Learn the basics of decorating cakes with this super-simple guide for beginners\nDecorating your own cakes is both fun and easy with cake maven Autumn Carpenter at your side. In The Beginner’s Guide to Cake Decorating, adapted from her best-selling First Time Cake Decorating, you’ll learn everything about the basic tools you will need, hacks to make cake decorating easy, and how to plan and design your own cake style. This book is the only basic primer you will need to get started.\nOther books on cake decorating are often overwhelming, offering unattainable expert-level ideas and complicated instructions, but The Beginner’s Guide to Cake Decorating sticks to the basics so you get the results you want. You will be able to decorate cakes for any occasion, from baby showers to birthdays. With fuss-free instructions and no-fail results, you will not only impress your friends and family, but yourself too!\nThis accessible, easy-to-follow cake decorating reference features: 
All the information you need to get started—The book includes essential equipment and tools; recipes for cakes, fillings, frostings, icings, and fondants; introductory techniques; and hacks and shortcuts to make everything easier. A variety of methods and styles—Choose from a wide range of techniques, including piping, molding, hand modeling, stencils, and more, and styles from flowers to banners and ribbons to letters. Crystal-clear instructions—Photographic step-by-step projects will help you learn the basics so you can customize your own designs successfully. 
The best place to start your cake customizing exploration is this all-in-one beginner’s guide from one of cake decorating’s best teachers!

The Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating: A Step-by-Step Guide to Decorate with Frosting, Piping, Fondant, and Chocolate and More (New Shoe Press)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Carpenter, Autumn

Baking

New Shoe Press

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 offer the reader examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating

Quarry Books

This richly illustrated how-to book is a comprehensive reference about various techniques for decorating cookies, including buttercream icing, rolled fondant, run sugar, painting, chocolate icing, and egg wash glaze. The clear organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 400 full-color photos. Easy projects provide fun opportunities for trying the techniques, and a gallery of beautifully decorated cookies offers examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby yourself!

The Complete Photo Guide to Cookie Decorating

Get the kids involved with Decorate Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies with Kids by Autumn Carpenter. This instructional craft book is filled with fun baking and decorating experiences that you can share with your children or grandchildren, while teaching them valuable skills they will use for a lifetime. With adult supervision, kids can learn to decorate cookies, cupcakes, and cakes for holidays, special events, or to share with friends. Within these pages, you'll learn baking and preparing of cake, cupcakes, and cookies, starting off with the basics: utensils needed, measuring instructions, and kitchen safety tips. After the basics, the book continues with baking, filling, and icing--50 to 60 techniques in all--with eye-appealing, tasty designs for children to create that incorporate the methods taught. Rolled fondant techniques are thick throughout, keeping kids up-to-date with the today's most popular methods of decorating. Instructions also include basic piping instructions. Additional decorating techniques include edible frosting sheets and products to add sparkle. The book is designed with 8-12 year olds boys and girls in mind, and includes instructions clearly labeled for difficulty and time allowance, and instructional pictures that show children using the tools. Kid-inspired cake and cookie themes are perfect for birthdays, seasonal celebrations, and other special events.

Decorate Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies with Kids: Techniques, Projects, and Party Plans for Teaching Kids, Teens, and Tots

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

The Complete Photo Guide to Candy Making is your go-to handbook for all things confectionery. From the author that brought you The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating and The Complete Photo Guide to Cookie Decorating, this book shows you how to make the perfect candies, chocolates, chews, and caramels. 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 650 full-color photos for clear understanding. More than 80 tried-and-true recipes allow the reader to try the techniques in each section. Whether you are looking to make gooey caramel for your pecan patties, or trying to mold the perfect chocolate truffle, author Autumn Carpenter will take you through every type of candy, with an introductory section on the basic tools, ingredients, and methods involved including: Chocolates, Brittles, Fudges, Caramels, Marshmallow, and so much more!

