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Manufacturer: David & Charles

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780715324974
ISBN: 0715324977
Label: David & Charles
Manufacturer: David & Charles
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2007-08-16
Publisher: David & Charles
Studio: David & Charles

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*Written by a popular and experienced cake designer

*Range of techniques and skill levels ensures broad appeal

*Lindy's other best-selling titles include Celebrate with a Cake (28,000 copies sold) and Party Animal Cakes (20,000 copies sold)

Readers will discover a collection of 15 truly inspirational and deceptively simple celebratory cakes, each with a modern and distinctive finish. Lavish colour photographs display a unique variety of traditional and contemporary styles from florals and frills to stripes and beadwork. Each cake is accompanied by exquisite mini-cakes to put a creative twist on the main theme, or to make as an alternative when time is short. Chapters are divided by shape, showing how a simple square or round design can be the basis for the most desirable of cakes.

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Summary: A Pastry Chef's Delight
Comment: For those who are either professional bakers, or jest home bakers, this is another good reference.

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Summary: Cakes to Inspire and Desire
Comment: I think the instructions in this book are fabulous and very helpful. I am an experienced decorator (30 years) and do cakes professionaly. I learned some important techniques. The designs are great and up-to-date with current requests from customers.

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Summary: Another good 'Lindy Smith'
Comment: This is another good book Lindy Smith book. She is a superbly talented cake decorator, and her books (this one is no exception) are jam packed with ideas for the 'inspirationally challenged' cake decorator!

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Summary: Inspired and desired...
Comment: This is a book that gives you the opportunity to create new shapes, sizes, technics, and I think pictures are great. It's a very good book.

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Summary: Gorgeous cakes, spotty instructions
Comment: I love the cakes in the books they're gorgeous and creative, but the instructions are difficult to follow. They seen to leave parts out and the illustrations aren't always helpful. Overall it's a good book and the cakes are definitely worth trying.

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