Twenty To Make Series
Lisa Slatter
Search Press
release / ISBN 9781844486250
6 January 2011 (1 May 2011 in USA)
How-To Books/Sugarcraft
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
My first sugarcraft
project was making a rose out of fondant icing, and this craft does
lend itself to the fashioning of floral items. Here is a whole book
of different flowers and arrangements to create out of sugar to
decorate cakes, tables and more.
There is a recipe for royal icing in here, short and sweet (pardon
the pun) but you will need to look elsewhere for recipes for other
types of frosting such as gum paste. You can buy them ready made
of course, and this book gets instantly down the business of telling
you exactly what you need to make the projects, and then there are
the projects themselves. There are twenty of these of course, each
one taking up two pages. There are written instructions and a picture
of the finished item attractively presented to inspire you. Best
of all in my opinion is a helpful page showing what the component
parts look like before assembly, which takes much of the mystery
out of creating these beautiful flowers. On the same page is a small
inset photograph of a completed item, but not actually presented
in as full a way as in the main picture. I find this staged approach
very helpful, and it is surprising how little space you need to
lay out a project in this manner. Choose from the inevitable roses,
simple daisies, glorious bright gerbera, cheerful daffodils, elegant
orchids, buds, leaves and even a butterfly to enhance your work.
Substitute the frostings for polymer clay and you extend the use
of the book…one for the keeper shelf that shows how easy it
really is to make very professional looking sugar flowers.
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