Learn to COOK - Professional Cake Decorating
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.86539
EAN: 9780471701361
ISBN: 047170136X
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2006-09-11
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Everything you need to create stunning cake decorations Cake decorating is an art with specific skills that must be studied and practiced before they can be mastered. Professional Cake Decorating is the first guidebook, reference, and at-your-fingertips resource to the special methods and techniques unique to cake decorating. Professional Cake Decorating is: - a comprehensive set of lessons designed to teach the skills needed in cake decorating, including basic, intermediate, and advanced piping skills; hand modeling; and gumpaste flowers
- a powerful tool for making dramatic improvements in the overall look and design of cakes
- a valuable training handbook and resource for bakers and decorators
- a comprehensive reference of successful professional skill sets
Using more than 200 step-by-step and finished cake color photographs, as well as over 125 illustrations, this highly visual book covers a wealth of techniques for cake borders, piped flowers, cake writing and piping, royal icing designs, marzipan fruits and figurines, rolled icing, floral patterns, petit fours, gumpaste floral art and design, and much more. Thorough coverage also includes such foundation skills as making shells, rosettes, reverse shells, zigzags, fleur-de-lis, rope, garlands, scrolls, rosebuds, and other confectionary designs. Complete with more than three dozen tried-and-tested recipes, Professional Cake Decorating is the only book that places the rewards of thirty years of training, traveling, teaching, and private practice in your hands! It is a must-have for today's bakers, cake decorators, specialty shop owners, and independent cake designers.
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Summary: Cake Decorating Master Class
Comment: Despite the title, this rather amazing educational tool is just as useful for pastry chefs in a bakery, and the home baker producing wonderful baked goods for that party or special occasion or just for fun.
This manual has many strengths. The ingredients are always in weight; cups are not even listed (hallelujah!). The main lessons and sub-sections listed ALL the mise-en-place, including those little, trivial, yet essential items usually not listed by other books. The quality of the instructions are every bit as good as the lessons I got in cooking school. The attitude of the author is similar to those friendly, patient explanations I received while struggling (with much frustration) with a particular decorating skill. The appendix has many patterns that are ready to use for your practice; just photocopy and start practicing. The recipe section has many important recipes: chocolate plastique, pastillage, practice buttercream, rolled fondant, gumpaste.
Some interesting notes. You will need to purchase, if you do not already have, a rather extensive inventory of tools and ingredients you probably do not have, even in a professional kitchen. So, resign yourself to a first step where you gather the needed stuff. The author seems to have extensive experience outside of the US. This is good, inasmuch as he presents much more material on rolled fondant and stringwork than you will get in a standard textbook or professional caliber class.
Using the lessons (of which there are 19) needs a little explanation, which is not forthcoming from the author. They are not 1-hour chunks of education. Some will require many repeats before you become proficient. Some lessons must be spread amongst several sessions, even if you are efficient and get it quickly. So, take each lesson with patience, and expect to repeat many times before becoming proficient. Also, it is not necessary to plow through all the lessons numerically. You can easily just skip to whichever chapter/skill you are interested in.
It has these chapters: basic piping, floral piping, intermediate piping, advanced borders, writing, royal icing flowers, royal icing skills, cake icing, modeling skills, marzipan, advance royal piping, rolled icing, pastillage, gumpaste flowers, petit fours, misc, cake gallery, recipes.
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Summary: Chef Toba
Comment: Having been a student of Chef Toba and other instructors, Chef Toba is the best hands down! She is a true artist and perfectionist. This book documents her winning techniques!
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Summary: Excellent beginner's manual
Comment: Being new to the world of decorating, this book was amazing! The lessons lead you through the necessary skills, starting with basic and moving to more advanced, in a classroom like way. The skill check's at the end of each lesson are tests to ensure practice and understanding of your newly acquired techniques. A few other reviews commented on the lack of pictures. I did not feel this way overall, but perhaps a few more to illustrate her directions would have been helpful in understanding more quickly. What I was most disappointed about with this book was the lack of truly beautiful cakes to be inspired by. All of her designs seemed a little odd to me, although executed very well. I guess design just isn't her strong point. Overall I would buy this book again.
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Summary: Love it!
Comment: This book has a textbook quality I love. I love reading so maybe that's why I took to this book and keep referring to it even though I haven't done anything in it yet. It is a bit pricey, but she covers lots of ground in cake decorating from icing a cake to piping to making a sugar vase for a cake topper.
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Summary: worth every penny
Comment: This book is fabulous, it's written in a wonderful easy to understand tutorial manner. A real must have for anyone looking to venture into this kind of medium. It's kind of like the Bible of the art.
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