Peggy Porschen has spearheaded the whole shift of cake decor from traditional to cutting edge. After the enormous success of her Pretty Party Cakes and Romantic Cakes, Peggy now focuses her considerable creative talents on an idea close to her heart and for which she is increasingly in demand - super stylish cakes for all manner of occasions. In this book she combines her amazing gift for matching charming design with striking colour and her effortless flair for accessorizing cakes like fashion outfits to produce her most striking and elegant collection of cakes yet. She also puts even more emphasis on making her cakes taste every bit as good as they look, adding new and exciting flavours to her basic cakes, as well as using the best and most flavoursome of organic ingredients. There are ideas for events like milestone birthdays, girly tea parties, baby showers, and hen nights, as well as more exotic occasions like cocktail parties, anniversaries and pool parties. However, Cake Chic isn't necessarily just for girls, but will suit anyone who wants to put on a memorable show with the minimum of fuss.
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"When celebs such as Elton John and Stella McCartney fancy cake, Peggy Porschen is the woman they call. This book makes it obvious why - he cakes are works of art, almost too beautiful to eat. Almost. Recipes come with plenty of advice on techniques and tricks." --Waitrose Food Illustrated, July 2009
"If you are on the lookout for a stunning wedding centrepiece, or confections that will make the parents of your children's friends really hate you, then Cake Chic is where you should go." --Daily Telegraph 4th July 2009
"Elegant creations from A-List cake designer Peggy Porschen" --Wedding Magazine, August 2009
"Every page in this glorious book oozes femininity and Peggy's ideas for icing cookies and cakes are awe-inspiring."
--Sainsbury's Magazine, July 2009
"If you are on the lookout for a stunning wedding centrepiece, or confections that will make the parents of your children's friends really hate you, then Cake Chic is where you should go." --Daily Telegraph 4th July 2009
"Elegant creations from A-List cake designer Peggy Porschen" --Wedding Magazine, August 2009
"Every page in this glorious book oozes femininity and Peggy's ideas for icing cookies and cakes are awe-inspiring."
--Sainsbury's Magazine, July 2009
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Peggy Porschen grew up in Germany, a country renowned for its cakes. She moved to London in 1998 graduating top of her class at the prestigious Cordon Bleu school. From there, she went on to work as pastry chef at the Lanesborough Hotel and with master baker Gerhart Jenne at Konditor and Cook on London's South Bank. Quickly developing her own highly individual style, she left there to set up her own business, which was instantly successful. Soon she was making cakes and cookies for major events of all kinds, including chocolate Faberge Eggs for guests at Elton John's 2003 White Tie and Tiara Ball. Most recently she supplies Fortnum & Mason with an exquisite range of decorated cookies and speciality confections. Her cakes have been featured in the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Wedding Flowers, Brides, You and Your Wedding, Wedding Day, OK, Delicious and Marie Claire. Author Location: London
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Cake Chic is a fabulously stylish book filled with breathtaking cake and biscuit designs. From page one, you can't help but fall in love with the exquisite designs and ideas illustrated in this book.
As only a novice cake decorator myself, my first thought was these designs would be dreadfully complicated to replicate, but the author's instructions and clear guidelines on each and every recipe make them definitely doable.
I can't wait to try my hand at some of these glorious cakes and wow my friends. Love it! Very inspirational and great fun; would make a super gift for any pretty lady who loves baking and who wants to be inspired!
Laura
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I was delighted when this book was published. As a keen cookie and cupcake maker I often use Peggy Porschen's ideas for my own creations. Although I wish that sometimes my results turn out as perfect as hers!!! I thought the ideas conjured up in this book are stylish and pretty, ideal for presents or for those who just love baking. I wouldn't recommend this book for a beginner but for someone who is more confident with icing techniques. I was pleased to see that the instructions for each project were more detailed than those from the last two books (I found them quite tricky to follow). I also liked the book visually, stunning photography with lovely colour schemes that has been well put together. I'm already looking forward to the next book!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This is a beautiful book with some fabulous cake and cookie ideas. Its lovely just to flick through. Although I'm sure this book is not intended for beginners, I am a beginner and just used the recipes to bake a two tier cake (rich chocolate on one tier and victoria sponge for the other). It turned out fabulous and tasted great, lots of compliments! I decorated it using advice from the book but my own design and although it wasn't perfect it was pretty good. I would recommend this book to anyone regardless of cake decorating experience. I also have the first Peggy Porschen book, but found this one to be the most helpful and informative.
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I do love Peggy Porschen books but....
PP's books are always a joy to flick through. Instructions easy to follow and pics very pretty but having purchased her books before there are quite a few duplication's of recipes... Read more
Published 20 days ago by Flufficles
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Es esa clase de libros que hace fondo de armario, es decir que tendria que estar en todas las estanterias de las que les gusta mucho las cocinar
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This book is beautiful to look at and and easy to follow. It's inspired me and my 14 year old stepdaughter to try a number of the recipes and they all turned out well. Read more
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these books are fantastic great pictures recipes are wonderful all 3 books are fab lots of great ideas easy to follow would highly recomend
Published 1 month ago by mr john potter
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Very useful book
Very good book even for professionals. Nice pictures, good explanation. I can only advice to have such a book at home.
Published 2 months ago by Danguole Ramsell
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Book is good
Ordered this book as I love Peggy's style of cakes and although I can look on the internet at her lovely cakes, I also wanted a book so i could learn her techniques. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. Jan Finn
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Beautiful Book
I love Peggy porschen's books they are so trendy and different, great for ideas and easy to follow, some of the designs are simple but exquisite which is what you need from a... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Cupcake Aly
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Fab, Fab....Fabulous inspirational book. It arrived quickly and excellently wrapped: and now it is permanently being read for the practical phase to commence.
Published 12 months ago by Jane Eyre
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Great Book
A high quality cake book, I'm a very fussy person and will take ages deciding on purchases, and I have looked at a lot of cake books and have to say I was very impressed when I got... Read more
Published 16 months ago by gamer
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Inspirational & easy to follow
I have made plenty of iced cookies and the recipes in this book are the ones that hold their shape the best & taste the best too. Read more
Published 17 months ago by happy hive
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