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The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Modern Cake Decorating - by McKinley Wilton and Norman Wilton. 1969, 1970.  The world's best-seller--the book no decorator should be without.  Wilton's Encyclopedia of Modern Cake Decorating tells everything you need to know to become an expert!  264 pages, more than 400 illustrations, 148 in full color.  The Wilton do-it-yourself method emphasizes large, detailed, step-by-step illustrations, easy-to-follow directions.  Simple enough for beginners--with everything explained from the necessary tools to icing recipes, borders, flowers, script, fancy party and wedding cakes.  Advanced enough for experts with special techniques, such as spun and pulled sugar decorations, figure-piping, fine candy making, hors d'oeuvres and more.  Most complete decorating book ever written.  Washable hard cover.  904-D-2642.  11-1/4"x 8".

Wilton's Wonderland of Cake Decorating - 1968, 1970. Perfect follow-up to the Wilton Encyclopedia.  224 pages, 450 illustrations, 98 in full color.  Gives you even more ideas for cakes, hors d'oeuvres, candy.  124 party cakes, 42 icing borders, 10 candy recipes, 20 large icing centerpieces, 40 wedding cakes (with every border illustrated full size).  Tells how to do intricate latticework icing designs, fabulous gum paste ornaments and banquet-type ice carving.  All with illustrated, step-by-step directions anyone can follow.  11-1/4"x8-3/4" with washable hard cover.  903-D-2249.

The Wilton Book of Wedding Cakes - 1971.  The most unusual and complete book of wedding cakes and wedding tips ever written!  With page after page of new and original cake designs that serve as many as 400, as few as 12.  Each cake comes with easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions for decorating.  There is even a chapter on how to bake, fill, ice, assemble and safely carry a wedding cake.  Another on how to plan a wedding reception, including menus, decorations, customs and etiquette.  Also fresh, exciting ideas for imaginative and colorful showers and wedding parties--with the cleverest cakes ever to make for them.  A perfect shower gift--helps the bride plan the wedding and choose the cake.  A boon to any party-giver.  Hard cover.  8-1/2" x 11-3/4".  908-D-109.

The Wilton Book of Classic Desserts - 1970, 146 pages. The book that turns anyone into a gourmet dessert cook!  Contains a prize collection of the finest recipes of the golden age of cuisine and many classic favorites as well, with colorful accounts of their origin.  From fresh pumpkin pie, mince pie and gingerbread better than Mom's to simple-but-impressive desserts such as Strawberries Romanoff or Peaches Melba.  also more time-taking gourmet treats such as a Croquembouche (cream puff tower) and puff pastry.  174 easy-to-follow recipes.  Many beautiful full color photos.  Special chapters tell how to make the world's most elaborate desserts from just a few basic pastry mixtures and fillings.  Lavishly illustrated; rich washable red biding stamped in gold.  905-D-1462.

Celebrate! Omnibus -   This is the very best of all twelve issues of the Celebrate! magazine. There are 192 big pages bound between permanent hard covers-and of course, it's full-color from beginning to end. Arranged in twelve exciting issues (the 1973 and 1974 issues), joys for every season.  There is a portfolio of cakes just for men and a prize collection of cakes for children of all ages - animal kingdom cakes, storybook character cakes and circus cakes complete with a circus party plan and a visit to the Circus World Museum, learn to make life-like flowers, wedding cakes, and more.  See how you too can learn figure piping, the art of making fondant, the English method of decorating and how to make luscious European chocolates. Each is taught step-by-step by an expert. Norman Wilton gives his practical advice in "Common Sense for Decorators".  1976.  8-3/4" x 11".

Celebrate! Charter Pattern Book.  All patterns needed for creating the beautiful cake designs and decorations shown in the first half of Celebrate! Omnibus.  70 patterns. 408-T-113.

Celebrate! II.  1975.  The Annual for Cake Decorators.  (2nd Printing with new cover shown in illustration.)  160 8-1/2"x11" full-color pages.  There are cakes for men, women, children and teens--plus seasonal and holiday cakes too.  Instructions for 17 different varieties of icing flowers.  Americana cakes, decorated with unusual, but not-too-difficult techniques are featured in Celebrate! II.  An old-time car, clipper ship and popcorn wagon are included, plus others.  Cakes that honor nations that have played a part in the history of the United States are also featured in "Makers of America".  Just a few of the countries represented are Ireland, Africa, Holland, Israel and France.  There are a total of 17 nationalities.  Lots of quick and pretty cakes fill the pages, easy enough for a beginning decorator and real time-savers.  Your favorite features are also included.  Norman Wilton shares his decorating "know-how" in his column "Commonsense for Cake Decorators".  Readers give their advice and views in "Thanks for Writing" and "Decorating for Profit".  Expert decorators give instructions on specialized aspects of decorating in "How the Experts Do It".  The "Green Boutique" explains making never-before flowers in icing.  916-T-103.

