
Fun Figures: Cute Character Cake Toppers for All Occasions (Paperback)
Lorraine McKay (author)Published: 19/10/2014
This gorgeous book guides you through Lorraine McKay's distinctive sugar art style, showing you how to create cute, characterful sugar figures for 10 special occasion cakes, from weddings and graduations to baby showers and birthdays. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction, covering all the basic techniques you need, from mixing skin tones and making eyes, arms, teeth and hair, to supporting your finished figures. The book then guides you step by step through 10 inspiring projects, each finishing with a gallery of close-up shots to show you exactly what you are trying to achieve. The book is packed with Lorraine's tips for success and will help you to create cute and accomplished-looking sugar figures with ease.
Publisher: Search Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781782210320
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 544 g
Dimensions: 280 x 216 x 13 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
February 2015
This book is packed with tips for success and will help you to create cute and accomplished looking sugar figures with ease. It guides you through Lorraine McKay's distinctive sugar art style to create characterful figures for 10 special occasion cakes for weddings and graduations, baby showers and birthdays. This book covers all the basic techniques you need, from mixing skin tones and making eyes, arms, teeth and hair, to supporting your finished figures.
* Cake Craft & Decoration *February 2015
Creating cute character toppers is so easy with Lorraine McKay's detailed step-by-step photos and accessible instructions. A gallery of close-up shots will be handy to refer to as you work.
* Cake Decorating & Cupcakes *Summer 2015
With 10 easy-to-follow projects including stepby-step instructions and accompanying photographs, Fun Figures is a great guide for those looking to start making models to top wedding and celebration cakes. The comprehensive introduction guides you through all the techniques needed, from making hands and feet and mixing skin tones to creating facial features. The projects themselves encompass a range of ages, genders, nationalities and occasions and are photographed on cakes to give ideas for how best to present your finished figures.
* Cakes & Sugarcraft Magazine *July 2015
This super book guides you through the creation of cute, characterful sugar figures for ten special occasion cakes,
from weddings and graduations to baby showers and birthdays. The book covers the basic techniques you need, from mixing skin tones
and making eyes, arms teeth and hair to supporting your finished figures, then it then guides you step by step through inspiring projects.
There are lots of tips for success in modelling.
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