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American Cake Decorating Magazine
American Cake Decorating Magazine

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Publisher: Grace Mcnamara Inc
Category: Magazine

Buy New: $28.00



Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1115

Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Trade magazine
Subscription Issues: 6
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 6
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16 Weeks

ASIN: B0000AJLSR

Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 months

Customer Reviews:
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1 out of 5 stars Horrible service   November 9, 2006
 7 out of 9 found this review helpful

I ordered this in August, and it is now the middle of November and I STILL have not received my first issue!


3 out of 5 stars Long wait   November 3, 2006
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

The magazine is nice. There were some nice cakes, however it took months to get my first issue & I'm still waiting to see if I'll get a second issue. Not sure yet if its really worth the money. I've certaintly got more out of cake decorating books that cost less, but time will tell.


5 out of 5 stars Great magazine   July 8, 2006
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I have never had any problems getting both American Cake Decorating or Mailbox News. I have found them both very helpful and informative. When I have moved, I have easily had the address changed and continued receiving issues. I highly recommend both magazines from Grace McNamara.


1 out of 5 stars Buyers beware!   November 8, 2005
 7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I ordered this magazine and it took so long to get one issue. Then I didn't recieve another one for months. Then maybe after about three to four months, I get it and it was damaged. --the pages and cover were torn. I had a hard time getting a straight answer from them and had to demand a refund. This magazine is really interesting, but not worth all the headache to get it.


4 out of 5 stars Great Ideas...   May 5, 2005
 26 out of 27 found this review helpful

As for the ideas and pictures, it does provide some VERY good ideas overall (especially when they put some of Colette's work in there!). The real challenge with the ideas contained in ACD comes in that there seems to be two spectrums, either fondant and totally elegant/difficult, or the other extreme of something that even a kid could do with little to no cake decorating experience(even though they moved their kid section over to Mailbox News)... Also, they seem to cover to no end the Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show... Granted, there are many categories, it'd just be nice if they centralized it to one issue per year instead of using it as the base for the magazine every 2 months. It is very well printed consistently (on much better paper than you'll get from other magazines out there)..

If having to choose between MBN and ACD, I'd recommend going with MBN because the ideas are more realistic to what most bakers will make or reproduce. The only reason I have to say that ACD gets 4 stars (and was tempted to give it 3 because of this one issue alone) is that over the course of time myself and others all have had the same problem... Our address mysteriously changes in their database, thus, not getting issues and having to call the publisher on more than one occasion (or three) to get the situation resolved. Their customer service gal is great, but I'd rather just get the magazine to my home address from the subscription without calling them.. Overall though, a very good cake decorating magazine..