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Sweet Tables - A Romance of Ruffles: A collection of sensuous desserts from Zoe Clark's The Cake Parlour Sweet Tables
Sweet Tables - A Romance of Ruffles: A collection of sensuous desserts from Zoe Clark's The Cake Parlour Sweet Tables
Sweet Tables - A Romance of Ruffles: A collection of sensuous desserts from Zoe Clark's The Cake Parlour Sweet Tables
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Bring some serious wow factor to your cake displays with a sumptuous sweet table of sensuous desserts softly textured with piped swirls, frills and ruffles in dreamy, muted tones. Includes how to make a trio of celebration cakes, white chocolate truffles, flouncy flower cookies, ruched ribbon cupcakes and tempting twirls of meringue.
A sample chapter from Zoe Clark's The Cake Parlour.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 28, 2012
ISBN9781446359051
Sweet Tables - A Romance of Ruffles: A collection of sensuous desserts from Zoe Clark's The Cake Parlour Sweet Tables
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Zoe Clark

Zoe Clark is one of London’s leading wedding cake designers. She is the author of five books on cake decorating and runs the Cake Parlour, where she offers cake decorating classes and bespoke cake design services for every occasion. Zoe has recently started supplying the world-renowned Fortnum & Mason store with an exclusive range of wedding and celebration cakes and cookies.

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    Sweet Tables - A Romance of Ruffles - Zoe Clark

    A Romance of Ruffles

    Craft a sophisticated collection of sensuous desserts softly textured with piped swirls, frills and ruffles in dreamy, muted tones.

    Fantasy frills

    This fabulous trio of celebration cakes is a study in texture and tone, featuring the use of buttercream as the decorating medium rather than the usual smooth sugarpaste. The three distinct designs are created using the same basic technique and piping tube but worked in slightly different ways and tones. The ruffled tiers are contrasted with plain tiers to accentuate the textural effects.


    Equipment

    Hollow pieces of dowel, cut to size (see Baking and Covering Techniques: Assembling tiered cakes)

    Cake dummy, cake stand or heavy-duty turntable

    Large disposable plastic piping (pastry) bags

    Petal piping tube (tip) no. 103

    RIBBON 1.5cm (⁵⁄8in) ivory, coffee, peach satin

    Flower picks (optional)

    Basic equipment (see Tools and Equipment)


    Unless you have access to refrigerated transport on the day, assemble the upper tiers of the four-tier cake on site.

    FOUR-TIER


    Materials – For the four-tier cake

    One 13cm (5in) and one 20cm (8in) round cake, 9cm (3¹⁄2in) deep, layered, filled with filling of choice and coated with buttercream

    One 15cm (6in) and one 25cm (10in) round cake, 13cm (5in) deep, layered with

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