I got this book a few years ago (4 October 2003 to be precise) as a Thank you from a lovely friend who I had helped with her daughters birthday party. And what a lovely book. It is filled with inspiration, education and beautiful pictures. It has a bit on the history of cake decorating, and an incredibly thorough glossary of terms, a great illustrated section on equipment, all the basic cake recipes (from 15cm to 30cm size cakes), chocolate decorations, all the basic icing recipes with variations, great instructions working with all the icings, modelling, sugar flowers, piping....and on and on. Then all the different cakes, a lovely variety of gateaux, children's cakes, celebration cakes and more. All this educational knowledge is accompanied by a multitude of fantastic photographs. What more would a wanna be decorator need! Time.
Just have to mention that the Chocolate Mud Cake recipe in this book is incredible xxx
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