Celebrate! II Pattern Book.  Patterns for Celebrate! II, second half of Omnibus and '76 Yearbook.  1975.  408-T-120.

Celebrate! IV - 1977.  A whole year's worth of bi-monthly magazine issues in one glorious, full-color, hard cover book.  And each big 8-1/2" x 11" pages is filled with cake decorating ideas you'll love.  Over 150 brand new decorated cakes.  Shows you how to make a decorating idea come to life from the sketching stage right up to the actual cake.  You'll see how a tiered wedding cake is created, and how that same cake can be transformed into 4 different party cakes.

Celebrate! IV Pattern Book.

See a list of the patterns in this book and also buyer resources for this hard to find, out-of-print publication.

The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating - Volume One.  A Complete Encyclopedia.  1974.  This book gathers all the information into one book that a decorator needs to create cakes using the Wilton-American method.  Four years in the making, no time or expense was spared to make Volume One beautiful--and useful.  It is printed on high quality paper with a durable washable binding that has the look of red leather, gold-color stamped.  There is also a glossy full-color dust jacket.  Inside are 328 large 8-1/2" x 11", full-color pages filled with decorating techniques and ideas presented simply and clearly.  Volume One is the most valued reference book for beginning and advanced decorators.  Norman Wilton, teacher, culinary artist, innovator, sums up in this book a lifetime of devotion to cake decorating. All the basic skills needed to decorate beautiful cakes are carefully set forth. The uses of every decorating tube are fully explained. A whole chapter demonstrates how color brings beauty to every cake. Others show how to create scores of borders and a whole garden of exotic flowers in icing. Full sections are devoted to over-piping, delicate lace and lattice, the finest filigree. How to work with old-world marzipan, pipe realistic figures, paint pictures in icing. All instructions are accompanied by glowing full-color pictures-hundreds of them. It's as if an expert were at your side to explain each procedure.

The Wilton Way, Volume One.  Pattern Book.  - All the patterns needed for cakes and other decorated confections in The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating, Volume One.

The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating - Volume Two.  A Complete Encyclopedia.  This book was produced to honor Wilton's Golden Anniversary. It has long been the dream of Norman Wilton to display the foreign methods of the art of cake decorating in their purest forms--then to show how these methods became the roots and beginnings of the Wilton-American Way. In this elegant book you will learn decorating as it was once done in the kitchens of royalty. Scores of beautiful cakes show how American masters have built upon these classic techniques and extended them. A distinguished panel of experts explain everything from pulled sugar to piping air-borne loops of fragile lace. This book is designed to broaden the horizons of decorators who want to preserve the best of the past and build upon it!  328 pages.

The Wilton Way Pattern Book.  All the patterns needed for cakes and other decorated confections in The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating, Volume Two.

The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating - Volume Three.  The Uses of Tubes.  Volume Three, much more than any other book on decorating, goes to the heart of this fascinating art. It highlights the importance of tubes - the basic tools employed by the decorator. By studying the pages of this book, you'll gain as amazing insight into the magic that each of the 180 tubes can perform. We've also pictured scores of outstanding cakes decorated through the use of the various families of tubes. 328 pages.

The Wilton Way - Volume Three - Pattern Book.  All the patterns needed for cakes and decorated confections in The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating - Volume Three.

Basic Cake Decorating - The Wilton Way.  A full-color, 36-page book that shows you all the fundamentals of cake decorating from icing the cake to trimming it with pretty decorations.  Everything is shown step-by-step--flower-making, border decorations, figure piping, cake writing and more.  Directions for making birthday and special occasion cakes included.  All the basics you need to know.

The Wilton Way to Decorate for Christmas is 96 big 8-1/2" x 11" full-color pages filled with decorating ideas to help make the season bright.  Trim the tree in six beautiful and different ways with ornaments you and your family make yourselves.  There are colorful fiesta stars, quaint bread dough ornaments and cookie trims.  Mold sugar baskets for sweets, pipe lacy filigree shapes and create dazzling "jeweled" ornaments.  A chapter for children gives easy step-by-step picture instructions for treats they can make themselves (with just a little help from you).  Fabulous candies with step-by-step instructions are easy to achieve.  European chocolates by a renowned pastry chef, pastel bonbons, chocolate truffles, decorated mints and petits fours all make delicious gifts.  Scores of festive cakes are shown.  There are impressive centerpiece cakes, two magnificent holiday wedding cakes, traditional Buche de Noel and fruitcake trimmed in the English manner.  Also a group of cakes designed to delight children.  With all the patterns and instructions.  1976. 911-T-224.

