Cake Craft Made Easy: Step-by-Step Sugarcraft Techniques for 16 Vintage-Inspired Cakes

by Fiona Pearce

Overview

Essential cake decorating techniques explained, from simple buttercream piping through to brush embroidery with royal icing, making sugar flowers, and decorating novelty cakes.

Includes 12 gorgeous cake decorating projects to make 16 cakes that are impressive and stylish, but use small cakes in various sizes to keep the baking elements simple and to allow you to really focus in on the cake decoration techniques. Bridges the gap between decorating cupcakes and cookies and decorating larger tiered cakes for beginner to intermediate cake decorators.

Plus 12 free video demonstrations, available online, to teach the best way of completing each cake decorating technique.

Inside Cake Craft Made Easy: Easy to follow cake decorating techniques explained in detail with full-color step-by-step photography, covering the following subjects:

• Buttercream piping
• Cupcake towers
• Pattern embossing
• Sugar pinwheels
• Stenciling
• Royal icing piping
• Sugar models & flowers
• Sugar doilies
• Frills & ruffles
• Brush embroidery
• Rice Paper Work

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446361726
Publisher:	David & Charles
Publication date:	05/25/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Fiona Pearce studied cake decorating at Brooklands College and now runs her own cake decorating and sugarcraft business, Icing Bliss, which specializes in vintage-inspired bespoke cupcakes, cookies and small celebration cakes for special occasions. Fiona also teaches cake decorating courses at Cakeology (www.cakeology.net) and sees approx 600–650 students per year. Fiona is based in South West London.