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| Pretty Party Cakes: Sweet and Stylish Cakes and Cookies for All Occasions | 
 enlarge | Author: Peggy Porschen
Brand: Random House
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 154171
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.8 x 0.7
MPN: 3707
ISBN: 0307337073
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.86539
EAN: 9780307337078
ASIN: 0307337073
Publication Date: April 11, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great resource! May 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just got into cake making and sugar craft and this book is the first I ordered. It is great and I've had a lot of success following Porschens' advice. My only complaint, and it's a small one, is that not all temperatures and cake pan times needed are included. For example, I made a cake from two square 8x8 pans and the only baking directions I could find were for either cupcakes or a sheetcake. Instead of baking at 400 degrees as suggested I lowered the temp to 350 and just kept checking until done. Still came out great, thank goodness. The basic cake recipe tastes wonderful with the soaking syrup (I'd never tried that before)but the sugar cookie recipe was a little bland. Beautiful cookies though! I REALLY like this book and will be happy to take credit for Porschens beautiful dessert designs for years to come!
 Really pretty party cakes May 8, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of the best. I own a lot of cake decorating books and this is one of my bibles. As somebody said, it's looks as good inside as looks outside. Porshen work is so fresh, clean and neat that you can not stop checking it over and over. I do not like make recommendations, but either if you are a beginner or a professional, you will love this book
 recycled ideas March 30, 2007
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
I flipped through this book at our local library. I started out being pretty impressed because the book is nicely done, but then I started seeing a lot of recycled ideas from various American cake and cookie artists. That was rather disappointing.
Good Ideas, Taste Super Sweet, Tricks Missing January 10, 2007
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
There's no doubt that Pretty Party Cakes is filled with innovations: edible butterflies, marzipan roses made with edible glitter, petit fours out of Bollywood.
BUT there is a heavy emphasis on fondant, an extremely sweet sugar dough that many find inedible, and royal icing, which is basically confectioner's sugar and egg white. In the European tradition, the cake portion tends to be dry.
I find some info missing: instructions on how to make mazipan roses leave out stuff like using the edge of a spoon to thin out the edge -- a well-known technique that is necessary to get the results in the photograph. I really find it unacceptable when cookbook authors omit these steps -- the ones them separate their finished results from yours. You're paying big bucks for the book -- they should part with all the secrets.
So, buy the book, be dazzled, pick up a few ideas, but go elsewhere for recipes -- and buy other books to expand your knowledge.
eye candy. January 9, 2007
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I got this book during the holidays. Sadly, I haven't been able to do anything from it, but the pictures are soooooooooo beautiful. Oh my!!!! Every page will wow you.
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