cakes, divides this sumptuous book into two. ‘California’ is produce-forward, while Harry and Meghan’s wedding cake is the talk of ‘England.’" -- Laura Regensdorf - Vanity Fair"Joyful . . . an exquisite collection of recipes." -- Hope Coke - Tatler"Claire Ptak’s recipes are generous, intuitive, and beautiful. This is a celebration of life, and the bounty of the earth. You will feel as though an old friend is taking you by the hand and teaching you how to make the perfect fluffy blueberry muffin. Pull up a chair. Claire is the friend everybody needs in their life." -- Laila Gohar"This book is as rich in stories as it is in incredible recipes. There is magic in its pages. I know so many of these recipes will become favorites baked again and again—a Violet recipe always works perfectly. A special book that’s as beautiful as it is useful. I’ve rarely been more excited about a book." -- Anna Jones"An absolutely enchanting book." -- Nigella Lawson"Ptak asserts that "baking is, in its own way, a love story," and her own love shines through. This is a treasure trove." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Ptak’s love for nature’s bounty shines through in this collection for fans of farm-to-table baking." -- Jessica S. Levy - Booklist

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Book SynopsisOne of Food Networks Best Cookbooks of 2022 • One of Vice's Best Cookbooks of 2022 • One of BookPage's Best Cookbooks of 2022. A groovy master class in healthy, sustainable, naturally delicious breads from a star of the new bread renaissance.Trade Review"Greg Wade is an incredibly talented and passionate baker. From his own commitment to local grains to the mastery of sourdough, soakers, and porridges, he shares his knowledge about all the elements that make up his extraordinary bread. Greg’s curiosity and creativity shine through as he reminds us that baking is a lot of fun. He makes everything feel easy and accessible—this book is a gift to bakers at all levels and a must for the bakers of today!" -- Amy Scherber, Amy’s Bread, NYC"Take a trip inside the head of Greg Wade, a dedicated custodian to community, soil, and fermentation. This deeply informative work is precise, yet playful and curious… just as one would expect to arise out of Greg’s generous nature and extensive talent. As both a reference book and a recipe book, Bread Head will prove to be a tremendously valuable addition to any baker’s library." -- Zachary Golper, Bien Cuit, Brooklyn"Bread Head takes us for a groovy ride, navigating Greg’s baking philosophy in an easy-to-understand way. I love how this book offers a peek at Greg’s genius on baking, hydration, and the importance of the ingredients. I can’t wait to start baking and jamming at home." -- Sarah Grueneberg, Chef/Owner, Monteverde"Greg Wade's baking is the kind of far-out bread and pastry that comes from bucking trends and asking the kinds of introspective questions few dare to. It takes a rare personality to look at the same few ingredients day after day and delight in every subtle change nurtured by time, temperature, and a few microbes and yeasts. The only thing missing from this book is the thing only you can give it: the kind of working knowledge that comes with baking bread again and again. So, grab this book, get in the kitchen, and just keep truckin’ on! Ya dig?" -- Dana Salls Cree, founder, Pretty Cool Ice Cream"Having Greg Wade’s brilliant new cookbook Bread Head in your kitchen is like having a renowned baker standing next to you giving you a personal master class. Bread Head provides essential inside tips that only a great baker can offer. But Bread Head is not merely all about bread. This comprehensive book is packed with recipes of treats like buckwheat brownies, bacon rye cheese rolls and whole wheat sponge cake with honey buttercream frosting. If you are serious about baking, then Bread Head is a must." -- Nancy Silverton, Mozza Group

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Book SynopsisCreate your very own cute and crafty party cakes--cake decorating designs from Lyndsay Sung, creator of Coco Cake Land.Make the cutest cakes in town with Coco Cake Land! With a colorful, vintage-meets-modern aesthetic that is inspired by kawaii cute, the thirty cake decorating projects in this book offer a fun and playful approach to making cakes that even novice decorators will be able to approach. The cakes in Coco Cake Land fall into two styles: the super cute and the pretty. You''ll find blue bears, pink cats, pandas, and foxes, along with buttercream rosettes, drippy ganache, and rainbow layers. With base recipes for cakes and frostings, tutorials on decorative piping and creating fondant features, as well as instructions for crafty finishes like washi tape flags and paper toppers, this book has everything you need to create colorful, cute, and completely unique cakes.

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Book SynopsisDini Kodippili, the creator of the blog The Flavor Bender, describes herself as a mad scientist in the kitchen. Through her experimentation, she developed secret-layer cakes. These unique cakes, which appear traditional at first, all have a hidden middle or bottom layerthat will delight any dessert enthusiast. Her creations include blueberry cheesecake with a surprise lemon blondie layer, black forest mousse cake with a surprise layer of sour cherries and maple cheesecake with a hidden bacon brittle layer. Because why should you have to choose between pumpkin cheesecake and decadent brownies? With Dini's recipes, you can have both. Dini has gained a social media following with her kitchen experiments and daring combinations. Between Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram, Dini has over 30k followers. Her recipes have been featured on Food & Wine. This book will have 60 recipes and 60 photographs.

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Book SynopsisEvery Occasion is Better with Cake Rebecca Firth, best-selling author of The Cookie Book, is back with the cake party you've been looking for! Fulfill all of your cake needs for any occasion with breakfast cakes, petite cakes, Bundt cakes, snacking cakes and stunning layered cakes. There's something for everyone, including: . Chocolate-Coconut Candy Bar Cake . Stella's Strawberry Lemonade Cake with Strawberry Marshmallow Frosting . Raspberry Jam Coffee Cake . Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cake with Cinnamon Spice Frosting . Chocolate Horchata Meringue Cake . Glazed Tangerine Donut Cake . Chocolate Stout Cake with Champagne Buttercream . Petite Caramelized Banana Split Pavlovas . Dulce de Leche Pumpkin Cheesecake Whether you want a delicious midweek treat or something dazzling to end a meal, this collection has you covered with make-ahead tips, substitutions and cake-making magic.

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