CELEBRATION CAKES

Decorating step by step with fondant

by GRACE STEVENS

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New softcover book, published 2012, 152 pages, gorgeous colour photos throughout.

Step-by-step projects for 16 sensational party cakes for all occasions!

Fondant cake decorating is an art form usually practised only by a select few, but with Celebration Cakes you will learn how to model perfect flowers, animals and figurines in no time, even if you are a beginner. You will also become a master of fillings, coverings and various techniques.

The designs featured in Celebration Cakes are suitable for cakes for children, teenagers and adults and can be mixed-and-matched to create a dazzling array of innovative cakes. Step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs will help you to recreate these exceptional cakes for all special occasions. Useful extras such as a conversion chart, supplier list and equipment list have been included.

Add the personal touch to your cakes with edible fondant art. With Grace Stevens' easy-to-follow instructions you'll soon find yourself creating amazing fondant decorations. Grace Stevens has taken her love for baking beautiful cakes and compiled an easy to-follow creative fondant adventure.

Contents of Celebration Cakes include:

• Introduction & foreword
• Equipment
• Basic recipes
  • Cakes
  • Fillings
  • Coverings
• Techniques
• THE DESIGNS:
  • Baby in a teacup
  • Quilted daisy
  • Tree stump
  • Hamburger
  • Braai (barbecue)
  • Handbag
  • Castle
  • Farmyard
  • African explorer
  • First birthday
  • Surf shack
  • Princess on quilted pillow
  • Teddy bear
  • Circus
  • Toadstool
  • Golf cake
• Plus templates, Suppliers (including Australian, New Zealand, UK & South African) and Index

Celebration Cakes is a South African publication. All measurements are in metric and metric cup & spoon.

About the author

Grace Stevens is the founder and ownder of Cupcakes by Design in Cape Town, South Africa. She was a primary school teacher for nine years before she began decorating cakes as a hobby for family and friends. Her natural talent immediately became apparent when she started modelling fondant and she has never looked back. She teaches the art of fondant modelling and cake decorating in Cape Town and elsewhere in South Africa and internationally.

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Celebration Cakes: Decorating with Fondant by Grace Stevens