GORGEOUS and GRUESOME CAKES for CHILDREN

by DEBBIE BROWN

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New hardcover book with superb full-colour photos, templates and step-by-step instructions. 128 pages, published 2010

30 original and fun designs kids will love!

Gorgeous and Gruesome Cakes for Children features 30 fun and original birthday cake designs suitable for both boys and girls alike. With designs by Debbie Brown, the UK's bestselling sugarcraft modelling author, all the cakes are tasty, easy to create and will be the star of the show at any child's birthday party. The book begins with a comprehensive section on getting started with cake decorating, including useful advice on the basic tools and equipment needed. There are also delicious cake recipes, providing the all-essential base to the added decorations. With such a compelling mix of pretty and horrible designs, whether they're into monsters or princesses there's something for all children here. Girls will love the gorgeous Frog Prince and Cinderella's Glass Slipper cake, whilst boys will find the gooey Alien Egg or gruesome Swamp Monster simply irresistible!

Features:

• Recipes - Butter sponge cake, Pink raspberry cake, Slime lime cake, Fillings including sugar syrup, buttercream and ganache, Icings and Pastes
• Basic Techniques
• General Equipment
• 30 easy-to-follow projects
• Templates

Gorgeous and Gruesome Cakes for Children is a UK publication. All measurements are in metric and imperial

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About the Author

Debbie Brown is a cake decorator, demonstrator, tutor and author of cake decoration and sugarcraft, with many books published on novelty/sculptured cakes. Based in Ashford, Middlesex, on the Surrey/West London border area, she is the UK's best-selling author of character and novelty cake books. Debbie started cake decorating when her children were very small, mainly as a creative outlet. The very first cake was a train with carriages filled with sweets. A new career went on from there, making cakes for special occasions which led on to commissions, books, magazine articles, teaching and demonstrating, sometimes around the world, and television.

Over the years Debbie has made some spectacular cakes, for big celebrations and weddings, for well-known people and places, but many just for a birthday treat, helping to mark the day in a special way. The cakes are usually sculptured novelty cakes as a base with a sugarpaste/rolled fondant covering. Debbie's books are based on these cake types, but she also makes spectacular wedding and celebration cakes with delicious flavours and fillings, either modern or traditional, with some designs adorned with life-like flowers made from sugar.

Debbie is a member of the British Sugarcraft Guild and is one of their accredited demonstrators who travels around the country demonstrating at branch meetings. Demonstrations usually show a novelty cake from start to finish or her incredible modelling skills. She is also in demand at specialist cake decorating shops, sugarcraft groups and clubs, colleges and schools around the world, who also organise demonstrations and workshops where her skills are taught.

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Gorgeous and Gruesome Cakes for Children - Debbie Brown