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We recommend the
following books covering a wide range
of topics that will be useful to you.
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Bridal Showers 2 Ed: Special Touches and ...
 Bridal
expert and media personality Beverly Clark offers potential
shower hosts invaluable advice gleaned through years of
experience in planning weddings and entertaining. The key to a
successful shower is balancing planning and organization with
style and originality. Bridal Showers reflects this approach,
featuring checklists, timetables, and worksheets alongside party
favor ideas, advice on decorations and table settings, and
scrumptious menu suggestions. Also included are essential shower
tips and sections on shower themes and games. |
Cake Sculpture and Sculptured Figure...
 This
book covers two aspects of cake decorating, cake sculpture and
realistic figure piping of people. The author, Roland A.
Winbeckler is famous around the world for his cake sculptures of
celebrities. In this book, Roland explains how to create cake
sculptures of all types. Most cake sculptures a decorator
creates are smaller than Roland's trademark life-size
sculptures. This book includes instructions for smaller
sculptures to the life-size ones. |
Treasury of Wilton Wedding Cakes ...
The Wilton wedding cakes book is a collection of nearly
100 pages of the most excuisitely photographed wedding cakes
covering all styles from Victorian to present. No matter what
your tastes are I'm sure you'll find a cake in there for you.
There are no other books I've seen that have this many cakes, or
the quality of photography. Each cake has instructions on how to
build it,
including the recipe. The book also has a beautifully laid out
section on cake ornaments, and accessories including all sorts
of pillar styles, stands, separator plates, statues, on and on.
We found
it most useful for our wedding and all brides and grooms should
have it. The only issue is, these cakes are so awesome that it
may cost a fortune to have your baker make some of them. But
that's ok, a lot of people spend a fortune on the cake anyway.
Just take the picture to your baker, and let them go to town
with it! |
Colette's Wedding CakesColette's Wedding Cakes
 Peters'
one-of-a-kind wedding cakes, for which she charges hundreds,
sometimes even thousands of dollars, have made her America's
most sought-after culinary artist. This dazzling book showcases
32 of Colette's most amazing wedding creations, organized by
season, complete with step-by-step instructions and templates.
50 color photos. 2 line drawings.
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Mrs Mayo's How to Make a Wedding Cake
The ONE book you would not want
to be without. It is the most essential book I have found for
learning. It includes most of the fundamental basics of tier
cake construction that the others leave out. This woman shares
her many years of experience with the reader in an easy to
understand fashion, and it takes you from the very beginning to
the very end. Like planning the design with the bride, how many
servings, etc. And it ends up with transporting the whole
creation to the location. These are all areas that you can
really benefit by learning from someone else's experiences and
mistakes. The basic elements of planning, baking and
construction are covered in detail here. There are plenty of
recipes, serving charts,and diagrams. Actual cake designs are
not covered,because as we all know there are a million and one
other books out there full of pictures. Instead, there is a
section that helps with design placement, execution and
proportion. This book is mainly what you need to fill in the
holes that the decorating books don't teach you. Alot of common
sense and basic tips, gleaned from a wealth of experience in the
cake decorating industry. If you really want to learn how
to create wedding cakes, this is
the best eleven dollars you will ever spend!
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The Wedding Cake Book
 The
wedding market is a $32 billion business. Experts say that
brides-to-be generally buy every book and magazine they can get
their hands on when planning a wedding, and yet, remarkably, The
Wedding Cake Book is the first cookbook of its kinda gorgeous
idea book that really shows you how to bake a beautiful wedding
cake. There are 30 complete recipes in all, with detailed,
step-by-step instructions. A one-of-a-kind resource, with
gorgeous photography throughout, The
Wedding Cake Book is sure to become a classic cookbook among
bakers, and makes the perfect shower gift. Dede Wilson has
worked as a pastry chef, recipe developer, product
demonstrator/cooking teacher, and caterer. She writes food
features and cookbook reviews for
numerous publications. A professional wedding cake baker and
member of the IACP, Dede lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.
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Figure Piping Ideas for Cupcakes and...
 Figure
piping is a term used to describe the art of squeezing icing
from a pastry bag onto the surface of a cake to form a desired
shape. The figure piping designs in this book are tried and true
and simple enough for the beginner but creative enough for the
veteran decorator. They have proven successful in the market
place as well as at home. In either case, they are a source of
delight for children and adults alike. Illustrations plus color,
step-by-step photos are included for each design.
