Cake Decorating for Beginners: 24 Stunning Step-By-Step Cake Designs for All Occasions, Paperback

The ultimate compendium of cake-decoration techniques, derived from the Modern Cake Decorator series.

Cake Decorating for Beginners is a wealth of useful information for avid amateur bakers.

Combining nuggets of valuable advice and popular projects from the Modern Cake Decorator series, the book leads the reader from the first stages to the last embellishments, including baking and icing your cake, and features a range of exciting, innovative but accessible techniques for decoration such as stencilling, using cutters, piping, painting and airbrushing for a polished, professional finish.

The cumulative knowledge of authors Cassie Brown, Christine Flinn, Sandra Monger and Stephanie Weightman makes this book a must-have, go-to guide - the ultimate cake decoration compendium.

Having previously won Origin's Celebrity Crafter of the Year award, Stephanie Weightman now shares her expertise on television where she is a popular guest presenter and personality. She has worked with big-name craft products and developed many new products over the years.

Christine Flinn has many years' experience as a professional cake decorator and has been ranked as one of the most skilled in royal icing in the country. As a member of the British Sugarcraft Guild since 1984, she has entered and won many competitions throughout the country, winning numerous gold certificates and trophies. Piping is her speciality, and she travels extensively throughout the UK, the USA, Italy and Australia, running workshops and demonstrations.

In 2000, Sandra Monger left her job as a Registered Nurse to follow her life-long passion for baking and cake decoration. After studying extensively, she then studied an array of sugarcraft courses under the tutelage of sugarcraft guru Stephen Benison, and in 2002 established her own business, called Sandra Monger Exquisite Wedding and Occasion Cakes.