The summer issue of Cakes & Sugarcraft comes to you fresh from Squires Kitchen’s recent sell-out cake decorating, chocolate and sugarcraft exhibition. The stunning work on display was proof that this is a great year for cake decorating: turn to page 40 to read all about it and see the prize-winning creations.
In this issue you’ll find over 20 step-by-step cake designs and recipes for all the exciting events coming up over the next few months, from Father’s Day to the Olympics. What’s more, they’re for all skill levels, from Mary Berry’s simply delicious Wimbledon cake to Linda Garnham’s impressive and challenging design for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
If you’re looking for wedding cake inspiration this season, we have three gorgeous step-by-step projects which use very different decoration techniques: Pervin Sutherland’s mint green royal icing, Susanna Righetto’s beautiful sugar wisterias and Mark Tilling’s tempting modelled Brazilian orange chocolate.
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Whether you’re a newcomer to sugarcraft or would like to brush up on your cake knowledge, Cakes & Sugarcraft is here to help. On page 6 we look at the basic materials and equipment you’ll need to get started and achieve professional results, followed by 25 inspirational step-by-step projects and recipes to make sure that you’re one step ahead in 2012. Plus, if you’ve decided that this is the year that you’ll take your cake-making skills to the next level with your own business, make sure potential customers can find you on Google with Paula Wynne’s article on page 82.
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Cakes & Sugarcraft magazine is your guide to everything cake decorating, with dozens of step-by-step designs and delicious recipes to try.
The festive season presents lots of opportunities for creative baking and decoration using all kinds of sugarcraft skills. Practise modelling with Carlos Lischetti’s friendly family of polar bears or Jan Clement-May’s cake top characters using the new Sugar Dough made with natural colours. Jen Birch demonstrates the many possibilities for decorating with royal icing, while Ceri Griffiths’ innovative Christmas tree is adorned with rice paper snowflakes made using a craft punch.
Photographer Carl Warner reveals the creative process behind his wonderful winter scene created entirely from cookies and cakes. You’ll also find seasonal sugar flowers, gift inspiration for your friends and family (or for yourself!), a cheerful Christmas wreath and baked delights including whoopie pies, cake pops and our cover star, a colourful gingerbread house which children will love.
You’ll find a cake for every occasion from an early years rag doll design to an amazingly realistic guitar. Plus, keep on top of the latest trends by learning how to decorate in vintage style with two very different projects: Makiko Searle’s red coffee cups and Deborah Hwang’s antique lace wedding cake.
If you’re a newcomer to cake decorating or you’d simply like to brush up on your cake knowledge, Cakes & Sugarcraft is here to help. We look at specialist tools, plus Liz Finch has designed two simple cakes which maximise the use of basic cutters and moulds.
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Airbrush Techniques For Cake Decorating
Airbrush Techniques For Cake Decorating
This book is for the beginner or already-accomplished cake decorating airbrush artist who wants to improve their skills. It begins with practice techniques to insure smooth, controlled results. From there, it includes instructions with step-by-step black and white photos plus color photos of finished designs on how to do shading, make stencils, use an airbrush for borders, create breath-taking sunsets with palm trees or cattails, drop-shadow hearts, water effects, dimensional rose, rainbows and clouds, ribbons and bows, and easy step-by-step portraits of people and animals.
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Alan Dunn's Tropical & Exotic Flowers for Cakes [Hardcover]
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In this stunning new book renowned sugarcrafter Alan Dunn turns his attention to tropical and exotic flowers. Bolder, more stunning and more fantastic, these beautiful flowers are guaranteed to create a real impact whether used on a cake or as a decorative arrangement. The designs include many species of orchid, rhizomes, gingers, heliconias, bird of paradise, anthurium, bougainvillea and many more. This title gives a comprehensive introduction covering all the essential information on materials, tools, techniques and basic recipes that is followed by a section taking each featured cake in turn. For each cake, easy-to-follow instructions are given on how to construct and build-up individual flowers, foliage and fruit and then how to arrange these individual elements into an arrangement that can be used either to decorate a cake or on its own as a table centrepiece, for example. Finally, instructions are given on how to make each cake and secure the arrangement, if you choose to use it in this way. If you're looking for the ultimate guide to making exotic and tropical sugar flowers, this book won't fail to impress.
