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Learn to COOK - Party Animal Cakes: 15 Fantastic Designs

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Manufacturer: David & Charles

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780715322079
ISBN: 0715322079
Label: David & Charles
Manufacturer: David & Charles
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 2006-03-13
Publisher: David & Charles
Studio: David & Charles

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Guaranteed to make any party a roaring success, the projects in Party Animal Cakes are both fun to make and delicious to eat! This guide:

Presents stunning and easy-to-make decorated novelty cakes--all animal-themed--for beginners as well as advanced cake makers

-Explains how to use sugarpaste, buttercream, and clever techniques to create textures, patterns, and shapes

-Includes design variation ideas, quick-and-clever cupcakes projects, and delicious cookie recipes to continue the party-food theme

With over 200 easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs plus carving templates, this guide will lead to cakes that children and adults alike will love to devour.

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Summary: Fondant is a difficult art
Comment: This book has very beautiful pictures of cakes as well as very detailed directions and recipes. However, all but 1 of the cakes in the book are decorated with fondant, which really is an art and takes a LOT of time and practice. Fondant also isn't very tasty - it's really more for looks than taste.
I did manage to produce a monkey cake and a chinchilla cake, which both looked like a child's creation compared to those illustrated in the book (even though they took a few hours each to make). But they were cute - and since fondant is very smooth and glossy, the cakes looked unique.
So this book is good if you know that you want to make fondant cake. Otherwise, if you just want to make some cute and EASY cakes, consider a different book.

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Summary: Party Animal - great book
Comment: This is a great book. Some of the measurements are hard to follow since they are metric and I can't find some of the tools they use, but it's very detailed and easy to follow.

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Summary: Careful with the recipe
Comment: The pictures are gorgeous and the instructions seem detailed. However, all of the cakes are based on just two recipes. I tried the Madeira cake and I wished I had tested it before I bought all my supplies. (I am too embarrassed to admit how much I spent on those!). I knew something was the matter by the batter consistency. It was very thick. It thought it was strange that the cake recipe didn't call for any liquid, just eggs. Also, the cake recipe didn't ask for any baking powder or baking soda. Just half the flour was supposed to be "self-rising". Now, granted "zelfrijzend" flour in the Netherlands is what I had to use instead of the self rising flour that the author used. It maybe doesn't have enough rising agent in it to work as the author used. Suffice to say the cake that resulted was as hard as a brick, and about 1/2 as high as it needed to be for the animal I planned to make. Be careful with the cake recipes in this book.

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Summary: I wish there was a
Comment: I wish there was a bit more detail in the step-by-step instructions, perhaps more illustrations, but ultimately this is an awesome book that is a life saver when trying to come up with ideas for cakes and parties.

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Summary: Parents will appreciate the kid-friendly animal themes
Comment: The eye-catching animal cakes featured on the cover and back of PARTY ANIMAL CAKES may look difficult to make, but with Lindy Smith's step-by-step, color photo enhanced directions in hand, it's a piece of cake to produce them. A base cake round, fondant, and icing along with a cutting template are usually all that's needed, and sidebars of materials and equipment lists assure cooks have everything they need right at hand. These aren't quick productions nor are they for baking beginners, but cooks with some experience will find this takes them the next step from average to extraordinary cake-making. Parents will appreciate the kid-friendly animal themes.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

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