Stunning Buttercream Flowers

Author: Jiahn Kang
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1624149030
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Take Your Desserts to the Next Level with Breathtaking Flowers and Other Delicious, Dainty Designs Design the most gorgeous cakes right at home with these 25 incredibly approachable decorating projects. Jiahn Kang, founder of the cake design company Brooklyn Floral Delight, shows you how to easily sculpt delicate flowers, cute cacti and floral arrangements all from delicious buttercream icing. With simple instructions and helpful step-by-step pictures, you’ll quickly master the art of beautiful cake decorating—no baking expertise required! With delectable cake and meringue recipes and easy tips for proper color-mixing, piping and shaping, you’ll be creating masterpieces in no time. Pipe charming buttercream gardens full of roses and hydrangeas, delightful collections of earthy cacti and succulents, or even vibrant full-blossom bouquets and wreaths. Whether you’re preparing for a special event or simply looking to pick up a creative new skill, these beginner-friendly designs will have you wowing everyone with your elegant cakes and cupcakes.

100 Buttercream Flowers

Author: Valeri Valeriano
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446370852
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 511

Book Description
Let your cake decorating skills bloom with help from the world-renowned experts and authors of The Contemporary Buttercream Bible. Learn to pipe one-hundred different buttercream flowers—from azaleas to zinnias—to showcase on your cakes with this complete visual reference book. Each flower is demonstrated on a cupcake, with five full-scale projects to show you how to combine your flowers into a masterpiece cake. In this aspirational yet accessible guide, the authors demonstrate how to build up each flower using simple piping techniques that even the novice cake decorator will be able to achieve. All the basics are covered to get you started—how to make stable buttercream icing, advice on coloring and flavor, how to fill a piping bag, and more essential techniques. Valerie and Christina then demonstrate in step-by-step photographic detail how to create each flower and how to use your newfound skills to produce stunning cake designs. The flowers are presented through the color spectrum so when you look through the book, you’ll see a lovely rainbow effect. “A wonderful encyclopedia that can be used as reference or jumping off point for the experienced decorator as well as an all-in-one resource for intermediate or even ambitious beginners.” —Pink Cake Box University “The best book on decorating buttercream icing that I own . . . The step by step directions make sure there is no guessing as to how to do each flower that is illustrated.” —Red Kettle Cook

Wedding Cakes with Lorelie Step by Step

Author: Lorelie Carvey
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540462473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
Experience the Joy and Delight of Creating Amazing Wedding Cakes from Scratch. Lorelie Carvey will show you how to make and decorate the perfect wedding cake. The award-winning pastry chef has spent over thirty years perfecting her techniques and now offers advice that will ensure a sweet memory for your bride's special day. From the first idea to the spectacular result, Carvey guides you through everything you need to know to make the ultimate dream dessert. She includes her favorite recipes, like her chocolate buttermilk cake, hazelnut cake, chocolate mousse, lemon cream cheese, Italian meringue buttercream, and so much more. Carvey personally perfected each recipe during her baking career. In addition to recipes, Carvey clearly and comprehensively explains and demonstrates (with detailed photos) the baking and decorating techniques so you can create your unique cake design. With her own guide to ingredients, cooking methods, baking utensils, and decorating tips, you'll have everything you need to create a magnificent wedding cake that will be remembered and cherished by everyone. Your purchase comes with benefits including...a membership to Lorelie's exclusive cake support group, step by step video, a discount coupon for Cake Stackers, printable guides to pan sizes with number of servings, cups of batter, baking temperatures, baking times and cups of icing to frost and decorate. It also includes a guide to bakers measures and equivalents, emergency substitutions, cake ingredients, functions, fails and causes, a photo tutorial of delivering your cakes, plus cake decorating ideas and instruction.

Buttercream Flowers for All Seasons

Author: Valeri Valeriano
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1446375722
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 511

Book Description
Blooming marvellous cake decorating ideas for spring, summer, autumn and winter . . . all made with delicious buttercream. Bursting with buttercream flowers, this bumper cake decorating book gives you all the inspiration and know-how you need to create sensational floral cakes all year round, with over fifty cake ideas. Each of the seasonal design concepts is presented as a spectacular tiered cake, an accessible single-tier cake and a beginner-friendly batch of cupcakes so you can get started at any level. Buttercream Flowers for All Seasons features step-by-step instructions from international-bestselling authors Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes, leading lights of the cake world and masters of buttercream art.

