Download or read book Celebration Cakes written by Grace Stevens and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add the personal touch to your cakes with edible fondant art. With Grace Steven’s easy-to-follow instructions you’ll soon find yourself creating amazing fondant decorations. Fondant cake decorating is usually an art form practiced only by a select few, but with Celebration Cakes you will learn how to model perfect flowers, animals and figures in no time, even if you’re a beginner. You will soon become a master of fillings, coverings and various other techniques. The step-by-step instructions include detailed photographs. The designs featured in Celebration Cakes can be mixed-and-matched to create a dazzling array of innovative cakes. Useful extras such as a conversion chart, supplier list and equipment list have been included. Grace Stevens has taken her love for baking beautiful cakes and compiled an easy-to-follow creative fondant adventure. Go on, give it a try!

Download or read book Character Cake Toppers written by Maisie Parrish and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to make amazing fondant cake topper designs, with over sixty-five ideas for sugar characters, bases, and accessories. Whether it’s a pirate with his treasure chest and parrot, or a kitten with a comfy cushion and a ball of yarn to play with, each cake topper design has three unique features for you to make—use these individually or mix and match from different designs to create your own unique cake toppers! Basic cake decorating techniques are explained with clear illustrated step-by-step instructions, so everyone can make fun cake toppers for birthdays, weddings and any occasion!

Download or read book Party Cup Cakes written by Shereen Van Ballegooyen and published by GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD. This book was released on 2015-08-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A party isn't a party without cake and if these stunning decorated cupcakes are being served up it's sure to be a fabulous success. Party guests are sure to be impressed when you show them the brilliant cakes you've made specially. This fun and inspiring collection of 30 ingenious cupcakes has decorations ideal for a wide range of celebrations. The 30 unique cupcake projects are suitable for children's parties, special birthdays, baby showers, engagements and a whole host of other events. No prior experience is needed to tackle the projects in this new addition to the Cozy book family. Even beginners will be amazed by the fantastic, professional-looking results they can achieve, while practised cake makers will gain insight and inspiration. Learn how to make vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, how to make models from sugarpaste and how to use a variety of piping techniques.

Download or read book Cake Decorating for Beginners written by Rose Atwater and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decorate dazzling cakes with this step-by-step guide for beginners! Decorating cakes at home is easy and fun, thanks to Rose Atwater's clear and detailed cake decorating guide. Rose started her "accidental cake business" in late 2009 with more than 20 practice cakes she made for her brother's wedding. By the following year, her prototypes had caught the attention of friends and family and turned into a steady stream of orders. Since then, she has turned her talents into a thriving business, decorating more than 1,500 cakes for her blog, Rose Bakes. Now, with Cake Decorating for Beginners, she turns her years of knowledge and experience into a comprehensive cake cookbook for any aspiring cake decorator! Get the ultimate cake decorating book for beginners: Getting started — Begin with basic recipes for baking the cakes you'll decorate and get an overview of the decorating tools and ingredients you'll need. Essential techniques — Learn how to decorate with frosting, piping, fondant, and chocolate so you can create cakes for any occasion, from baby showers to birthdays. Instructional cakes — Find 10 complete cake tutorials to help you put your new skills into practice, like a Shades of Blue Hexagon Cake, a Sweet Flowers Wedding Cake, and a Bright & Happy Sprinkles Cake. This cake decorating book for beginners contains everything you need to create your own gorgeous, photo-worthy confections!

Download or read book Fun Original Character Cakes written by Maisie Parrish and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quirky collection of celebration cakes boasts the unique but easily achievable modelling skills of internationally renowned cake designer and sugercrafter Maisie Parrish. Each design has true character and unique charm and is ideal for a celebration with a difference, from birthday ballerina mice to carol-singing penguins. Each project is accompanied by quick-to-make cupcakes and minicakes to complement the main cake or to make when time is short. With simple sugarcrafting techniques and clear step-by-step photography, designs are ideal for both beginner and intermediate sugarcrafters. Whether creating a single animal topper or a whole singing and dancing theme, this book shows readers how to do it the fun and easy way.

