Books

Cake Decorating Basics by Rachel Brown - Hardback 128 pages.
Guide to lining tins, allergies - some good recipes for special diets, recipes, working with marzipan,sugarpaste,how to use colours, decorating, crimping, frilling,piping,royal icing, pressure piping, lace piping, modelling figures, easy wedding cakes, dowelling, storage and transportation.

Cakes from Concept to Creation by Kathy Moore Hard-back 144 pages. Cake bases, icings, fillings and decorative pastes, choosing shapes for your cakes, how many portions and how many cakes?, pillars, stands and separators, dowelling cakes, choosing and using cake boards, how to use colour successfully, the principals of design, display, set up and presentation, making, baking and keeping, looking at safety and hygiene, selling cakes from home, tables and charts.

Cake Decorating Motifs 150 Designs for making your cake unique.
Hardback 256 pages.
Sheila Lampkin. A very popular little book. Making cakes, pound cake, carot cake, rich fruit cake, chocolate cake, royal icing, buttercream icing, fondant, pastillage, tools and equipment, using colour, covering cakes, making a template, using a template, how to pipe, working with fondant, design ideas, design directory.

Cake Decorating with Sugarpaste
Sylvia Coward Paper-back 176 pages. Tools and equipment, recipes,icing recipes, covering a cake, the colour wheel, paper cones, decorating techniques, icing tubes, embroidery, lacework, extension work, glass stencils, basket weave, roping, floodwork, piped flowers, figure piping, ribbon bows, ribbon insertion, sugar moulding, crimping, moulded flowers, piping jelly, cocoa painting, wafer painting, engagement cakes, wedding cakes, anniversary cakes, christening cakes, special occasion cakes, christmas cakes, birthday cakes, novelties, patterns.

New Holland Professional Cake Decorating
Rachel Brown
Hardback 160 pages. The tools, sugrpaste, royal icing, sugar flowers, cake tops, wedding cakes, the essentials, templates.

The International School of Sugarcraft - Volume 1
Volume 1 Paper-back 256 pages.Contents: Equiment, Fruit cakes, Sugarpaste,sponge cakes, marzipan, royal icing, quick icings and frostings, introduction to piping, piping tchniqus, icing runouts, ribbons, desinging a cake, cake boards, sugar moulding, frills and flounces, run-out borders and collars, lettering, tulle, modelling

The International School of Sugarcraft - Volume 2
Volume 2 Paper-back 256 pages.Contents: Decorating with Chocolate, chocolate eggs and figures, marzipan figure modelling,pastillage and sugar miniatures, tube embroidery, broderie anglais, lace, brush embroidery, extension work, creating emboidery and lace designs, bas relief and smocking, filigree, advanced figure piping, advanced and freestanding runouts, introduction to sugar flowers, pulled flowers, cutter flowers, wild flowers, making sugar flowers from fresh samples, flower sprays and corsages, competitions and commissions.Templates.

The International School of Sugarcraft - Volume 3
Volume 3 Hard-back 200 pages. Contents: Moulds and cutters, fabric effects, modelling, neddlework in sugar, sugar flowers, royal icing, American Cakes.

Wild Flowers
Alan Dunn Paper-back 48 pages.Contents: Lords and ladies, wood cranes bill, ramson, speedwell, waterlily, horse chestnut, wild poppy, hawthorn, traveller's joy, hogarth curved spray, foxglove, fern, white bryony, honeysuckle, wild rose, templates.

Cakes & Cake Decorating
Angela Nilsen & Sarah Maxwell Hard-back 256 pages. Contents: basic cake recipes, basic icing recipes, covering cakes, decorating with royal icing, decorating with sugarpaste icing, decorating with marzipan, decorating with butter icing, decorating with clace' icing, decorating with chocolate, classic cakes, special occasion cakes, novelty cakes, children's party cakes.

Beginners Guide to Cake Decorating.
Murdoch Books.
Paperback 112 pages. Contents: Equipment, recipes and basic techniques, Decorating with sugarpaste, decorating with buttercream and marzipan, decorating with chocolate, decorating with sugar flowers, modelling on cakes, templates.

Celebrate with a Cake
Lindy Smith Paper-back 112 pages. Contents: Sugar recipes, covering cakes and boards, assembling multi-tiered cakes, decorating and storage, introduction to colour. Art deco feathers, floral heart, christening gift, time for tea, valentine romance, sumptuous silk, baby's blanket, golden wedding, birthday butterfly, fairytale castle, Klimt inspiration, fun flowers, pink sparkle, exquisite bouquet. Templates.

