Brilliant Biscuits

From bespoke biscuit-maker Pamela Giles comes this inspiring guide to making and decorating biscuits, packed with original design ideas and colourful decorating tips plus biscuit basics, such as equipment essentials and how to build and store a cutter collection. Giles shares her professional know-how on storing dough, rolling it out, cutting out shapes, baking and storing biscuits, as well as icing essentials, such as how to store icing or colour royal icing. Accessibly arranged in user-friendly themed sections, for all levels of expertise - from those who enjoy baking but have never decorated biscuits to anyone looking to refine their skills. Featuring all special celebrations, from birthdays to weddings and Christmas, including thank-you gifts and how to involve children in the fun. Beautifully illustrated with Pamela Giles's own photos, there's something for everyone, whatever the celebration.

From bespoke biscuit-maker Pamela Giles comes this inspiring guide to making and decorating biscuits, packed with original design ideas and colourful decorating tips plus biscuit basics, such as equipment essentials and how to build and store a cutter collection. Giles shares her professional know-how on storing dough, rolling it out, cutting out shapes, baking and storing biscuits, as well as icing essentials, such as how to store icing or colour royal icing. Accessibly arranged in user-friendly themed sections, for all levels of expertise - from those who enjoy baking but have never decorated biscuits to anyone looking to refine their skills. Featuring all special celebrations, from birthdays to weddings and Christmas, including thank-you gifts and how to involve children in the fun. Beautifully illustrated with Pamela Giles's own photos, there's something for everyone, whatever the celebration.

A colourful fun 'how to' guide to decorating biscuits. Packed full of design ideas and decorating tips, providing inspiration to the home cook. Comprehensively covers the essential equipment required, tried-and-tested biscuit recipes, how to store biscuit dough, roll it out, cut out shapes, bake and store the cooked biscuits, how to colour royal icing and store icing, as well as how to include children in the fun. The main section of the book is divided into different collections. ",Commotion in the ocean",, ",The animals went in two by two...",, ",For the love of biscuits",, ",A woodland walk",, ",We're going to the chapel",, ",Down on the farm", are just some of the book's 32 collections. Each collection illustrates particular shapes, colours and designs, with accompanying text describing how to decorate the biscuits. This helps novice decorators to build a cumulative set of skills as they try out different biscuit shapes and designs.