We spent many hours on research to finding cake decorating books, reading product features, product specifications for this guide. For those of you who wish to the best cake decorating books, you should not miss this article. cake decorating books coming in a variety of types but also different price range. The following is the top 16 cake decorating books by our suggestions:
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1. Cake Decorating
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DK Publishing Dorling KindersleyDescription
Cake Decorating shows you how to build, pipe, model, and airbrush birthday cakes, wedding cakes, and more, so you can create an edible masterpiece for any occasion.
Photographic step-by-step tutorials showcase more than 70 techniques and 18 showstopping cake projects, complete with complementary cupcake and mini-cake designs. Plus, "idea" spreads adapt basic techniques to inspire hundreds of additional piping, stenciling, painting, and carving variations. The complete introduction to cake-decorating equipment ensures you have everything you need, and the selection of basic cake recipes and instructions for making buttercream, fondant, and more icings guide you from the start.
Whether you are a beginner or an accomplished baking artist, Cake Decorating will help you find inspiration and perfect your technique.
*Previously published as Step-by-Step Cake Decorating.
2. How to Cake It: A Cakebook
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21 OMG-IS-THAT-AN-ACTUAL-CAKE? RECIPES + ALL THE CAKE KNOW-HOW YOU NEED
From Yolanda Gampp, host of the massively popular, award-winning YouTube sensation How to Cake It comes an inspiring "cakebook" with irresistible new recipes and visual instructions for creating spectacular novelty cakes for all skill levels.
On her entertaining YouTube Channel, How to Cake It, Yolanda Gampp creates mind-blowing cakes in every shape imaginable. From a watermelon to a human heart, to food shaped cakes such as burgers and pizzas, Yolandas creations are fun and realistic. Now, Yolanda brings her friendly, offbeat charm and caking expertise to this colorful cakebook, filled with imaginative cakes to make at home.
How to Cake It: A Cakebook includes directions for making eighteen jaw-dropping cakes that are gorgeous and delicious, including a few fan favorites with a fresh twist, and mind-blowing new creations. Yolanda shares her coveted recipes and pro-tips, taking you step-by-step from easy/kid-friendly cakes (no carving necessary and simple fondant work) to more difficult designs (minimal carving and fondant detail) to aspirational cakes (carving, painting, and gum paste work).
Whatever the celebration, Yolanda has the perfect creation, including her never before seen Candy Apple Cake, Party Hat, Rainbow Grilled Cheese Cake, Toy Bulldozer Cake, and even a Golden Pyramid Cake which features a secret treasure chamber!
Written in her inspiring, encouraging voice, filled with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photos, How to Cake It: A Cakebook will turn beginners into confident cake creators, and confident bakers into caking superstars!
3. Professional Cake Decorating
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Professional Cake DecoratingDescription
The comprehensive guide to amazing cake decorationnow fully updatedProfessional Cake Decorating is a must-have resource for professional and aspiring cake artists, baking and pastry students, and cake decorating hobbyists, drawing on years of experience from master cake designer and IACP Award nominee Toba Garrett. This Second Edition has been completely revamped with gorgeous new photography and a fresh new design. The New Skills have been re-organized into a user-friendly, step-by-step format, and line art and photos throughout the book provide a visual reference for each new technique. The book begins with an introductory chapter on all the fundamentals of the cake designer's art, from covering a cake board to assembling and icing a layered cake to stacking cake tiers with pillars or columns. Subsequent chapters cover decorating techniques including Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Piping Skills, The Art of Writing and Painting, Royal Icing Design Skills, Hand Modeling Skills, Pastillage Construction, Gumpaste Flowers, and much more. A chapter on Miniature Cakes and Decorated Cookies includes techniques for making petit fours and other small treats, while the Cake and Confectionery Gallery provides inspiration for decorators with nearly 20 full-page photos of breathtaking cakes and information on the techniques needed to complete each one. Garrett also includes recipes for cakes, fillings, icings, cookies, and more, as well as an appendix of templates to help decorators replicate the designs shown in the book.
4. The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating
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The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating is a comprehensive how-to book about all of ...328 pages, softcover
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5. Maggie Austin Cake: Artistry and Technique
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Maggie Austin Cake Artistry and TechniqueDescription
A former ballerina, Maggie Austin turned to baking when an injury ended her dancing careerand has since become one of todays most sought-after cake artists, serving celebrity clients and even royalty around the world. Her design hallmarks are instantly recognizable to the legions of fans who follow her work: ethereal frills, dreamy watercolors, lifelike sugar flowers, rice-paper accents, graceful composition, and other impeccable details. Here, she shares a collection of her edible works of art and the methods behind their creation, with a theme and variations organization that shows how mastering any single technique can open the door to endless creativity. Each is broken down into clear instructions and illustrated with step-by-step photos that are easy to follow whether youre a professional baker or an amateur enthusiast. From a single sugar blossom to a multi-tiered cake festooned with pearls and intricate appliques, theres inspiration for bakers and crafters of all stripes.
