Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network May 2014 | Page 186
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The Art of Royal Icing: A
Unique Guide to Cake Decoration
By world-class tutor Eddie
Spence M.B.E
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If you want to know everything
there is to know about royal icing then The Art of Royal Icing is
your go to reference book! Eddie
Spence has taught the art of royal icing for 50 years. In this book
he draws on all of his experience
to bring cake decorators an extraordinary manual, in a bid to
revive this classic art form.
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Written by Marianna Saran
The Art of Royal Icing teaches
a variety of techniques from
simple piping through to advance royal icing including flood
and extension work. Comprehensive photographic diagrams
and text make it easy to follow
the instructions and execute the
projects. The book also contains
templates for the projects and is
an excellent reference book for
both beginners and professionals.
A must have on any cake decorators book shelf, The Australian
Cake Decorating Network gives
this book 5/5 stars.
You can pick up a copy here;
http://www.squires-shop.com/
uk/product/the-art-of-royal-icingby-eddie-spence
http://www.bookdepository.
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Sugar Flowers for Cake Decorating
By Alan Dunn
Pretty Witty Cakes Book of Sugarcraft Charaters
By Suzi Witt
Suzi Witt has taught thousands of
students in over 40 countries so
Learn how to make realistic
when we saw she published a book
looking flowers from leading
we were very excited. This amazing
sugarcraft expert Alan Dunn,
takes all the guess work out of crein his book Sugar Flowers for
ating adorable sugar figurines. All
Cake Decorating. This book
of her characters are versatile and
shows you how to make 32
could be used on an array of cakes.
different sugar flowers, with
The step by step instructions and
step by step instructions and
pictures are fabulous and are so easy
photos, including a Rose,
Magnolia, Lotus, Hibiscus and to follow, even if you are a complete
beginner there would be no doubtmore exotic flowers such as
ing you could use this book to create
the Japanese native, Akebia.
sugar masterpieces.
The Australian Cake Decorating Network recommends this
book especially for beginners
wanting to master sugar flowers, as Alan has in depth explanations on the equipment
needed, techniques used and
a range of recipes including
flower paste. Those at an intermediate level of crafting
sugar flowers should also find
this book beneficial as Alan
demonstrates how to create
stunning sprays and arrangements using the flowers learnt
in the previous chapter. The
Australian Cake Decorating
Network gives this book 4/5
stars
You can pick up a copy here;
http://www.booktopia.
com.au/sugar-flowers-forcake-decorating-alan-dunn/
prod9781847731227.html
We especially love that Suzi has
taken the time to create an extensive
colour chart that shows you exactly
what different brands and colours will
result once applied to your fondantno more buying the wrong colour!
From safari animals to monsters and
creatures, Suzi really covers it all.
Her book also includes all the templates needed to make these cheeky
characters. The Australian Cake
Decorating has fallen in love with this
book and we give it 5/5 stars.
You can pick up a copy here;
https://www.prettywittycakes.co.uk/
shop/book-store/pretty-witty-cakesbooksugarcraft-characters
http://www.bookworld.com.au/
search/pretty+witty+cakes#stock_
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