All-in-One Guide to Cake Decorating

This comprehensive and accessible guide to cake decorating teaches all of the techniques and tricks that aspiring sugar crafters need to create amazing cakes that look like they came from the best bakery in town. This brilliantly illustrated guide reveals dozens of expert cake decorating ideas that are surprisingly simple to achieve. Buttercream, sugar paste, chocolate, marzipan, and flower paste are among the popular methods explained in easy-to-follow instructions that detail the basics of preparing and using different types of icing, illustrated with step-by-step color photographs. Beginners will enjoy gaining a foundation in cake decorating skills while experienced cake decorators will find inspirational new ideas.