Celebration Cakes

Add the personal touch to your cakes with edible fondant art. With Grace Stevens's easy-to-follow instructions you'll soon find yourself creating amazing fondant decorations.

Fondant cake decorating is usually an art form practised 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 also become a master of fillings, coverings and various 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!

Contents: Introduction; Equipment; Basic recipes; Cakes; Fillings; Coverings; Techniques; Baby in a teacup cake; Quilted daisy cake; Tree stump cake; Hamburger cake; Braai cake; Handbag cake; Castle cake; Farmyard cake; African explorer cake; First birthday cake; Surf shack cake; Pillow cake; Teddy bear cake; Golf cake; Circus cake; Toadstool cake; Acknowledgements; Suppliers; Conversion chart; Index.