Techniques and Tips for Covering Cakes

Using detailed, fully illustrated step-by-step instructions, Techniques and Tips for Covering Cakes provides practical guidance on how to cover a variety of cakes using six different types of cake coverings. Some of the cake coverings are quick to achieve and require minimal preparation whilst other projects will provide the keen cake decorator with more of a challenge. Popular coverings such as buttercream and chocolate are included as well as sugarpaste, royal icing, marzipan, fruit and nuts.

CLAIRE FITZSIMONS is an award-winning author and sugar craft tutor. She is a qualified teacher and has taught in primary schools and within the adult learning sector. She is a trained chef, graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in London in 2007. Claire was a tutor at the renowned Squires International School in Surrey, teaching baking and sugar craft for over ten years before she opened her own business teaching sugar craft workshops from home.