Whether you are baking professionally or as a hobby, recipes are essential to make the best tasting and looking cakes. Baking is not magic, and neither is it rocket science; with a good recipe book, you can become a great baker.

You can find several recipe books on Kindle that provide instructions, ingredients, and measurements that are crucial in decorating your cake. These techniques have been tested and used by professionals who bake for significant events or bakeries. If you are new or perfecting your skills in baking, you could find the following books helpful.

  1. Cake Decorating for Beginners: A Step-by-step Guide to Decorating Like a Pro

This book was written by Rose Atwater, the founder and cake decorator of Rose Bakes. She has explained easy-to-understand recipes in her book providing step-by-step instructions and measurements for ingredients used in decorating cakes. The book comes with clear pictures alongside descriptions to ensure what you are doing and know what your cake will look like. 

  1. The Ultimate Professional Cakes Decorating – More focused on Decorating and Design. This Underscores the Need for a Book with Complete and Detailed Instructions on Decorating Methods and Techniques

James Andersen has penned down instructions that can be followed to decorate cakes professionally. Those studying Baking and Pastry in colleges will find this book handy in their second year of the curriculum as they focus on decorating and design.

  1. Creative Cake Decorating for Everyone: A Step by Step Guide to Decorating

This book will guide you from a new cake decorator to the best in the business. The book shows and provides explicit instruction for decoration, and with practice, they bear fruits. It has special methods and unique techniques of decoration.

  1. Bake Me I’m Yours… Cake Pops: Over 30 Designs for Fun Sweet Treats 

Carolyn White, the author of the book, is a former protégé of Linda Smith and runs two shops in Putney. She has put together the best ideas for making cake pops grouped based on occasions ranging from cute animals and Christmas characters to creepy Halloween creatures. The steps are made easy to follow for fun baking.

  1. Cake Decorating Step by Step: Creating Beautiful Cupcakes, Biscuits, Birthday Cakes, and more

This book will show you how to ice biscuits, pipe buttercream, and use dye and glitter when decorating your cupcakes. With constant practice and guidance from this book, you can whip up tiered cakes and chocolate ganache in seconds with time.

  1. Simple Cake: Extraordinary Recipes and Easy Decorating Techniques, Recipes for Cakes, Cupcakes, Pies, Tarts, and More

Simple Cakes guide you from the start of baking to the end; decorating dessert. The book consists of various recipes for making different desserts with varying decorative elements. It comes with clear step-by-step instructions and pictures which guide you in baking and decorating.  

  1. The Complete Cake Decoration – Hundreds of Ideas, Techniques, and Projects for Creative Cake Designers

You are bound to get your best idea here as it comes with hundreds of ideas and step-by-step instructions coupled with photos. The book is 243 pages long and illustrates the techniques of stenciling, piping, and painting to make the best cakes and sweets. The book explores the endless world of decoration, giving instructions and space to explore more.  

  1. Pure Artistry: Extraordinary Vegan and Gluten-Free Cakes

The owner of Lael Cakes, Emily Lael Aumiller, wrote this book to accommodate special vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free cakes. Pure Artistry is a high-quality book with great photos and detailed recipe descriptions and instructions. After struggling with food allergies, Lael knew and understood what other people with similar troubles went through, and she mastered recipes for the best cakes and put them down in this book. 

  1. Cake Pops Recipes: How to Make Delicious Cake Pops

If you are looking for a cake pops recipe, this is your book. It provides instructions on making and decorating ice pops for various occasions and people: children and people of different ages.

  1. Cake Decorating: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Cake Decorating for Beginners in 30 Minutes or Less…

This book provides tips and guides for decorating a cake professionally with steps that are easy to follow and replicated in 30 minutes or less. This is a good book for beginners and professional decorators with creative and beautiful designs.