These three books are fantastic instructionals – I was so lucky to get my hands on them! One of the restaurants I was working for decided they were useless, and threw them in the garbage – boo-yah! A lot of … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged cake decoration, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentThis is another sweet gift from my mentor, George Wagner; a German instructional book filled with design and illustrative ideas for cakes. I haven’t tried any of this stuff yet, it is a relatively new gift; and everything I take … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged cake, cake decoration, recipes | Leave a commentThis slim booklet (32 pages) is very specific – it introduces and explains how to make a celebration cake with a ‘broderie anglaise’ effect. Broderie Anglaise (a french term, which literally means ‘English Embroidery’) is characterized by patterns composed of … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged broderie anglaise, cake decoration, celebration cake | Leave a commentThe minute I opened this book, I felt a great affinity for Margaret Braun. It is like we have the same kind of brain, our relationship with the cakes we create is artistic, personal; it is amazing that we sometimes … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged cake decoration, recipes, sugar, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentThis is a nice little how-to book for making marzipan figures, with illustrated step-by-step instructions. Amazon dates it as a 1950 printing; I think it is a bit later but the frontispiece doesn’t say. All of the work illustrated has … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged cake decoration, marzipan | Leave a comment‘Use Results of this Book to Enliven Your Shop Windows and Increase Your Sales’ ends the preface to this very dated book, printed in English, French and German. There is still lots of valuable information in this, a gift from … Read More
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