The Complete Photo Guide to Candy Making: All You Need to Know to Make All Types of Candy - The Essential Reference for Beginners to Skilled Candy ... Caramels, Truffles Mints, Marshmallows & More

Desserts

Let's Make Angry Birds Cakes catapults you into the world of baking - Angry Birds style! From party cakes and cupcakes to cake pops, pastry artists will be treated to 25 projects suitable for both beginning and experienced bakers. 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 set on a backdrop of one of our favorite games! Let's Make Angry Birds Cakes takes artists through every stage of the cake-creation process to create fun characters for your cake decorations. Full of step-by-step photographs, comprehensive recipes and dozens of tips, hints, and techniques, you'll be a star baker in no time. Autumn Carpenter will help you create nine party cakes, eight cupcakes, seven cake pops, and a two-tier showstopper are sure to impress any Angry Birds fan and pasty aficionado. - Includes 25 awesome Angry Birds cake projects, including a two-tier showstopper cake - Features seasonal Angry Birds projects, including Halloween and Christmas cakes - Contains an index featuring modeling guides for all of the Birds, Bad Piggies, and props shown in the book - Includes tried and tested recipes, including baking tips and guides on how fill and cover, pipe buttercream, and create cake pops

Let's Make Angry Birds Cakes: 25 unique cake designs featuring the Angry Birds and Bad Piggies

Walter Foster Publishing

Let cookies be your new canvas! Now these sweet treats are also a creative outlet for imagination and arty crafting skills. Anyone can learn easy techniques for transforming plain cookies into little works of art following the step-by-step instructions and detailed photography found inside Sweet Art: Creature Cookies. Beginning with the cookies themselves, best-selling author and reknowned sugar artist Autumn Carpenter gives you her favorite recipes with tried-and-true tips for baking cookies that are perfect for decorating. See amazing ways to use common cookie cutters to create cute animal shapes. Learn the basics and beyond of piping buttercream icing, decorating with fondant, decorating with run-sugar icing, and so much more. Create over 80 different animal cookies. Discover many interesting ways to create textures for fur, feathers, or fish scales. Explore lots of possibilities for color combinations and blending. The creature cookies is this book represent all corners of the globe from earth, sea, and sky: safari, farm, forest, jungle, desert, lake, and ocean; even family pets! "Once again the amazing Autumn Carpenter has pooled her creative genius in creating a new and exciting book. Creature Cookies features Autumn's unique approach to fun, whimsical, and easy to create cookies. Written with easy to follow step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations will make this book a must have for all cookie decorating enthusiasts." - Chef Nicholas Lodge, Pastry Chef and Master Sugar Artist (Atlanta, Georgia) "Autumn Carpenter has sugar running through her veins. She comes from a long line of industry leaders and committed sugar artists that have excelled both artistically and commercially. Her skill set is proven, techniques exhibit quality, and her tutorials are accurate telling the whole story. Definitely for the cute at heart!" - Kerry Vincent, International Cake Exploration Societe Hall of Fame 2004, Dessert Professional Hall of Fame 2010, Food Network Challenge judge and host of Save My Bakery "Autumn Carpenter's new book is a delight! The ideas are new and creative and the techniques are easy enough for anyone to master. This book would be a great gift for young or old!" - Colette Peters, Colette's Cakes in New York City, author of five books on cakes and cake decorating, renowned educator, and recipient of multiple awards in the culinary arts

Creature Cookies: Step-by-Step Instructions and 80 Decorating Ideas You Can Do (Sweet Art)

Learning to make and decorate cakes that are as beautiful as they are delicious can be a challenge, but with the expert guidance of renowned confectionery artist Autumn Carpenter in First Time Cake Decorating, your goal is within reach. Like having your very own cake decorating instructor at your side, First Time Cake Decorating guides you expertly through the process, from baking and prepping your first cake through a range of decorating techniques, from essential piping techniques for creating borders, writing, and flowers to working with gum paste and fondant to make stunning daisies, roses, lilies, and more. There's a first time for everything. Enjoy the journey and achieve success with First Time Cake Decorating! Please note, this book is a condensed version of "The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating".

First Time Cake Decorating: The Absolute Beginner's Guide - Learn by Doing * Step-by-Step Basics + Projects (Volume 5) (First Time, 5)

Cookie Decorating is perfect for aspiring young bakers eager to learn the basic skills and experience the fun of cookie decorating.
A book plus cookie-decorating kit, Cookie Decorating is an inviting way to give children the confidence to explore the art of cookie decorating. With richly illustrated and photographed steps and examples, this how-to kit is a great reference for children and their parents. They will learn the various techniques for decorating cookies and all about the many types of frostings and toppings. The instruction book includes simple cookie and icing recipes, as well as the various decorating techniques broken down into step-by-step projects. Cookie Decorating is perfect for aspiring young bakers eager to learn the basic skills and experience the fun of cookie decorating.

Cookie Decorating: Easy-to-follow recipes and decorating tips for sweet cookie creations - Includes frosting pen and cookie cutter! (Kids Craft Kit Series)

Walter Foster Jr.

Guía fotográfica de la decoración de galletas (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Juventud, S.A.

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