Description
Book SynopsisThis quirky collection of children's cake designs showcases the unique but easily achievable sugar modelling skills of internationally renowned cake designer and sugercrafter Maisie Parrish. Each of these creative cake designs has true character and charm and is ideal for a child's birthday party with a difference.The book opens with advice on how to make sugarpaste with a quick sugarpaste recipe to save time, or you can use ready-made sugarpaste. There is also full guidance on working with fondant to create modelling paste for sugar modelling, including colouring sugarpaste, painting on sugarpaste and storing sugarpaste. Maisie guides you through all the sugar modelling equipment you need and shows you how to make fondant figures and sugar characters.The recipes section gives you a rich fruit cake recipe and Madeira cake recipe, as well as mini cake and cupcake recipes. All the recipes you need to make the cool cake designs in this book are included, including how to make buttercream,
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Sugarpaste
Modelling
Cake recipes
Other recipes
Covering cakes
Dowelling cakes
Have your cake and eat it
Down on the farm
Butterfly fairy
Rocking dragons
Ballerina mice
Halloween magic
Cute Christening
Christmas crackers
About the author
Acknowledgements
Suppliers
Index
