Synopses & Reviews
With sugar paste and a few simple tools, this guide for cake decorators gives techniques for making cute and funny animals. Using step-by-step instructions, this manual shows how to construct the simple shapes that are the basis for all of the animals with readily available equipment, and each finished animal is pictured. Decorators will learn to make sugar animals such as elephants, monkeys, pandas, lizards, dolphins, and kangaroos on a friendly budget. These quirky designs will thrill both the crafter and the diner.
Synopsis
Frances McNaughton shows how to make cute and funny sugar animals for cake decorating using sugarpaste and a few simple tools and techniques. First we learn about the simple shapes that are the basis for all the animals, and the few basic tools that are needed. Then it is staight on to making elephants, monkeys, pandas, lizards, dolphins, kangaroos and much more. The constituent parts of the animals are shown with the step by step instructions, and annotated for clarity, then each finished animal is pictured in all its splendour. Animal lovers will be thrilled to see any of these appealing creatures on top of a celebratory cake.
Synopsis
Sugarcraft expert Frances McNaughton has designed twenty wonderful sugar animals that you will want to make using simple techniques and readily available ingredients.
About the Author
Frances McNaughton is a sugarcraft tutor and demonstrator who provides workshops to the British Sugarcraft Guild and the National Sugarart Association. Her sugarcraft props have appeared in the films "Notting Hill," "Chocolat," and three of the Harry Potter films.