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February 8th, 2010 | 
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American Cake Decorating contains stunning cake designs & step-by-step instruction. New ideas, helpful tips and techniques are artfully illustrated in full color photography. Issues contain projects & ideas suitable for a wide variety of skill levels. Also contains information on tools & products.
On the negative side, it seems although the magzine is popular if you take out a subscription at certain times of the year, it can take a while for the first copy to come through.
“As for the ideas and pictures, it does provide some VERY good ideas overall (especially when they put some of Colette’s work in there!). The real challenge with the ideas contained in ACD comes in that there seems to be two spectrums, either fondant and totally elegant/difficult, or the other extreme of something that even a kid could do with little to no cake decorating experience(even though they moved their kid section over to Mailbox News)… Also, they seem to cover to no end the Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show… Granted, there are many categories, it’d just be nice if they centralized it to one issue per year instead of using it as the base for the magazine every 2 months. It is very well printed consistently (on much better paper than you’ll get from other magazines out there)..
If having to choose between MBN and ACD, I’d recommend going with MBN because the ideas are more realistic to what most bakers will make or reproduce. The only reason I have to say that ACD gets 4 stars (and was tempted to give it 3 because of this one issue alone) is that over the course of time myself and others all have had the same problem… Our address mysteriously changes in their database, thus, not getting issues and having to call the publisher on more than one occasion (or three) to get the situation resolved. Their customer service gal is great, but I’d rather just get the magazine to my home address from the subscription without calling them.. Overall though, a very good cake decorating magazine.”
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