The Cake Decorator's Motif Bible: 150 Fabulous Fondant Designs with Easy-to-Follow Charts and Photographs Hardcover-spiral – October 11, 2007

I am new to fondant and I have thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it; be it reading, making or decorating. This book is definitely for beginners. People who have never worked with fondant before and this is their first time. It will give a simple way of working with fondant without all the cutters and all complicated tools. You will need to get some basic tools, but I substituted lot of tools with forks, tooth picks and other stuff I could find at home. All you need is a little creativity and I am sure you can too. Also the book is easy to understand in terms of language or instructions. Its not possible to not understand the instructions, combined with the pictures. Once you start making the motifs, you will understand the instructions even better.That being said its a good book of ideas. The motifs in here are mostly simple and doable, and very much versatile. You can adapt the ideas and use it to form a theme or create your own theme using the ideas from the book as a base. Most of the motifs are 2D, as someone here mentioned, only a few are 3D; But even the 2D have a kind of bulge to them, that is they are not completely flat. While that may not be a drawback, some people might not find it good enough. Again this is a book of fondant motifs, so there aren't any recipes for cakes and stuff only a few basic ones to start with. But I didn't expect it to have any recipes, neither should you.To sum it upPros:* Excellent pick for beginners and starters* Easy to understand and implement* Even a total newbie can do it* Lots and lots of ideas* Ideas and the book itself is very versatile* Very much inspiringCons:(Well kind of)* Most motifs are 2d and very few 3d (but then the 2d motifs are not flat, they have certain bulge to them which makes then almost like 3d)* Too simple for advanced or good sugar and gum paste artistsFinally its a book of fondant motifs and it does what it says. It deserves the 5 stars.

I am impressed with the layout of this book and the massive amount of color reference photos. That is what I look for in a cooking/baking book, since I am a visually-oriented person and need the photos to create interest in my brain. However, I think that the actual designs of the fondant motifs are somewhat outdated compared to the fondant work that I am seeing out there in the industry. The designs and the finished products look a bit amateurish to me, like maybe they would have been popular a while back, but not necessarily any more. Perhaps I am just a fondant snob. I also did not know that the designs in the book were for ONLY fondant. I kind of expected ideas and patterns for other methods of creating cake embellishments, such as Royal Icing or the use of melting wafers. To me, this just isn't a very sophisticated book. It seems more elementary to me. But I will still use it, just not as much as I thought I would.

Great ideas, a bit short on 'how to' but if you're the least bit experienced you should be able to figure it out. Good images and ideas, some good basics for baking...

Wow, what a beautiful book! I bought it for my granddaughter who is interested in cake decorating. There are 150 designs with simple instructions, which I think anyone could easily follow. The designs range from simple to elaborate with full-color photographs. I was very pleased to give her this copy. I highly recommend it.

This is really nice book for beginners and professionals.Its quite simple and gives little tips for each project.Its however not 3D. So if you're looking for motifs to simply stick on ur cake this is the book for u.

This is a good idea book. Nothing is hard to do. It also explains stuff well. I would recommed it for beginners.

I bought this for my cake decorator friend for her birthday and she loved it! Not only does it have sooooo many designs but also recipes for making fondants and gum pastes.

This book was interesting! I like the graphs and the way the directions are written. I am a visual learner and I like to see how things are constructed. More ideas than I could possibly use but having more ideas has never been an issue!

I ordered The Decorators Motif Bible (2007) - my decision was based on the picture AND name of the book - and got Creative Cake Decorating (1983)...

Excellent, handy size book with lots of detailed instructions. Very useful.

Very pleased with item