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Cone Figures For Cake Decorating
 This
book outlines several popular possibilities for making cake
decorating figures using ice cream
cones as supports. It includes all instructions and step-by-step
photos of how to create these cute,
versatile figures. Color photos are included for each finished
project. Table of Contents:
Introduction, Tools and Materials, Cone Armature Setup, Bases
for Cone Figures, Teddy Bear Cone Figure, Man-In-A-Can Cone
Figure Cut Star Tip Instructions, Bunny Cone Figure, Scarecrow
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Wafer Paper Uses
 This
books contains instructions and black and white photos on how to
use wafer (rice) paper, and edible paper, for cake decorating.
It can be used in a variety of ways to add dimension to your
cake decorating projects. Color photos are included of finished
projects.
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Buttercream Flowers and Arrangements
 This
book shows beautiful, easy-to-create buttercream flowers for
cake decorating including a buttercream orchid. No drying of the
flowers is required. The flowers are either made directly on the
cake or on a skewer stick and then moved to the cake. The
instructions for each flower are shown in step-by-step photos
with a color photo included of the finished flower. The
beautiful arrangement styles in this book will take your breath
away.
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Hand Molded Figures
 This
book features 20 adorable figures molded by hand. The medium
used can be marzipan, gum paste, fondant, or rolled buttercream
icing. Color photos of all finished figures plus black and white
photos of the various parts and enlarged finished figures are
included. Hand molded figures are ideal for use many times when
drawn or piped figures might not be appropriate or even
possible. These
figures allow the decorator the advantage of being able to
create figures for a cake days or even weeks ahead of time to
make the best use of time. And if made using rolled buttercream,
as in the book, the figures stay pleasantly soft for eating and
have a delightful flavor. |
3-D Cake Cartooning
 This
book covers cartoon-style figure piping. (Figure piping is a
term used to describe the art of
squeezing icing from a pastry bag onto the surface of a cake to
form a desired shape.) This style of dimensional figure piping
is vastly more popular than flat designs. It is also a fairly
quick form of novelty cake decorating. Each design features
illustrations plus color, step-by-step photos.
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Airbrush Techniques For Cake Decorating
 This
book is for the beginner or already accomplished cake decorating
airbrush artist who wants to improve their skills. It begins
with practice techniques to insure smooth, controlled results.
From there, it includes instructions with step-by-step black and
white photos plus color photos of finished designs on how to do
shading, make stencils, use an airbrush for borders, create
breath-taking sunsets with palm trees or cattails, drop-shadow
hearts, water effects, dimensional rose, rainbows and clouds,
ribbons and bows, and easy step-by-step portraits of people and
animals.
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Colette's Birthday Cakes
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cake is de rigeur for any American birthday celebration worthy
of the name. Continuing her series of volumes pictorializing her
sumptuous cakes, Peters brings her decorative skills to cakes
designed specifically for birthday observances. And anyone
receiving a cake like one of Peters' creations should be
particularly grateful. Peters' skill with milled fondant
overshadows that of most other professional bakers. She can
carve fondant into tight, sharp geometries, or she can swirl it,
fold it, and wave it into silken ruffles and curves that belie
its solidity. Line drawings assist the cook in recreating these
elegant pastries, but only professionals and those with some
formal training in handling fondants and cake-decorating tools
and techniques will readily pick up on Peters' barebones
instructions. Recipes, too, reflect a professional's approach,
measuring by weight rather than volume. |
Airbrush Patterns For Cake Decorating
 Use
the line-art patterns in this book to make stencils and create
the designs Roland A. Winbeckler illustrates in his book
Airbrush Techniques for Cake Decorating.
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Betty Crocker's New Cake Decorating
 Here
are 70 cake recipes for special occasions--baby and wedding
showers, housewarmings, graduations, birthdays, and holidays,
such as Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Fourth of July,
Thanksgiving, Halloween, Hanukkah, President's Day, Mother's
Day, and Father's Day. With decorative gels, candy, chocolate,
mint leaves, coconut, food coloring, nonpareils, and sprinkles,
an assortment of cake decorations can be created: gym shoes for
an athlete, a car to send friends off on a trip, ballet slippers
for an aspiring ballerina, basketballs, soccer balls, baseball
caps, sailboats, snowmen, spaceships, trains, and teddy bears.