Buttercream Flowers and Arrangements

Author: Roland A. Winbeckler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780930113100
Category : Cake decorating
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description

The Contemporary Buttercream Bible

Author: Valeri Valeriano
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446363147
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
“An absolute game changer in the industry of cake art . . . hugely aspirational yet completely approachable . . . Bravo!” (Chef Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes). This essential guide demonstrates more than fifty innovative techniques—via easy-to-follow step-by-step photographic tutorials—and includes over forty stunning cake designs to create at home, from simple cupcakes to three-tiered wonders. Valeri and Christina start by showing you how to perfect a basic buttercream recipe and how to pipe simple textures, patterns, and an array of flowers. They then demonstrate how to create a myriad of creative effects using diverse techniques such as stamping, stenciling, palette knife painting, and much more. “I look forward to learning all the skills that I, as an artist in rolled fondant, have only the most rudimentary grasp of. Not since Cakewalk by Margaret Braun have I been this excited about a cake book.” —Chef Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes “The authors’ examples are inspirational and a demonstration of what is possible if you ‘put your whole heart into it.’ Overall, Valeriano and Ong have created a book full of inspiration and encouragement that re-energizes the use of buttercream in modern cake design.” —Sonya Hong of American Cake Decorating “Fascinating techniques . . . lovely ideas.” —Lindy Smith, author of The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible

Buttercream One-Tier Wonders

Author: Valeri Valeriano
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446373398
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
“The Queens of Buttercream draw inspiration from a range of themes from vintage chic to fine art . . . steampunk to Alice in Wonderland ” (Cake Geek Magazine). Never serve a boring-looking cake again! This stunning collection of buttercream cake decorating projects will transform your regular bakes into works of art using simple techniques and nothing but delicious buttercream. With thirty step-by-step single-tier cake decorating projects and a wide variety of themes, you’ll find cakes for all occasions that will lift your baking to a new creative level. The cakes range in size from four to eight inches high and come in a host of shapes and sizes—round and square, but also simple carved shapes including a wreath, a log, and a birdcage. The ideal book for buttercream beginners, this colorful cake decorating book will show you how to create simple yet sensational cakes every day that will wow all who see and eat them! With expert instruction from the best buttercream teachers in the world, you’ll learn a wide range of innovative buttercream techniques using piping tips, palette knives, and more.

The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating

Author: Autumn Carpenter
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 1589236696
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all of the most popular cake decorating techniques, including piped frosting, fondant, and hand modeled figures. For each technique, there is an overview of the tools and materials used and complete instructions with photos. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects allow the reader to try the techniques in each section. Galleries of decorated cakes by various artists offer the reader examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Modern Sugar Flowers

Author: Jacqueline Butler
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446375021
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
The essential reference from the internationally renowned cake designer. Known for her signature sugar flowers and her glorious wedding cakes, Jacqueline Butler has shared her tips and techniques in this beautifully illustrated guide. Bakers at every level can find clear, easy-to-follow directions to create a distinctive, contemporary look for their cakes. Covering single-tier, multi-tier, and premade arrangements, Butler reveals her secrets for lilacs, lavender, dahlia, freesia, camellia, and many other floral creations—plus advice on tools, supplies, and coloring.

Maggie Austin Cake

Author: Maggie Austin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544770323
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 415

Book Description
Stunning cake designs and technique how-tos from top cake artist Maggie Austin A former ballerina, Maggie Austin turned to baking when an injury ended her dancing career—and has since become one of today’s most sought-after cake artists, serving celebrity clients and even royalty around the world. Her design hallmarks are instantly recognizable to the legions of fans who follow her work: ethereal frills, dreamy watercolors, lifelike sugar flowers, rice-paper accents, graceful composition, and other impeccable details. Here, she shares a collection of her edible works of art and the methods behind their creation, with a “theme and variations” organization that shows how mastering any single technique can open the door to endless creativity. Each is broken down into clear instructions and illustrated with step-by-step photos that are easy to follow whether you’re a professional baker or an amateur enthusiast. From a single sugar blossom to a multi-tiered cake festooned with pearls and intricate appliques, there’s inspiration for bakers and crafters of all stripes.