Lily Vanilli shows how you can take inspiration from the macabre and grotesque to create some really evil-looking cakes that taste divine. Using natural ingredients and edible decorating materials, such as edible lustre dusts, gum paste, and glazes, Lily shows you how to turn basic cupcakes into amazingly realisticand delicious—sculptures, from Eerie Eyeballs to Ghastly Ghouls. For really gory desserts, why not make Dracula’s Bite red velvet cupcakes, or some Bleeding Hearts, which are molded with deep red fondant into human hearts and covered with a cherry ‘blood’ sauce? You can also go for heavenly Fallen Angel Cakes, made with a divine honey-flavoured icing, or indulgent, truly dark chocolate Devil’s Food Cupcakes, with ganache icing, and chocolate devil’s horns. With 25 brilliant recipes and tips and tricks throughout, this is the perfect introduction into the world of alternative cake decoration.

Product Description: Royal icing and piping expert, Christine Flinn, adds a modern twist to this historical sugarcraft technique. Learn all you need to know to produce stunning cakes for all occasions, from covering cakes and boards and making piping bags to piping basic shapes, roses and leaves...read more

Product Description: Cookie Decorating is perfect for aspiring young bakers eager to learn the basic skills and experience the fun of cookie decorating.A book plus cookie-decorating kit, Cookie Decorating is an inviting way to give children the confidence to explore the art of cookie decorating...read more

Product Description: Whether it's a birthday, wedding, or dinner party, there's no better way to celebrate than with a slice of glorious cake. In Cakeology, Juliet Sear shows home bakers how to take your cake-making and decorating to a new level, as she takes you through the step-by-step process to produce a true show-stopper...read more

Product Description: Beautifully decorated cookies are within reach for every home baker, thanks to the easy and practical methods developed by cookie-crafting enthusiasts Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer. From rolling and cutting to flooding and piping, you’ll find dozens of techniques to turn plain cookies into fun treats for your next special occasion...read more

Product Description: Discover cake POPs - a combination of moist cake and a sweet candy coating, moulded onto a lollipop stickand then decorated to create a whole host of characters. Clare O'Connell of the Pop Bakery teaches you allyou need to know, from how to create the cake balls - a mouth-watering mixture of chocolate cake and icing- to dipping the cake balls in the special candy coating...read more