Colette peters, the celebrated queen of the confectionary arts, unveils an inspiring resource for serious home bakers, professional chefs, and aficionados of Colette's incredible edible architecture. The ingenious cake decorator - whose miraculous and luscious concoctions have appeared everywhere from White House Christmases to royal weddings - presents a master class in cake design and decoration, alongside an all-new selection of her own cake designs. With Cakes to Dream On, Colette's inspired creations can now be rendered into show-stopping cakes of your own. Cakes to Dream On reveals the secrets to fashioning gorgeous and utterly distinctive cakes for all occasions - whether it's an opulent marriage reception (the majestic Ivory Wedding Cake) or a fanciful children's party (the whimsical Homage to Dr. Seuss). Colette presents designs for cake architecture ranging from the imperial splendor of Dolce de Medici, to the elegant grace of Bride's Vintage Cameo, to the topsy-turvy daydream of Mad Tea Party. Colette begins with the foundations: she illuminates step by step the process of constructing a multitiered cake, from determining serving sizes and choosing appropriate cake pans to making fillings, and ultimately stacking layers so they don't tumble off the table. Cakes to Dream On also discloses insider tricks of the trade: Colette's easy-to-follow instructions in techniques such as sugarwork, gumpaste, brush embroidery, and piping will help readers recreate the spectacular effects of this singular confectioner's toolbox. Bakers - and their enthusiastic audiences - will discover that these sensual masterpieces tantalize the palate as much as they do the eye. Colette's cake recipes include the Coco-Loco Cake, an alluring marriage of coconut and coffee; the Meringue Buttercream and its luscious lemon, raspberry, and mocha variants; and the ambrosial caramel-tinged Heavenly White Cake. As breathtaking as Colette's cake works appear, her clear explanations of technique are meant to stimulate readers' creative instincts and give them ideas for crafting their own distinctive confections. With more than 150 dazzling full-color photographs illustrating both processes and finished presentations, and more detailed instruction than ever before, Cakes to Dream On will inspire readers to create their own mouthwatering masterpieces. Colette's master class is truly a launchpad for cake lovers' own confectionary visions.

Experience the Joy and Delight of Creating Amazing Wedding Cakes from Scratch. Lorelie Carvey will show you how to make and decorate the perfect wedding cake. The award-winning pastry chef has spent over thirty years perfecting her techniques and now offers advice that will ensure a sweet memory for your bride's special day. From the first idea to the spectacular result, Carvey guides you through everything you need to know to make the ultimate dream dessert. She includes her favorite recipes, like her chocolate buttermilk cake, hazelnut cake, chocolate mousse, lemon cream cheese, Italian meringue buttercream, and so much more. Carvey personally perfected each recipe during her baking career. In addition to recipes, Carvey clearly and comprehensively explains and demonstrates (with detailed photos) the baking and decorating techniques so you can create your unique cake design. With her own guide to ingredients, cooking methods, baking utensils, and decorating tips, you'll have everything you need to create a magnificent wedding cake that will be remembered and cherished by everyone. Your purchase comes with benefits including...a membership to Lorelie's exclusive cake support group, step by step video, a discount coupon for Cake Stackers, printable guides to pan sizes with number of servings, cups of batter, baking temperatures, baking times and cups of icing to frost and decorate. It also includes a guide to bakers measures and equivalents, emergency substitutions, cake ingredients, functions, fails and causes, a photo tutorial of delivering your cakes, plus cake decorating ideas and instruction.

