Cake Decorating shows you how to build, pipe, model, and airbrush birthday cakes, wedding cakes, and more, so you can create an edible masterpiece for any occasion. Photographic step-by-step tutorials showcase more than 70 techniques and 18 showstopping cake projects, complete with complementary cupcake and mini-cake designs. Plus, "idea" spreads adapt basic techniques to inspire hundreds of additional piping, stenciling, painting, and carving variations....

A poor boy named Jack struggles to deliver a birthday present worthy of the princess.

The "mug cake" is a sweet little homemade confection for one. It can be made at the spur of the moment, uses only one mug for both cooking and serving, and is surprisingly delicious. Sweeney shows you want you need to keep on hand to create warm, delicious homemade cake-for-one whenever the craving hits.

A story about a rude cake who never says please or thank you or listens to its parents, and a Giant Cyclops who is polite.

Crabby is not a happy crab, in fact Crabby is quite crabby, so pushy Plankton, who is always trying to cheer up fellow marine creatures, bakes Crabby a cake--but will Crabby finally smile?

"Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly...