Professional Cake Decorating

Professional Cake Decorating is a must-have resource forprofessional and aspiring cake artists, baking and pastry students, and cake decorating hobbyists, drawing on years of experience frommaster cake designer and IACP Award nominee Toba Garrett. ThisSecond Edition has been completely revamped with gorgeousnew photography and a fresh new design. The New Skills have beenre-organized into a user-friendly, step-by-step format, and lineart and photos throughout the book provide a visual reference foreach new technique. The book begins with an introductory chapter onall the fundamentals of the cake designer's art, from covering acake board to assembling and icing a layered cake to stacking caketiers with pillars or columns. Subsequent chapters cover decoratingtechniques including Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced PipingSkills, The Art of Writing and Painting, Royal Icing Design Skills, Hand Modeling Skills, Pastillage Construction, Gumpaste Flowers, and much more. A chapter on Miniature Cakes and Decorated Cookiesincludes techniques for making petit fours and other small treats, while the Cake and Confectionery Gallery provides inspiration fordecorators with nearly 20 full-page photos of breathtaking cakesand information on the techniques needed to complete each one.Garrett also includes recipes for cakes, fillings, icings, cookies, and more, as well as an appendix of templates to help decoratorsreplicate the designs shown in the book.