Professional Cake Decorating is a guidebook, reference, and at-your-fingertips resource to the special methods and techniques unique to cake decorating.

Features of Professional Cake Decorating:

• 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
• shows how to make 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
• contains more than 200 step-by-step and finished cake color photos and 125+ illustrations

Professional Cake Decorating is a highly visual book covering 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 a must-have for today's bakers, cake decorators, specialty shop owners, and independent cake designers.

Contents

1. Basic Piping Skills
2. Floral Piping Skills
3. Intermediate Piping Skills
4. Advanced Border Skills
5. Writing Workshop
6. Royal Icing Piped Flowers
7. Royal Icing Design Piping
8. Icing a Cake
9. Hand-Modeling Skills
10. More Modeling Skills with Marzipan and Chocolate
11. Advanced Icing and Design Skills
12. Rolled Icing Design Skills
13. Pastillage Construction
14. Gumpaste Flowers—Basic Floral Skills
15. Advanced Gumpaste Flowers
16. Miniature Cakes, Candy and Cookie Designs
17. Cake Sculpture and Character Cakes
18. Tier Cakes
19. Recipes

Appendices

• Exercises and Patterns
• Measurements

Index

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