The definitive guide to baking showstopping cupcakes, cakes and biscuits - from baking expert Juliet Sear, as seen on ITV's Beautiful Baking with Juliet Sear.

Juliet teaches all the basics of cake decoration - how to pipe buttercream, ice biscuits and use glitter and dyes to decorate cupcakes - before building up your skills so that tiered cakes and chocolate ganaches can be whipped up in the blink of an eye.

Discover how to remedy 'cake-tastrophes' and gain confidence following Juliet's step-by-step photography of all the techniques.

Juliet Sear is at the forefront of contemporary cake design with celebrities flocking to her Essex-based cake shop, FANCY NANCY and the host of ITV's Beautiful Baking with Juliet Sear.

Formerly with the Little Venice Cake Company, Juliet now runs Fancy Nancy (www.fancynancy.info), her own successful cake boutique in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, selling celebration cakes, cupcakes, cake pops and cookies. She has been praised widely for her contemporary edge, stunning designs and the supreme taste of her cakes. Fancy Nancy supplies Harvey Nichols across the UK and Juliet runs classes at Leiths School of Food and Wine.