Add the personal touch to your cakes with edible fondant art. With Grace Stevens' easy-to-follow instructions you'll soon find yourself creating amazing fondant decorations. Fondant cake decorating is usually an art form practised only by a select few, but with “Celebration Cakes” you will learn how to model perfect flowers, animals and figures in no time, even if you're a beginner. You will also become a master of fillings, coverings and various techniques. The step-by-step instructions include detailed photographs. The designs featured in “Celebration Cakes” can be mixed-and-matched to create a dazzling array of innovative cakes. Useful extras such as a conversion chart, supplier list and equipment list have been included. Grace Stevens has taken her love for baking beautiful cakes and compiled an easy to-follow creative fondant adventure. Go on, give it a try!

Table of Contents

Introduction; Equipment; Basic recipes; Cakes; Fillings; Coverings; Techniques; Baby in a teacup cake; Quilted daisy cake; Tree stump cake; Hamburger cake; Braai cake; Handbag cake; Castle cake; Farmyard cake; African explorer cake; First birthday cake; Surf shack cake; Pillow cake; Teddy bear cake; Golf cake; Circus cake; Toadstool cake; Acknowledgements; Suppliers; Conversion chart; Index.

Author Biography

Grace Stevens is the founder and owner of Cupcakes by Design in Cape Town. After graduating in 1999, she was a primary school teacher for 9 years before she began decorating cakes as a hobby for family and friends. Grace's natural talent immediately became apparent when she started modelling fondant and she has never looked back. Grace teaches the art of fondant modelling and cake decorating in Cape Town and travels throughout South Africa and overseas to share her expertise. She is a member of the South African Cake Decorators Guild and has become well known for her flower fairies and their original faces.