Sugar flowers & arrangements - Lesley Herbert

Flowers have always been a favourite with sugracraft artists, but in Lesley Herbert's book the reader will learn new ideas to enhance the delicacy and design of wedding, Christmas and other celebration cakes. For the author goes beyond merely describing how to make marzipan and sugarpaste flowers, how to use cutters and pulling techniques, to cover the actual arrangement of the sprays and corsages.;This brings her on to the subject of ribbons, so often in the past treated as an afterthought. But here their beauty is exploited to the full and in the last chapter of the book, these two elements are brought together in a number of cakes beautifully garlanded with swags of sugar flowers, foliage and ribbons.;Lesley Herbert is one of today's top sugarcraft artists and this year won the senior grand prix d'honneur in the "Pastry" class of the Salon Culinaire at Hotelympia with the tiered wedding cake (with rose sprays) which appears in this book.