Product Description

A beautiful wedding cake book written by a top cake designer and sugar craft author. Twenty-five wedding cake designs in a range of styles are featured. The sugar craft techniques required span easy cut-outs and stenciling, to intricate brush embroidery, striking string-work, run-out collars, and sugar flowers, plus special sections on cake-top ornaments and presentation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2441097 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Linda Pawsey has won numerous awards for her work including gold and silver awards on both Salon Culinaire and British Sugarcraft Guild. Linda's other books include Christmas Figurines and Folds and Frills in the Merehurst Sugar Inspiration Series.

Customer Reviews

Amost Good Enough To Eat
When looking for wedding cake ideas for your upcoming nuptuals like I am, it is really difficult to find a book or magazine which has many different ideas and designs. This book has a lot of traditional looking designs as well as some more modern and unique designs. It is definately worth taking a look at if you are in need of wedding cake help.

for professional decorator who use fondant
If you like fondant , you will enjoy this. The best feature of this book is the layout. There is a high ratio of nice designs (though personal taste is subjective) with a good variety of techniques and styles. The cakes shown are all in pastel shades but it makes sense because of the way this book is organized.
The table of contents features a "level of skill" icon for each cake, and information is shown (with photos) on how to work with pleats, favors, and ribbons. The photo quality is excellent.
There are a few flaws in the book. There is no information on how to order some of the materials used in the preparation of the cakes. It is too bad that this book seems to be marketed to the professional decorator only. The level of skill assessment should of been marked as basic, intermediate, and advanced (rather than beginner)It is hard to be inspired from this book because there was no notes given to encourage any creativity (variations).

Inspiring!!
Linda Pawsey is a talented cake decorator from England who has a very clean yet totally elegant style which is reminiscent of the lambeth method of cake decorating.

She uses several techniques not widely used in American cake decorating like stenciling and cutting out flowers and lattice pieces to draping the edges instead of piping them. Tiny elegant flowers done with a #1 writing tip add the most interesting yet delicate and unexpected touches. She even makes realistic looking tassels and braids from sugar paste! She loves to use unusual shapes in her cakes like kidney beans, rounds cut in half and placed on their sides, and rectangles with beveled edges.

She makes use of every opportunity to add to the cakes presentation by covering the boards with sugar paste and embossing their edges with complimentary flowers and ribbons. Then she offsets the cakes and places generous sprays of sugar flowers at the base for the most interesting presentation! She shows you how to make cake toppers from sugar paste and demonstrates a delicate patchwork collar technique I am just dying to try!

While a lot of the products she uses can only be bought in England her book is nothing short of one of the most inspiring idea books I have seen in a long time!

One note though - don't pay $55 for this book! It only originally cost $15! Buy the book - just not from someone trying to rip you off an extra $40! I originally checked it out of the library and will purchase it as soon as I find someone selling it at a realistc price!