Product Description

Your wedding is the most important day of your life, and you will want the occasion to be perfect. The cake is often the focus of the celebration and as such is a vital ingredient in the success of the day.The stunning designs in this book range from exquisitely iced cakes of breathtaking beauty to opulent chocolate sculptures and innovative, quirky cakes of immense charm. Whether you are planning a large, family wedding, or an intimate celebration with close friends, there will be a style that is perfect for you.This title is compiled by Mich Turner, the founder of Little Venice Cake Co, London's leading designer of spectacular cakes for all occasions. Mich designs an annual collection of wedding cakes exclusively for Harrods & supplies some of the UK's most prestigious hotels, including The Ritz, The Dorchester & Claridge's. She is the author of "Spectacular Cakes" which won Best Dessert Book in the World Cookbook Awards of 2005. "Spectacular Cakes" ISBN 9781903221396 11, 000 copies sold. "Fantastic Party Cakes" ISBN 9781903221891 5, 000 copies sold.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12803 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Review
"'Mich is an exceptionally gifted artist. She created a luscious fairytale wedding cake for our special day.' " --Keely and Pierce Brosnan

About the Author
Mich Turner trained as a food scientist. She worked as a buyer at Harvey Nichols prior to founding Little Venice Cake Company in 1999, and together with her team has designed and produced numerous special cakes for celebrity, private and corporate occasions, including party cakes for Big Brother, X factor and GMTV as well as wedding cakes for a host of celebrities including Madonna and Pierce Brosnan. LVCC supplies M&S and Harrods as well as the UK's most prestigious hotels with special occasion cakes.

Customer Reviews

Another beautiful book from Mich Turner
Any one who has any interest in a wedding cake will delight in this book, be they cake maker or bride to be. Mich creates stunning cakes with huge attention to detail and is incredibly skilled in her art. She passes on all her knowledge and gives clear concise instructions to recreate all the designs featured which are influenced by fashion through the last and present century. Recipes are included and I'm delighted to see more quantity guides for various size cakes than in her earlier books. I would buy the book for the chocolate cake recipe alone, it's an amazing taste sensation! Don't miss an opportunity to share the knowledge of a lady who is the top of her game and is prepared to pass on her secrets.

My only negative remark would be towards the use of fresh flowers on cakes. They do look beautiful, but should something sprayed with pesticides come into contact with a food item? The debate will continue I'm sure. Personally, I would only use sugar flowers. Mich does include instructions for sugar lillies and has included entirely edible designs, so those concerned over this issue are catered for.

I highly recommend this title. Well done Mich!

Great book for all
This is a really good book deserving all the praise written here, whether you are new to the craft, a professional, or a bride seeking inspiration. The quality of the editing is always important I think, and that alone make for a pleasant book to use and refer to, whether you are reading it in bed or using it in the kitchen, as everything in that book is interesting, useful, clearly laid out and generally well put together in a quality but not too glossy book.
Most most of all, there are many designs of cakes to chose from or inspire you and all of these are really beautiful cakes with wide appeal, modern, classy and not always so difficult to achieve - although some are deceivingly difficult and need an experienced and steady hand.
Like other viewers, I note the abundant use of fresh flowers, and I feel that in fact, this only serves to show that it won't works unless the flowers are really amazing in quantity and quality and thus very expensive, meaning it is not always going to be the right solution nor the expected shortcut for the cake maker or the client, over sugar flowers.
The reference pages (recipes, sizes, fillings, setting up, pillars, etc.) are excellent. If you are are student or new to cake decorating, this will not necessarily be a comprehensive bible of all techniques such as piping, flooding, royal icing, flower making etc, (there is a hint of coldness in the explanations but to be fair, Mich has been very generous overall) it covers a fair amount and what it does perhaps show, is how even limited use of these techniques, in a modern way, can make a commercial cake.

Very stylish
This book has many beautiful cake designs that are absolutly fantastic, pur M. Turner style. Painting techniques, piping work (her piping skills are amazing...) Use of fresh flowers and also choccolate work presented.... Recpies include: choccolate plastique, Choccolate truffle torte, luscious lemon cake, moist carrot cake, rich fruit cake, date cake, lime and coconut cake. My favourite designs are Easter Promise (very oriental) Corsetiere (a bronze cake with corset embroidery). You will also find the Queen Elisabeth Diamond wich is the design that Mick presented at the diamond wedding anniversary of the English Queen. - Higly recommended.