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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!

Mark those special moments with a cake as memorable as the occasion. Novelty cake designer Lindy Smith offers a comprehensive guide to making a range of beautiful celebration cakes, and guides the reader step by step from baking and carving to icing and adding special finishing touches. A clear techniques section introduces the wide range of equipment available to today''s cake maker, and explains how to make sponge, fruitcake, fondant, buttercream, and other recipes. The fifteen projects have easy-to-follow illustrated steps for creating and decorating the cakes. Handy tips for shortcuts and creative variation ideas throughout allow you to tailor each cake to your timescale and taste, resulting in bespoke cakes for any occasion—weddings, anniversaries, christenings, birthdays, and more. In addition, handy templates and cutting guides are provided to ensure professional results every time.

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 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!

From simple snacks to works of art, a delicious assortment of recipes and ideas for cookie lovers! This indulgent array of exquisite colorful cookies, brought to you by bestselling author and sugarcrafter Lindy Smith, shows how easy it is to bake a range of cookie recipes and get creative with endless ideas for icing, decorating, and presentation—with irresistible results. Cookie lovers will be amazed at the variety, from simple single cookies to enjoy with coffee to those transformed into wedding favors, decorations, or even towering celebration displays. With mouthwatering photography, tempting tips, and a wide range of easy-to-follow, decadent projects, it''s hard to resist this celebration of the world of cookies.

Over one-hundred irresistible ways to bake, frost, decorate, display, and indulge in cupcakes!Treat yourself to a piece of cupcake heaven with divine designs that are devilishly simple. Tempt everyone with a dessert they''ll love, from sweet and stylish to fun and fashionable. Transform the traditional party cake into a tower of enticing treats to impress the guests. This collection of recipes and tips offers big ideas for little cakes no matter what the occasion: weddings, birthdays, Valentine''s Day, engagements, anniversaries, Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Mother''s Day, christenings, Thanksgiving, tea parties, picnics, and more!

Stenciling is an extremely effective way to add impressive decorations to your cakes and cookies quickly. For the best and most satisfying results, Lindy Smith recommends using laser-cut culinary stencils made from durable food-grade plastic. How you choose to add a stenciled pattern will depend on the effect you wish to achieve and the size of the item to be stencilled. This chapter, taken from The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible, shows you various techniques using both edible dusts and royal icing; it also shows you how to make your own stencils and some possible other uses.

Perfect the art of piping—and discover techniques for turning a simple design into a stunning cake.Many people shy away from even trying their hand at piping. This chapter, taken from The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible, will help demystify the art and inspire you to perfect the technique. The basics are not difficult to master—having the correct equipment and icing consistency is key, whether it''s buttercream or royal icing. Then, all you need is practice to become familiar with the amounts of pressure required as you pipe. Lindy Smith shows you how to pipe swirls, peaks, daisies, and roses with buttercream, as well as dots, hearts, drop line work, and brushwork embroidery with royal icing.

Flowers are probably the most popular choice of all cake decorations. The simplest representation of a flower is a cut-out shape. Other more interesting ways of representing flowers are to create fabric-effect flowers out of paste or to try your hand at creating lifelike flowers. There are many books written on the art of sugar flower making; LindySmith touches on this subject here, showing you how to make lifelike poppies and peonies, as well as fabric roses, blossoms and dahlias, and simple cupped flowers.

Learn over 150 cake decorating techniques with this bestseller from the renowned sugarcraft expert! This is the ultimate guide to contemporary cake design—you''ll learn how to make decorated cakes, starting with basic sugarcraft tools, baking recipes, and ingredients, and finishing with advanced modeling techniques, including royal icing stenciling, brush embroidery, buttercream piping, using sugar cutters and molds, making cake jewelry, and so much more! Get creative with simple, step-by-step instructions for more than eighty 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."

From, Lindy Smith, the author of the international bestsellers The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible and Creative Colour for Cake Decorating, this is the definitive guide to mini cakes. It is perfect for beginners and more experienced cake crafters alike with 30 projects providing detailed step-by-step instructions supported by beautiful and helpful photography, making mini cakes achievable for all.

Let world-renowned sugarcraft teacher Lindy Smith show you how to make a spectacular wedding cake in simple steps.Today''s brides are looking for wedding cakes that look modern, stylish, and unique but that are achievable and don''t cost the Earth.This step-by-step guide will show you how to create a wide range of contemporary wedding cakes, using the latest trends in cake decorating and wedding design for a DIY wedding cake to be truly proud of!In her trademark style, and with over 400 photographs, Lindy breaks down the process with accessible techniques and easy-to-follow steps, which simplify even the grandest designs.

One-Tier Party Cakes features 12 elaborate, single-layer cakes for a variety of occasions from birthdays to baby showers, friendship celebrations to Christmas festivities. Lindy Smith demonstrates how to transfer a template to the cake and decorate each of the three-dimensional designs in the book, while providing plenty of inspiration and encouragement for the reader to develop their own designs.This book features recipes for two delicious layered cakes (Madeira and chocolate fudge); plus the ingredients you need to make successful cake coverings and fillings including sugarpaste (fondant), flower paste, modelling chocolate, ganache and royal icing.It also includes new and popular cake techniques such as achieving sharp edges, working with modelling chocolate, airbrushing, cocoa butter painting and mastering double-height cakes.