Celebrate The Art of Cakes! Having a really beautiful cake—one that you bake in your very own kitchen—can make a special occasion extraordinary. That’s the inspiration behind this guide: to create vibrant, colorful, and unique cakes that will bring a smile to everyone’s face. Inside, you’ll find basic recipes for three types of cakes, buttercream, and royal icing—which is used for piping letters, dots, and other decorations. You’ll also learn advanced techniques for rolling fondant and preparing modeling paste. The irresistibly photographed cake designs look good enough to eat, and they range from the delicate and sweet Beautiful Baby Birthday to Sally Says “Surprise,” and an unforgettable way to say “Congratulations!” or “Best Wishes!”

100 bold, eye-catching, royalty-free cartoons — each sharply reproduced in 3 popular sizes — ideal for newsletters, advertisements and other communications directed to food shoppers. Among them are scenes of families sharing shopping chores, a baker proudly displaying a cake, a butcher waiting on a customer, and dozens more. 300 illustrations.

These three volumes will enliven your bulletins, handouts, programs, and orders of service. Original art is drawn from the Sunday readings of each year of the Lectionary, from the great feasts and seasons. There is also a handy subject index and pieces for the national holidays. Suggestions for using the art are given in the introduction. Secretaries, parish staffs, musicians, worship coordinators, principals, and teachers will find top-quality illustrations for many different projects. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.

Cake decorating is creative, fun and easy to learn, and this book proves that you shouldn't save your cake decorating ideas just for birthday and weddings! Over 30 designs for cakes, cupcakes, minicakes and cookies allow you to make sweet treats for friends and family all year round; the featured cake decorating techniques suit all skill levels.9780715337707 Indulge in this desirable and creative collection of delights to suit every party occasion, from birthdays and Christmas to Mother's Day and weddings

In Sweet Celebrations the woman InStyle called "New York's reigning cake diva" shares her recipes, designs, techniques, and tips in a gloriously illustrated book. Bon Appétit called master baker and decorator Weinstock "the Leonardo da Vinci of wedding cakes," and her stunningly original creations have graced the celebrations of Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Whitney Houston. Her repertoire includes not just grand, romantic, floral wedding cakes but cakes appropriate for all of life's festive moments. Now she shares her expertise with bakers who want the perfect cake to commemorate that very special occasion. Sweet Celebrations includes cakes for birthdays, anniversaries, bon voyage send-offs, victory parties, and more. Graded according to difficulty, there are cakes for the beginning as well as the experienced decorator. Present your favorite graduate with a richly bound pile of books, welcome a newborn with a delectable stack of pastel-colored blocks, or serve the charming cottage cake at a housewarming. Each of the featured twenty-four cakes is shown in full color, with complete step-by-step instructions for baking, assembling, and decorating. In addition there are many inspiring photographs of the fabulous cakes Weinstock has created for clients around the world. The book provides recipes for cakes, frostings, and fillings, as well as detailed illustrated instructions on decorating techniques. Sweet Celebrations is a must-have volume for home and professional bakers who want to make and serve cakes that taste as good as they look.

If you have a creative spirit and want to try your hand at cake and cupcake decorating, Cake Art is for you. Chefs from the CIA's prestigious Baking and Pastry faculty describe the various techniques and provide easy-to-follow instructions so the home baker can create beautiful cakes and cupcakes. Cake decorating is an activity that can be enjoyed by everyone and children can help with 8 of the 27 projects included in Cake Art.

* Create your own dragons to slay, orcs to kill, and every warrior, weapon, and warlock you could possibly conceive using the thousands of possible designs included on the CD.It's estimated the fantasy market has over nine million consumers. Fantasy enthusiasts who yearn to create their own alternate realities can do so easily with this indispensable resource. This book-and-CD combo provides high-resolution clip art and digital instruction allowing users to create personalized artwork.* Well-known fantasy artist Kevin Crossley created art for the CD. Weapons, characters, equipment, and landscapes are all included in a variety of customizable styles.

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Art of the Cake : Hardback : Universe Publishing(NY) : 9780789322159 : 0789322153 : 05 Apr 2011 : Originally published as Mich Turner's cake masterclass by Jacqui Small (London) in 2011.

