"Here are 20 great designs with clear step-by-step instructions that are easy and fun to make using simple techniques and readily available ingredients." --Machine Knitting Monthly

With sugar paste and a few simple tools, this guide for cake decorators gives techniques for making cute and funny animals. Using step-by-step instructions, this manual shows how to construct the simple shapes that are the basis for all of the animals with readily available equipment, and each finished animal is pictured. Decorators will learn to make sugar animals such as elephants, monkeys, pandas, lizards, dolphins, and kangaroos on a friendly budget. These quirky designs will thrill both the crafter and the diner.

Frances McNaughton is a sugarcraft tutor and demonstrator who provides workshops to the British Sugarcraft Guild and the National Sugarart Association. Her sugarcraft props have appeared in the films Notting Hill, Chocolat, and three of the Harry Potter films.