6. The Complete Book of Icing, Frosting & Fondant Skills
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The Complete Book of Icing Frosting Fondant SkillsDescription
Creating edible works of art is a cakewalk thanks to Shelly Baker. The world-renowned cake designer has whipped up a veritable hand-held course on baking and decorating beautiful cakes with her new title, The Complete Book of Icing, Frosting & Fondant Skills. For those of us whose cake-decorating skills end at Betty Crocker frosting in a can, as well as confidant decorators who want to expand their skills, this book is exactly what the pastry chef ordered. Whether the covering of choice is fondant, royal icing, buttercream, marzipan or sugar paste, readers will find everything they need to create fresh-baked perfection, including:Readers will also find a detailed review of essential tools and materials as well as a troubleshooting chapter for help with fixing or avoiding common mistakes. More than 400 gorgeous, full-color photos.
7. Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make
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Witty, one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store. America's favorite food photography team, responsible for the covers of America's top magazines, shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces, using a zipper lock bag and common candies and snack items. With these easy-to-follow techniques, even the most kitchen-challenged cooks can:raise a big-top circus cupcake tier for a kid's birthday
plant candy vegetables on Oreo earth cupcakes for a garden party
trot out a line of confectionery "pupcakes" for a dog fancier
serve sausage and pepperoni pizza cupcakes for April Fool's Day
bewitch trick-or-treaters with chilly ghost chocolate cupcakes
create holidays on icing with turkey cupcake place cards, a white cupcake Christmas wreath, and Easter egg cupcakes
No baking skills or fancy pastry equipment is required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun.
8. The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible: Over 150 Techniques and 80 Stunning Projects
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Contemporary Cake Decorator s BibleDescription
Discover everything you need to know to create celebration cakes that are beautiful, unique and truly contemporary. This is the ultimate, must-have cake decorating and sugarcrafting techniques book, from best-selling author and superstar sugarcrafter Lindy Smith.
- Acclaimed sugarcraft expert Lindy Smith demonstrates over 150 techniques step-by-step, from baking to decorating
- More than 80 projects allow you to get creative right away, with detailed instructions for decadent desserts from tiered cakes, wonky cakes, mini cakes, cupcakes and cookies
- Essential tips and advice are included for all skill levelts, from complete beginners to the most confident of cake decorators
9. The Contemporary Buttercream Bible: The Complete Practical Guide to Cake Decorating with Buttercream Icing
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The perfect start to your scrapbooking and photo albumsThis workbook is a great way to improve skills
Made in China
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Buttercream icing is the most delicious cake decorating medium, is very accessible and needs very little specialist equipment.
This essential guide demonstrates more than 50 innovative techniques via easy to follow step-by-step photographic tutorials and includes over 40 stunning cake designs to create at home, from simple cupcakes to three-tiered wonders.
Valeri & Christina start by showing you how to perfect a basic buttercream recipe and then how to pipe simple textures and patterns, and an array of flowers. They then demonstrate how to create a myriad of creative effects using diverse techniques such as stamping, stencilling, palette knife painting and much more.
Chef Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes has reviewed the book: "The Contemporary Buttercream Bible is an absolute game changer in the industry of cake art. I've never seen techniques and talent presented in such a way as to be concurrently hugely aspirational yet completely approachable. I look forward to learning all the skills that I, as an artist in rolled fondant, have only the most rudimentary grasp of. Not since Cakewalk by Margaret Braun have I been this excited about a cake book. Bravo!"
Sonya Hong - Americancakedecorating.com has also reviewed the book and her main take-away was that buttercream designs are limited only by one's imagination. "The authors' examples are inspirational and a demonstration of what is possible if you 'put your whole heart into it.' Overall, Valeriano and Ong have created a book full of inspiration and encouragement that re-energizes the use of buttercream in modern cake design."
10. Baking with the Cake Boss: 100 of Buddy's Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets
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Baking with the Cake Boss 100 of Buddy s Best Recipes and Decorating SecretsDescription
Buddy Valastro, the star of TLCs smash hit Cake Boss shares everything a home cook needs to know about baking as he takes readers through the same progressive training he had in his own apprenticeship.Call it the Buddy system, because Baking with the Cake Boss is an education in the art of baking and decorating, from kneading to rolling, fondant to flowers, taught by Buddy Valastro himself, the star of TLCs smash hit Cake Boss. With more than 100 of his most sought-after recipes, including birthday and holiday cakes and other special theme designs, this book is a master course that culminates in the showstopping cakes for which Carlos Bake Shop is famous.
Following the arc of Buddys career from apprentice to master baker, Baking with the Cake Boss offers readers the same on-the-job education earned by everyone who comes to work at Carlos Bake Shop, with some of Buddys and the familys memories shared along the way. It builds organically from simple cookies and pastries to pies, flower-adorned cupcakes, and basic fondant cakes, to breathtaking cakes for every holiday and special occasion. And, as you progress from basics to bedazzlementslike the safari cake complete with chocolate animals and a waterfallBuddy shares his inspiring enthusiasm and stories from the shop in his inimitable voice. He also provides the tools for creating your own personal trademark cakes, with a chart that lets you mix and match cake, frosting, and liqueur syrup for cakes the way you like them. And there are plenty of photos that illustrate artistic flourishes and decorations you can use to adorn your individual creations. With 650 gorgeous, step-by-step instructional photos that let you follow Buddy as if you were next to him in the bakery, Baking with the Cake Boss is an incomparable dessert education that will become an essential reference for aspiring and skilled bakers alike.
