Henry Carter Hull

An overview of cake decorating that covers creativity, tools, workspaces, ingredients, prepping, baking, planning a design, techniques, toppings, fillings, and embellishments; and provides showtime tips and business advice.

Step-by-step instructions explain how to make creative cupcakes using basic materials such as canned frosting, candies, toothpicks, cookies, and donuts.

Conquer your fear of flour with a cookbook that "takes the intimidation factor out of baking with easy-to-follow recipes" ( Publishers Weekly ). Warren Brown, the founder of CakeLove bakeries, wants you to bake your cake and eat it too -- and even better, enjoy the moment in which you present your made-from-scratch masterpiece to bedazzled, hungry-eyed family and friends. For Brown, love and baking are inseparable. After all, he abandoned an unrewarding...

"Bake something beautiful with this incomparable, photo-filled collection of classic and creative cakes. Simple, easy-to-follow directions, ideas for customizing, decorating tips and techniques, and common baking-mistake solutions will help bakers of every level make the most of this book. Organized by basic, modern, and specialty cakes, and including forty recipes and full-color photography, there's a cake for every occasion. You'll find essential...

The Cake Mix Doctor goes chocolate! Anne Byrn brings her proven prescription for doctoring cake mix to an ingredient that inspires love bordering on obsession. It's a marriage made in baker's heaven-150 all-new, all-easy recipes for cakes, starring the ingredient that surpasses all other flavors, including vanilla, by a 3-to-1 margin, and that Americans consume to the tune of 2.8 billion pounds a year. Starting with versatile supermarket cake mixes...

"[A] drool-inducing, photo-heavy cookbook...[Klivans] guides even the least confident baker to a cocoa-dusted kitchen and full-on chocolate ecstasy." -- Publishers Weekly There are enough people out there obsessed with chocolate cake to warrant an official holiday: National Chocolate Cake Day, January 27. Beloved baker Elinor Klivans, author of the best-selling Cupcakes! and Cupcake Kit, has dedicated her new cookbook to the stuff of chocoholic fantasy:...

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating cake and cupcake food art, such as a flower garden cake, a portly panda, and a hole in one cupcake; and includes tips on techniques.

It's time to venture beyond vanilla and chocolate and take your baking skills up a notch. We're talking layers-two, three, four, or more!   Create sky-high, bakery-quality treats at home with Tessa Huff's 150 innovative recipes, which combine new and exciting flavors of cake, fillings, and frostings-everything from pink peppercorn cherry to bourbon butterscotch, and pumpkin vanilla chai to riesling rhubarb and raspberry chocolate stout. Including...