The Contemporary Buttercream Bible: The Complete Practical Guide to Cake Decorating with Buttercream Icing

The Contemporary Buttercream Bible: The Complete Practical Guide to Cake Decorating with Buttercream Icing

• The perfect start to your scrapbooking and photo albums
• This workbook is a great way to improve skills
• Made in China

<p>Buttercream icing is the most delicious cake decorating medium, is very accessible and needs very little specialist equipment.</p><p>This essential guide demonstrates more than 50 innovative techniques via easy to follow step-by-step photographic tutorials and includes over 40 stunning cake designs to create at home, from simple cupcakes to three-tiered wonders.</p><p>Valeri & Christina start by showing you how to perfect a basic buttercream recipe and then how to pipe simple textures and patterns, and an array of flowers. They then demonstrate how to create a myriad of creative effects using diverse techniques such as stamping, stencilling, palette knife painting and much more.</p><p>"<i>The Contemporary Buttercream Bible</i> is an absolute game changer in the industry of cake art. I've never seen techniques and talent presented in such a way as to be concurrently hugely aspirational yet completely approachable. I look forward to learning all the skills that I, as an artist in rolled fondant, have only the most rudimentary grasp of. Not since <i>Cakewalk</i> by Margaret Braun have I been this excited about a cake book. Bravo!" --Chef Duff Goldman from <i>Ace of Cakes</i></p><p>"The authors' examples are inspirational and a demonstration of what is possible if you 'put your whole heart into it.' Overall, Valeriano and Ong have created a book full of inspiration and encouragement that re-energizes the use of buttercream in modern cake design." --Sonya Hong of Americancakedecorating.com.</p><p>Internationally renowned Valeri Valeriano & Christina Ong have over 60k online followers. www.queenofheartscouturecakes.com</p>