Gooseberry Patch Christmas All Through the House or Beautiful Cakes

Gooseberry Patch Christmas All Through the House: Over 600 holiday recipes, cheery crafts, and easy-to-make gifts for flurries of fun!

Author: Gooseberry Patch

Gooseberry Patch is famous for its 10-year series of Christmas books, and in Christmas all Through the House, we've compiled the very best from those books into this collector's edition. As the largest Christmas book every published by Gooseberry Patch, readers will find the best of their reader-shared homespun ideas for food, fun, easy crafts, and gifts in one easy-to-use collection. The book's grand size and bountiful content put this all-in-one Christmas book in a league by itself.

 

You'll enjoy:

• Over 400 tried-and-true reader recipes for meals, desserts, snacks, drinks, and more, plus over 200 gifts from the heart—Gooseberry Patch style.

• Over 200 craft ideas that include patterns and step-by-step instructions entice you to stitch, glue, and paint to your heart's content.

• Over 400 see-and-do color photos and spiral binding make it easy to use.

 

Interesting textbook: Hugh Johnsons Pocket Wine Book 2009 or The Rice Diet Solution

Beautiful Cakes: Irresistible Cakes and Cookies

Author: Peggy Porschen

Peggy Porschen is the doyenne of fabulously stylish decorated cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Charming designs in striking colors have become her trademark. By turns enchanting and dramatic, her intriguingly shaped cakes and cookies feature flora and fauna, like flowers and butterflies, or geometric and abstract patterns.  Her first book, Pretty Party Cakes, drew such comments as ‘[she is] like Cath Kidston meets Nigella Lawson’. In this, her second book, Peggy applies that vision to her own favorite subject area—romance. There are the glorious wedding cakes for which she first rose to fame, but she has also devised wondrous flights of fancy to celebrate true love, from its earliest stirrings on Valentine’s Day, through proposal and engagement, the wedding shower and to the big day itself—and even anniversaries.

Designed to suit readers of all skill levels, the book also contains an easy-to-follow Basics section covering equipment, recipes and techniques. Readers can then confidently tackle projects like Peggy’s evocative Venetian Mask Cookies, her irresistible Je t’Aime Fondant Fancies, the sweetest way to pop the question – and even attempt a spectacular, like her breathtaking Bed of Roses.

There is something for everybody from projects so simple beginners can achieve rewarding results to more complex assemblages, but clear text and step-by-step photography make even these easy. Peggy’s edible fantasies will make you want to take up palette knife and icing bag to create these irresistibly pretty cookies and cakes. Romance radiates from every page and no one could fail to be seduced by Peggy’s vividworld of love.