Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes: Extraordinary Recipes and Easy Decorating Techniques

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Take your baking skills to the next level with Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes, an incredible collection of cakes and cupcakes with simple decorating techniques. Lindsay Conchar-of the popular baking blog Life, Love & Sugar-has selected 60 recipes that will have your friends and family saying "wow" twice: the first time when they see how beautiful the cake is, the second time when they take a bite! With easy decorating tricks and top-notch recipes, everyday home bakers can make desserts that stand out in a crowd without slaving in the kitchen. Lindsay devotes a chapter to step-by-step decorating tutorials that readers can apply to any cake in the book, such as how to use a spatula to ice a perfectly smooth cake, or pipe pretty designs with frosting. Then readers have a huge variety of out-of-this-world cake recipes to choose from, including Peach Crumble Cheesecake, German Chocolate Cupcakes, a single-layer Blueberry Coconut Cake, Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Cake (no ice-cream machine required!) and holiday treats like Maple Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes. Divided by type of cake, readers can easily find the type of cake they'd like. The longest chapter features 16 stunning layer cakes like the Bourbon Spice Toffee Layer Cake and Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake. With Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes, even beginner bakers can make show-stopping cakes with ease for an occasion or every day.

Lindsay Conchar is the baker and photographer behind the popular baking blog Life, Love & Sugar, which has over 60K followers on Facebook and 33K on Pinterest. Her recipes are regularly featured in the online publications of Better Homes and Gardens, Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Redbook, Fox News Magazine, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, the Cooking Channel and more. Lindsay lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

"Lindsay has created a wonderfully delicious and accessible guide to baking the most sensational cakes for every occasion. The recipes are mouthwatering, the photos are stunning and Lindsay's kind and unique voice just pulls you right into the kitchen to get baking! If you love cake (and really who doesn't?), you NEED this book!" --Jocelyn Delk Adams, author of Grandbaby Cakes "Inspiring, helpful and beyond creative, Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes shows you how to turn common ingredients into beautiful masterpieces. If you have ever dreamed of unleashing your inner creativity, this book is perfect for you!" --Amanda Rettke, author of Surprise-Inside Cakes and founder of IAmBaker.net "With foolproof recipes, smart techniques and beautiful execution, Lindsay makes the art of cake baking approachable and achievable in every kitchen. Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes inspires bakers of all levels to whip up their own delectable masterpiece. The only thing missing is a fork." --Carrie Sellman, founder of TheCakeBlog.com