- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Sterling; illustrated edition edition (28 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1588160920
- ISBN-13: 978-1588160928
- Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 21.3 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 334,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A wedding cake is likely the most memorable dessert you will ever serve, the piece de resistance at the reception. Choose it with care, and with guidance from the experts at Victoria. They and the many breathtaking photos in this luscious, elegant guide, will help you find inspiration and come up with innovative ways to make the cake fit snugly into the wedding's overall theme. Once limited to three tiers set on columns, decorated in white, embellished with piped sugar frosting, and topped with a miniature bride and groom, this confection now makes vivid style statements. For example, some bakers will create a cake to match the colour, texture, and details of the gown, even mimicking its buttons, bows, ruffles and pleats. Or, the cake's shape and structure might mirror that of the wedding's locale - echoing the decor of a fancy hotel room or imitating the greenery and flora at an outdoors reception. "Sweet detail" boxes throughout provide invaluable tips, and there's a glossary of basic cake terminology. From finding a baker to deciding on the right size to cutting etiquette, all the information you need is contained in these pages.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Wedding Cakes,
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This review is from: Wedding Cakes (Victoria Magazine) (Hardcover)
A colourful book with many ideas for a finished wedding cake look, but sadly no detailed instruction on how to achieve this.
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1.6 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Just look at the pictures...,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wedding Cakes (Victoria Magazine) (Hardcover)
I make wedding cakes, so I buy every book and magazine on the subject. If you're a bride, just buy this book to look at the photos of the cakes, but take the advice with a grain of salt. There are so many inconsistencies and just blatantly incorrect information about cakes in it that I was actually getting mad while reading the text. Some of the descriptions of the photos are obviously wrong, the descriptions of the various icings aren't right in a few cases, and that's just a couple of examples. In one case there are three conflicting statements about how to cut the cake...on one page it gives one size per slice, on another it gives a different size, and on a third there's a picture of a wedge of cake and it says that's how it's done. In another case they talk about toxic flowers, and specifically say that if you're going to use sweet peas you should make them out of sugar. On a page fairly close to that, there's a photo of a cake covered in real sweet peas...huh??? It might seem like no big deal, but if you're trying to become educated about wedding cakes before buying one, this isn't the book to buy. The photos of cakes are okay, but I was disappointed by the fact that none of the photo descriptions gave credit to the cake decorators, or listed any contact information for the bakers. The photo credits at the back only list the photographers, so if you want more information about a certain cake you're out of luck.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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A Big Fat Flop,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wedding Cakes (Victoria Magazine) (Hardcover)
This book was a huge disappointment. I love Victoria Magazine, and the reason I bought this book was that I was told that one of my cakes was featured in the book (without my permission, I might add). Well, not only did they use the photo of my cake, but they didn't even give me credit. The only people in the book who received credit were the photographers. And 75% of the photos that they did use were either out of focus or of cakes that were sadly so amateurish, I'm embarassed to be in the same book. The cover of the book isn't even the same as the cover shown above. Many of the facts they have in the book are wrong, also, like who was doing cakes in the early 80s. They could have used a fact checker for that . Wedding cakes have come a long way since the 80s, and if this is the best they could come up with, then someone is truly misguided. 11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
THIS??? Is the book I ordered???,
By one crazy cake decorator - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wedding Cakes (Victoria Magazine) (Hardcover)
I have been buying from Amazon for years, and this is the first review I have written... and NOT to rave about this purchase, but to convey my disappointment. I was expecting a more professional book... this is certainly not it... I also decorate cakes, and was confused as to how this one got the description it did.... and yes... WHY IS THE COVER OF THE BOOK NOT PROVIDED??? The picture here is located way in the back of the book, and is much smaller... I also thought I received the wrong book... I have to say, that the picture they did choose to advertise the book was the best of the bunch.... so just look at this picture and forget the book.
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