A romantic Three-Column Wedding Cake adorned with fresh roses; eye-catching Kalei-doscope Cakes iced in geometric designs; glittering Bollywood-inspired lollipop cookies—you don’t have to go to a high-end bakery to be able to serve these beautiful desserts at your next party. Master cake decorator Peggy Porschen shares her designs for the gorgeous cookies, cupcakes, and cakes that have graced some of the world’s most discriminating tables—and they’re as easy to create as they are spectacular. Written for everyone from beginning bakers to seasoned pros, each design in Pretty Party Cakes is broken down into basic steps that turn even complicated cake sculptures into rewarding, accessible creations. Pretty Party Cakes is brimming with dozens of innovative designs that are all based on fundamental recipes provided in Porschen’s introduction to the basics. This section also covers the equipment and techniques needed to make her luscious creations. Once you’ve mastered the key skills, you can confidently move to chapters on cookies, cupcakes, miniature cakes, and large cakes. Designs range from sparkling heart cakes and butterfly-topped pastel cupcakes to enchanting, edible Treasure Boxes that can be used to present gifts. Ambitious bakers can create stunning desserts such as the Romantic Rose Tower cake and Gift Box Cake, and even simpler sweets such as Alphabet Cookies and Chocolate Canapés will wow your guests with their alluring presentation. Packed with tips, step-by-step images, and striking photographs to accompany every design, Pretty Party Cakes brings together everything you need to re-create Peggy Porschen’s delicious masterpieces. Whether you’re preparing a wedding cake for dozens of guests or creating a showstopping dessert for an intimate dinner party, these stunning designs will be sure to rival the cakes that line the windows of the chicest designer bakeries. An all-encompassing guide to creating shockingly simple—yet stunning—cakes, cookies, and cupcakes that rival those from even the most fashionable designer bakeries.

Pretty Party Cakes: Sweet and Stylish Cakes and Cookies for All Occasions

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Porschen, Peggy

Baking

Clarkson/Potter

Nothing brightens up a party or makes a celebration out of an everyday gathering like beautifully decorated cookies and cakes. Yet buying from boutique bakeries doesn’t have to be your only option—there’s a simple, fun way to have fabulous desserts at a fraction of the price. Simply Spectacular Cakes is the perfect guide for creating your own elegant, designer-quality confections that will impress friends and family. Peggy Porschen—professional baker and designer extraordinaire, and author of Pretty Party Cakes—is known for her designs for cookies, mini cakes, and large cakes that are easy enough for anyone. Whether a seasoned baker or eager amateur, you can manage sophisticated designs such as the Tiffany Pearl Tiered Cake, inspired by various pieces of pearl jewelry, or Cherry Blossom Bites, little cakes that when grouped together look like a cherry tree in full bloom. Projects range from easy, such as icing cookies to look like retro candies, to those that call for more advanced handiwork, such as making flowers for the Anemone Cake. Beautiful photographs display the detail in Porschen’s decorations so that you can follow them exactly, or use them as inspiration to customize your own designs that match your skill level. With vivid color photographs, helpful advice from an expert baker, and an extensive how-to section, this book has all the information you need to make professional-quality cakes and cookies in your own home. More beauty, more fashion, more style— Simply Spectacular Cakes has all the best design ideas for creating gorgeous and stylish desserts.

Simply Spectacular Cakes: Beautiful Designs for Irresistible Cakes and Cookies

Baked with Love is about sending love to someone special with something that comes from the heart. Baking is love – and often a labor of love – but it's even so much more fun to do if you can create something amazing with your own hands for that special someone. If it then tastes delicious too, well that's just the icing on the cake!

Baked with Love: 15 Lip-Smacking Recipes for Romantic Cakes, Cupcakes and Cookies

Quadrille

Cakes in Bloom is a celebration of Peggy Porschen's artistry, skill and dexterity within the world of sugarcraft. In this stunning book, Peggy shares her repertoire of incomparable sugar blooms, from vintage roses to exotic frangipani, and the secrets behind her expert modelling techniques. After introducing the basic techniques and specialist tools you'll need, there are 24 varieties of flower to create, all accompanied by detailed step-by-step photography and glorious shots of the finished flowers - both close up and in position on some of Peggy's signature wedding cake designs. The ultimate reference and inspiration for sugarcrafters, the book reflects Peggy's mastery of a breathtaking array of flowers, creatively used on a variety of cakes.

Cakes in Bloom: The art of exquisite sugarcraft flowers

Quadrille Publishing Ltd.

With its fairytale pink façade and picture-perfect cupcakes, the Peggy Porschen Parlour has become a destination bakery for Londoners and tourists since it first opened ten years ago. Half a million people follow Peggy's creations and seasonal floral displays on Instagram and her customers include celebrities, global fans and influencers who come - often dressed in 'Peggy pink' -&nbsp;for an exquisite sweet treat, as well as to take selfies in the always-beautiful floral archway entrances of the parlours in Belgravia and Chelsea. This book pays tribute to the magic Peggy weaves with her bakes through every season. Going through the year and punctuated by special occasions, the recipes will cover cakes, iced cookies and cupcakes and will reflect the changing seasons. Peggy will also share some of her unique style secrets so that fans can recreate the lifestyle at home. <ul> <li>Valentine's Day</li> <li>Spring and Easter</li> <li>Summer</li> <li>Autumn</li> <li>Halloween</li> <li>Winter and Christmas</li> <li>Includes step-by-step photos&nbsp;for the trickier decorating techniques</li> </ul>

Peggy Porschen: A Year in Cake: Seasonal recipes and dreamy style secrets from the prettiest bakery in the world

Pretty Party Cakes: Sweet and Stylish Cookies and Cakes for All Occasions

Cookies

Cake Chic: Stylish cookies and cakes for all occasions

Cakes in Bloom is the ultimate reference and inspiration for sugarcrafters and shows Peggy's mastery of a breathtaking array of flowers, creatively used on a variety of cakes. Included is a broad range of techniques embracing all the basics as well as the particular skills needed to make each individual flower. The range of 24 cakes include signature recipes and fail-safe fillings for miniature cakes, large cakes and tiered cakes, which taste as good as they look. Peggy reveals the secrets to making more than 30 gorgeous life-like flowers, from roses to cherry blossom, and includes a wealth of ideas of how they can be used for a range of occasions from birthdays to weddings.

Cakes in Bloom: The Art of Exquisite Sugarcraft Flowers

Containing over 30 recipes for delectable sponges, fillings, and toppings, Lovely Layer Cakes provides the inspiration for flavorsome and foolproof baking. For better baking, Peggy divulges many of her golden rules for baking the perfect sponge, plus professional cheats and tricks for perfect cake decorating. Perhaps best of all, the book comes with two free food-safe cake stencils, featuring exclusive designs by Peggy Porschen herself so that you can effortlessly recreate her designs from the book.

Lovely Layer Cakes: Over 30 Recipes for Any Celebration

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