BLACK & WHITE INTERIOR EDITION, 264 pages, paperback. ......*COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR EACH CAKE DESIGN ARE INCLUDED*......*ALL REQUIRED ACTUAL SIZED TEMPLATES ARE INCLUDED*......*NO ADDITIONAL ONLINE FILES OR DOWNLOADABLE GUIDES ARE REQUIRED*......*ALL CAKES ARE FONDANT COVERED WITH DECORATIVE ROYAL ICING EMBELLISHMENTS*. This Beverley Way Collection VALUE edition consists of a full color cover with a classic BLACK AND WHITE INTERIOR. The content of this book is identical to that provided in the full color version. A premium FULL COLOR paperback edition of this product is in print and available. Elegant Dream Wedding Cakes in black and white is an economical resource for templates, illustrations and instructions required for creating Beverley Way wedding cake designs. It has been printed in grayscale to pass savings onto readers. This product is also conveniently offered as an eBook for Kindle and electronic device reading. Simple techniques with stunning results! This classy glossy covered INSTRUCTIONAL paperback is packed with remarkable, signature one and two layer cake concepts from the Beverley Way Collection online gallery. The cakes presented have been carefully designed and selected to present unique original ideas with very little overlap to concepts found in other retail cake decorating instruction books. In typical Beverley Way Collection form, the cakes are stylish and many of the creations incorporate unique dimensional elements. The designs include those incorporating a wealth of handcrafted icing roses, hand piped icing lace, ornate icing extensions, runout decoration, hand painted fondant and more. This book is chock full of complete decorating instructions, actual sized templates, shades of black-to-gray coded illustrations, and large cake photos. Instructions to create all icing parts and pieces are included. Required icing recipes are also included. Although the cakes presented in this instruction book are designed to effectively accent elegant smaller affairs, images of alternative versions of each design from medium sized to the jaw dropping tall tiered cake are also presented for additional consideration. Best of all and to the decorator's delight, the decorative icing work employs simple common decorating technique, two or three common icing tips, and easy to obtain additional materials. This book is suitable for a wide range of technical ability, from the confident decorator with some basic level decorating skill and experience, to the highly seasoned decorating specialist. The primary focus of this instructional book is on how to recreate the exterior decorative icing appearance of each cake presented, and its main goal is to put forth a plethora of refreshing new ways to present icing on cake using known basic techniques. Therefore, in order to include an abundant number of icing concepts, and due to the wealth of fine culinary retail books available which provide tested sumptuous cake recipes and hints, baking has intentionally not been addressed in this book. Care, however, has been taken to describe any specific decorating techniques employed. The very basics of decorating such as filling icing bags, attaching icing tubes, dowelling cakes etc. are also not intentionally outlined in this book due to the wealth of basic skill retail handbooks currently available addressing these details at length. An email address is conveniently provided at the back of this book to actively involve readers in helping to improve any future editions of this book via reader comments and suggestions. Create one of these Beverley Way Collection beauties for your event and be prepared to repeatedly hear "I've never seen anything like it!"

FULL COLOR EDITION, 264 pages, paperback. ......*COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR EACH CAKE DESIGN ARE INCLUDED*......*ALL REQUIRED ACTUAL SIZED TEMPLATES ARE INCLUDED*......*NO ADDITIONAL DOWNLOADABLE FILES OR DOWNLOADABLE GUIDES ARE REQUIRED*......*ALL CAKES ARE FONDANT COVERED WITH ROYAL ICING EMBELLISHMENTS*. This product is additionally available in an economical "value" edition, printed with a BLACK & WHITE interior. This product is also formatted for Kindle and numerous electronic reading devices. Simple techniques with stunning results! This classy glossy covered INSTRUCTIONAL paperback is packed with remarkable, signature one and two layer cake concepts from the Beverley Way Collection online gallery. The cakes presented have been carefully designed and selected to present unique original ideas with very little overlap to concepts found in other retail cake decorating instruction books. In typical Beverley Way Collection form, the cakes are stylish and many of the creations incorporate unique dimensional elements. The designs include those incorporating a wealth of handcrafted icing roses, hand piped icing lace, ornate icing extensions, runout decoration, hand painted fondant and more. This book is chock full of complete decorating instructions, actual sized templates, color coded illustrations, and large cake photos. Instructions to create all icing parts and pieces are included. Required icing recipes are also included. Although the cakes