Everything you need to create stunning cake decorations  Cake decorating is an art with specific skills that must be studied and practiced before they can be mastered. Professional Cake Decorating is the first guidebook, reference, and at-your-fingertips resource to the special methods and techniques unique to cake decorating. Professional Cake Decorating is:  a comprehensive set of lessons designed to teach the skills needed in cake decorating, including basic, intermediate, and advanced piping skills; hand modeling; and gumpaste flowers a powerful tool for making dramatic improvements in the overall look and design of cakes a valuable training handbook and resource for bakers and decorators a comprehensive reference of successful professional skill sets  Using more than 200 step-by-step and finished cake color photographs, as well as over 125 illustrations, this highly visual book covers a wealth of techniques for cake borders, piped flowers, cake writing and piping, royal icing designs, marzipan fruits and figurines, rolled icing, floral patterns, petit fours, gumpaste floral art and design, and much more. Thorough coverage also includes such foundation skills as making shells, rosettes, reverse shells, zigzags, fleur-de-lis, rope, garlands, scrolls, rosebuds, and other confectionary designs. Complete with more than three dozen tried-and-tested recipes, Professional Cake Decorating is the only book that places the rewards of thirty years of training, traveling, teaching, and private practice in your hands! It is a must-have for today's bakers, cake decorators, specialty shop owners, and independent cake designers.

Professional Cake Decorating

Toba Garrett

Paula I. Figoni

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The Well-Decorated Cake

As a Master Cake Designer and featured instructor at the prestigious Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, Toba Garrett has taught top industry professionals her decorating secrets. Now, using the same easy-to-follow style that worked so well in her acclaimed book, Creative Cookies, she brings her artistic vision and professional tips to you in this fully-illustrated home cake decorating course. From selecting the proper equipment to the basics of buttercream, easy techniques for creating piping flowers and ornamentation to advanced drapery and border designs, everything you need to become a better cake designer is included. You'll find time-saving templates, a picture gallery of spectacular cakes, and a generous selection of Toba's own recipes for creating scrumptious cakes, icings and special sauces. About the Author Toba Garrett is a master cake designer and sugarcraft artist who has studied with world-renowned chefs from around the world and at the famous Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. The author of Creative Cookies, she teaches classes in confectionery arts that are sold out months in advance.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Baking

Sterling Publishing Co.

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