Cake Decorating Books, Your Favorite?

Decorating By vixterfsu Updated 30 May 2006 , 5:27pm by missyek

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vixterfsu Posted 6 May 2006 , 12:08pm
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Ah ladies, Yesterday as I was strolling in Borders Book Store
I came across a book, 'the essential guide to cake decorating'.
It's put out by borders and only cost $9 here in NY. 304 pages of amazing
ideas and detailed how to pages. I spent a hour in a half in the cake
section and easily could of spent $150 on cake books. I have over
35 books and this one is my fave. Instead of buying thee other books
at full price, I went to amazon.com and found the books I wanted
much cheaper! Curious to know about you beautiful gals and guys favorite cake books. icon_rolleyes.gif

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flayvurdfun Posted 6 May 2006 , 12:10pm
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American cake decorating magazine of course, but I always get the Wilton yearbooks.... I just love 'em

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vixterfsu Posted 6 May 2006 , 8:11pm
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Come on, anyone? Would love to know.
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dsoutherngirl Posted 6 May 2006 , 8:19pm
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I love Toba Garrett's The Well Decorated Cake and Margaret Braun's Cakewalk. Both give good details and the cakes are fabulous.

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KarenOR Posted 30 May 2006 , 4:48pm
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Originally Posted by vixterfsu

Ah ladies, Yesterday as I was strolling in Borders Book Store
I came across a book, 'the essential guide to cake decorating'.
It's put out by borders and only cost $9 here in NY. 304 pages of amazing
ideas and detailed how to pages. I spent a hour in a half in the cake
section and easily could of spent $150 on cake books. I have over
35 books and this one is my fave. Instead of buying thee other books
at full price, I went to amazon.com and found the books I wanted
much cheaper! Curious to know about you beautiful gals and guys favorite cake books. icon_rolleyes.gif




I LOVE that book. I bought it, as well as a few others not cake related. You cannot beat the price! The only thing I find a little difficult is the naming of things, because I believe it's published in England or Canada, because of the measuring units and spells of words. But the pictures are awesome, the instructions.. I LOVE IT.

I also have the Whimsical Bakehouse, which I love a lot.

I was just looking through past threads about books, because I want to get a few more.

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Chef_Stef Posted 30 May 2006 , 5:02pm
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I LOVE Collette's Wedding Cakes book and Sweet Celebrations by Sylvia Weinstock (sp). I flip through my Wilton's wedding cake books a lot too, but those two inspire me the most.

Love the Cake Bible too, for baking, and I just read Baking at Home from the Culinary Institute of America over the weekend, to brush up on the "science" part of baking...

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missyek Posted 30 May 2006 , 5:27pm
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I am a big fan of Lindy Smith. I have her Storybook Cakes and Celebrate with a Cake. She has a new one that just came out, Party Animals, that I still need to get. I have a few other books from others, but hers are my favorites.

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