PERFECT PARTY CAKES MADE EASY

by CAROL DEACON

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New large softcover book with gorgeous full-colour photos and step-by-step instructions. First published 2003, reprinted 2012, 192 pages, measures 28 x 22cm.

Over 70 fun-to-decorate cakes for all occasions

Perfect Party Cakes Made Easy contains a huge range of novelty cakes to make and decorate, with ideas to suit every occasion.

Over 70 deisgns for professional-looking party cakes, from childrens' fun favourites to Christmas cakes.

Prize-winning cake decorator Carol Deason provides expert advice and easy-to-follow instructions so that even beginners will find these cakes incredibly simple to make.

No-Time Party Cakes cake designs include:

• Really Easy Novelty Cakes - Teddy Cake; Enchanted House; Dinosaur; Cat and Mouse; Racetrack
• Extra Special Party Cakes - Fairy-tale Castle; Birthday Fairy; Football Fan; Christmas Santas; Woodland Creatures; Sports Car; Christening Cake
• Plus more - over 70 cake designs plus great decorating variations

Techniqes and Materials:

• Basic recipes - Madiera sponge cake, Chocolate sponge cake, Fruit cake, Microwave cakes, stock syrup
• Icing recipes - Buttercream, Sugarpaste, Colouring sugar, Royal icing, Gelatin icing, Modelling icing
• Basic techniques - covering a cake, covering the cake board, edging the cke board, freehand painting, making the piping bag
• Modelling sugarpaste - colouring, woodgrain effect, marbling, making figures, making animals
• Basic equipment, troubleshooting, templates, stockists including Australian stockists.

Perfect Party Cakes Made Easy is a UK publication. All measurements are in metric and imperial.

About the author

Carol Deacon originally trained in Graphic Design and worked for a number of years as an art director in advertising. Then one day a friend asked her to make her a birthday cake… After a few months of baking and decorating cakes, Carol left advertising and went to work at Jane Asher’s Cake shop in Chelsea for a year. She also began to enter competitions to see how her work compared to others around the country and promptly won a car in a BBC Good Food Magazine cake decorating competition. And a gold medal in a British Sugarcraft Guild Exhibition with a fairy book cake.

Carol has written many cake decorating books. She has also written articles for many food magazines and has demonstrated on radio, TV, abroad and even on a cross channel ferry. Her aim is to show people how to achieve stunning results without having to invest heavily in specialist equipment or spend heaps of time on it. If you already own a rolling pin, knife and a fine paintbrush, you can probably make most of her cakes!

Carol's book, No Time Party Cakes is also available. It has 30 quick and easy designs, many of which are in this book - click here for more information

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Perfect Party Cakes Made Easy - Carol Deacon