I am wanting to do the teapot/teacup cake that is featured on the cover of her book Cakes to Dream On - I looked at it online and the other cakes are beautiful and everything but I just don't think that I would ever make them and really hate to spend $40.00 on a book for instruction on just one cake. Is it bad for me to ask if anyone knows the instructions for this cake and could email them to me? More I just need to know how to assemble it and I asked someone who made one like it on here and they just referred me to the book. If it is wrong for me to be asking then just please disregard, I do not want to offend anyone. Thanks in advance

I don't have the instructions, but Amazon.com has the book for $26 plus free shipping... http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471214620/?tag=cakecentral-20

hmmm..hopefully someone can answer your question. Personally, I wouldn't do a cake exactly like another person's. I would just use it for inspiration then add my own color scheme, special touches, etc. KWIM?

I think there is a tutorial/article on how to make a tea pot cake on here... do a search under articles if you are just seeing HOW to make the shape.

melissa

Here are some tutorials I found searching online. I think if it can be found online, then it's fair game (except of course taking credit for it like you did it yourself)

http://www.brightideas.com/birthdays/themes/teaparty/cakestreats/c_1368_1.jsp

http://www.cakeworkscentral.com/scrapbook/teapotcake.htm

http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/oldemill/337/tpotcake.html

You might also want to try to find the book at your local library-that way you can see her instructions, but save the money.

http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?ref=962233030&sid=14017920070705155255&action=det_32455&searchvalues=cakes%20%3DAND%3Bto%20%3DAND%3Bdream%20%3DAND%3Bon&searchlogic=simplesearch

$26.39 -free shipping

krysoco - I am not so much wanting to make it look like her design, just trying to figure out how to assemble it. I want to do pretty similar but completely different colors and a little more elegant then fun. just can't seem to figure out how to put together. thanks for helping everyone

GinaJuarez - thanks for the links but the cake I am trying to do is a 3-tiered cake. thank you though

I wish I knew the actual answer to this question, it is something I wonder about sometimes. Copyright is a sticky issue. It happens with all of the arts and crafts. My mom does the paper rolling thing and belongs to a forum and they have conversations similiar to this all the time. I almost wish I had gone to law school and knew the answers and the lines (nah, I'd rather bake cakes than do paperwork)

no problem, I appreciate you taking the time to find those links. but if there is anyone out there who maybe has this book and would not mind sharing the assembly instructions with me that would be great

PM me with your email address. I'll send it to you when I get home tonight.

It is hard to find the books sometimes though, wedding cake decorating books in June seem to be a hot commodity....

I found out that I didn't want Colette's Cakes to Dream On really, that I could check it out from the library and be fine, but that I'd love to have Debbie Brown's books and Colette's Birthday Cakes book. I'll have to check out the Cake Bible next time

Sugar Plum, have you actually tried many of the recipes from the cake bible? If so, how do you like them? I've had the book for quite sometime and I haven't tried many of them as of yet.