Full Description
Creative Colour for Cake Decorating
Learn how to choose and use colours creatively in your cake decorating projects with 10 amazing cake designs from Lindy Smith, author of the international bestseller The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible.
Discover how to adapt cake designs to your own colour schemes, how to take colour inspiration from objects and environments around you to create your own unique palettes, and how to use the food paste colours available to best effect on stunning decorated cakes.
Includes 10 colour-themed chapters each with an amazing cake decorating design and additional cupcake or cookie projects in alternative colourways, to show how selecting different colours can dramatically change the feel of your design. Step-by-step illustrated instructions cover every stage of cake design, from baking cakes and mixing colours to sugar modeling and adding finishing touches - perfect for both beginner and experienced cake decorators alike!
Featuring a fully comprehensive index of all of the food paste colours available from the main suppliers in the UK, and full instructions on how to alter their tone, hue and intensity to suit your cake decorating needs.
AWARD-WINNER: Best Sweet Pastry Book, UK, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2013
Contents
Introduction
Colour - A World of Choice
Index of Paste Colours
Cake Designs:
Café Couture
Perfume Perfection
Creative Clock Tower
Peacock Panache
Birdhouse Chic
Colour Crescendo
Flamboyant Flora
Eastern Infusion
Patchwork Owl
Festive Fir
Cake Decorating Techniques:
Basics
Suppliers
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Index