Celebrate! III.  1976.  Birthday cakes, and only birthday cakes fill the Sugar Plum Shop, newly opened in this book.  There are dozens of fabulous, imaginative cakes for men, women, teens, children and toddlers.   Browse through this colorful shop and you'll see a charming wishing well cake, a spectacular animal band, a cute toy box and a game of darts cake.  Cakes for men are displayed in abundance.  There is a chocolate rose, tiger lily, a coat-of-arms cake, Quick & Pretty Cakes.  The Green Boutique shows you step-by-step how to pipe 32 gorgeous flowers shown on a garden of flowering cakes.  There are three charming birthday cakes adorned with flowers that spell out a secret message.  Violet, Easter Lily and Paradise are towering wedding cakes.  And twelve cakes are trimmed with the flower of each month.  Learn the magic of gum paste--how to form classic sculptural trims and create life-like flowers.  Figure pipe cute bunnies and chicks and other lovable creatures following easy picture directions.  Make an Australian-style petite wedding cake and a dainty Philippine-style wedding cake.  Model a miniature Thanksgiving Dinner in marzipan.  And marvel at our 3-dimensional Valentine.  160 full-color pages.  153 exciting all-new cakes with clear complete instructions.  Hard cover.  916-T-308.

Celebrate! III - Softcover Edition.  1982

Celebrate! III Pattern Book.  1976.  71 patterns.  408-T-229.

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Celebrate! Wedding Cakes -   1983, Hardcover.  Contains 100 exquisite cakes with complete patterns and how-to's.  Includes Grand Celebration Cakes, Lacy, Latticed Wedding Cakes, Masterpiece Cakes that Challenge the Decorator, Cakes Small in Size, Big in Appeal, Delightful Cakes in the Australian Style, Anniversary Cakes, Groom's Cakes, Shower Cakes.  This book tells you all you need to know to create a wedding cake and how to use the cake patterns that are included in the book.  192 pages.

The Fantasy of Molds by Wilton.  1974.  Softcover.  This handy little book shows how to shape sugar, fondant, chocolate, gelatin and ice cream in molds to create beautiful party treats.  Instructions, recipes included.  Many exciting ideas for trimming cakes, making ornaments and table decorations.  All full-color.  48 pages.  902-T-306.

Wilton Yearbook 1978.  196 pages of beautiful cakes, easy instructions and exciting products.  See a list of the cake projects shown in the 1978 Yearbook.

1978 Yearbook Patterns.  All patterns needed for the 1978 Yearbook.  57 patterns.  408-T-784.

Celebrate! With Party Spectaculars from A to Z: The Annual for Cake and Food Decorators by Wilton.  Cake decorating annual with instructions for birthday cakes, wedding cakes, Christmas, Easter and other seasonal and special occasion cakes.  Includes special dainty Australian and dramatic English over-piped decorating methods.  Hard cover book with color photos and illustrations, 160 pgs, 1983, 11-1/4" X 8-3/4".  916-T-936.

The 1974 Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating.  1974.  Four seasons of special cakes--Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.  How to Make it All Happen--Decorating ABC's, Borders, Flowers, and Special Techniques.  Cake Decorating Supplies--New Cake Shapes, Gay Toppers, Decorator Tools, Wedding Ornaments, Molds for Sweets and Candle Shop.  184 pages.

Celebrate! Pattern Book - Contains patterns for all the cakes in Celebrate!'s charter year and all the cakes featured in the 1974 Yearbook.  Also many patterns for lace, filigree, coat-of-arms and color flow, plus designs for decorative plaques, bread sculptures and children's storybook favorites.  70 patterns in all.  1974, 408-D-113.

Sugar Plum Pattern Book - A collection of over 70 Sugar Plum patterns for Color Flow.  Australian Lace, South African Lace and many other popular techniques.  Plus all the patterns you need for the Wilton Book of Wedding Cakes.  408-D-1500.

Color Flow Pattern Book - Over 40 pages of Color Flow patterns selected to provide decorative themes for any occasion -- birthdays, holidays, seasons.  Alphabet and numerals included so you can spell out wishes.  408-D-350.

