Alan Dunn's Celebration Cakes: Beautiful Designs for Weddings, Anniversaries, and Birthdays

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Celebrate deliciously and beautifully! Master sugarcraft sculptor Alan Dunn shows how to create festive cakes decorated with cascading, lifelike floral arrangements built from sugarpaste. Make your cakes the centerpiece of any celebration with romantic flowers, lush foliage, brightly colored fruits, and fantasy butterflies. Alans easy-to-follow directions, accompanied by stunning, mouthwatering photographs, cover 35 floral varieties and 18 charming cake designs for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, christenings, holidays, and more. If you're looking for the ultimate guide to sugarcrafting, this book won't fail to impress.

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Alan Dunns anticipated ninth book, Celebration Cakes, is an incredibly practical and comprehensive guide to the enticing world of sugarcraft. The books straightforward layout is paired with step-by-step flower tutorials that are oh so easy to follow. To compliment Dunns accessible floral creations, the book is filled with high quality photos that are as instructional as they are elegant. Dunns book stands apart because of the way he has consolidated a wide variety of diverse flower tutorials. We tried out the Purple chili peppers tutorial on page 58, and found the material and equipment lists (as well as Dunns instructions) to be clear and manageable. It seems that Dunn has truly thought of everything. For example, if you arent sure where to buy a specific product listed in the book, he has thoughtfully provided a list of suppliers in the back for easy reference. Yet another bonus is the inclusion of a photo gallery of flower bouquets. In these photos, Dunn has cleverly taken individual pieces from the flower tutorials in the book and placed them into larger arrangements for inspiration. We think Celebration Cakes is definitely worth celebrating, and if you love Dunns other books you will not be disappointed.

Author Bio

Hes been called a Sugarcrafter superstar by Library Journal, and for good reason. One of the worlds leading sugar flower artists, Alan Dunn is the author of more than a dozen authoritative sugar crafting books, including Alan Dunn's Celebration Cakes, Alan Dunn's Ultimate Collection of Cake Decorating, Alan Dunn's Tropical & Exotic Flowers for Cakes, and more. An accredited demonstrator for The British Sugarcraft Guild, he teaches and demonstrates his artistry across Europe, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa.