Reviews for Ateco 486 Cake Decorating / Pastry Tip Reference Manual Book

Great little picture guide. I teach a condenses culinary class in the prison system, piping always consumed too much time with the trial and error method I used to use. this has cut it down and simplified. Bought 10 of these books, each student can put parchment or saran over the page to practice replicating the different techniques on, this has been invaluable in teaching and has built a lot of confidence in this section of my course.

Handy little guide to some possibilities with tips. It's a good companion to the Ateco 55 piece tip set. Be aware that there aren't really instructions; it's more of a visual guide to what can be done with a number of tips.

Super insightful, highly recommend for anyone wanting to learn something new

Decent Manual Nothing wrong with it but we just didnt use it much at all. It is nice if you have never tried decorating at all.

This reference book is a go-to for beginners. I use these as presents along with a few piping tips for my beginner level friends. Great for giveaways too!

Steep accomplice in decorating cakes, clearly understandable. nice price, especially good for beginners, as there are basic techniques. everyone who wants to learn something new, I advise!

Great little book to keep with all your tips. Sometimes we forget how they pipe when ya haven’t used them in a while. This book saves lots of trial and error time. I even bought a backup book!!!

i love this ateco reference book! i had so many tips, and i didnt feel im getting the most out of them. with the book, i can do so much!

This cake decorating manual book provides alot of different ideas and inspiration for cake design. Its easy to follow the instruction from the book. Great for beginners

This small book gives you every conceivable piping tip idea. It shows the design and which tip to buy to make that design. My baker loved this book.

This is a very cute little book with basic designs and such, I’m looking forward to using it for my beginners in a cake class some day!!

This book is very informative. It consist of about 10 pages that show you all the different designs you can get from different frosting tips

This item is not an instruction manual but it is a great resource for a quick reference to Ateco piping tips and what they can do. This item is a must have for any decorator of cakes and cookies.

This reference book is a life saver is you use the Ateco pastry tips in your decorations. You can keep on hand to double check what design each tip will look like and they are numbered in relation to the numbers on the tip for easy reference.

Great handy resource guide to show tips and used for each tip. The only bad thing is Ateco just came out with a ton of new tips that are not included here...There needs to be a part two...

Great manual, walks you through all the ins and outs of decorating and has important charts about what size piping tips fit on what sized couplings all sorts of other tips and tricks, a great book to keep in your baking drawer/cupboard.

This is a helpful guide if you don’t have your icing top numbers memorized—You can look at a pic of the icing effect you want and it will tell you the tip number to use. I deducted one star because the guide doesn’t have many of the large Ateco tips included, and those are the tipsnInuse most often.

This is useful if you have a lot of Ateco tips. It shows you what each tip is used for. I have a lot of Wilton tips, so I didn't end up using it as much as I would have liked.

A quick reference manual that is nice to be able to grab when needed. It is not an instruction book, but as long as you know that, you will like having this book.

I bought this manual book for my mom, which has spent her life making cakes for a living. She agreed it was a good book for her to reference when she needed to, especially all the different types of tips she can use on bags to make various designs. It got her vote of approval!

Great reference book for quick ideas and examples of what each tip can do. The pictures are nice and big and full color, this is truly a handy book to keep in the bakery.

while i would have liked a little more instructions of how to achieve certain decorating techniques, overall this is an informative book that shows you all the different things you can do with different piping tips.

This decorating manual is so useful. The book tells you which tip to use to achieve your goal and shows you different designs as well.

This book is great because it shows you all of the tips and what you can do with them as far as decorating what I would've liked is a little bit of wording for some people but it is all pictures of different ways to use the Tips which I do like. It's a great little book to have on hand!

This is a great book with clear and precise pictures and diagrams. I have been decorating cakes for several years and still learned new uses for the tips

I like this book a lot. As someone who owns a lot of Ateco pastry tips, i found this to be very helpful when decorating layer cakes. I wish it gave some sort of written instructions but otherwise i was happy with this book

this made icing a breeze, a wonderful product, i would reorder this again, and i love this site so much, i am so glad i come across this when looking for products to help my sister with baking cakes and cupcakes,

awesome guide for cake decorating this Ateco 486 Cake Decorating Reference Manual Book (August Thomsen) are very helpful for starter making design for cakes for who starting it

totally I recommend this book with tips for those who have questions or seek perfection. It is a very good book I'm thinking of buying one for my grandmother

This really does make things so much easier for cake decorating. It's more than a reference book - it's an idea book! A great companion to any pastry tip set.

Great book. Easy to follow instruction. As a self taught decorator I was able to learn some new tricks and technique with this very useful booklet.

Very helpful book for decorating any kind of cake. The guide for decorating is as simple as it gets. I'm dying to try some of the other designs!

Good reference book to pull out when decorating and figuring out which tips do what. Glossy pages which should be easy to wipe off. Could have been written a bit clearer.

This manual is a must have for any cake decorator. There are 19 pages displaying different types of tips and pictures of results you can achieve using them, in actual size. Helpful guide to practice before application. Very affordable.

This cake decorating reference manual book was very easy to understand even for a beginner. It let you see what different design you can use and what number you need for that design. This is a good reference book to have.

This is an excellent book for all to keep and review. A good guideline to see all the different types of tips and the patterns one can get from it. Very useful to keep in your library....kitchen...

This book is very handy to have. The Ateco 486 Cake Decorating Reference Manual Book (August Thomsen) is very helpful in making sure you pick the right tip for the right decoration. A MUST HAVE for any baker.

My friend recommend This book ,it's a great book for the every one who love decorating cake, Like me.this book is great guideline and have a variety for creating a beautiful cake.

This book is wonderfull , it's for everyone , from newbies to experienced cake decorators , i honesty did not know many of the things in this book!

I am enjoying this Ateco Cake Decorating Reference Manual. I have several decorating tips and because I don't use them with any regularity, I tend to forget the different designs they make. This book really helps with that. Additionally, I can lay it on the counter, cover with wax or parchment paper and practice my strokes right on the book!