The Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating

Elizabeth Marek
The Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating
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The Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating
ISBN: 9781937994693
Publication Date: 1 February 2015

Features delicious recipes and modern, basic techniques for successfully covering cakes in buttercream or fondant. The book gives the reader information on creating beautiful, successful and creative cake designs using color theory and design principles with dozens upon dozens of examples. Inside readers will find chapters including:

  • Cake and Frosting Recipes
  • Elements and Principles of Cake Design
  • Textures and Finishes
  • Modeled Figures
  • Sugar Flowers
  • Celebration Cakes
  • Science of Structure

Readers will learn to take their cake decorating to the next level with never before seen tutorials on sugar flowers, figure modeling techniques, cake sculpting and cake structure for beginners and professionals alike.

About the Author

Liz Marek is the owner of Artisan Cake Company in Portland Oregon. She is well-known for her over the top sculpted cakes and figure work. She has a very popular youtube channel where she provides her fans with free tutorials as well as live classes and demos. Liz is a competition junkie and has entered and won over a dozen cake competitions including the That Takes the Cake Sugar Art Show and Cake competition in Austin, TX and Threadcakes three years in a row.

Liz also specializes in cakes that utilize special effects and moving parts. She has created edible works of art for many wonderful clients including Jay Leno, Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller. Liz has made many television appearances, including Food Network's Outrageous Wedding Cakes series in 2014.