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If you have always wanted to have a go at sugarcraft but don’t
know where to begin, here is a good place. This book really
does teach you the basics, and that does not just mean icing,
but the rest of it as well. Divided into sections, you can
get to grips with what to buy, cake recipes, flat icing, and
working with different types of frosting as well as chocolate
and marzipan.
So far, so like other books perhaps? But this is one of those
books that go the whole nine yards when it comes to making
it all as simple as possible. To start with there are some
foolproof, step-by-step cake recipes, as well as tables for
ingredient quantities for most sizes of cake tin. There are
also descriptions in easy stages of many other cake related
tasks from lining a tin to turning it out, flat icing secrets
and piping techniques. As this is a large heavy book it obligingly
opens out flat and is easy to work from, with a good size
of print and sizeable photographs. All the most modern items
are here too, candy melts, cake pops and plenty of cupcake
ideas. Laid out in such a way, with not much left to the imagination,
it is relatively easy to achieve success. The best book I
have seen on this subject that is really aimed at a beginner
rather than a skilled improver.
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