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Cakes to Inspire and Desire

✍️ Smith, Lindy
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🏛 David & Charles 📅 2007 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780715324974
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7Written by a popular and experienced cake designer7Range of techniques and skill levels ensures broad appeal7Lindy's other best-selling titles include Celebrate with a Cake (28,000 copies sold) and Party Animal Cakes (20,000 copies sold)Readers will discover a collection of 15 truly inspirational and deceptively simple celebratory cakes, each with a modern and distinctive finish. Lavish colour photographs display a unique variety of traditional and contemporary styles from florals and frills to stripes and beadwork. Each cake is accompanied by exquisite mini-cakes to put a creative twist on the main theme, or to make as an alternative when time is short. Chapters are divided by shape, showing how a simple square or round design can be the basis for the most desirable of cakes.

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