There is a chapter on cake basics that offers tips on
batter, on measuring ingredients, on using shortenings, eggs,
and chocolate, on removing layer cakes from pans, on using
dowels, on freezing and storing cakes, on using decorating bags,
and on making rosettes, flowers, borders, and leaf designs. The
finished book will have 57 color photographs and 96 line
drawings. |
Colette's Cakes : The Art of Cake...
 Painter
and former Tiffany's designer Colette Peters presents complete
instructions for reproducing
34 of her most gorgeous and inventive cakes. Step-by-step
directions and more than 200 line drawings and color photos
guarantee that even a novice will be able to create exceptional
cakes from the very beginning. Includes recipes for white and
chocolate cake, icings, and more. Color
photos. |
Lovable Character Cakes
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Complete Book of Sugar Flowers
If you have any experience of gum paste
flowers you will love this book. Excellent clear step by step
colour pictures and good explanatory text. Glorious pictures of
finished cakes and flower bouquets. Not for the beginner though
as some of the techiniques are quite complex. Buy this book if
you are looking for inspiration and a challenge .
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Gingerbread : Things to Make and Bake
 Ever
wanted to make a gingerbread house, a church, or a wreath? Here,
for the first time, are all of
your favorite gingerbread projects in one book--together with
easy-to-use, full-size patterns for each. Filled with projects
to make and bake all year round. 76 illustrations, including 38
in full color.
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Familyfun's Cookies for Christmas...
 This
bright, colorful cookie book is as much fun to look at as it is
to bake from. Glossy photos of Sweet Sugar Plums, Candy Cane
Twists, and many other sugary delights will make your taste buds
tingle. These recipes are ideal for kids and parents to make
together--and many call for icing on top. This messy but
creative task is bound to be the best part of the whole cookie
process (aside from eating them, of course!). Since Christmas is
the main focus of the book, there are several seasonal novelties
to create. A cookie advent calendar is sure to make December
extra exciting, and a holiday garland will be gobbled up in no
time. Every recipe could quite happily be given as a holiday
present, so the authors offer terrific
advice for wrapping and mailing these fragile gifts. Finally,
don't forget to leave some cookies out for Santa--but not too
many!
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The Five Love Languages : How to Express...
 In
The Five Love Languages, Dr. Gary Chapman talks about how
different people express love in different ways. Some people are
verbal, expressing their love in words. Others may never speak
their affection, yet they show it by the things they do.
Sadly, many couples look to receive love the same way they give
it, misunderstanding their spouses. This can lead to quarrels,
hurt feelings, and even divorce. However, if you understand each
other's love languages, you can learn to give and receive love
more effectively. |
Unleashing God's Power
 We
want you to find the answer to the question: What happens when
women pray? We have enough theories. We want you to experiment
for six months and, as scientifically as possible, discover what
really does happen when women pray.”
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Act of Marriage, The
 This
updated and expanded edition expands some of the subjects that
were discreetly touched on in the earlier edition, explores how
the latest discoveries in the field of medicine an social
practice confirm the principles taught in the book.
With over 25 million copies in print, The Act of Marriage has
helped thousands of Christian couples maximize their joy in
sexual union and saved many marriages. Pastors, doctors, and
psychologists have endorsed the LaHaye's practical insights.
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Jumping the Broom : The African-American...
 Jumping
the Broom presents hundreds of original ideas for enhancing your
wedding with
Afrocentric touches at every stage. --This text refers to an out
of print or unavailable edition of
this title. |
Getting Married When It's Not Your First...
 For
Encore Brides Everywhere, A Smart, Practical
Guide to Making This Wedding Even More Fabulous and Memorable
Than Your First
Any bride who's headed back to the altar faces a paralyzing
number of tricky situations ' as well as the challenge of making
this second or third (or more!) wedding unique in its own right.
This
enormously helpful guide, written by an experienced "encore"
bride, features a wealth of inspiring suggestions for handling
delicate etiquette issues and navigating complex family ties.
