Fabulous Cake Decorating: A Step by Step Beginners Guide to Fabulous Cake Decoration Like a Professional!

Learn how to decorate fabulous cakes like a true professional with this guide for beginners!
Decorating cakes at home is easy and fun, thanks to Joy Roberts’s step-by-step guide.

You will learn how to use fondants, sprinkles, edible glitters, piped icing, frosting sheets and flowers to decorate your cake.

You will also get to know how to make the right consistency of icing that will perfect your cake decoration.

By the time you finish this book and with a little bit of practice you are going to be able to perfectly decorate cakes to surprise your family & friends.

You’ll learn recipes and how to choose the right equipment. After you’re comfortable with the basics, you’ll master different techniques to decorate cakes for any occasion, from weddings to baby showers to birthdays.

Inside, you’ll learn the fundamentals of cake decorating with

A comprehensive 90 page book giving you a full guide to Cake Decorating.

A list of essential equipment and tools, easy and straightforward recipes, introductory techniques, and troubleshooting tips for common problems.

Step-by-step instructions to decorate with frosting, piping, fondant, and chocolate.

Get the skills you need to decorate cakes like a pro with Fabulous Cake Decorating by Joy Roberts.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Basic Cake Preparation
Tools for decorating and tools for baking a cake
How to easily bake a great cake
Torting and filling cakes
Filling and icing recipe ideas
Using food colouring
Icing a cake with buttercream
Buttercream iced cakes with texture
Covering a cake using rolled fondant
Cake storage and transportation
Cake boards
Stacking cakes

Chapter Two - Piping Techniques
Using pastry bags, tips and couplers
Couplers
Basic Piping
Borders
Writing onto a cake
Easy Flowers/Rosette
Easy Closed Peonies/Easy Roses
Easy Closed Roses/Easy Carnations
Easy Hydrangeas/Advanced Flowers
Tulips/Camellias
Brushed Embroidery

Chapter Three - Fondant and Gum Paste Accents
Essential Equipment
Silicone Border Moulds
Rolling and Cutter Gum Paste and
Fondant
Flower Decorations with Fondant and Gum Paste
Roses
Calla Lilies
Bows
Animals and People

Chapter Four - Miscellaneous Techniques
Adding Shimmer and Sparkle to a Cake
Edible Frosting Sheets
Painting and Colouring on Fondant