presented in this instruction book are designed to effectively accent elegant smaller affairs, images of alternative versions of each design from medium sized to the jaw dropping tall tiered cake are also presented for additional consideration. Best of all and to the decorator's delight, the decorative icing work employs simple common decorating technique, two or three common icing tips, and easy to obtain additional materials. This book is suitable for a wide range of technical ability, from the confident decorator with some basic level decorating skill and experience, to the highly seasoned decorating specialist. The primary focus of this instructional book is on how to recreate the exterior decorative icing appearance of each cake presented, and its main goal is to put forth a plethora of refreshing new ways to present icing on cake using known basic techniques. Therefore, in order to include an abundant number of icing concepts, and due to the wealth of fine culinary retail books available which provide tested sumptuous cake recipes and hints, baking has intentionally not been addressed in this book. Care, however, has been taken to describe any specific decorating techniques employed. The very basics of decorating such as filling icing bags, attaching icing tubes, dowelling cakes etc. are also not intentionally outlined in this book due to the wealth of basic skill retail handbooks currently available addressing these details at length. An email address is conveniently provided at the back of this book to actively involve readers in helping to improve any future editions of this book via reader comments and suggestions. Create one of these Beverley Way Collection beauties for your event and be prepared to repeatedly hear "I've never seen anything like it!"

(BLACK & WHITE EDITION, 264 pages, paperback, instructional). (This Beverley Way Collection VALUE edition consists of a full color cover with a classic BLACK AND WHITE INTERIOR. The content of this book is identical to that provided in the full color version. A premium FULL COLOR paperback edition of this product is in print and available. Elegant Dream Wedding Cakes in black and white is an economical resource for templates, illustrations and instructions required for creating Beverley Way wedding cake designs. It has been printed in gray-scale to pass savings onto readers. This product is also conveniently offered as an eBook for Kindle and electronic device reading). Simple techniques with stunning results! This classy glossy covered INSTRUCTIONAL paperback is packed with remarkable, signature one and two layer cake concepts from the Beverley Way Collection online gallery. The cakes presented have been carefully designed and selected to present unique original ideas with very little overlap to concepts found in other retail cake decorating instruction books. In typical Beverley Way Collection form, the cakes are stylish and many of the creations incorporate unique dimensional elements. The designs include those incorporating a wealth of handcrafted icing roses, hand piped icing lace, ornate icing extensions, run-out decoration, hand painted fondant and more. This book is chock full of complete decorating instructions, actual sized templates, shades of black-to-gray coded illustrations, and large cake photos. Instructions to create all icing parts and pieces are included. Required icing recipes are also included. Although the cakes presented in this instruction book are designed to effectively accent elegant smaller affairs, images of alternative versions of each design from medium sized to the jaw dropping tall tiered cake are also presented for additional consideration. Best of all and to the decorator's delight, the decorative icing work employs simple common decorating technique, two or three common icing tips, and easy to obtain additional materials. This book is suitable for a wide range of technical ability, from the confident decorator with some basic level decorating skill and experience, to the highly seasoned decorating specialist. The primary focus of this instructional book is on how to recreate the exterior decorative icing appearance of each cake presented, and its main goal is to put forth a plethora of refreshing new ways to present icing on cake using known basic techniques. Therefore, in order to include an abundant number of icing concepts, and due to the wealth of fine culinary retail books available which provide tested sumptuous cake recipes and hints, baking has intentionally not been addressed in this book. Care, however, has been taken to describe any specific decorating techniques employed. The very basics of decorating such as filling icing bags, attaching icing tubes, doweling cakes etc. are also not intentionally outlined in this book due to the wealth of basic skill retail handbooks currently available addressing these details at length. An email address is conveniently provided at the back of this book to actively involve readers in helping to improve any future editions of this book via reader comments and suggestions. Create one of these Beverley Way Collection beauties for your event and be prepared to repeatedly hear "I've never seen anything like it!"