With humor, warmth, and sensitivity to the many emotional and
social issues facing encore brides and stepfamilies, Pamela Hill
Nettleton blends her own valuable experiences with guidance from
wedding planners, family therapists, couples who have remarried,
and the real experts ' stepchildren. Here you'll find great
tips on these and other remarriage issues:Telling your children
' and your ex you're engagedInviting, seating, and dealing with
exes, previous in-laws, and stepchildrenInvolving
children in your ceremonyAvoiding stepfamily ' and ex family '
wedding day disastersUsing your
wedding to build a healthy, loving stepfamily
Filled with real-world advice not found in most how-to wedding
guides, as well as numerous
worksheets to help you stay organized, this handy, easy-to-use
guide will help any encore bride create a ceremony that reflects
the joys and rewards of saying "I do" all over again |
1,001 Ways to have a Dazzling Second...
 Though
remarriage has been common in our society for quite some time,
it still
presents some unique planning challenges and questions of
etiquette. Naylor's experience with the wedding industry shines
through as she discusses |
Planning a Wedding to Remember : The...
 Which
flowers are in season in June? How should you word invitations
to a second wedding? What questions should you ask a caterer or
photographer? Wedding-industry expert Beverly Clark gives you
the answers to these questions and many more in her remarkably
thorough guide, Planning a
Wedding to Remember. The 23 chapters in this hefty, spiral-bound
planner cover everything from announcing the engagement to
developing a budget to planning flowers, photography, prewedding
parties, and the honeymoon. |
Cakes (For Your Wedding)
 For
an experienced decorator this book is great for up to date
styles. It will give your brides new ideas. It also will give
you a basic view on how wedding cakes got started. |
Entertaining
 This
is the book that launched an empire. Martha Stewart's
Entertaining was the world's first
exposure to the doyenne of domestication. Entertaining offers
recipes and menus for a number of different parties, including
wedding receptions, afternoon teas, and a sumptuous Christmas
dessert
buffet. The book is lavishly illustrated, and much attention is
paid to the dishes' presentation as well as their preparation.
Even if you use it only as a springboard for your own party
planning, Martha Stewart's Entertaining will provide fodder for
many a celebration. |
The Cake Mix Doctor
 Cake
mixes are undoubtedly convenient, but do they produce good
cakes? They can, says Anne Byrn, author of The Cake Mix Doctor,
if you know how to tweak them. Doing this involves the
addition of ingredients to enrich the mixes and flavorings to
enhance and, in some cases, conceal questionable tastes. To
prove her point, Byrn offers more than 175 recipes for mix-based
cakes and other desserts, including formulas for frostings that,
Byrn maintains, must be made from scratch. The results are
convincing; readers interested in satisfying, dependable
desserts prepared quickly and
with little fuss should welcome the book.
Beginning with a useful discussion of cake mixes, their history
and composition, and an outline of the mix-transformation battle
plan, the book then presents the recipes in chapters such as
"Chocolate Cakes," "Cake-Mix Classics," "Special Occasion
Cakes," and "Incredible Bars and Comforting Cookies." Among the
most successful offerings are Deeply Chocolate Almond Cake with
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting, Banana Cake with Quick Caramel
Frosting, and Lemon Buttermilk Poppy Seed Cake. A chapter
devoted to crumbles, crisps, cobblers, trifles, and even a
dessert pizza shows how to use the mixes in innovative ways, and
"Lighter Cakes" presents "healthier" offerings, such as Pear and
Toasted Pecan Buttermilk Cake. With sidebars such as The
Legendary Pillsbury Bake-Off and tips for success throughout
("Cinnamon is one of the great tools to use when doctoring up
cake mixes," begins one), the book explores every aspect of
cake-mix fixing while revealing the unexpected richness that the
process can yield.
