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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 17 May 2017
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781782213789
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  • Size: 204x260 mm
  • Illustrations: 500
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $19.95
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Vintage Cake Decorations Made Easy

$19.95

Timeless designs using modern techniques by Christina Ludlam


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Book Description

Learn to make beautiful, intricate vintage-style sugarpaste decorations for cakes.

A vintage look is a classic look, and one you can achieve with ease for your own cakes and cookies using Christina Ludlam's exquisite book. Vintage Cake Decorations Made Easy is a sumptuous and accessible guide to creating sugarpaste masterpieces using modern tips, tricks and techniques that are available to everyone - from professional cake decorators to home bakers. Christina's book is filled to the brim with clear, step-by-step instructions, mouth-watering projects and gorgeous photography, and in it she reveals her secrets to help you create stunning vintage-style cakes that are bound to impress.

The book begins with guidance on how to cover your cakes, colour mixing and essential techniques such as using mould and mats, then leads you through nine stunning and stylish cake-decorating projects that look almost too beautiful to eat! From vintage-style cupcakes to a magnificent wedding cake, you will not believe how easy it is to create a sugarpaste masterpiece.

Table of Contents

Introduction       6

Tools     8

Techniques         12

The cakes            34

Vintage-style birthday cake         36

Regency Rose    44

Christmas Cake 50

Vintage cupcakes             58

English Rose       64

Vintage Couture               78

Garden Cake      92

Memory Box      104

Wedding Cake 110

Recipes 120

Index    128

Reviews

Customer Review

As a little extra, there are a few cake recipes, one of which is adapted for 4" to 12" cake tin sizes. Also there are chocolate ganache recipes which can act as an alternate base below covering a cake in fondant.

If you are a beginner to caking and fondant then purchase this book. It's a brilliant tool to have!


Customer Review

As an avid cake decorator and 'collector ' of books on the subject I can happily say this is one of the best. Why? Because it is so clearly layed out, great photography and most importantly very clear instructions. Anyone new to cake decorations will find the book very easy to use and more experienced decorators will find fabulous ideas to add to their repertoire. Moulds and lace mats, which are great addition to our cake decorating armoury , are covered in this book which makes it bang up to date.


Customer Review

Christina it is a true work of art and love and I hope you're extremely proud of yourself, you sure should be. It's beautiful, exquisite, gorgeous, there just aren't enough words to do it justice!
I've quite a few sugarcraft/cake books, the things which makes yours stand are;
A) I can read it without having to search for my reading specs.
B) some fabulous new ideas and I love the colour combinations.
C) I love the layout, the fact we see the finished product then you label each individual item with the brand of tool/ mould/ cutter you've used....genius.
D) photographs are superb, good close ups and step by step in much more detail than many books. It's like having a You tube tutorial but you don't have to pause or rewind!!
Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced cake decorator each cake is achievable.
Well done Christina Ludlam, can't wait for issue two!!xx


Customer Review

Love this book, really enjoyed the projects packed with interesting practical tips & hints to ensure a professional finish to my cakes.
From cupcakes to tiered cakes, this book is jam packed with ideas, & gives details of tools, tin sizes & fondant required for a myriad of cakes.
I especially liked the layout, from names of the tools to handy hints of what to do if things are not behaving as I expect !!
Christina has thought about the reader, from the novice baker to experienced artists, so that everyone can learn to make exquisite creations & find inspiration for creating my own designs using what I learned from this book.
Well laid out, beautiful clear instructions & explained everything very well.
I have several projects coming up so will definitely use some of the ideas from this book, especially the die cuts on rice paper - genius !!


Customer Review

There are some amazing cakes in this book, very easy to follow and presented nicely with lots of pictures showing the detail. I was very much looking forward to trying some of these out but I admit to being a little disappointed when this book arrived that a lot of it is just using bought molds, which yes makes it easy, however feels a little like cheating! I would have liked to see a few more tutorials on crafting by hand using tools. Other than that, a brilliant book and very inspirational. My little girls next birthday cake will be from this book.


Customer Review

This book has a good wide range of projects in it, from tiered cakes to cupcakes, and I'm really looking forward to making the mannequin (vintage couture) cake.
The instructions are clear to follow, with both clear written instructions and step by step pictures. There's even a really useful section at the start on how to use all the moulds and tools used within the book.
The only negatives is that all the projects use specific moulds and it would be real useful to hae a directory of suppliers for the specific brands that have been used.

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