Bursting with delicious, tried-and-true recipes, how-to boxes and sidebars, and numerous tricks of the trade, Baking with the Cake Boss is a rare treata fun, accessible guide to baking, all in a gloriously designed, fully illustrated package worthy of the Cake Bosss artistic vision.
11. 100 Buttercream Flowers: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Piping Flowers in Buttercream Icing
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From azaleas to zinnias this unique visual reference guide shows you all the essential techniques to pipe floral decorations for your cakes and cupcakes developed by the world's most talented buttercream artistF&W Media-David & Charles Books: 100 Buttercream Flowers
Published Year: 2015,Imported
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Learn to pipe 100 different buttercream flowers to showcase on your cakes with this complete visual reference to piping flowers - each flower is demonstrated on a cupcake, with five full scale projects to show you how to combine your flowers into a masterpiece cake.
Described by Chef Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes as "hugely aspirational yet completely approachable," the authors demonstrate how to build up each flower using simple piping techniques that even the novice cake decorator will be able to achieve!
All the basics are covered to get you started - how to make stable buttercream icing, advice on coloring and flavor as well as essentials such as how to fill a piping bag and the basic techniques you need.
Valerie & Christina then demonstrate in step-by-step photographic detail how to create each flower and how to use your new found skills to create stunning cake designs. The flowers are presented through the color spectrum so when you look through the book you'll see the lovely rainbow effect.
Written by the world's leading lights in buttercream art with an international following and over 60,000 Facebook fans!
12. My First Cupcake Decorating Book: Learn simple decorating skills with these 35 cute & easy recipes: cupcakes, cake pops, cookies
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Dimensions: 11 in. H x 8.25 in. W x .3 in. DWeight: 1.14 ounces
Made in China
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Youll learn how to make delicious cupcakes, cookies, cake pops, and moreand transform them into fantastic creations. In Cool Cupcakes, make pink piggy cupcakes, classic butterfly cakes, pretty spotty cupcakes, and more. The next chapter, Crazy Cookies, gives you ideas for creating ladybird cookies and pretty star cookies, as well as for gingerbreadincluding gingerbread families, animals, and a village. Then have a go at the Brilliant Brownies and Cake Popsfrom adorable penguin pops to delicious brownie pops and cute brownie owls. Finally, take your pick from the Novelty Cakes, where there are super snowmen, under the sea mini cakes, and honey flake crunchies. There are basic recipes so that you can make the cakes in any flavor you want, and a techniques section that will teach you all youll need to know, such as how to pipe frosting, and how to make shapes out of marzipan. All the projects are easy to follow with adorable artworks to guide you along the way; plus, each one has a grade so you can start with the easiest and then move on as your decorating skills improve.13. Wilton 902-1232 Cake Decorating for Beginners Guide
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Soft cover40 pages
Step-by-step instructions and photography for baking cakes, piping borders, and more
Great for birthdays, holidays, and other occasions
Measures approximately 8-2/5 by 11 by 1/5 inches
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With this exciting book, anyone can decorate a fantastic looking cake the very first time! Wilton, the #1 name in cake decorating, shows beginners everything they need to know, step-by-step. The Beginner's Guide make decorating easy to learn and fun to do for everyone!14. Wilton Decorating Basics Course 1 English
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48-page soft-cover student guide explores tips and techniques for decorating beautiful cakesFor use as a stand-alone or accompanied by Wilton's in-store Decorating Basics course
Step-by-step instructions and photography for baking cakes, piping borders, and more
Great for birthdays, holidays, and other occasions
Measures approximately 8-2/5 by 11 by 1/5 inches
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Lesson Plan for Wilton's Decorating Basics course has a soft cover and 48 pages. This course is the foundation upon which your decorating skills and artistry will continue to develop. Learn how to bake a great cake, prepare a decorating bag, achieve correct bag position, color your icing and use the star tip and dimensional decorating to enhance your cakes. Create Master Rosettes, Drop Flowers, Pompom Flowers, Leaves and Shaggy Mums. Intended for participants in Wilton's Decorating Basics course, but may also be used as a self-study guide.15. First Cake Decorating: Simple Cake Designs for Beginners (First Crafts)
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STERLING PUBLISHING-First Cake DecoratingDesigned especially for the first-time decorator this handy book reveals the secrets of producing an amazing baked masterpiece
This book contains thirty- five cakes
Softcover 128 pages
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16. 1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes
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Used Book in Good ConditionDescription
A sugar-coated feast for the eyes and the imaginationthis exciting 1,000 collection presents glorious full-color photographs of beautiful, outrageous, and deliciously decorated desserts, from extravagant wedding and birthday cakes to cupcakes and cookies that are miniature works of art.
Like all of the books in our 1,000 series, this is not an instructional book, rather, it is a visual showcase designed to provide endless inspiration for anyone who loves decorative baking and entertaining.