REVIEW: ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CAKE DECORATING

PRODUCT - ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CAKE DECORATING BY ALEX BARKER

For a beginner, the cake designs look pretty challenging. But the book has step-by-step instructions and includes a lot of images to help guide one through the process.

The book begins with an introduction to cake decoration and a list of supplies that might be useful. Then it goes into dozens of original recipes and designs. All types of cakes are included: chocolate cake, carrot cake, cupcakes, etc.. Decorations vary from everyday designs to special occasions (Valentine's Day, birthdays, etc). 

Don't know how to bake a cake? You don't even want to bake one but cake decorating fascinates you? This is the perfect book since you can focus on what you wish to learn from it. 

Every single step is photographed and described with how the batter should look or react which makes it way easier to understand and learn.

They start from various basic cake decor mediums such as marzipan, royal icing to sugar paste to decorating and showing you what can be combined to fit whatever occasions the cake is supposed to represent. Tips and tricks for each cake decor medium and their variants are all given meticulously. The book even ends with a variety of templates you can just tear or trace from the book itself. This book shows you the endless possibilities of working with what you have in hand to create something completely out of the blue and amazing.