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15 animal themed party cakes that will appeal to adults and children alike, from favourite pets such as the cat and dog to an elephant, fish and prickly hedgehog. Lindy Smith's popular style uses sugarpaste, buttercream (fondant) and clever techniques to create the colours, textures, patterns and shapes that make animal cakes so much fun. Variation design ideas, quick-and-clever cupcakes and delicious cookies continue the theme for a choice of party food. Over 200 easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and instructions, plus clear carving templates, ensure animal cakes to make any party a roaring success!

Take your cake decorating skills to the next level with this fantastic collection of fun and stylish minicakes - ideal for beginner sugarcrafters or cupcake experts alike. This title offers over 25 creative minicake designs to suit a wide range of occasions, from nursery bricks and wedding bouquets to funky flowers, cheeky chimps and fairytale castles, with expert sugarcrafting tips and techniques presented in an easy-to-follow step by step format.

Learn over 150 cake decorating techniques with The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible, the international bestseller from renowned sugarcraft expert Lindy Smith.This is the ultimate guide to contemporary cake designs - you will learn how to make decorated cakes, starting with basic sugarcraft tools, baking recipes and ingredients, and finishing with advanced modelling techniques, including royal icing stencilling, brush embroidery, buttercream piping, using sugar cutters and moulds, making cake jewellery, and so much more!Get creative straight away with simple, step-by-step instructions for more than 80 celebration cake, mini cake, cupcake, and cookie designs. Essential tips and advice are included for all skill levels, from complete beginners to the most confident of cake decorators, and you can even learn how to make Lindy Smith's signature 'wonky cakes'.Inside The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible:The Basics - delicious cake and cupcake recipes, and recipes for making your own sugarpaste (rolled fondant), royal icing, sugar glue, buttercream, and more! This section of the book also includes instructions for making round, square and ball cakes, assembling tiered cakes, and carving and assembling wonky cake designs.Cake Decorating Techniques - here you will find 11 chapters each covering a huge range of essential cake decorating techniques, all explained with easy-to-follow step instructions and clear photography. Topics covered include:CarvingColourPaintingStencillingCuttersFlowersEmbossingToolsPipingMouldsCake JewelleryContemporary Cake Designs - step by step instructions teach you how to make each of the 80 amazing cake designs featured in the book, from tiered cakes to cute cupcake and cookies.With this comprehensive guide you will discover everything you need to know to create celebration cakes that are beautiful, unique and truly contemporary.

Celebrate any occasion with 30 beautiful cupcake designs from bestselling cake decorating author Lindy Smith. Each unique cupcake design includes expert sugarcrafting tips and techniques, easy step by step instructions and gorgeous full colour photography to help you achieve professional looking cupcakes for any occasion, from birthday cakes and children's parties to cupcake wedding favours and anniversaries.Discover delicious cupcake recipes, exciting cake decorating techniques, inspiring ideas and expert tips to make your cupcake designs perfect every time, and learn how to create simple but effective cake toppers and decorations, including sugar flowers, sugar animals, hearts, fairies, bats, crowns, bears, swirls, stars and more!This is the essential resource for all of your cupcake decorating needs.

The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible: Flowers:Learn how to make sugar flower embellishments and decorations and create 7 easy-to-achieve floral cake designs for decorated cakes, mini cakes, cupcakes and cookies with this stunning booklet of sugar flower deigns and techniques from the bestselling The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible.Includes sugar and royal icing recipes, instructions for storing and transporting your decorated cakes and covering cake boards, plus all the cake decorating techniques you need to know to create stunning sugar flowers, from rolled fondant roses and sugar dahlias, to realistic poppies and sugar peonies.Try out your new sugar flower-making skills with 7 gorgeous cake designs, featuring sugar flower cake toppers and embellishments on celebration cakes, cupcakes, mini cakes and cookies.

The definitive guide to mini cakes with expert instruction from world-renown cake decorator, Lindy Smith.Author of the international bestsellers The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible and Creative Colour for Cake Decorating, Lindy now presents her ultimate mini cakes masterclass.Mini cakes are ideal for trying out new techniques on a small scale, making the results quick and achievable for all skill levels. They make perfect gifts, to give to guests as parties or as wedding favours or simply to make for yourself.With over 30 diverse and delightful mini cake projects for all occasions, this unique book contains all the step-by-step advice and expert knowledge you need to bake, paint, pipe, model and mould small yet perfectly formed mini cakes every time.With delicious cake recipes and fully illustrated instructions for every step of the way, you will be guided effortlessly through the creative process to make peerless bakes that are perfect for parties, gifts or celebrations. From a beach hut to a teddy bear, a pocket watch to a vintage cotton reel, the range and style is varied, fun and - like Lindy herself - endlessly creative!

Bestselling cake decorating author and world-renown sugarcraft teacher, Lindy Smith shows you how to make a wedding cake with the minimum of fuss but with maximum effect! Today's brides are looking for simple wedding cakes that look modern and stylish but also want unique wedding cakes that don't cost the earth.This step-by-step guide will show you how to create a wide range of styles for modern simple wedding cakes, using the latest trends in cake decorating and wedding design, for a DIY wedding cake book like no other!Lindy Smith is one of the world's best-selling cake decorators, and has sold over half a million books worldwide. The simple wedding cakes in this book feature on-trend designs that break with tradition, using styles, colours and shapes that today's brides are looking for.With achievable wedding cake designs and accessible cake decorating techniques, this book covers the whole process of making a wedding cake - from conception to construction to decoration and even demolition!