Dessert Designer- Creations You Can Make and Eat!

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Desserts, we all love them and what’s even better than to be able to get creative and have fun with desserts? Besides eating them of course!

I recently was able to review Dessert Designer– Creations you can make and Eat by Dana Meachen Rau. I had fun with this book as I love to get creative with my food not just desserts. The beautifully illustrated book is full of FUN as well as easy creative designs to brighten up any party or even just a sweet treat you want to share with the family. I was really surprised at how easy most things looked in here. They do require time and patience as well as tools, but all is listed for what you need to create a fun sweet piece of art.

I attempted to to the Tipsy Flower Tower but my kids had other ideas and literally pushed their way in around me to watch which created a very bright tipsy flower tower falling on the floor! I used the idea to make flowers out of what I had left.

Not towers, not tipsy but they were fun to make, not to mention eat!

The book is packed with plenty of idea, from cakes, lollipops, cookies, cupcakes even a Volcano over flowing with lava which looks like a science project you can eat!

I love how bright the pictures are, very detailed. There’s clear simple directions which guide you through putting together your dessert and of course the ingredients you’ll need. I would say this is a great book to pick up if you aren’t feeling super skilled in dessert making because most listed in this book require assembling more than baking at all. Say for instance – the Winter Icicles ( a decorative hanging dessert to spruce up the home) It uses rock candy strings already made so this one only requires being able to piece it together. While the cookies do require you to know your hand around frosting but it’s pretty easy in the long run.

Have some fun next holiday or birthday party and flip through Dessert Designer to create something new and fun! You can even set the kids up with cookies or cupcakes and have them try to create their own delicious master piece!