After Christmas, and no-one taking up my hinting, I decided to order Toba Garrett's new book for myself and it arrived a couple of days ago. I've been SO disappointed with it. It cost a small fortune and it's so low quality; the pages it's printed on as so thin and flimsy. Some of the modelling work (I'm thinking of the cutsey createures section) are amateurish and it feels like a really dated 1970s guide to cake decorating. I guess I didn't know what to expect and was hoping for more photos of her stunning work for inspiration. I wanted to post this as I haven't read a negative review of her book on here and felt there might be other people out there considering buying it who may feel the same way as me.

What did you all think?

Seems like a lot of members ordered the book - but no feedback but yours as of yet:

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-52717-.html

Seems you aren't the only one. On amazon.com, the first review that appears is titled "Don't waste your money"

I didn't think it was that bad (and had found it at a real good price). Yes there is things that were gone over in her first book, but I thought this one had more detailed instructions on how to do alot of the piping. It is set up as if you were taking a cake decorating class, from the very beginning, which is what I found to be good. I am pretty much a beginner (only doing this for about a year), so for me this was a good book to have.

deb

The book is not in proportion to its price. I expected much more for the $65 cost at Border's.

I bought mine online for 39.oo so that and the fact that I have only been decorating since oct-06 I found it very insightful and detailed. But I have heard from others who have been decorating for awhile and have her first book say it's alot of repeat. I couldn't see paying 65 for it either. I had several pages in the back that weren't cut apart, just printed and still all together so I had to score them with my exacto knife. But I guess other than that the paper was waifer thin.

Well, I am glad it isn't just me - I felt like I might be the little boy who is the only one who realises the emporer has no clothes on.

I think I felt most ripped off because of the poor paper quality; when you pay that much for a book you expect it to look good. The images in the book seem dated, but that may just be the fussy techniques she models and it's just not a beautiful book - I think I've been spoilt by Margaret Braun.

I'm posting it right back to Amazon today.

Margaret with do that to you though!!!!

That's why I got it off I believe it was cooks.com or something similar someone on cc had posted in one of the forums about her new book.

I also ordered it and was very dissapointed. i think i even responded in one thread my comments about it.

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I bought her first book, but have only used it for the recipes. I'll have to think twice about purchasing the second book!

Rhonda

Thank you guys, you just save me $65...