Sensational Sculpted Cakes

Rose Macefield shares her trade secrets and incredible design flair in this step-by-step guide to sculpting and decorating show-stopping novelty cakes. Beginning with the readily available sugarcrafting tools and materials required, she goes on to provide recipes for cakes, buttercream and royal icing. Learn how to level, stack, slice through and buttercream the cakes, and support their structure where required with dowels and cake boards. Rose shows how to sculpt shapes freehand or using templates, then how to cover a cake board and various shapes of sculpted cake with fondant (sugarpaste), and how to decorate the result with a variety of techniques including marbling, using a clay gun, airbrushing, modelling shapes and adding texture. Nine breathtaking projects are clearly explained with step-by-step photographs: a shitsu show dog, a rocker's electric guitar, a one-eyed messy monster creating havoc, a teenage girl's fashion sneakers with make up and other mess, a fisherman's basket and rod with fish resting on pebbles, a tennis bag, racket and ball on court, a baker's mixer, ingredients and cookies, a toy train and alphabet blocks on a wooden floor and a craft box with sewing equipment, fabric and lace spilling out. Rose's attention to detail is extraordinary and her sense of humour a delight, yet everything is simple to make with her clear instructions.

* 9 show-stopping novelty cakes
* Simple techniques and step-by-step instruction
* Cakes to suit children, teenagers and all kinds of adults
* All templates provided
* Cake sculpting, covering and decorating simply explained
* Fantastic ideas for decorating cake boards

Book Contents

Introduction
Materials
Recipes
Preparing cakes
Sculpting
Cake covering
Cake decorating
Best in Show
Rock 'n' Roll
Messy Monster
Teenage Kicks
Catch of the Day
Anyone for Tennis?
What's Baking?
Toy Train
Get Crafty
Templates
Index