Decorating Christmas Cakes: 14 Spectacular Festive Designs - Softcover

Bradford, Paul; Brice, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844488837 ISBN 13: 9781844488834

Publisher: Search Press, 2013

Synopsis

Renowned sugarcrafter, Paul Bradford demonstrates all the skills and techniques needed to decorate stunning cakes for the festive season, full of beauty, impact and humour. He begins by showing step by step how to model basic shapes in sugarpaste, moving on to making a Santa, a penguin and a rose. There is step by step instruction on covering a cake with ganache, icing a cake and board and applying a ribbon. Then it is on to fourteen amazing projects including a hilarious Snowball Fight, beautiful Angel cake, stunning Winter Ruffle with modelling chocolate, a cute Teddy Bear cake, an Igloo with cute, funny penguins, a stunning Christmas Wedding Cake, White Out in which Santa has a spectacular sleigh crash, hilarious and whimsical Christmas Down Under showing Santa on his holidays, Exploding Santa in which he bursts out of the cake itself, a beautiful Topsy-Turvy Wedding Cake and a traditional Gingerbread House cake. The cake designs are the star here, and everything you need to know from carving the cakes into shape, covering, icing and decorating them is shown step by step so that quite sensational cakes can be created using simple techniques.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Bradford runs the hugely successful Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School with his partner David Brice. Their mission is to 'Empower people to achieve their cake decorating dreams' by providing a range of cake decorating courses and on-line tutorials. They have a huge following both online as well as for their residential sugarcraft courses in the Scottish Highlands.

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Review

Nov 13 14 chocolate sponge and ganache coated Christmas cake designs. These seasonally themed designs are mainly novelty styles and include full step-by-step pictures and templates so you can create your own versions. Written by Paul and David who run the very successful Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School. * Cake Craft & Decoration * Oct 13 A great starting point for beginners looking to expand their skills during the festive season, this new title from expert sugarcrafters Paul Bradford and David Brice explains how to decorate Christmas cakes from start to finish. With detailed instructions for carving, covering and modelling, this inspiring selection of designs will have you decorating like a professional and wowing your family and friends in no time. * Cakes & Sugarcraft Magazine * Sept 13 I must admit, I am a bit of a bore when it comes to decorating my Christmas cake. I make a delicious homemade, gluten free cake these days, but when it comes to icing, I go for plain marzipan then Royal icing, nothing fancy, not even a Santa in sight. Here is the just the book I need to get my creativity flowing onto my cake. This is a fantasy wonderland of cake decoration with the particular theme of Christmas. It starts with all the know-how of cake construction and the materials you need. There is a cake recipe (sadly no gluten free alternative) and different ways to decorate it. This recipe is also shown as a video on the publisher's website. There are step by step instructions for using and decorating with sugar paste; layering and covering a cake with ganache and icing. The decorated cakes are fabulous and suited for different party themes - kid's Xmas, celebration, family and so on. I am speechless at the awesome `Angel Cake', it looks too good to touch, same with the `White Chocolate Ruffle' - these cakes make a real impression. Kids will love `Teddy Bear', `Igloo', `Santa's Face'. There are even `Christmas Wedding Cakes' and the classic `Gingerbread House' - but like the best you've ever seen. It is a fun book, full of 14 different cake recipes, you'll want to make time and again. Every cake has step by step instructions with good photography. Templates are provided for the cakes. It's amazing, don't miss it. * Welovefinefoods.co.uk *

About this edition

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1844488837
• ISBN 13: 9781844488834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144