Favourite Character Cakes

love this book!

Compare to her "50 Easy Party Cakes", this book didn't show many techniques how to make the cake, the steps is quite rough, not details enough, kind of disappointed.

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If you're looking for the most exquisitely decorated character cakes you've ever seen, this is the book. Debbie Brown's attention to detail is beyond measure and every cake in the book, quite frankly, is perfect. Here's what you should know:1. The book is mostly characters first made popular in the UK. If you're looking for U.S. characters, this is probably not the book for you (Thomas, of course, is in the book). There's "Budgy" and "Pat the Milkman," and a host of other characters I'd never heard of. I did recognize "Paddington," and "Smurfs" and "Popeye," however.2. 100% of the book's recipes call for fondant and gum paste. If these are media in which you do not like to work, then don't buy the book.3. Don't buy the book for the recipes. The only recipes she gives are for the vanilla cake that is the base for all the cakes she makes, and for a sugar/butter buttercream that you can get off of any box. These cakes are not designed to taste like heaven; they are designed to look like heaven.My son (who is 4) gets more use out of the book than I do. He loves looking at the pictures and making up stories about the characters. If you want to see absolutely perfect work in gum paste and fondant, buy the book. If you are particularly adept at working with these media, you'll love her instructions and her images.

So, I saw rave reviews for this book, and got it, but when I actually came to use the Thomas recipe, it is no use whatsoever. She really needs to draw up a cutting plan because her descriptions do not add up.For example:It requires a 20x6cm cake. She says cut in half and slice in layers (presumably for filling?). Stack them - so with me, you have a cake that is 12 cm high. Now later on she says how the cake should be 14 cm high. Go figure. The more complex cutting instructions make even less sense, and the picture of the raw cake appears to have 5 layers in it.Now I'm not saying she's lied, but neither her written description nor the photos makes it almost possible to cut the cake correctly. A 3D diagram would have made it much easier. Its clearly a really hard project even without misleading instructions.W

It will help a lot to see the inside of the book to make sure is the one that I'm looking for. Debbie Brown have other books with the same title "character cakes"thank you

Sometimes you just gotta cheat and this book has some cute cakes with great tutorial and price was great!

WOW..I wasn't expecting this book to be in such excellent condition! I had scoured the internet looking for a guide on how to make a postman pat cake for my son & came across this however it was ridiculously priced elsewhere so I turned to amazon & this seller has come up trumps! I haven't yet attempted the cake but all the cakes have a step by step guide (with illustrations) & I'm quite creative(she says) so fingers crossed the finished result will have some resemblance to pat & his van!

What a great little book, lots of different ways to decorate cakes for children. I bought this book as my grandson was going to be 1 and the only time he sits still is when Postman Pat is on, made the PP van for his party, everyone loved it, I found a PP figure in my candle tin from when his father was into PP, 20 odd years ago.

Wonderful book. Step by step instructions to make fantastic cakes which are easy to follow and come with great pictures. Good selection of characters though these are mainly less recent ones. Noddy, the smurfs, thomas the tank, postman pat, forever friends are just a few of them

I ordered this for the postman pat cake, and made it for my 2 year old. He loved it! Some lovely cakes, but maybe suited to the older person, as a lot of the characters are from the 80's/90's! My children didn't know who snoopy was or some of he country companions!