Celebrate With A Cake

Description

Well-known 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.

Author description

Lindy Smith has written three books and made TV appearances. She runs a successful cake design and decoration company, selling mail order cake-making and decorating equipment. This is Lindy's third book for D&C, her first, Creative Celebration Cakes, being co-written, and her own Storybook Cakes. She lives in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Table of contents

Introduction; Tackling Cakes; Equipment; Cake Recipes: Madeira/Chocolate Sponge/Fruit Cake; Baking Chart; Icing Recipes: Sugarpaste/Pastillage/Sugar Glue/Buttercream; Covering Cakes And Boards; Colour Mixing; Weddings & Romance; Pink Sparkle A simple pink and silver cake topped with bride & groom variation: cupcakes with dragees; Flower Topped Stack Buttercream covered, with simple sugar flowers variation: single tier with silk flowers; Decorative Flowers Tiered cake decorated with painted floral design variation: single tier in alternative colour scheme; Klimt Kiss Embossed swirls, ball top tier and fountain cake-toppers variation: cupcakes; Fairytale Castle White and gold pastillage, with towers and turrets variation: alternative towers; Golden Anniversary Sumptuous gold and cream sugarpaste and royal icing variation: cup cakes; Silver Anniversary Chic silver and purple column cake variation: cupcakes; Valentine Heart shaped cake with gilded swirls and pastillage arrow variation: cup cakes; Birthday & Novelty; Birthday Tea Lavishly decorated teapot design variation: cupcakes; Butterfly And Flower Shaped cake with modelled butterfly and petals variation: cupcakes; Daisy Hat Buttercream hat decorated with flowerpaste florals variation: roses design; Mackintosh Rose Painted design on indented sugarpaste column variation: different designs and embellishments; Family; Mother's Day Lilac and yellow heart shape with flowers and ribbon variation: cupcakes; Christening Gift Wrapped gift, covered in shapes and embossing, plus wire toppers variation: cupcakes; New Baby Modelled lifelike baby on top of pastel patchwork blanket cake variation: simple baby figure; Templates; Suppliers; Acknowledgments; Index