Kate's Cake Decorating: Techniques and Tips for Fun and Fancy Cakes Baked with LoveKate Sullivan has baked wedding cakes and party cakes for some of New York's most interesting weddings and events. Her sought-after recipes and tips are compiled in this new book, Kate's Cake Decorating. Featured in numerous magazines, Sullivan is a well respected and creative baker. For the first time, she brings her knack for creating the unusual to those of us who want to bake more than a layer cake but aren't sure how. This book features her recipes and cake-decorating tips as well as personal stories about creating and delivering cakes. She has used cookies as cake toppers, made dozens of multicolored flowers on a hat-shaped cake, and created cakes in the shapes of taxis and diner coffee cups. Whether a lush, vibrant "Monsoon Wedding" cake or a larger-than-life, 3D "Cup o' Joe to Go," Kate's cakes always inspire people to ask, "How did she do that?" |
Contents
FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 33 |
Sculpted Figure Cakes | 37 |
Nutty Squirrel | 45 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 52 |
Viva Elvis | 61 |
52 | 73 |
GLOUCESTER MASSACHUSETTS 019305089 | 140 |
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Kate's Cake Decorating: Techniques and Tips for Fun and Fancy Cakes for All ... Kate Sullivan No preview available - 2004 |
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apply crumb coat bags and couplers Bake and cool beaded Bench scraper Icing border Building a tiered buttercream butterfly cake board cake page 22 Cake stand Chill circles coating a cake color page 34 cool cakes completely Cornstarch for coating Covering with fondant Craft paintbrushes Cuppa Joe DECORATING DETAILS dots of royal dragées Electric mixer filling foam-core base fondant page 24 ganache glue gun Gum-paste decorations heart high DECORATIONS hot glue Hot glue gun icing page 127 Icing tips inch 2.5 cm inches 8 cm insert KATE'S CAKE DECORATING layer lemon extract Let set marzipan mixed with lemon Monsoon Wedding Nutty Squirrel Painting with food paste food color pattern petal dust pink Piping techniques powdered food color ribbon Rolling pin round decorating tip round tier scraper Icing smoother shape sides skewers stack sugar tiered cake TIERS OF HAPPINESS toothpick tracing wheel Turntable wax paper wire yellow