Why buy a cake when it's so easy to create something special yourself? Designed especially for the first-time decorator, this handy book reveals the secrets of producing an amazing baked masterpiece. It covers planning, basic and specialist equipment, ingredients, and techniques, and supplies plenty of troubleshooting tips. Before you know it, you'll be molding animals and figures, modeling with sugar paste and marzipan, working with chocolate and sugar, and making your very own beautiful cakes!