Spectacular Cakes
by Mich Turner

Hardback, 160 pages

Chocolate Cakes
Tom Phillips Hard-back 80 pages. Contents: All about chocolate, basic techniques, cakes and sponges, fillings, coverings, equipment. Praline chequerboard torte, hedgehog, chocolate flower, choc cherry fondant, square box of chocolates, ultimate chocolate truffle cake, chocolate panel cake, bitter fruity ganache cake, round chocolate box, valentine's love heart, vertical layer torte, yule log, christmas tree, floral trail, white wedding dream, fairy cake tower, chocolate croquembouche, forever frills, easter basket, tower of flowers. Templates.

Fantastic Party Cakes by Mich Turner of Little Venice Cake Company. Beautifully presented book.
Hardback 160 pages. Contents: Decorated delights, small party cakes, delicious treats, fluffy desserts, cookies and pastries, techniques, templates.

Celebration Cakes
Karen Goble Hard-back 160 pages
Easy to decorate cakes for every occasion. Contents: Balloon clown, fairy, skateboarding fun, cosmetic purse, baby's first birthday, 18th birthday, 21st birthday, 21st champagne bucket, 50th birthday, 70th birthday, 80th birthday, engagement ring box, three-tier rose wedding cake, chocolate wedding cake, daisy wedding cake, wedding gifts, silver wedding, pearl wedding, ruby wedding, golden wedding, diamond wedding, baby boy's christening, baby girl's christening, bar mitzvah, simnel cake, easter egg basket, yule log, christmas candel cake, christmas bells, christmas scene, festive parcel, new year celebration, halloween goodie bag, thanksgiving cornucopia,stars and stripes, Mother's day truffles, father's day t.v., graduation day, reitrement fishing boat, good luck. Templates.

Creating Celebration Cakes and Sugar Flowers
120 page, magazine/book. By PME Arts & Crafts.

The Home Guide to Cake Decorating
Jane Price Paper-back 432 pages. Contents: Basic icing recipes, covering cakes with marzipan, covering cakes with sugarpaste, covering cakes with royal icing, covering cake boards, tiers and layers. Working with Sugarpaste, working with royal icing, sugar flowers, modelling, gateaux, children's cakes, christmas cakes, wedding cakes, celebration cakes, basic cake recipes, lining tins. Templates

First Steps in Cake Decorating
Janice Murfitt Paper-back 160 pages. Contents: Getting started, shaping, filling and simple icing, perfect cake coverings, using food colourings, instant decorations, decorating with chocolate, decorating with sugarpaste and marzipan, piping techniques, working with flower paste, basic recipes. Templates

The Complete Step by Step Guide to Cake Decorating
Carol Deacon Paper-back 144 pages. Contents: Baking basics, cake recipes, number and letter cakes, basic equipment, buttercream icing, techniques, cakes, sugarpaste techniques, cakes, marzipan, royal icing techniques and cakes, chocolate techniques and cakes.

Romantic Cakes
Peggy Porchen - Softback 144 pages. Contents: Cookies, mini cakes, large cakes, basics.Templates.

PME People Moulds Instruction Booklet

Creating Wedding and Anniversary Cakes. Hard-back 123 pages. Ideas using PME equipment, decorations and templates.

Sweet and Simple Party Cakes May Clee-Cadman of Maisie Fantaisie. Soft-back 137 pages.Contents: Pastels; Champagne bubbles, butterfly kisses, dotty about you,blue buttons, lavender and hearts. Whites; wedding ruffles, white christmas, white chocolate roses, cascading blossoms, birthday parcel. Brights; Wedding sunflowers, retro circles, rouge, candy striopes, cupcake treats.Templates.

The Cakes New Dress
By Maisie Parrish. Hard-back 168 pages. Contents: It's Party time, grandma's heirloom, big top birthday, a boy's best friend, sugar plum pigs, man of the match, just for you, spring is here, tutti frutti, the shoot, little bit of heaven, a reason to believe, it's a boy, new arrival, her first communion, his confirmation, my sweet valentine, a daisy wedding, a special wedding. Materials and equipment, colours and sugarpaste, templates.