Sugar Animals (Twenty to Make)

Product Details

With sugar paste and a few simple tools, this guide for cake decorators gives techniques for making cute and funny animals. Using step-by-step instructions, this manual shows how to construct the simple shapes that are the basis for all of the animals with readily available equipment, and each finished animal is pictured. Decorators will learn to make sugar animals such as elephants, monkeys, pandas, lizards, dolphins, and kangaroos on a friendly budget. These quirky designs will thrill both the crafter and the diner.

Customer Reviews ::

Useful for basic instruction, but somewhat disappointing - Leggy Chick -
The book breaks down the "how to" instructions pretty well, so I'll say that it's ok. I think this could be useful in making sugar animals, but I will probably use inspiration from other sources for the final appearance of the animals and will not use some of the animals used in this book at all.

I think all of the animals could definitely be cuter. I also think the giraffe and zebra were especially disappointing as they just had lollipop stick legs stuck into fondant bodies with fondant bases under their feet, and they just don't look good at all. I wouldn't put either of them on a cake.