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The Cake Bible
 Rose
Levy Beranbaum is a kitchen chemist extraordinaire--this, after
all, is the woman who wrote
her master's thesis on the effects of sifting on the quality of
yellow cake. In The Cake Bible, she explains the science behind
types of leavening, the merits (or not) of sifting, melting
chocolate, preheating ovens, and more. There are precise and
detailed instructions for intricate wedding cakes
as well as cakes that can be mixed and in the oven in five
minutes. In addition, nutrition information is included with
every recipe. Cake scientist Beranbaum doesn't forget the art,
either; pencil drawings teach novice bakers how to create a
garden full of flowers from royal icing and mushrooms from piped
meringue. It's no wonder that the International Association of
Culinary
Professionals picked The Cake Bible as their cookbook of the
year for 1988--this book has something to teach bakers at every
level. |
Cakewalk : Adventures With Sugar
 Margaret
Braun is a sugar craft master, for whom a cake is a work of fine
art. In this exquisitely photographed and beautifully presented
book, she explains how to re-create 15 of her amazing,
labor-intensive signature designs, like the three-tier Saint
Ursula cake with blue and green icing and a sugar chalice
resting on top. This is more than a simple instruction book,
though: Braun explains
the historic inspiration behind each cake. For example, she
invented the Afternoon with Frederick after a visit to Sans
Souci Palace in Potsdam, Germany, and a four-tiered cake covered
in tiny tiles
mimics a mosaic in Ravenna, Italy. Not all of Braun's designs
are so highbrow, however. The loopy Decal Recall is decorated
with flowers inspired by bathtub no-slip decals. In any case,
these cakes are ambitious projects, and Braun goes over
ingredients and basic recipes, as well as tools and
techniques for creating motifs such as scallop shells and polka
dots. Braun (whose work has been displayed on numerous TV shows
and movies, including Meet Joe Black) is charming, conveying her
love for her work in an introduction in which she compares a
finished cake to a musical score. Still, only the most
experienced cooks won't be daunted by the recipes. Beautifully
photographed by Quentin Bacon. |
Martha Stewart's Pies & Tarts
 With
more than 100 original recipes, this may be the most inspiring
dessert cookbook ever published. Martha's recipes for such
delights as Tartan Rhubarb Pie or Walnut Tartlets with
Chocolate Lace are accompanied by creative ideas for spectacular
presentation and stunning full-color photographs. More than 160
full-color photographs.
The popular lifestyle expert presents more than one hundred
original recipes for pies and tarts,
including Tartan Rhubarb Pie, Walnut Tartlets with Chocolate
Lace, and others. 75,000 first
printing.
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Cooking With Heart & Soul
 Long
before Isaac Hayes became the voice of "Chef" on the wildly
popular and irreverent television show South Park, he was a food
lover. His fondest and most enduring memories are those
associated with his Tennessee boyhood and helping his
grandmother to prepare traditional Southern soul food. Before
becoming an Academy Award-winning composer, Hayes was a
short-order cook. And somewhere in a career spanning more than
four decades, he was a single father who cooked for five
children and shared recipes with friends, professional chefs,
and family. The
commercial successes in music, film, television, and radio came
and went and came again-but always there was the food.
Cooking with Heart and Soul is pure Isaac Hayes-one part hot
buttered soul, one part chocolate salty balls, and a big helping
of comfort. It's a mix of traditional home cooking and healthy
eating, with a touch of the gourmet-and lots of stories from a
life lived to the fullest. This is a rare collection
of recipes and reminiscences that reveals Isaac's passionate and
eclectic interests from soul food and soul music to superstars
and super-nutrients. It is as inspiring and satisfying as his
Mama's Fried Cream Corn recipe. |
Labelle Cuisine : Recipes to Sing About
 "From
the time I was a little girl, I knew there were two things in
this world I wanted to do: sing and cook." So says singer-diva
Patti LaBelle, whose first cookbook, LaBelle Cuisine, confirms
her passion for good food and her skill at producing it. A truly
devoted cook (she travels with pans and
hot-sauce stashes), LaBelle offers more than 100 recipes in the
great Southern soul-food
tradition--homey dishes such as Say-My-Name Smothered Chicken
and Aunt Hattie's Scrumptious Sweet Potato Bread. LaBelle fans
and those seeking simple yet savory fare for everyday and casual
entertaining will relish the book.
In chapters including "Sensational Salads," "Soups and
Sandwiches," "Perfect Poultry," and
"To-Die-For Desserts and Bread," LaBelle weaves easy-to-do
recipes with warm food
reminiscences. Whether describing a backstage barbecue resulting
in a building-wide fire alert, her undying love of canned
sardines, or the soulful Sunday dinners of her youth, LaBelle's
voice is, as ever, memorably her own. The recipes, many of which
include tips called Patti's Pointers, represent not only a
personal culinary heritage, but also a kind of cooking in danger
of dissolution. LaBelle's Over-the-Rainbow Macaroni and Cheese,
among other recipes, should remind readers that that heritage is
alive, well, and in very good hands. |
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The Art of Gum Paste Flower Making
Canapes : Over 100 Cocktail Party...
Wedding Vows : Finding the Perfect Words
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