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The authors of best-selling “Hello Cupcake!” are at it again with their eye-popping designs, unique ideas, and easy-to-follow instructions.

In this volume you will find cakes for every occasion – holidays, birthdays, or just for fun. There are countless interesting ideas to do with kids or for an enjoyable day of baking alone. Simple instructions make for less stress and a more entertaining cake making experience.

These bakers really think outside the cake pan. With more than just cake and icing, creations come together with candies, cookies, and more.

These cake artists look at cake as a canvas to fill, an art piece. And their finished pieces really showcase it. Snacks from your local grocery store will become part of your masterpiece. No fancy decorating tools needed. One round cake pan can become rainbows and roosters. Oven safe bowls are perfect for creating rounded cakes that become ladybugs and dolls. Explore new decorating techniques by using smashed sugar to fix flaws or acquire helpful tips like chilling your cooled cake in the freezer before decorating to make the surface easier to work with. Use candies and confections such as nerds, marshmallows and Oreo cookies to make your concepts come to life.

Take traditional icing techniques to the next level. Using a pastry brush, paint streaks on a vanilla-frosted log cake to create a wood-grain look for a finished baseball bat. Turn pound cake into brightly-colored owls, devil’s food into a monkey, or French vanilla cake into a fairytale creation from the “Princess and the Pea.”

These colorful confections make for tasty centerpieces, great for any party or friendly get-together. Picnics, birthdays, holidays, and so much more! A fantastic finale for any event.

Every feast needs a centerpiece like one of the cakes you will find in “Cake My Day!” A festive piñata cake, a reindeer cake for the holidays, animal cakes for any occasion. There really is something for every season. Describing them in words almost doesn’t do justice to the pictures which make the cakes pop with mouthwatering and eye-catching appeal. Adding one of these pieces to the family feast will be the icing on the cake!