Cool Cake Toppers: Put Anything You Want on a Cake - Softcover

Rawlins, Amanda; Deasy, Caroline

3.57

7 ratings by Goodreads

9781770850385: Cool Cake Toppers: Put Anything You Want on a Cake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770850384 ISBN 13: 9781770850385

Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd, 2012

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How to make fun and quirky cake toppers for more than 30 special occasions.

The craze for decorated cakes shows no sign of slowing down. Ever more bakers want to personalize their celebration cakes, whether for a birthday, a wedding or just plain fun. Cupcakes are the new standard.

Cool Cake Toppers shows how with minimal skill and the essential equipment bakers can create entertaining toppers for cakes and cupcakes. Step-by-step instructions and photographs illustrate the different sugarcraft techniques, including the use of fondant, buttercream icings, coloring, candies, nonpareils and sprinkles.

Recipes are accompanied by expert advice on cake and frosting options, alternatives to sugarcraft, such as printing and 3-D effects as well as practical tips on presentation displays and gift boxes. There is also guidance on using the skills learned to make new topper designs.

Cool Cake Toppers includes decorations for all of life's joyful milestones:

Baby -- Baby shower, new baby, Christening, naming ceremony
Children's Birthdays -- First birthday, toddler, young child, teenager
Adult Birthdays -- 18, 21, 30, 40 and beyond, female birthdays, male birthdays
Celebrations -- Graduations, anniversary, thank you, new home, tea party
Weddings -- Engagement, bridal shower, stag party, wedding, favors
Seasonal -- New Year's, Mother's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and more.

Cool Cake Toppers provides ideas and instruction for the amateur cake maker as well as inspiration for the professional. It is packed with enough delightful creations to inspire the baker in everyone.

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Create astonishment, surprise and delight when you present cakes with handcrafted cake toppers. Why go for the boring store-bought option when you can amaze your friends and family with these exciting and memorable creations? Every baker wants to personalise their celebration cakes, and Cool Cake Toppers provides ideas and guidance for the amateur cake maker as well as inspiration for the professional. Whether you're looking to make toppers to embellish cupcakes for a school fair or create an elaborate tiered wedding cake, this book has a selection of sensational and innovative designs. The book encourages quirky cake designs using different techniques and effects with step-by-step guides to help you in producing professional-looking cakes and toppers. This new release is packed with beautiful photographs and is sure to inspire the baker in us.-Simply Homemade Using step-by-step guides it's easy to produce cake and cupcake toppers with minimal skill and equipment. Learn how to work with different techniques and effects using sugarcraft and other media. Let's use our newly acquired skills to create a beautiful and memorable cake for friends and family.-Machine Knitting Monthly Fabulously imaginative simple cake toppers which will turn any cake easily into something far more memorable with well over 100 novel ideas for toppers, and also different ways to present cakes.-Cake Craft & Decoration

About the Author:

Amanda Rawlins and Caroline Deasy are the owners of Cupcake Occasions, which specializes in custom-made and celebration cupcakes using techniques and products they learned in America. They have been featured on blogs highlighting their quirky ability to "put anything on a cupcake." They live in Suffolk, U.K.

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