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Yes, you can.
If you love to bake and are willing to plan ahead, you can make a spectacular wedding cake--and you don't have to be a pastry chef to do it! Let prominent wedding cake expert Dede Wilson guide you through every layer of the process--from choosing among flavors and styles to baking, assembling, and decorating your way to a beautiful and delicious cake. This accessible cookbook not only gets you ready for the big event, it helps you lend a truly personal touch to the celebration.
"If you want to make your own wedding cake, Dede Wilson is the perfect guide. She helps you bake with confidence every step of the way to a delicious personalized result."
--Donna Ferrari, BRIDE'S magazine | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Dede Wilson CCP | | Hardcover: | 176 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | March 11, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 076455719X | | Product Length: | 9.16 inches | | Product Width: | 8.22 inches | | Product Height: | 0.59 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.5 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.13 inches | | Package Width: | 8.03 inches | | Package Height: | 0.79 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 75 reviews |
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141 of 141 found the following review helpful:
 This book REALLY IS helpful!!! Jun 16, 2005
By B. Cline
I have an enormous collection of cake decorating books and I was pleasantly suprised when I received this wonderful book by Dede Wilson. Most of my books are either centered around the DESIGN of the cake, with very little emphasis on the specific how-to's (like how to transport the cake, which icing to use, etc.)to the taste of the cake (focusing little on how to decorate.) Both categories are important but can be daunting if you don't know where to start.
However, Wilson provides designs that almost anyone can do, as well as fabulous recipes that I have not seen in condensed form in any other book. Usually, the reader is provided with a white and chocolate cake recipe, a ganache, and a buttercream. This is perfectly fine, but I was looking for something that took my recipes to the next level. Wilson provides recipes like Lemon Blackberry Cake, Raspberries and Cream Cake, Marzipan and Orange Essensia Cake, Chocolate-Covered Caramel Cake, and my FAVORITE, the Chocolate-covered Cherry Cake. The design of the last cake has an inside of white cake layers with bittersweet chocolate shavings folded in, kirsch moistening syrup, and a filling of vanilla buttercream with actual chocolate-covered cherries. The outside is a stunning white-on-white with a bead border and chocolate plastique roses that are easier to make than you think!
Wilson provides recipes, ideas, and pictures for a simple and casual summer wedding cake like the Italian Rum Cream with fresh fruit on top, to a sophisticated Gilded Mocha Cake with a chocolate glaze topping and real gold leaf.
In addition, she goes further than any wedding cake book I've seen in explaining exactly how to transport the cake and set it up in the venue, and EXACTLY how far in advance EVERYTHING can be done. I just can't say enough about this book---IT IS A MUST!!!
37 of 37 found the following review helpful:
The title says it all Aug 28, 2005
By Home Baker
I recently agreed to make a wedding cake for my friend's wedding and although I bake regularly, I had never undertaken such a large project as a wedding cake. After coming across Dede Wilson's book and poring over it I was able to make a beautiful wedding cake with confidence. The pictures are beautiful, the recipes are wonderful, the instructions are clear and Ms. Wilson provides helpful tips throughout. A great book for anyone considering making a wedding cake.
34 of 36 found the following review helpful:
I Read it Cover to Cover the Day I Received it! Jan 30, 2006
By Jen@dazzleM:
"Foodie, Traveler, Pastry Chef, Wedding Cake Designer, Lawyer"
This is a very practical guide to baking and presenting a quality product. You will not learn how to use pastry tips -- plenty of places to do that...but if your goal is to bake a really good tasting cake and good looking cake, this book gives you great advice. Resources in the back of the book are terrific.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Book For Beginners Aug 03, 2006
By Mary
This is an excellent book for beginners. Included in the book are the following:
A few cake recipes
Buttercream recipe
Sugar syrup recipe
Resource guide to help fine supplies
General tips and advice on which tools to use
Cake pictures and the instructions on how to make/assemble the cakes.
I found the resource guide to be extremely helpful
Another feature in the book that I find helpful are the cake batter recipes. In most books they give you one recipe that only yields enough batter for one particular pan size. If you want to make a larger cake then you have to guess as to how much batter and/or ingredients you'll need which can lead to unfavorable results. In this book however, the author gives recipes for different pan sizes. Recipes/batter amounts are given for 6", 8", 9", 10", 12", 14" cake pans. The reader then does not have to guess.
All in all I found ti to be very informative and well written
21 of 22 found the following review helpful:
Extremely helpful for this new cake decorator Jun 05, 2006
By T. Fagan
"lindsyj"
I decided to learn about cake decorating so I could make the cake for a family wedding. I was completely new to the process and didn't have anyone to give me advice on it so I was pretty green. I've bought a few books and looked up information online but this book is the one I've referred back to the most. It answered a lot of the questions I had about the actual beginning to end process of my cake. There's tons of helpful information that saved me from having to learn on my own or waste a lot of time and effort guessing. The 5 tier wedding cake, which was made in one state and setup in an another state, went off without a hitch with lots and lots of compliments! I Love this book!!!
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