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Sugar flowers by Jill Maytham (JEM)
Sugar Flowers by Jill Maytham (JEM Cutters) Over 1000 easy look and learn illustrations for creation of sugar paste (gum paste) flowers for cake decorating
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Sugar Flowers (Twenty to Make)
Sugar Flowers (Twenty to Make)
Make lifelike flowers from gumpaste and royal icing with help from this book for use on your cakes and other baked goodies, from lilies and roses to orchids. The book is small in dimension but has a lot of content. The book is concise with 20 different flowers to make as the title suggests, ranging from using specialist sugarcraft cutters to piping nozzles. There are diagrams for each step, which help visualise the instructions and make it easier to follow.
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Alan Dunn's guide to Sugarcraft Flower Arranging (Hardcover)
Alan Dunn's Sugarcraft Flower Arranging (Hardcover) Alan Dunn is one of the world leaders in sugar crafting and his expertise and elegant touch come together beautifully in this, his latest book. Alan's stunning life-like floral arrangements are simply breathtaking. Chapter 1 looks at flower and foliage build-ups and shows you how to create all the most popular classic flowers, along with the more unusual and exotic ones. Next follows a chapter on arrangements, showing you how to put together beautiful sprays and displays from the flowers you have learnt to make. Finally, the Cakes chapter showcases a selection of flowers on individual cakes. Along with practical information on everything you need to know about sugar crafting at the front of the book, this really is your one-stop guide to all things sugar craft.
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Alan Dunn's Celebration Cakes by Alan Dunn
Alan Dunn's Celebration Cakes by Alan Dunn
Marking momentous occasions is an important part of everyday life, and what better way to do so than with one of these stunning creations. There is a cake for every occasion: whether you are celebrating a wedding, christening, engagement, anniversary or birthday, one of Alan's elegantly understated cakes will form the centrepiece of any celebration. After a comprehensive introduction to all things sugarcraft comes a chapter on flower, foliage and fruit build-ups, which breaks down the assembly of each into manageable and easy-to-follow steps. Next follows a chapter on cakes, showcasing 18 celebratory cakes made using the components featured in the previous chapter. All occasions are catered for: anniversaries, birthdays, retirement, weddings and festivities such as Christmas and Halloween. If you're looking for the ultimate guide to sugarcrafting, this book won't fail to impress.
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The Art of Royal Icing-by Eddie Spence-#03213
The Art of Royal Icing: A Unique Guide to Cake Decoration by a World-class Tutor by Eddie Spence and Jenny Stewart
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Floral Gems - Only Five Sugar flower book by Pat Ashby
A full size hardback book of 130 pages in full colour showing how to make 30 gorgeous flowers, using basically only Five-petal cutters.
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Sugar Flowers for Beginners
Sugar Flowers for Beginners: by Paddy Clark A Step-by-step Guide to Getting Started in Sugar Floristry (Hardcover) 128 pages
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Miniature Flowers in Sugar - by Fumi Fukumuro
Miniature Flowers in Sugar by Fumi Fukumuro (HB 112 pages)
Miniature Flowers in Sugar Miniature Flowers in Sugar is the debut title from talented new author, Fumi Fukumuro. This exciting new book presents an exquisite collection of beautiful sugar flowers in miniature, each one carefully crafted to the tiniest detail and arranged in an original and charming display.
The book features ten projects with easy-to-follow instructions, templates and diagrams, and stunning, full-colour photography.
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The Book of Patterned Pastes (by Geraldine Dahlke)
The Book of Patterned Pastes This is a book of techniques for creating patterns in sugar pastes. The five basic techniques can be used to make patterned pastes for cake coverings, fabric effects in sugar and leaves and petals for sugar flower work. Examples of patterns and full instructions are given, plus there are many more suggestions for design ideas. The book is suitable for cake decorators and sugarcrafters of all abilities.
