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Kids' Birthday Cakes ("Australian Women's Weekly" Home Library) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Susan Tomnay
Publisher: ACP Publishing Pty Ltd
Category: Book
Buy New: £33.69
New (1) Used (9) from £3.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 289462
Media: Paperback
Pages: 119
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 7.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 1863962816
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781863962810
ASIN: 1863962816
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
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 A bit dated October 11, 2008
I was sadly dissapointed with this book. The designs are a bit basic. There are one or two designs that I might copy but that's all. Many of the cakes are finished in butter cream which is vey messy for children
and I think the British are more likely to prefer an icing finish. This might be suitable for someone who's never made a cake before but I found it uninspiring.
 Try it yourself June 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the first book I bought before starting classes in cake decorating. Although I am more advanced now I found I could acheive really good results with this book when I had limited skills and knowledge. They are simple enough to do when you have young children around that want to help. My grandchildren all helped decorate their own birthday cakes chosen from this book, we started with the pirate ship with chocolate bar gang planks. Although sometimes you have to be a little inventive and substitute some of the sweets that are not readily available here, part of the fun is thinking up alternatives to use in the planning stage with the children, and they were very good at coming up with ideas of what to use instead.
Fantastic value and easy to make cakes! April 15, 2006
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
When a child, I remember that my mother had an older edition of this cookbook which my brothers and I used to look through and choose our birthday cakes from every year. We loved the cakes, all of which are reproduced in this more up to date book, now appearing more colourful and just as yummy looking as ever.
This new edition is fantastic value, containing easy to follow recipes for lots and lots of cakes.
If you have young children and like to make you own cakes for their birthdays (and home made cakes always taste better!), you will not find a book with as many simple recipes as this one. I find the Australian women's weekly cookbooks really helpful and down to earth. The cakes vary from super quick and simple to more time and consuming and elegant (and even these are relatively easy).
Most recipes use everyday confectionary which is easy to get hold of in your local supermarket - there are barely any ingedients that you will find difficult to obtain.
I have given this book 5 stars for its easy, accessible style and simple to make cakes which really do taste good and look impressive for both children and adults. There are great categories of cakes, including seperate ones for boys and girls, and also number cakes which can be adapted and personalised for all birthdays (not just children's!)
I highly recommend this book, for cakes to make and also as a reference for inspiration!!!
Cute cakes, easy to follow February 2, 2004
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Good rating though there are some books out there far more advanced and impressive. This book gives you ideas while you are checking it out and also the cakes look delicious, especially for a small kid who need to feast its eyes on a simplier design easy enough to understand and good enough to eat! But depending on the age of the children you have to exchange the non eatable decorations to candy etc. Well worth the money.
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