• Recipes: ganache, meringue, royal icing, edible glaze
• Equipment: essential tools and equipment required for multiple cake projects
• Edible Materials: gumpaste, fondant, cornflour, piping gel, wafer paper, chocolate, edible beads
• Metallic Materials: lustre dusts, aerosol sprays, gold and silver leaf, dragées, glitter

• Painting: lustre wash and mixing colours, hand painting, transferring a design, calligraphy, highlighting
• Gilding: using gold and silver leaf
• Airbrushing: flooding, stencilling
• Applying: edible beads, wafer paper, sequins, dragées, glitter
• Finishing: alternatives to alcohol, buffing, polishing
• Golden Rules: designing with metallic in mind

• Layering, applying and smoothing ganache
• Covering with fondant
• Dowelling and stacking
• Cake board finishing, icing and trimming cake board

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air, trapped 131–3

airbrushing 11, 12, 24–7, 28, 84

alcohol 14, 16, 24, 28–30

appliqué 23, 36–51, 70

Artful Appliqué cake 36–51

assembling cakes 124–9

balance 5

bark effects 104–5

beads, edible 37, 51

berries, gilded 45

biscuits

Rustic Almond Rings 113

see also cookies

blossoms 49, 90, 108–9, 112–13

Blush & Gold Colour Block cake 114–21

bow-ties 39

bows 34, 38, 139

bubbles, gelatin 100–1

cake boards 124–6, 128–9, 136–8

Cake Jar 101

Cakesicles, Colour Block 121

calligraphy 16

calyx 92

Candy Melts 57

Champagne Bubbles cake 94–101

chocolate 44

Chocolate & Gold Splash cake 64–9

chocolate spheres 64, 66–7, 68

see also ganache

colour washes 14, 107–9

composition 5

contrast 5

cookies

Elegant Sugar Cookies 93

Sugar Cookies 51

covering 8–9, 130–3, 136–7

coveture chocolate 66

crab apples, faux 76, 78–80, 84–5

crowns, floral 111–13

crumb coats 128

cube cakes 61

`dabbing' technique 22

dahlias, sugar 105

daisies, sugar 75, 106, 108, 109, 110, 112

dots 56, 73–5, 91

dowelling 36, 120, 125, 134–5

dragees 11, 50–1, 60

embossing 37

equipment 8–9

eucalyptus, sugar 81, 84, 110, 112

Fall Foliage cake 76–85

fern, sugar 82–3, 84, 110, 112

filling 8–9

finishing techniques 136–9

fish scale effects 48

flowers

dragee 50–1

dried 45, 63

fresh 63, 68–9

sugar 8–9, 42–3, 49, 74–5, 90–3, 105–14, 116–19, 121

foam risers 88

fondant

covering with 8–9, 130–3, 136–7

deepening colour 26

estimating quantities 130

gilding applique shapes 23

strips 89–90

fruit, fresh 126

ganache 128

dark chocolate 7, 63, 69

passionfruit 126, 127

white chocolate 7, 56, 125–6, 128–9, 134

gelatin bubbles 100–1

Gilded Truffle, The 63

Glam Rock Trio cake 58–63

glazes, edible 11, 22, 60, 67

glitter, edible 11, 112, 120–1

glycerine 45

Golden Regency cake 86–93, 140

gradients 25, 30–1, 61

gumpaste 49, 72–4, 78–9, 81–3, 91–2, 106, 108–9, 116–19

highlighting 27

Imperial Gold cake 34–9

Imperial Gold Gift Box 39

Isomalt 54–5, 57

jam syrup 132

jimmies 11

lace, flexible 48

lace-effects 70–5

lattice stencils 89, 91

layering 8–9

leaf 18–23, 48

bands of 20

cake projects using 37–8, 49, 56–7, 60, 62, 67, 73, 75, 104–5, 120

discolouration 19

full tiers of 18–19

quantities 10

transfer sheets 10

working with 18

leaves

natural 63

sugar 49, 75, 78–85, 91–3, 92, 106, 108, 110–13

veining 80, 82–4, 92, 110

Lemon Curd Tarts 45

lustre application 11, 24–5, 28–31

Mademoiselle Meringue 40–5

magnolia leaves 83, 84

masking 8–9

meringues 6, 40–5

mini cakes 39, 57, 69, 75, 85

mistakes, fixing 17, 25

Molten Drizzle cake 52–7

mousse desserts 63

octagonal cakes 60, 61, 62

ombre cakes 30–1, 52–7, 61

painting techniques 14–17, 68

palm leaves 83–4, 85

panelling methods 88

pansies, sugar 42–3

pearls, edible 51, 75

peony rose, sugar 114, 116–19, 121

Petite Cake 57

recipes 6–7

ribbons 138

roses, sugar 93

royal icing 6, 21, 45, 73–4, 89

ruffles, feathery 72–3, 74

Rustic Almond Rings 113

sails 54–6

sanding sugar 11, 75

scallops 43

seed heads, sugar 81

sequins, wafer paper 49–50

Seven Sins 69

simple syrup 126, 128

smoothers 133

Something Blue 85

splatter painting 68

stacking cakes 134–5

stamen 91, 104–5, 108–9

stencils 27, 70, 73–4, 89, 91

over leaf 21

stripes 96–9

symmetry 5

Tarts, Lemon Curd 45

texture 5

transferring patterns 15

Treasured Laurel Lace cake 70–5

Treasured Rings mini cakes 75

truffles 52, 56–7, 63, 69

wafer paper, gilded 22, 38–9, 49–50, 52, 56, 61–3

wetting cakes 18

Woodland Crown cake 102–13