About the Book

Bake it, Craft it, Style it Amy Atlas, home baker, crafter, and party planner extraordinaire, shows her readers and fans how to create fabulous sweets tables for adults and kids, combining easy recipes, dressed-up store-bought treats, and craft ideas, to make dessert a fitting grand finale to any gathering. Amy Atlas gained an international following when she introduced the concept of meshing baking and crafting to make beautiful sweets spreads. She has designed tables for Brooke Shields, Electrolux with Kelly Ripa, Gayle King, Martha Stewart Weddings, Mindy Weiss, and O Magazine. Since 2008, hundreds of thousands of readers have flocked to her award-winning blog, Sweet Designs. Now they'll learn how she does it for the first time in her first book filled with brand-new tables, original recipes, do-it-yourself instructions, and dozens of tips and secrets.
Sweet Designs includes 15 chapters filled with more than 100 recipes for every kind of irresistible treat, plus over 75 easy, affordable DIY craft projects to make them even more special. Each chapter features an amazing dessert table that reflects themes Amy's clients most often request: a favorite color, design, flavor, destination, passion, or holiday. Amy tells readers how they can make just one item, mix and match items from different tables, or make the dessert tables as shown.
Each chapter explains how to:

• Bake It: Recipes for making decadent sweets of all kinds, including cakes, cookies, pies, brownies, mousse, truffles, popsicles, ice cream bars, and drinks.
• Craft It: How-to's for creating Amy's signature popcorn cups, candy bar wrappers, paper pinwheels, banners, candy bags, and more, plus simple instructions for accessing her one-of-a-kind patterns and templates on her website.
• Style It: Designer secrets for arranging sweets, choosing patterns, accessorizing a pedestal or serving dish, and mixing textures and colors.
• Shop It: Pick up sweets from the corner store to pair with home-baked desserts and a chapter-by-chapter resource guide for finding the less common ones.
• Display It: Dressed-up serving vessels, backdrops, dessert tags, and other simple display touches to create the whole dessert table or make a single treat stand out.
• Switch It: Creative ways to swap the colors and desserts or platters to better suit your needs, grow them down for the kids, minimize your time with easy-does-it tips, and more.

For every maid of honor who needs to plan an epic bridal shower (and then later the baby shower), every mom who needs to put together a birthday bash her kids will never forget, and every Scrabble aficionado who wants to throw the game-night party to end all game-night parties, Amy serves up that elusive "wow factor" to make every celebration an event to remember.

Praise for Sweet Designs, which features fabulous treats, dessert tables, and crafts:

"Amy Atlas is the dessert guru. She's taught me that the dessert table is the pinnacle of any event. She's an inspiration to all bakers "
--Tori Spelling

"Amy Atlas, dessert designer extraordinaire, shows you how to create your own stylish sugarscapes for any occasion. Whether baking, creating, or designing, it's inspiring the way she showcases sweets."
--Bakerella

"Amy Atlas has revolutionized the dessert category, bringing style, sugar, and innovation to everyone's favorite course."
--Colin Cowie, celebrity event planner and lifestyle expert

"Amy's dessert displays are ALWAYS the talk of the party, returning every adult to a state of childhood glee while making every sugar fantasy come true for the little ones. Sweet Designs is the next best thing to having Amy at your own affair."
--David Stark, president, David Stark Design and Production

"Amy has transformed the way we all see desserts. No wedding (or event ) is complete anymore without a whimsically sweet and delicious dessert table to top off the night."
--Carley Roney, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Knot

"There is nothing sweeter than Amy Atlas, except for her fabulous dessert tables Amy was the first and true innovator of these amazing displays of deliciousness."
--Mindy Weiss, celebrity event planner

"I think that I have met my match. Amy not only knows her candies, but she knows her cookies, cupcakes, sweets, and crafts too. She takes her sweets to a higher level where they take center stage."
--Karen Tack, author of Hello, Cupcake

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 384 pages

Series: Not Applicable

Publisher: Hyperion Books

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1401324401

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-13: 9781401324407

Publication Date: Apr. 24th, 2012

Dimensions: 7.68 x 10.00 x 1.25 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.78 lbs

• Categories: General Entertaining Cooking General Design