Reviews for Whimsical Bakehouse: Fun-to-Make Cakes that Taste as Good As They Look!

The average rating for Whimsical Bakehouse: Fun-to-Make Cakes that Taste as Good As They Look! based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-17 00:00:00 James Martin Anyone interested in cake decorating should own this book. I get all my reading material from the local library, but I plan on purchasing this one, which is the highest compliment I can give. The decorating style is completely accessible, going for charm over perfection, and the recipes are fantastic. The relief chocolate method is also within an amateur's reach, and it such a creative and original method that the author deserves an award for it alone. The philosophy of this book is that everything on a cake should be edible - and not just technically edible, but the kind of edible that makes you want to eat it. I applaud this approach, since so much of cake decorating looks and tastes like hardened cement. The styles of the cakes are not all ones that I would want to copy, but again, this is something original enough that it should be part of your cake decorating library.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-31 00:00:00 Keenan Kirimli This book contains the most consistently good scratch-cake recipes that I have found so far. Every recipe is delicious, and they take a more free-form perspective on decorating, so it's more fun than work to replicate any of their cakes. Beautiful pictures, excellent instruction. If you've had any desire to learn to bake a cake from scratch, or to try some "fancy" decorating, this book will be the most fun way to do it.