How to Cake It: A Cakebook
Yolanda Gampp
Oct 2017 · HarperCollins
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About this ebook
From the host of the popular YouTube channel, a baking reference for all skill levels with recipes and visual instructions for creating novelty cakes.
On her entertaining YouTube Channel, How to Cake It, Yolanda Gampp creates mind-blowing cakes in every shape imaginable. From a watermelon to a human heart, to food shaped cakes such as burgers and pizzas, Yolanda’s creations are fun and realistic. Now, Yolanda brings her friendly, offbeat charm and caking expertise to this colorful cakebook, filled with imaginative cakes to make at home.
How to Cake It: A Cakebook includes directions for making eighteen jaw-dropping cakes that are gorgeous and delicious, including a few fan favorites with a fresh twist, and mind-blowing new creations. Yolanda shares her coveted recipes and pro-tips, taking you step-by-step from easy/kid-friendly cakes (no carving necessary and simple fondant work) to more difficult designs (minimal carving and fondant detail) to aspirational cakes (carving, painting, and gum paste work).
Whatever the celebration, Yolanda has the perfect creation, including her never before seen Candy Apple Cake, Party Hat, Rainbow Grilled Cheese Cake, Toy Bulldozer Cake, and even a Golden Pyramid Cake which features a secret treasure chamber!
Written in her inspiring, encouraging voice, filled with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photos, How to Cake It: A Cakebook will turn beginners into confident cake creators, and confident bakers into caking superstars!
On her entertaining YouTube Channel, How to Cake It, Yolanda Gampp creates mind-blowing cakes in every shape imaginable. From a watermelon to a human heart, to food shaped cakes such as burgers and pizzas, Yolanda’s creations are fun and realistic. Now, Yolanda brings her friendly, offbeat charm and caking expertise to this colorful cakebook, filled with imaginative cakes to make at home.
How to Cake It: A Cakebook includes directions for making eighteen jaw-dropping cakes that are gorgeous and delicious, including a few fan favorites with a fresh twist, and mind-blowing new creations. Yolanda shares her coveted recipes and pro-tips, taking you step-by-step from easy/kid-friendly cakes (no carving necessary and simple fondant work) to more difficult designs (minimal carving and fondant detail) to aspirational cakes (carving, painting, and gum paste work).
Whatever the celebration, Yolanda has the perfect creation, including her never before seen Candy Apple Cake, Party Hat, Rainbow Grilled Cheese Cake, Toy Bulldozer Cake, and even a Golden Pyramid Cake which features a secret treasure chamber!
Written in her inspiring, encouraging voice, filled with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photos, How to Cake It: A Cakebook will turn beginners into confident cake creators, and confident bakers into caking superstars!
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68 reviews
Nataleigh “Nayomi”
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December 31, 2019
You are an inspiration and have allowed me to see my potential and not give up, pile you am I also self taught, and watching your videos on YouTube has helped give me that push to keep going and learn even more, icing has never been my strong point, but wit this book I will give it a try. Thank you Yolanda. I would love the opportunity to work alongside you and better my craft one day. Thank you for sharing your book. Truly amazing.
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Lyssa
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September 23, 2019
I love yo, so much I watch her channel every night with my son I just had to get the book and I am going to use the vanilla and chocolate recipes to make my son's 1st birthday cake !
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Julian Rodocker
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May 28, 2019
Huge fan of Yo. The book is very well laid out, instructions are clear.
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About the author
YOLANDA GAMPP is a self-taught master cake artist who started out baking novelty cakes in her mother’s kitchen and is now the host of the successful YouTube channel “How to Cake It.” “How to Cake It”has built a community of more than six million cake enthusiasts from around the world. Yolanda and her work have been featured on the Today show, The Social, Cityline, Breakfast Television, the Food Network show SugarStars, and in BuzzFeed. A graduate of George Brown College’s culinary arts program in Toronto, Yolanda quickly discovered that her true passion was working with sweets, and she was further inspired by her father, who worked as a baker. She lives in Toronto.
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