TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garrett,Toba
TI  - Professional cake decorating
SN  - 9780470380093
AV  - TX771.2 .G36 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Cake decorating
KW  - Cookbooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 395) and index; History of cake decorating -- Getting started -- Basic piping skills -- Floral piping skills -- Intermediate piping skills -- Advanced piping skills -- The art of writing and painting -- Royal icing piped flowers -- Royal icing design skills -- Hand modeling skills -- Marzipan and chocolate modeling -- Advanced royal icing piping and design skills -- Rolled icing design skills -- Pastillage construction -- Gumpaste flowers -- Advanced gumpaste flowers -- Miniature cakes and decorated cookies -- Cake and confectionery gallery -- Recipes -- Patterns and cake cutting guides
N2  - "A ... resource for professional and aspiring cake artists, baking and pastry students, and cake decorating hobbyists, drawing on years of experience from master cake designer and IACP Award nominee Toba Garrett. This ... edition has been completely revamped with gorgeous new photography and a fresh new design. The New Skills have been re-organized into a user-friendly, step-by-step format, and line art and photos throughout the book provide a visual reference for each new technique. The book begins with an introductory chapter on all the fundamentals of the cake designer's art, from covering a cake board to assembling and icing a layered cake to stacking cake tiers with pillars or columns ... A chapter on miniature cakes and decorated cookies includes techniques for making petit fours and other small treats, while the Cake and Confectionery Gallery provides inspiration for decorators with nearly 20 full-page photos of breathtaking cakes and information on the techniques needed to complete each one. Garrett also includes recipes for cakes, fillings, icings, cookies, and more, as well as an appendix of templates to help decorators replicate the designs shown in the book"--Publisher's description
ER  -