Download or read book Cambridgeshire Folk Tales for Children written by Chip Colquhoun and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Cambridgeshire so flat? Probably because of all the giants who used to stomp around it! If you travel to or live in the land of Cambridgeshire, you could be walking in the footsteps of monsters, kings... or even the Devil! Journey through time to meet the giant-slayers of Saxon times, the shapeshifters of Tudor times, women who were incredible survivors... and even Victorian men who travelled on two legs faster than a steam train! What is truth, and what is myth? Decide for yourself after reading these tales of Cambridgeshire – the home of heroes from history.

Download or read book Cake Wrecks written by Jen Yates and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents pictures of and commentary on cakes with mistakes, organized into such categories as literal LOLs, beyond bizarre, and wedding wrecks.

Download or read book The Raven Queen written by Che Golden and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Raven Queen, Maddy and her two cousins are preparing for battle. They are the only power preventing the devastating war unfolding in the faerie world from spilling over into the human realm. The trio is determined to protect everything and everyone they love from the dark Tuatha, the fierce faerie leaders. When Morrighan, the supreme ruler of the Tuatha, awakens, Maddy realizes she's going to have to draw on her deepest reserves--and all her knowledge of the faeries and their ways--if she's to outsmart the notoriously devious Tuatha. And should the Tuatha prevail, the two worlds will tumble into chaos, giving the faeries the upper hand. The Raven Queen is the thrilling conclusion of the Feral Child Trilogy, brimming with Irish folklore and faerie magic, and featuring a breathtaking showdown between the forces of good and evil.

Download or read book 100 Fondant Animal Cake Toppers written by Helen Penman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'100 Fondant Animal Cake Toppers' is a practical guide to making charming fondant toppers for any occasion. Straightforward instruction and hundreds of step-by-step photographs make it easy for both expert and beginner bakers."--Publisher description.

Download or read book Sitting in Bars with Cake written by Audrey Shulman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “sweet indulgence for your mind, heart, and tastebuds”—now a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi, Odessa A’zion, and Bette Midler (Molly Tarlov, MTV’s Awkward). Meeting Mr. Right is never easy. And in a big city like Los Angeles, it’s even harder. So, after years of fruitless efforts at finding a soul mate, Audrey Shulman decided to take a different route to a man’s heart—through his sweet tooth. Whipping up a variety of sinfully delicious cakes, Audrey invaded the savage singles scene fully armed with butter, sugar, and frosting. Sitting in Bars with Cake recounts Audrey’s year spent baking, bar-hopping, and offering slices of cake to men in the hope of finding a boyfriend (or, at the very least, a date). With 35 inventive recipes, this charming book pairs each cake with a short essay and tongue-in-cheek lesson about picking up boys in bars. “This delectable mix of encouragement, anecdote and cream-filling is more than enough reason to start baking and flirting.” —Winnie Holzman, creator of My So-Called Life “This is a delightfully humble and enthralling tale about cake and bars and boys, but it’s really about life, and what it takes to get up every day and be the person you have always wanted to be.” —Tracy Moore, Jezebel

Download or read book Pretty Witty Cakes written by Suzi Witt and published by . This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sitting Pretty written by Rebekah Taussig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.