These three volumes will enliven your bulletins, handouts, programs, and orders of service. Original art is drawn from the Sunday readings of each year of the Lectionary, from the great feasts and seasons. There is also a handy subject index and pieces for the national holidays. Suggestions for using the art are given in the introduction. Secretaries, parish staffs, musicians, worship coordinators, principals, and teachers will find top-quality illustrations for many different projects. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.

Whether you're heavily into manga or just getting interested, Manga Clip Art has everything you need to create your own original manga images and experience one of the hottest art forms today--and you don't even have to know how to draw!Manga Clip Art provides you with the tools and know-how to create your very own stunning, personalized manga artwork. Not only that, but it provides the artwork to get you started, too! The CD is packed full of manga artwork, ready to be customized. There are characters in hundreds of poses, and you can choose costumes, backgrounds, and accessories from a wide variety.The book explains in step-by-step detail all the techniques to create, color, and render your own manga illustrations. All of the exclusive manga illustrations supplied are royalty-free, so you can use them however you like.Manga images featured include: science-fiction characters, giant robots, medieval fantasy characters, boys and girls, demons/monsters, and villains. The CD files are supplied in Photoshop (.psd) format, which means virtually any image-editing application (such as Painter, Paintshop Pro, CorelPaint, Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements) can be used to customize them. The CD is cross-platform; files can be opened on both Mac and Windows computers.As a bonus, the disc includes a free 30-day trial version of an application such as Photoshop Elements to get you started on your manga adventures.

* Create your own dragons to slay, orcs to kill, and every warrior, weapon, and warlock you could possibly conceive using the thousands of possible designs included on the CD.It's estimated the fantasy market has over nine million consumers. Fantasy enthusiasts who yearn to create their own alternate realities can do so easily with this indispensable resource. This book-and-CD combo provides high-resolution clip art and digital instruction allowing users to create personalized artwork.* Well-known fantasy artist Kevin Crossley created art for the CD. Weapons, characters, equipment, and landscapes are all included in a variety of customizable styles.

Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons, Celebrations and Service CD-ROM Edition Gertrud Mueller Nelson Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons, Celebrations and Service offers clip art in four new formats on one convenient CD-ROM for both the PC (Windows) and Macintosh. More than seven hundred quality black-and-white images are included on the CD at a resolution of 300 dpi, for the professional black-and-white graphics you want on your church, school, or personal documents. Average image size is 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 at 100%. Combining the volumes Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons and Clip Art for Celebrations and Service by popular liturgical artist Gertrud Mueller Nelson, Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons, Celebrations and Service articulates Christian life throughout the year. It illustrates themes in the gospel of the three-year cycle for liturgical celebrations such as Advent, Epiphany, and Easter, as well as numerous school-year activities and works of service and ministry. The clip art images are recorded in four formats: TIFF, BMP, JPEG, and PDG. The entire set of clip art images is stored in a folder labeled as one of these formats. Image file names are the same for all formats with an appropriate Windows file extension. The CD also contains a set of contact sheets which display a thumbnail of each image with the image file name. The contact sheets are Adobe Acrobat PDF files which may be printed as a set or as individual sheets. Each contact sheet has 24 thumbnails on letter-sized paper. Each thumbnail image is linked to a catalog page for that image. Simply click on the thumbnail to go to the catalog page. The image catalog contains one image per page along with descriptive information and the image file name. The image catalog is also in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, allowing for printing or copying of each image. Descriptive information has been indexed and may be searched to locate sets of images or individual pages. System requirements: WINDOWS 95/98/NT   i486 o

Whether you're heavily into manga or just getting interested, Manga Clip Art has everything you need to create your own original manga images and experience one of the hottest art forms today--and you don't even have to know how to draw!Manga Clip Art provides you with the tools and know-how to create your very own stunning, personalized manga artwork. Not only that, but it provides the artwork to get you started, too! The CD is packed full of manga artwork, ready to be customized. There are characters in hundreds of poses, and you can choose costumes, backgrounds, and accessories from a wide variety.The book explains in step-by-step detail all the techniques to create, color, and render your own manga illustrations. All of the exclusive manga illustrations supplied are royalty-free, so you can use them however you like.Manga images featured include: science-fiction characters, giant robots, medieval fantasy characters, boys and girls, demons/monsters, and villains. The CD files are supplied in Photoshop (.psd) format, which means virtually any image-editing application (such as Painter, Paintshop Pro, CorelPaint, Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements) can be used to customize them. The CD is cross-platform; files can be opened on both Mac and Windows computers.As a bonus, the disc includes a free 30-day trial version of an application such as Photoshop Elements to get you started on your manga adventures.

