Wedding Cakes You Can Make: Designing, Baking, and Decorating the Perfect Wedding Cake

Yes, you can.

If you love to bake and are willing to plan ahead, you can make a spectacular wedding cake—and you don't have to be a pastry chef to do it! Let prominent wedding cake expert Dede Wilson guide you through every layer of the process—from choosing among flavors and styles to baking, assembling, and decorating your way to a beautiful and delicious cake. This accessible cookbook not only gets you ready for the big event, it helps you lend a truly personal touch to the celebration.

"If you want to make your own wedding cake, Dede Wilson is the perfect guide. She helps you bake with confidence every step of the way to a delicious personalized result."
—Donna Ferrari, BRIDE'S magazine

Customer Reviews:

Review #1: The perfect cake book
2006-11-15
We found the recipies in the book so helpful and easy to make, we are going to bake our wedding cake, everything you need is in the book.
It has lots of delicious and beautiful cakes.
That book is the best i strongly recommend it!

Review #2: A must for inspiring bakers
2006-11-10
I have never really baked much in my life outside of bread. Yet, I somehow got the crazy idea that I would bake my own wedding cake. This book is so thorough, well laid-out, and easy to read, that making your own cake, for whatever occasion, is easy. There are instructions for 16 different cakes, with pictures and easy to follow, detailed instructions. The cakes are gorgeous. I never would have known that I could really make such an elegant cake myself.

Review #3: great instruction book
2006-09-19
This is a fantastic step-by-step instruction book. I had no idea how much planning really went into creating a wedding cake but this book lays everything out for you in a pretty easy-to-follow format. I've only made one cake so far (a sample cake, like she recommends) and the frosting was spectacular but the cake itself didn't really taste like much of anything. I'm thinking that I'll borrow a lot of the techniques mentioned in this book and apply them to a recipe from another cookbook. A must for a novice baker!

Review #4: WOW WONDERFUL WEDDING CAKES
2006-09-04
THIS IS A GREAT BOOK EASY TO FOLLOW GREAT STEPS YOU WILL END UP WITH A WONDERFUL WEDDING CAKE HOMEMADE AND MADE BY YOU WHAT ELSE CAN YOU ASK FOR.

Review #5: Excellent Book For Beginners
2006-08-03
This is an excellent book for beginners. Included in the book are the following:
A few cake recipes
Buttercream recipe
Sugar syrup recipe
Resource guide to help fine supplies
General tips and advice on which tools to use
Cake pictures and the instructions on how to make/assemble the cakes.

I found the resource guide to be extremely helpful
Another feature in the book that I find helpful are the cake batter recipes. In most books they give you one recipe that only yields enough batter for one particular pan size. If you want to make a larger cake then you have to guess as to how much batter and/or ingredients you'll need which can lead to unfavorable results. In this book however, the author gives recipes for different pan sizes. Recipes/batter amounts are given for 6", 8", 9", 10", 12", 14" cake pans. The reader then does not have to guess.

All in all I found ti to be very informative and well written