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Creative Colour for Cake Decorating

Choose Colours Confidently, with 20 Cake Decorating and Baking Projects
By Lindy Smith
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Creative Colour for Cake Decorating by Lindy Smith is an inspiring guide that explores innovative ways to use colour in cake decoration. It offers practical advice, techniques, and step-by-step projects to help decorators infuse vibrant hues and creative designs into their baking. Perfect for both beginners and experienced decorators, the book encourages experimentation with colour to bring cakes to life.
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This book may appeal to you if you love transforming ordinary cakes into stunning works of art with vibrant colours. Lindy Smith guides you through an array of techniques and ideas, exploring how to combine and create colours to elevate your cake decorating to the next level. Perfect for both beginners and experienced decorators looking to add a splash of creativity to their culinary creations.

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Readers will learn how to adapt cake designs to their own colour schemes, colour inspiration from objects and environments to create unique colour palettes, and how to use food paste colours available on stunning decorated cakes. Includes 10 colour-themed chapters, each with amazing cake decorating design and additional cupcake/cookie projects.

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Creative Colour for Cake Decorating offers an inspiring journey into the world of cake design with a colourful twist. Learn from Lindy Smith, the brilliant author of the international bestseller The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible, as she guides you in choosing and using colours creatively for your cake decorating projects.

This stunning book presents 10 amazing cake designs, providing invaluable insights on adapting cake designs to match your own colour schemes. Discover how to draw colour inspiration from the objects and environments around you, creating unique palettes, and how to optimally employ food paste colours to achieve stunning results on decorated cakes.

Each of the 10 colour-themed chapters features a remarkable cake decorating design. Additionally, you will find cupcake or cookie projects in alternative colourways, demonstrating how selecting different colours can transform the feel of your design.

Benefit from step-by-step illustrated instructions that cover every aspect of cake design. Whether you're baking cakes, mixing colours, sugar modelling, or adding those all-important finishing touches, this book caters to both beginners and experienced cake decorators alike.

The book includes a comprehensive index of food paste colours available from the main suppliers in the UK. Detailed guidance is provided on how to adjust their tone, hue, and intensity to perfectly suit your cake decorating needs.

Awarded Best Sweet Pastry Book, UK, in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2013, Creative Colour for Cake Decorating is an essential addition to any cake decorator's library. It empowers readers to adapt cake designs to their own aesthetic visions and encourages exploring colour in exciting new ways.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781446302378

Publisher: David & Charles

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 September 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: David & Charles

Illustration: 225 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 216.0mm

Width: 14.0mm

Height: 282.0mm

Weight: 818g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Lindy Smith is a British Sugarcraft Guild accredited demonstrator with over 20 years experience in sugarcrafting and is the author of eight bestselling cake decorating books. She runs a successful cake decorating business and online shop, called Lindy's Cakes Ltd, and teaches cake decorating and sugarcraft courses all around the world. Visit her website at: www.lindyscakes.co.uk

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