This CD-ROM collection incorporates ready-to-use clip art such as stationery, awards, certificates, reminders, announcements, and so much more to make every day special! Graphics include the first day of school, meetings and conferences, birthdays, field trips and visitors, carnivals and school fairs, as well as graduation. Compatible with Windows 95 or above and MAC OS 8.6 or above.

Everything you need to create stunning cake decorationsCake decorating is an art with specific skills that must be studied and practiced before they can be mastered. Professional Cake Decorating is the first guidebook, reference, and at-your-fingertips resource to the special methods and techniques unique to cake decorating.Professional Cake Decorating is:a comprehensive set of lessons designed to teach the skills needed in cake decorating, including basic, intermediate, and advanced piping skills; hand modeling; and gumpaste flowersa powerful tool for making dramatic improvements in the overall look and design of cakesa valuable training handbook and resource for bakers and decoratorsa comprehensive reference of successful professional skill setsUsing more than 200 step-by-step and finished cake color photographs, as well as over 125 illustrations, this highly visual book covers a wealth of techniques for cake borders, piped flowers, cake writing and piping, royal icing designs, marzipan fruits and figurines, rolled icing, floral patterns, petit fours, gumpaste floral art and design, and much more. Thorough coverage also includes such foundation skills as making shells, rosettes, reverse shells, zigzags, fleur-de-lis, rope, garlands, scrolls, rosebuds, and other confectionary designs.Complete with more than three dozen tried-and-tested recipes, Professional Cake Decorating is the only book that places the rewards of thirty years of training, traveling, teaching, and private practice in your hands! It is a must-have for today's bakers, cake decorators, specialty shop owners, and independent cake designers.

Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons, Celebrations and Service CD-ROM Edition Gertrud Mueller Nelson Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons, Celebrations and Service offers clip art in four new formats on one convenient CD-ROM for both the PC (Windows) and Macintosh. More than seven hundred quality black-and-white images are included on the CD at a resolution of 300 dpi, for the professional black-and-white graphics you want on your church, school, or personal documents. Average image size is 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 at 100%. Combining the volumes Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons and Clip Art for Celebrations and Service by popular liturgical artist Gertrud Mueller Nelson, Clip Art for Feasts and Seasons, Celebrations and Service articulates Christian life throughout the year. It illustrates themes in the gospel of the three-year cycle for liturgical celebrations such as Advent, Epiphany, and Easter, as well as numerous school-year activities and works of service and ministry. The clip art images are recorded in four formats: TIFF, BMP, JPEG, and PDG. The entire set of clip art images is stored in a folder labeled as one of these formats. Image file names are the same for all formats with an appropriate Windows file extension. The CD also contains a set of contact sheets which display a thumbnail of each image with the image file name. The contact sheets are Adobe Acrobat PDF files which may be printed as a set or as individual sheets. Each contact sheet has 24 thumbnails on letter-sized paper. Each thumbnail image is linked to a catalog page for that image. Simply click on the thumbnail to go to the catalog page. The image catalog contains one image per page along with descriptive information and the image file name. The image catalog is also in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, allowing for printing or copying of each image. Descriptive information has been indexed and may be searched to locate sets of images or individual pages. System requirements: WINDOWS 95/98/NT   i486 o

It is a woman's world, thanks to breakthrough artists and creators such as the young Yishan.Yishan's talent is a true find and so is her exciting new work, Manga Females Clip Art. It's all female and all fun.The 300-piece clip art CD package and hardback book contains everything needed to create professional-looking manga artwork. The CD features female kawaii characters, warriors, traditional figures, fantasy figures, and other glam gals, plus cool backgrounds and accessories.Now anyone can create exciting manga art regardless of drawing skill or talent level.Girls rule--and that's no fantasy. This book empowers its readers to push the limits of their creativity.* Li Yishan has earned worldwide exposure through her published works. She is a recurring invited guest at international comic festivals and has been written about in Publishers Weekly.

Everything you need to create individual student scrapbooks with ease! This CD-ROM collection features printable student scrapbook pages with popular themes such as family, friends, birthdays, and many more. Also includes pages for each month of the year. Compatible with Windows 95 or above and MAC OS 8.6 or above.