Blooming marvellous cake decorating ideas for all seasons... made with delicious buttercream! This stunning collection of over 50 floral buttercream cake decorating projects is brought to you by the world's leading instructors of buttercream techniques, Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes, bestselling authors of The Contemporary Buttercream Bible.
Never serve a boring looking cake again! This stunning collection of buttercream cake decorating projects will transform your bakes into works of art using simple techniques for buttercream icing. With 30 step-by-step single-tier cake projects on a variety of themes, you'll find cakes for all occasions that will take baking to a new creative level.
Learn to pipe 100 different buttercream flowers to showcase on your cakes with this complete visual reference to piping flowers - each flower is demonstrated on a cupcake, with five full scale projects to show you how to combine your flowers into a masterpiece cake.Described by Chef Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes as "hugely aspirational yet completely approachable," the authors demonstrate how to build up each flower using simple piping techniques that even the novice cake decorator will be able to achieve!All the basics are covered to get you started - how to make stable buttercream icing, advice on coloring and flavor as well as essentials such as how to fill a piping bag and the basic techniques you need.Valerie & Christina then demonstrate in step-by-step photographic detail how to create each flower and how to use your new found skills to create stunning cake designs. The flowers are presented through the color spectrum so when you look through the book you'll see the lovely rainbow effect.Written by the world's leading lights in buttercream art with an international following and over 60,000 Facebook fans!
The essential reference to modern buttercream icing techniques, with step-by- step instructions and gorgeous photography, plus over 40 stunning cakes to make at home, from cupcakes to tiered wedding cakes. From the perfect buttercream recipe to creating textures, painting with buttercream, pattern transfers and stencilling with buttercream.