First Steps In Cake Decorating: Over 100 Step-By-Step Cake Decorating Techniques And Recipes

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Summary: Fine if you like fondant
Review: I have enjoyed reading this book, and learning all the techniques described inside. The recipes, and guidelines to follow are easy for the first time decorator. I will definitly recommend this book to all my friends, who wish to learn the basics about the art of cake decorating. Thank you Janice Murfitt

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Summary: Fine if you like fondant
Review: Like many cake decorating books published in the UK, this book's cakes are not apt to have broad appeal to the US home baker. People who grew up with Aunt Betty's buttercream icing and Mom's frosted cupcakes after school may find the taste of the sugarpaste (rolled fondant) covering used on nearly all these cakes unfamiliar, too sweet, and with a stange texture. Most of the cakes are lovely to look at, but there is not a single one in here that I would actually make.

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Summary: Beautiful cakes for the advanced cake decorator
Review: The book is beautifully photographed and written, however the tools and ingredients are not for beginners. Ribbons and marzipan are used frequently, rather than plain icing, and the cakes are elaborate.

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Summary: Only discusses fondant and sugarpaste techniques
Review: This book does not illustrate any techniques used with piped icing.There are some beautiful cakes but they are decorated with either poured or rolled fondant.