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Baking and decorating your own delicious, elegant cakes becomes a simple matter of pride and pleasure with the easy-to-follow recipes, color photographs and how-to sketches in _Betty Crocker's Cake Decorating Book_. This book begins with an introduction to basic cake decorating, including the use of a decorating bag and the various tips for making borders, flowers and other designs, and features more than one hundred of the best, tested Betty Crocker recipes paired with as many delicious frostings, fillings and glazes. Each cake — simple to elaborate — is given a unique, personalized decorating treatment. Here are cakes for every occasion: Calendar Cakes, both holiday and seasonal; Celebration Cakes for weddings, showers, birthdays and other important events; and Special Cakes for friends and family, including Company Cakes, Family Favorites and Gift Cakes. And _every cake in the book is photographed in color_ to inspire you and to ensure your decorating success!