Download or read book Cressida Bell s Cake Design written by Cressida Bell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home baking is hot, and Cressida Bell's Cake Designs takes the fun a step further. Cressida Bell's new book is a startlingly innovative and original take on the art and craft of cake decoration. Cressida is a scion of the famous Bloomsbury Group of artists - her grandmother was artist Vanessa Bell - and these wonderfully original designs for cakes, in their innovative use of colour and ingredients, whilst being totally contemporary in feel and look, reflect her honourable artistic inheritance. All the decorations are edible: there are cakes decorated with traditional sweets, cakes decorated with candied fruit and cakes decorated with nothing but sugar paste cut and shaped into striking, witty and vivid designs - a winner's rosette, a peacock in all his finery, a dahlia in full bloom. Each idea is inspirational, but is also eminently attainable - some easily achieved by children - and all suitable for any number of cake baking occasions from birthdays and anniversaries, to just producing something wonderful for tea. With basic cake recipes by eminent food writer, Rose Prince, Cressida Bell's Cake Designs is beautiful, inspiring, and above all, fun. Full instructions for decorating the cakes in this book can be found in the first chapter. This covers all the different techniques used, so there is no need to repeat them for each individual cake. The short paragraph opposite each cake highlights any particular variations or problems that might be encountered. This form of decoration is much easier than the traditional sort - but please do read 'Before You Start' thoroughly.

Download or read book Joy the Baker Cookbook written by Joy Wilson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy the Baker Cookbook includes everything from "Man Bait" Apple Crisp to Single Lady Pancakes to Peanut Butter Birthday Cake. Joy's philosophy is that everyone loves dessert; most people are just looking for an excuse to eat cake for breakfast.

Download or read book Duty and Delusion written by Shawna Lewis and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if The Big Society had all the power? The recession has just started to bite and money is short. The village hall treasurer is in hospital, repairs are needed and there are bills to be paid. Dutiful, long-suffering Chair of the committee, Belinda, seethes with resentment against those who regard her as insignificant. Determined to change her life, she embarks on a campaign of malevolent mantras to bring down her antagonists. With little work about, Belinda’s husband is forced to travel away from home to find employment and her part-time job at the library is under threat. She takes a ‘maternal’ interest in a handsome young illegal immigrant she finds lodging in the hall loft; after all, her son is about to leave home and her daughter seems to have set her heart on becoming the school’s centre of attention– and not in a good way. A chance meeting with Marnie, who has had a tough and varied life, takes both women on different but intertwined paths. Each envies the other’s situation, but as Marnie’s star rises, Belinda’s falls. Both funny and poignant, Duty and Delusion suggests what might happen if restrictions were abandoned and The Big Society were left to get on with it.

Download or read book Cake written by Alysa Levene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cake can evoke thoughts of home, comfort someone at a time of grief or celebrate a birth or new love. It is a maker of memories, a marker of identities, and delicious! It was the year 878 A.D., and a man claimed sanctuary in a small village home in Wessex. To the surprise of the villager, the man was not a passing vagabond but Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons. The village homemaker was happy to hide him from the marauding Danes, provided he keep an eye on the cake she had baking in the oven. Preoccupied with how to re-take his kingdom, Alfred let the cake burn, and the incident passed into folklore forever. From these seemingly ignoble beginnings, not only was Alfred able to reclaim his spot in history, but the humble villager's cake has become a part of world culture as well. Alysa Levene looks at cakes both ancient and modern, from the fruit cake, to the pound cake, from the ubiquitous birthday cake to the angel food cake, all the way up to competitive baking shows on television and our modern obsession with macaroons and cup cakes. Along the way, author Alysa Levene shows how cakes are so much more than just a delicious sugar hit, and reflects on how and why cakes became the food to eat in times of celebration. Cake reflects cultural differences, whether it is the changing role of women in the home, the expansion of global trade, even advances in technology. Entertaining and delightfully informative, Cake: A Slice of History promises to be a witty and joyous celebration of our cultural heritage.

Download or read book London written by Matthew Green and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past. Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz. We'll turn back the clock to the time of Shakespeare and visit a savage bull and bear baiting arena on the Bankside. In medieval London, we'll circle the walls as the city lies barricaded under curfew, while spinning further forward in time we'll inhale the 'holy herb' in an early tobacco house, before peering into an open plague pit. In the 18th century, we'll navigate the streets in style with a ride on a sedan chair, and when we land in Victorian London, we'll take a tour of freak-show booths and meet the Elephant Man. You'll meet pornographers and traitors, actors and apothecaries, the mad, bad and dangerous to know, all desperate to show you the thrilling and vibrant history of the world's liveliest city.