The Kate Venter sugar art collection - Kate Venter

Kate Venter is recognised as a world expert in the art of cake decorating. In this book she brings together the knowledge and experience gained over more than thirty years as a leading and innovative cake decorator. It also includes the best of Kate Venters previously published bestsellers and will be welcomed by her many followers as well as newcomers to this exacting and rewarding field.;This illustrated collection covers a very wide spectrum of sugar art from tried and tested recipes for fruit cakes, icings, paste and pastillage to detailed descriptions of icing methods, including bas-relief, flood, cocoa painting, lace and collars.;Kate Venter lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. As well as winning numerous trophies and prizes for her cake decorating designs and undertaking a number of worldwide demonstration tours she also lectured for more than twenty years at the Cape Technical College. She is the author of three bestsellers on the art and craft of cake decorating,"Sugar Art" (1984), "Sugar Decorating" (1987) and "Say it with Sugar" (1990).