Cake Decorating Tricks: Clever Ideas for Creating Fantastic Cakes

From simple piped borders and molded pearls to ropes, tassels, flowers, and stars, these cake decorations are absolutely magical! Celebration cakes keep growing in popularity, and food writer and teacher Sue McMahon shows how to use all the latest kitchen gadgets to achieve professional-looking results at home. She covers the whole process, making everything as easy and quick as possible: the very basics of baking, the various icings (buttercream, fondant, royal, and chocolate), and creating stand-out children’s, wedding, and birthday cakes.

Sue McMahon is Cookery Editor for Woman's Weekly magazine. Although she's happy to take on the challenge of any culinary recipe, her passion is cakes and she travels the world teaching cake decorating. Over the last few years she has demonstrated in America, Malaysia and Japan, as well as in several European countries. Sue is a member of the Guild of Food Writers, Craft Guild of Chefs and the British Sugarcraft Guild.