Add elegance and cheer to any holiday celebration! Alan Dunn, a master of the art of sugarcraft, makes it easy to create single- and double-tiered round, square- and even star-shaped cakes with sugarcraft poinsettias, holly berries, fir cones, and snowflakes. With stunning photography throughout, this guide presents 15 festive cakes and seven sprays to adorn the Christmas table.
Synopsis
Add elegance and cheer to any holiday celebration! Alan Dunn, a master of the art of sugarcraft, makes it easy to create single- and double-tiered round, square- and even star-shaped cakes with sugarcraft poinsettias, holly berries, fir cones, and snowflakes. With stunning photography throughout, this guide presents 15 festive cakes and seven sprays to adorn the Christmas table.
About the Author, Alan Dunn
Alan started cake decorating at an early age. He has become one of the sugarcraft world's leading authors and is hugely respected for his artistic approach in creating lifelike sugar and cold porcelain flowers. Alan is an accredited demonstrator for The British Sugarcraft Guild. He teaches and demonstrates across Europe, as well as the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Japan and most recently South Africa.
The strength of this book is in the techniques sections. The skills taught would be more appropriate for intermediate to advanced cake decorators, though the resulting cakes are gorgeous to look at and can be used by novices as inspiration. Dunn (The Wedding Cake Decorator's Bible) focuses on botanical elements, which he explains in his introduction is his personal preference. Because of this, artificial floral arrangements are also interspersed with the cake decorations. The styling of the cakes tends to be very crisp and fancy, even when simply decorated. Templates for the decorative embellishments are included in the back.I Would Give This to A number of my friends who have taken a few cake-decorating classes as well as friends interested in floral arrangements. Katie Dunneback, "Holiday Cooking and Crafting", Booksmack!, 11/4/2010
