If you're looking for party treats, personalised favours or edible gifts, your biscuit adventure starts here! Beautiful Biscuits by Tessa Whitehouse is great gift for GBBO fans, crafters and biscuit lovers everywhere.

Royal icing tutor Tessa Whitehouse presents an inspiring collection of 24 beautifully decorated biscuits that you can make at home. Learn all the techniques you need for decorating biscuits following the step-by-step instructions and pictures, from the basic outline-and-fill method to detailed patterns, animal faces, jewels and even 3D cookies.

Whether you're a complete biscuit beginner or you're looking for new ideas, you'll find plenty to inspire you. Chapters include Letters, Numbers, Hobbies, All that Glitters, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, so there's a biscuit design for everyone.

Having won awards for her amazing icing skills, Tessa has filled the book with plenty of clever techniques and tips for professional results – discover how to bake whole words in biscuit dough, pipe patterns in icing, create realistic iced animals and faces, and achieve curved and 3D designs.

Beautiful Biscuits will be published by B. Dutton Publishing on 4th November 2016, RRP £14.99. Available from all good bookshops, cake-decorating shops and direct from Squires Kitchen at squires-shop.com.

ISBN 978-1-905113-55-2

Hardback

128pp + cover and jacket

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NOTES TO EDITORS

1. For further information or to arrange a book review, extract or author interview, please contact Jennifer Kelly:

Tel: 0845 61 71 810 or +44 (0)1252 260 260

Fax: +44 (0)1252 714 714

Email: jennifer.kelly@squires-group.co.uk

2. B. Dutton Publishing Ltd. is a division of the Squires Group:

'Create, Bake, Decorate'

Established nearly 30 years ago, Squires Kitchen manufactures over 2,000 own-brand, high-quality, innovative products and is a global leader in the cake decorating and sugarcraft market worldwide.

'Everything you need for amazing cakes and fabulous food'

Squires Kitchen Shop sells over 6,000 products for the cake decorating and sugarcraft market. Shop online 24 hours a day at www.squires-shop.com. Our Farnham store is open from 9am to 5.30pm on Monday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sunday. Office Hours: 9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.

1. Dutton Publishing publishes specialist cake decorating books and magazines for readers with a passion for creativity. Find out more at www.bdutton.com and www.cakesandsugarcraft.com

'The confidence to create'

Squires Kitchen International School is the leading independent school of cake decorating, sugarcraft and baking in the UK, welcoming students from around the world to attend professional courses. Find out more at www.squires-school.co.uk. Office Hours: 9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.

3. We have a limited number of sample copies available. Images available on request. Please note that images may only be reproduced with credits and prior approval from B. Dutton Publishing/Squires Kitchen.