Create breathtakingly beautiful lace cakes with exquisite designs from the acclaimed cake artist: “Many fun tips and techniques.” —American Cake Decorating Magazine Discover elegant and exquisite lace cake designs for weddings and special occasions in a variety of colorways from designer Zoe Clark. Innovative products such as Sugarveil and Cake Lace are explored, along with established techniques including embossing, applique, piping, and brushwork. Each main cake is presented alongside a smaller spin-off idea, showing you how the effects can also be applied to cookies, mini cakes, and fondant fancies to complement the theme. Tried and tested recipes, informative step-by-step photography, practical instructions, and helpful tips make this the definitive guide to lace cakes.

Learn how to create beautifully modern cake designs with an ingenious vintage twist from a leading designer and bestselling cake decorating author. This inspirational and practical guide features: Step-by-step tutorials for creating ten vintage-inspired tiered and novelty cakes, along with twenty smaller projects—cupcakes, cookies, fondant fancies and more Recipes for Zoe’s delicious cakes, as sold in London’s prestigious department store Fortnum & Mason Easy-to-follow instructions for using suspension techniques to create gravity-defying cake structures with internal supports—the first book ever to do this! Zoe’s expert guidance tips for creating a flawless and professional finish to your cakes Chic & Unique Vintage Cakes includes a wide range of cake decorating projects so you’ll be sure to find something to suit your own experience level, whether you are a beginner or a cake design expert!

Presents thirty designs for wedding cakes and celebration pastries, providing tips on incorporating the theme of a wedding, pairing a cake with acompanying pastries, and directions on carving, sculpting, and stacking cakes.

Special treats for special occasions: A renowned cake artist’s recipes and designs for desserts worth celebrating. Discover over thirty delicious homemade treats from baker and designer Zoe Clark—including cakes, cupcakes, mini cakes, fondant fancies, and cookies—to delight your friends and family all year round! There’s something for every occasion, from the Mad Hatter’s tea party and a seaside celebration to a lacy white wedding and some sweet Christmas gifts. Step-by-step illustrated instructions and detailed techniques guide you through each stage of baking and decorating, so even beginners can create colorful, awe-inspiring desserts—and kids can join the fun too!

Be inspired by the theme of your wedding: the stationery, the flowers, the venue, and of course, the dress! Expert cake decorator Zoe Clark shows you how to create a beautiful unique wedding cake for your special day. The gaps between the tiers mimic the dress by allowing the jagged icing to hand down below the edge of the cake! A sampler chapter from Chic & Unique Wedding Cakes.

Experience the Joy and Delight of Creating Amazing Wedding Cakes from Scratch. Lorelie Carvey will show you how to make and decorate the perfect wedding cake. The award-winning pastry chef has spent over thirty years perfecting her techniques and now offers advice that will ensure a sweet memory for your bride's special day. From the first idea to the spectacular result, Carvey guides you through everything you need to know to make the ultimate dream dessert. She includes her favorite recipes, like her chocolate buttermilk cake, hazelnut cake, chocolate mousse, lemon cream cheese, Italian meringue buttercream, and so much more. Carvey personally perfected each recipe during her baking career. In addition to recipes, Carvey clearly and comprehensively explains and demonstrates (with detailed photos) the baking and decorating techniques so you can create your unique cake design. With her own guide to ingredients, cooking methods, baking utensils, and decorating tips, you'll have everything you need to create a magnificent wedding cake that will be remembered and cherished by everyone. Your purchase comes with benefits including...a membership to Lorelie's exclusive cake support group, step by step video, a discount coupon for Cake Stackers, printable guides to pan sizes with number of servings, cups of batter, baking temperatures, baking times and cups of icing to frost and decorate. It also includes a guide to bakers measures and equivalents, emergency substitutions, cake ingredients, functions, fails and causes, a photo tutorial of delivering your cakes, plus cake decorating ideas and instruction.

“Faye Cahill has taken metallic cakes to an all new, gorgeous level . . . A most ‘brilliant’ addition for any cake designer’s library!” —Wendy Kromer-Schell, coauthor of Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes Make cakes that sparkle with this comprehensive guide to metallic cakes from leading wedding cake designer Faye Cahill. Faye begins by exploring all the different materials available to the modern cake decorator, from gold leaf to edible paint, food-grade sprays, edible glitters, lustre dusts, edible sequins and more, then shows you in step-by-step detail the techniques you need for success. Twelve stunning gilded cake projects follow, showing you how to put your newfound skills to use on creative cake designs, each with an accompanying smaller project that is perfect for beginners to tackle before attempting the larger cake. Create spectacular cakes that shimmer and shine with this unique must-have guide. “The Gilded Cake is a very beautiful book . . . bakers would learn a lot from the intricate techniques author Faye Cahill teaches through descriptions and series of nicely executed and illustrated step-by-step photos.” —Manhattan Book Review