I did a search and couldn't find much of a reference, so sorry if this has been covered.
The books I'm considering buying are:
Easy Party Cakes - Debbie Brown
50 Easy Party Cakes - Debbie Brown
Confetti Cakes - Elisa Strauss
Celebrate with a cake - Lindy Smith
Cakes to inspire and desire - Lindy Smith
Pretty party cakes - Peggy Porschen
The Well Decorated Cake - Toba Garrett
Any additional suggestions? Any I'm considering that aren't that great? Thanks in advance!!
Nicole
I am a big fan of the Whimsical Bakehouse book. I haven't done anything from in there yet but I love looking at the pictures!
What are you interested in? Learning basic decorating skills, modelling, sources of great recipes etc? I have over 150 recipe & cake decorating books, so I can tell you what I recommend by what you want to learn 
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I love my 50 party cakes, its great. Have to looked on amazon, you can lok inside some of the books and they have reviews that you can read. I always go on there before i buy any books
Heres the link to 50 party cakes the reviews are next to the stars at the top.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1853918555/?tag=cakecentral-20
Every book you listed is very good. I would have put all them on your list plus Colette Peters, Margaret Braun. There are so many wonderful books. It does depend on your style . My self I would like to have every book I see lol I would like some of Bonjo's 
I love just browsing through 
Oh another beautiful one is Kerry Vincents Romantic cakes.I've got about 30 books on my amazon wish list Hope Santa is generous this year 
I second the Whimsical Bakehouse book. I really look forward to trying some of the stuff in it
Here's a link to a similar thread from a few months ago. There was TONS of great books mentioned in it.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-2256391-.html#2256391
What are you interested in? Learning basic decorating skills, modelling, sources of great recipes etc? I have over 150 recipe & cake decorating books, so I can tell you what I recommend by what you want to learn
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I'm interested in learning basic decorating and fondant skills, getting ideas for cakes (so I like books with pictures ) and recipes are good, too.
I love my 50 party cakes, its great. Have to looked on amazon, you can lok inside some of the books and they have reviews that you can read. I always go on there before i buy any books
Heres the link to 50 party cakes the reviews are next to the stars at the top.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1853918555/?tag=cakecentral-20
I tried that and it would tell me "Amazon.com is pleased to offer customers the ability to view copyrighted material from books that are part of the Search Inside! program. To protect this copyrighted material, books are subject to publisher-approved page-viewing limits.
The page you have requested is not available for viewing. For security purposes, we are not able to provide further information about why the page is unavailable." so I just gave up trying to look inside the books. Some it would let me look at a few pages, some it kept popping up with that message!
Debbie Brown if you plan on doing a lot of children's cakes and fondant
Toba Garrett's listed above
Whimsical Bakehouse
The Cake Bible - for recipes but also the science/understanding behind them.
The Cake Doctor- for quick and tasty doctored mixes
Sweet Celeberations - Weinstock
The Cake Book - for delicious recipes
Nick Lodge - for sugar flowers
OK, so my favs:
All the Magnolia Bakery recipe books (virtually all I use, but I have tweaked a few of the recipes and get rave reviews!)
Colette Peter's 'Cakes to Dream On' - fun, if a bit advanced for a beginner
Mich Turner's 'Spectacular Cakes' for beautiful elegant fondant wedding cakes
Peggy Porschen's 'Romantic Cakes' - even better than her first book (imo!)
Any book by Carol Deacon is good for a beginner or someone who needs a quick design for a cake
Nadine Hurst's 'Contempory Wedding Cakes' - all fondant based, which is my preference!
Hope that helps a bit!
OK, so my favs:
All the Magnolia Bakery recipe books (virtually all I use, but I have tweaked a few of the recipes and get rave reviews!)
Colette Peter's 'Cakes to Dream On' - fun, if a bit advanced for a beginner
Mich Turner's 'Spectacular Cakes' for beautiful elegant fondant wedding cakes
Peggy Porschen's 'Romantic Cakes' - even better than her first book (imo!)
Any book by Carol Deacon is good for a beginner or someone who needs a quick design for a cake
Nadine Hurst's 'Contempory Wedding Cakes' - all fondant based, which is my preference!
Hope that helps a bit!
Again, thank you! The only one I couldn't find was the Peggy Porschen book, it must only be available in the UK from the search I did...it looks like a great book, too.
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