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Authors: Christina Ong Valeri Valeriano

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To create this cake…

• 20 × 10cm (8 × 4in) round cake (bottom tier), 15

× 10cm (6 × 4in) round cake (top tier)

• 1.9–2.3kg (4lb 3oz–5lb 3oz) buttercream

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• Dowel rods

• Paste colours: violet (Sugarflair Grape Violet),

green (Sugarflair Gooseberry), yellow (Sugarflair

Melon)

• Breakfast cereal, we have used Fruit Loops here

• Small kitchen knife

• Piping bags

• Scissors

• Small petal nozzle (Wilton 104)

• Small leaf nozzle (Wilton 352)

• Cake stand or covered cake board

Crumb coat, dowel and stack the cakes (see

Buttercream Basics) and place on a stand or

covered board. Cover both tiers with 800–900g (1lb

12oz–2lb) of plain buttercream. Give the top tier a

smooth finish (see Covering Cakes in Buttercream

Basics) and pipe ruffles on the bottom tier using

800–900g (1lb 12oz–2lb) of buttercream tinted

yellow (see Up and Down Two-tone Ruffles in

Piping

Textures

and

Patterns).

Colour

the

remaining buttercream in the following quantities:

200–300g (7–101⁄2oz) of violet and 100–200g

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(31⁄2–7oz) of green. Apply the cereal loops by

following the tutorial and using the photograph as a

guide. To finish the cake, pipe a violet buttercream

flower with green leaves (see Sunflower and Leaves

in Piping Flowers) and give it a cereal loop centre.

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Suppliers

UK SUPPLIERS

Lindy’s Cakes Ltd.

Unit 2, Station Approach, Wendover,

Buckinghamshire, HP22 6BN

+44(0)1296 622 418

www.lindyscakes.co.uk

Online shop for cookie cutters and stencils

Edible Creators Ltd.

191 Station Road, Rainham, KENT ME8 7SQ

+44 (0)1634 235407 / 075813 95801

www.ediblecreatorsltd.com

Supplier of impression mats and texture sheets

Decobake Ltd.

Unit 1, Clane Business Park, Clane,

480

Co. Kildare, Ireland

+35 (045) 893 890

www.decobake.com

Big selection of cake decorating supplies

Cake Stuff Ltd.

Milton Industrial Estate

Lesmahagow

Scotland ML11 0JN

+44 (0)1555 890 111

www.cake-stuff.com

Supplier of cake decorating materials

The Cake Decorating Company

Unit 2b Triumph Road, Nottingham NG7 2GA

+44 (0)115 969 9800

www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk

Range of cake decorating materials and edible

printing

DinkyDoodle Designs

2b Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2GA

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+44 (0)115 969 9803

www.dinkydoodledesigns.co.uk

Supplier of airbrush machines and colours

Knightsbridge PME Ltd.

Riverwalk Business Park, Riverwalk Rd, Enfield

EN3 7QN

+44 (0)20 3234 0049

www.knightsbridgepme.co.uk

US SUPPLIERS

The Cake World

184 Broadway #15 (Route 1N) -

Saugus, MA 01906 – 781-558-5508

+1 781-558-5508

www.thecakeworld.net

Supplier of cake decorating materials

ABC Cake Decorating Supplies/Cake Art

2853 E Indian School Rd

Phoenix, AZ. 85016

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+1 602-224-9796

www.cakearts.com

Supplier of cake decorating materials and edible

printing

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Acknowledgments

All our ideas and passion for cake decorating would

not have been translated into these lovely pages if it weren’t for our publisher, F&W Media. So for this, we would like to thank each and every one of you:

Ame Verso, Jane Trollope, Emma Gardner, Victoria

Marks, James Brooks and the rest of the team. To

our amazing photographers, Sian Irvine and Nick

Hayes, thank you so much for being so patient and

making sure that each shot was perfect.

Two years ago, we were just selling cupcakes in

school fairs but Cake International show organizers

gave us the chance to be part of the real world of

cakes. They were the first who invested trust in us

and they have played a major role in allowing us to

showcase our talents to the world. To Clare Fisher,

Ben Fidler, David Bennett, Vicki Vinton, and the

rest of the team, thank you ever so much. To all the

judges we have met in different cake competitions,

you have been our best critics and you have pushed

us to improve our craft in so many ways.

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To our dearest friend and member of Team QoHCC,

Maureen Tungol, thank you much for always

helping us and only expecting cupcakes and a nice

dinner in return. To all our enthusiastic friends and followers all over the world, this space would not be enough to write all your names, but you know who

you are and we thank each and every one of you for

your continuous support.

Above all, we would like to offer our utmost

gratitude to our ever supportive families back in the Philippines. Thank you for being the best fan group

ever, we hope that we have made you proud. We

dedicate this book to all of you.

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About the Authors

Valeri Valeriano and Christina Ong left the

Philippines in 2008 to work in the UK in the

medical field. After the ‘sweet accident’ of learning 486

how to make cupcake bouquets in 2011, they

launched their business Queen of Hearts Couture

Cakes and have since won several top awards in

various prestigious cake competitions.

Now renowned globally for their edible works of art,

using nothing else but buttercream as their

decorating medium, Valeri and Christina have been

featured in numerous well-known magazines and

on local and international news. They have

appeared on television, and showcased their

masterpieces and demonstrated their craft in major

cake shows in the UK and abroad. They hold

masterclasses in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US

and have also held a couple of masterclasses at the

famous Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Valeri and Christina take immense pride in their

mastery of buttercream art and this makes Queen of

Hearts Couture Cakes exclusive. They have

modernized what is commonly known as the

age-old art of buttercream, and this is reflected in

their creations. Their cake designs are elegant,

original and eminently contemporary.

Find

out

more

at

www.queenofheartscouturecakes.com

and

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www.facebook.com/

QueenofHeartsCupcakesAndMore

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A DAVID & CHARLES BOOK

© F&W Media International, Ltd 2014

David & Charles is an imprint of F&W Media

International, Ltd

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4PU, UK

F&W Media International, Ltd is a subsidiary of

F+W Media, Inc

10151 Carver Road, Suite #200, Blue Ash, OH

45242, USA

Text and designs © Valeri Valeriano & Christina

Ong 2014

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and

photography

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Media

International, LTD 2014

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