50 Easy Party Cakes (Tuttle Specials)

The cakes in this book are a great introduction to carving 3D cakes and covering/decorating the 3D shapes in fondant. All the cakes are super cute, easy to reproduce, and not overly time-consuming to complete. I have made many for the cakes in this book just to help develop my skills in 3D carving and covering non-standard shapes in fondant. This is a great book if you want to practice your fondant skills, and as a bonus to improving your skills you get a super cute cake to share.

Just received this book yesterday and have already look through it three times! I'm new to cake decorating and was looking for a book that would help build some of my basic skills like cake sculpting. This book has very easy to follow instructions and great photos. Best of all you can take almost any cake and leave the design as is or spruce up by adding your own elements. So far this is the best book I've purchased to date and I can wait to get started making the fun designs.

This book is a wonderful guide. All of the cakes are a inspiration. I use it to make my granddaughter's birthday cake. With a idea from the book I made a beautiful cake. My Maddie loves kittens, so the kitty on the ball of yarn was incorporated into a much larger cake as a focal point. Then I built around it with additional kittens, and bumblebees, and ladybugs. If you enjoy to work with cake, and make one of a kind items. This book is for you. Well written, and the illustrations are gorgeous.

I enjoy Debbie Brown's cakes and looked forward to obtaining this one. It has a lot of whimsical cakes but I was a little disappointed. Most of the cakes are for very young children and I had hoped for more cakes that could be used for any age. That said, the cakes in this book are a bit easier than in some of her other books. Anyone with a little knowledge of fondant should be able to easily make them. They are all in fondant so if you do not like to work with it I would not recommend this book. As usual, the instructions are generally clear and with sufficient pictures. Although I was disappointed, it was solely because of the age factor. It is an excellent book and, if you are looking for a lot of great ideas for cakes for young children, I would highly recommend it. The star off is solely for not making it clearer that it is a book for young children.

I had never baked a cake shaped like anything before, but I gave the dinosaur cake a try. It turned out to be quite impressive! If I can impress my brother-in-law with my baking, then that's saying something. It was really easy, too! The cake recipe that I used in the book turned out very dry, though. The second time I baked a cake shaped like a toolbox using the plans for the jewelry box in the book, I used a pound cake recipe from another cookbook, and it turned out much, much better. So I would use this book for decorating ideas and strategies but not for the cake recipes.

I was expecting a lot more. I have never used it because it is basically a book for professionals . It gives very little instruction on how to actually make the cakes. You get A page with A picture on it then the fallowing page may have another two to three pictures of "stage 1-2-and/or 3" It gives very little detail on how to get there. So I used the book as a dream book. I dream to one day know how to make these cakes. This book is for those who already know how to make them . A very personal note : Every time I make a cutesy cake or cup cakes like these No One eats them or cuts into them and they end up getting thrown away because they are TOO cute and don't look like they are to be eaten.I've had my heart broken now over 8 times and I have no intention on spending my money or time on them again. From now on it's Betty Crocker yellow cake with chocolate icing .

Really enjoyed looking through this book and it was in EXCELLENT condition! Could also be done with figure piping and regular frosting with many of them. My grandchildren will really enjoy these. They would also enjoy working with the sugar clay too! Fun memories and something to enjoy thru their lives. (My own children - sons and daughters - even make cakes for their offspring now. The boys enjoy the amazement in peoples faces when they see them - and they are all boy.

When I ordered this book, I figured it had the same cakes that are shown in other cake decorating books, with very minimal instructions. It was on my doorstep two days after ordering. I was so surprised when I looked through this book! Each cake has very descriptive instructions and a list of needed ingredients and supplies needed to construct the cake. Definitely a book that could be used by beginners! I will be using this book for many years to come.