Party Cakes: Over Thirty Step-By-Step Designs for Novelty Cakes, Children's Cakes, And...

by Joanna Farrow, Janice Murfitt, Angela Nilsen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0831768576
• ISBN13: 9780831768577
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 12.0"

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This book is an arts-and-crafts/baking lovers dream come true! Every page has amazing cake creations. Basically, it shows how to make cool looking cakes with marzipan or butter cream frosting. If you can follow their directions and have the proper baking tools, your cakes can come out to look exactly like the ones in the pictures. They give all measurements in u.s. and european measurements and tell you the temperature in celcius, fahrenheit and gas level for gas ovens. Some of their creative cakes include:A basket of Strawberries (made from hollowed pound cake)LadybugPizza Cake (with shredded yellow marzipan to represent cheese)Present CakeSailboatShirt and Tie CakeMobile Phone CakeGhostFlower Pot with flowers popping outPorcupineHalloween Pumpkinbasically...thirty cakes in all.There is also a basic recipes and techniques chapter with recipes for quick mix cakes, frosting and even home made marzipan. This book is delicious, every page has bright colored photos that will make you drool and want to bake or run to your local bakery!