Autumn Carpenter

Learn the basics of decorating cakes with this super-simple guide for beginners Decorating your own cakes is both fun and easy with cake maven Autumn Carpenter at your side. In The Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating, adapted from her best-selling First Time Cake Decorating, you'll learn everything about the basic tools you will need, hacks to make cake decorating easy, and how to plan and design your own cake style. This book is the only basic primer...

The Complete Photo Guide to Candy Making is your go-to handbook for all things confectionery. From the author who brought you The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating and The Complete Photo Guide to Cookie Decorating, this book shows you how to make the perfect candies, chocolates, chews, and caramels. For each technique, there is an overview of the tools and materials used and complete instructions with photos. The organization provides easy access...

This richly illustrated how-to book is a comprehensive reference about various techniques for decorating cookies, including buttercream icing, rolled fondant, run sugar, painting, chocolate icing, and egg wash glaze. The clear organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 400 full-color photos. Easy projects provide fun opportunities for trying the techniques, and a gallery of beautifully decorated cookies offers...

Just in time for Valentine's Day, you'll learn how to make beautiful heart cookies with rolled fondant and Autumn's modern take on brush-embroidered blossoms.

Roll out the fondant for some whimsical and colorful designs. Decorate your cookies using texture mats, edible frosting sheets, fondant flowers and food color markers. Make adorable animals or elegant stained-glass window effects with Autumn's help.

Build a solid base with Autumn's buttery sugar cookie and chocolate cookie recipes. You'll also learn how to make your own cookie cutter in any shape you can imagine.

Run, don't walk, to learn the fundamentals of run-sugar cookies. Autumn shows you how to fill in fun and detailed designs -- as well as how to add dimension -- to your finished cookies.

Are you an absolute beginner when it comes to cake decorating? Then help is at hand. Like having you very own instructor at your side, this book guides you carefully from your first nervous buttercream icing to confident gum paste accents. It begins with thorough descriptions of equipment, the baking process, icings and fondant, and piping techniques, and then teaches you how to use them. Each of the projects included in this book introduces you to...