Celebrate! Christmas with Wilton.  1982, 80 pages.  Gingerbread Houses, Christmas candy, cookie construction, a parade of Christmas Trees and Holiday Cakes.  Softcover.

Wilton: The Uses of the Most Popular Decorating Tips.  1986, 50 pages.  A Wilton How-To-Book.  Decorating tips are the decorator's means of self-expression.  This book familiarizes you with an extensive array of decorating tips, many of which you've never used or haven't used in the ways shown here before.  All the designs include simple, concise instructions and large, detailed four-color photographs so they may be duplicated by decorators who know the basics.  Includes uses for Drop flower tips, leaf tips, petal tips, round tips, ribbon tips, star tips, star-cut tips, special use tips and giant tips.  Stock No. 902-1375.

Wilton Holiday!  1988, 80 pages.  Bake and decorate a holiday to remember.  This issue includes festive decorated cakes, gingerbread and cookie houses, boxes and centerpieces, delicious breads, candies and desserts.  Also recipes, patterns and products that are needed for the projects.

A Treasury of Wilton Wedding Cakes - Updated Edition.  1991, 96 pages.  The exquisite cakes found in this book reflect the more than half a century of experience Wilton has in designing wedding cakes.  Victorian to contemporary cakes--for large or intimate weddings--are showcased in this beautiful treasury.  Each comes with complete instructions that make it easy for your baker or cake decorator to make your wedding cake as special as your day.  Updated Edition includes 5 new designs and great new products. Stock No. 908-105.

Wilton Mini Treats.  1996, 52 pages.  Create personal size mini treats using single-serving Wilton baking pans and molds.  Includes recipes and ideas for appetizers, breads, entrees and desserts.  The rear of the book shows a chart with the recipes listed by the pans and molds used in the book.  Illustrated with color photos and line drawings.  Stock No. 2104-1100.

Wilton Method of Cake Decorating - Course III: Fondant and Tiered Cakes.    1997, 32 pages.  In Course III, your decorating skills move to a higher level as you create majestic cakes and spectacular decorations.  Learn about tiered cakes and fondant.  Stock No. 902-1248.

Wilton Cake Decorating! 1999 Yearbook.  1998, 208 pages.  Cakes for Birthdays, Character cakes, sports cakes, Baby Showers, Weddings and Holidays.

Pattern Book for the 1999 Wilton Yearbook.  1998, 55 pages.  Contains patterns for the Wilton 1999 Yearbook.  Some of the patterns are the Clown Carousel, Sesame Street Block Party, White Collar Gift, All-American Pie, Fired Up for Halloween, Rudy Reindeer Cupcakes, Holiday on Ice, Champagne Celebration , Hearts United as well as many more.  Stock No. 408-990.

Wilton - The 2000 Yearbook - Cake Decorating.  1999, 224 pages.  This Special Millennium Edition of the Wilton Yearbook is their biggest Yearbook ever.  Includes the Year 2000 Cake Stencil.  Instructions for cakes and treats for special occasions, cake decorating products, candy making and cookie making supplies, the Wedding Shop, The Bakeware shop and the Seasonal and Character Shops.  Includes how-to's for icing, flowers, piping, candy making and more.  Stock No. 1701-2000.

Wilton 2000 Yearbook Pattern Book. 1999, 59 pages.   Includes patterns for cake designs found in the Wilton 2000 Yearbook.  Stock No. 408-2000.

2001 Wilton Yearbook.   2000, 224 pages.  Contains complete instructions, over 250 new decorating ideas plus special section on Teddy Bears with 18 adorable new cakes.  Also Birthday Cakes, Special Occasion Cakes and Holiday Cakes.  Stock No. 1701-2007.

Celebrate! with Fondant.  2005.  Wilton's first book dedicated to working with Fondant.  For the beginner to the advanced fondant decorator, 40 cakes with alternate ways to decorate every design and suggestions for every occasion.  Step-by-step instructions. 902-911.

Celebrate! VI - 1980, Hardcover.  Illustrated with color photographs.  160 pages.  916-618.

Celebrate! VI Pattern Book - All the patterns needed for Celebrate! VI.  Contains 39 patterns.  1980.

Wilton Celebrate! A Christmas Collection of Festive Foods and Desserts - 1997.  Contains festive foods, delightful decorating, delectable desserts, colorful candy and cookies, and jolly gingerbread.  Illustrated with beautiful color photographs.  Softcover. 96 pages.

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