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cake decorating basics
Cake decorating is a skill that anyone can master with a little guidance. In this fact-packed reference book, Rachel Brown takes the reader back to basics and proves at the same time that cake decorating really can be fun.
The book provides answers to the fundamental questions that beginners often ask, such as: how do you use a frame; how do you level off a domed cake; how do you work with more than one packet of sugarpaste; how do you cut a dowel and how do you get a modelled figure to sit?
Starting with lining tins of different shapes and finishing with making perfect wedding cakes, there is also detailed information on covering cakes with marzipan and sugarpaste, adding ribbons, simple piping with royal icing, creating special effects with sugarpaste and basic modelling. Rachel even provides her tried-andtested sponge and fruit cake recipes, with gluten-, egg-, sugar- and dairy-free versions for those with specific dietary requirements.
Each chapter is liberally illustrated with step-bystep colour photographs and peppered with hints and tips from Rachel’s rich experience. Here, in one indispensable book, is all the information you will ever need to make and decorate the perfect cake.
CAKE
Decorating
BASICS
Reprinted in 2011
Published in 2007 by
New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd
London • Cape Town • Sydney • Auckland
Garfield House, 86–88 Edgware Road, London W2 2EA, United Kingdom
80 McKenzie Street, Cape Town 8001, South Africa
Unit 1, 66 Gibbes Street, Chatswood, NSW 2067, Australia
218 Lake Road, Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand
Copyright © 2007 text: Rachel Brown
Copyright © 2007 photographs and illustrations: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd
Copyright © 2007 New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers and copyright holders.
ISBN 978 1 84537 518 8
EDITOR: Anne Konopelski
EDITORIAL DIRECTION: Rosemary Wilkinson
DESIGN: Casebourne Rose Design Associates
PHOTOGRAPHY: Shona Wood
ARTWORK: Carrie Hill and Sue Rose
PRODUCTION: Hazel Kirkman
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Reproduction by Pica Digital Ltd, Singapore
Printed and bound by Times Offset, Malaysia
Disclaimer
The author and publishers have made every effort to ensure that all instructions given in this book are safe and accurate, but they cannot accept liability for any resulting injury or loss or damage to either property or person, whether direct or consequential or however arising.
CONTENTS
Working with Sugarpaste (Rolled Fondant or Ready to Roll Icing)