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Starting a Cake Decorating Business from Home -Revised Edition (HB)
Starting a Cake Decorating Business from Home-Revised Edition
Kathy Moore. Paperback - 75 Pages If you want to take your passion for cake decorating to the next level, this is the book for you. Starting your own business from home can be both rewarding and profitable. To guide you through the process of setting up your own business - and avoid pitfalls - expert sugarcraft tutor Kathy Moore offers first hand experience and advice in this brilliant guide. Topics include legislation issues, marketing and selling tools and helpful answers to those frequently asked questions.
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Sugarcraft Flowers By Claire Webb (PB)
Sugarcraft Flowers This delightful book shows you how to make beautiful sugarcraft flowers for cake decorations. Learn how to make 25 simple garden flowers such as freesia, daisy, rose, sunflower and poppy. Each project has detailed instructions and step-by-step photographs, as well as a photograph of the finished flowers
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Complete Book of Sugar Flowers by Lesley Herbert
Complete book of sugar flowers From buds to bouquets......Basic instructions to fill beginners with confidence. Step by step techniques for making 30 flowers and foliage. Templates of cutters to save buying dozens of shapes. Detailed photographs for creating 14 beautiful arrangements. Fabulous displays of flowers to inspire experienced cake decorators......the ultimate handbook of sugar flowers. 140pages pb
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SIMPLIFYING SUGAR FLOWERS
Simplifying sugarflowers Simplfying Sugar Flowers is packed with all the information you need to create the flowers and cakes featured, and then begin developing your own unique designs. A great book for everyone who is interested in the art of making sugar flowers.
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Best of Floral Sugarcraft by Alan Dunn
BOOK-BEST OF FLORAL SUGARCRAFT-ALAN DUNN Best of Floral Sugarcraft by Alan Dunn. This book combines two of the author's best selling titles in one easy volume. From the traditional to the contemporary, a dazzling array of lifelike, wild, exotic and florist shop flowers. Paperback - more than 300 pages.
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Flowers and Foliage for Floral Wedding Cakes - Alan Dunn
Flowers and Foliage for wedding cakes. A collection of 12 new wedding cake designs with flower arrangements made in sugar. Each project comes complete with full instructions for decorating the cake and making the sugar flowers and foliage.
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WEDDING FLOWERS
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Wild Flowers - PB - Alan Dunn
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International School of Sugar Craft Vol 1
International School of Sugar Craft Vol 1, 256 pages - Paperback Ideal for beginners, book one is arranged as a twenty lesson course book that teaches how to make perfect cakes, icings and frostings, runouts, ribbonwork, frills, collars, lettering, modelling and piped decorations. An ideal foundation for anyone who has never decorated a cake and an excellent refresher and reference book for those with basic skills. Tested receipes, step by step photographs and detailed captions will inspire confidence.
By completing this course the beginner will have mastered all the skills necessary to bake, cover and decorate beautiful cakes.
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International 2 School of Sugarcraft Vol 2
International 2 School of Sugarcraft Vol 2 256 pages - Paperback
Book Two is arranged as a twenty lesson course book that teaches the intricate and sophisticated skills of tube and brush embroidery, lace, figure modelling, sugar flower sprays, bas relief, pastillage and filigree. Aimed at the experienced cake decorator who has mastered the basic skills in book one and is looking for new challenges and inspiration. Packed with imaginative ideas, each one illustrated with colour photographs and accompanied by clear step by step instructions. Written by five top sugarcraft artists, each one chosen for their expertise in a particular field.
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International school of sugar craft - book 3
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUGAR CRAFT - BOOK 3 This title provides an update on the latest sugarcraft techniques, equipment and products. Chapters include "Using Moulds and Cutters", "Creating Fabric Effects", "Modelling", "Needlework in Sugar" and "Sugar Flowers". There are both traditional and contemporary designs for all occasions.
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