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Product Description
Sylvia Weinstock makes cakes that astonish the palate, dazzle the eye, and reward the spirit. Her spellbinding cakes have graced the tables—and grabbed the attention—at society weddings, celebrity birthday parties, and inaugural balls. Whether it’s a tower of white roses whose thousands of blossoms have all been painstakingly hand-crafted or an entirely faithful—and entirely edible—facsimile of a treasured heirloom tea set, every Weinstock cake is a work of art.
“Never say never” is Weinstock’s response when clients dare her to achieve the impossible: an array of miniature cakes shaped and decorated like Fabergé eggs; cakes that look like cars, cravats, and circus clowns; or a menagerie of fantastic creatures (bunnies, bugs, tigers, terriers, and even an armadillo), all concocted from butter, flour, and sugar.
In Sylvia Weinstock’s Sensational Cakes, America’s most famous cake designer gives you an insider’s tour of her world: the fabulous fêtes where her cakes set the scene and the artisanal workshop where she and her assistants bake and embellish the confectionary masterpieces that have made her signature—including her trademark eyeglass logo—so sought after. Best of all, she reveals some of her secrets: recipes for cakes, frostings, and fillings that will make your own guests stand up and applaud.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #205661 in Books
- Published on: 2008-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 208 pages
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About the Author
Sylvia Weinstock is the grande dame of cake design, one of the first to use imaginative forms for wedding cakes—introducing butterflies and bees, for example, to brides who had previously known only flowers. Her 25-year-old company, located in New York City, has created cakes for the Clinton White House as well as numerous celebrity weddings. Weinstock’s cakes have been featured in publications ranging from Modern Bride to the New York Times. She lives in Manhattan.
Customer Reviews
If you're looking for instructions don't purchase, inspiration and recipes purchase
I pre-ordered this book and couldn't wait for it to come. The book is beautiful as it can possibly be. The beautiful cakes in there are awe-inspiring and gives those of us just starting in the business something to strive for. Ms. Weinstock does give good suggestions about how to handle a cake tasting and planning, having the forum of the reception in mind in design of the cake, and shares her recipes with us.
However, if you're looking for instructions on how to do gumpaste flowers, how to place flowers on forms in between layers, or how to assemble a cake, look elsewhere. But if you have a good repetoire of cake decorating books or sugar decorating books, that info will probably be in there. If you're looking for a book of cakes that can inspire you and recipes that are yummy (made chocolate fudge cake, lady baltimore cake, the bc and bc fillings for a practice cake)-you'll love it!
Don't buy if you are looking for an instructional book.
I also pre-ordered this book and found it a little dissapointing. I purchased her first book and was expecting a whole lot more. There are no instructions for the cakes, beautiful pictures, but no instructions and the recipes are the same as the first book.
Sylvia Weinstocks sensational Cakes
I pre-ordered this book as well. I was very dissappointed. I have her first book and used it constantly when I first started my cake decorating business. This book however, was no where near as helpful. Most of the pages are just pictures of sugarflowers. No instructions, no new recipes for cakes, and not very helpful at all...this is just a picture book.
