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Learn how to create show-stopping cakes for any occasion From backyard birthday parties to lavish weddings, no celebration is complete without cake. Discover how to bake and decorate your own charming creations with the Cakes That Wow Cookbook, filled with step-by-step instructions and beginner-friendly recipes that simplify the art of cake-making. What sets this cake cookbook apart from other baking cookbooks: The building blocks of cake—Find foundational recipes for from-scratch, box mix-based, gluten-free, and vegan cakes, as well as buttercream, cream cheese, and whipped cream frostings—all with flavor variations included. Cake decorating for beginners—Learn the fundamentals of cake construction and decoration, from filling and stacking layers to working with fondant and piping. A variety of crowd-pleasers—Bake the perfect cake for any celebration with a range of recipes for sheet cakes, layer cakes, tiered cakes, cupcakes, cake pops, and more. Discover how to bake delicious works of art with this cake recipe book for beginners.

This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China's twenty-first century. As the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China's politics, economy, and culture, the book provides insights on fascinating new developments in contemporary Chinese popular culture—including its reality television, family dramas centered around younger generations'life struggles, and social media. Furthermore, Entertainment and Politics in Contemporary China is the first book to apply the theoretical innovation of an aesthetic public sphere in examining closely the linkages between China's political life and activities in the country's culture sphere. Since concepts of public sphere and democracy largely took root from the West, Wu argues that this case study of China promises valuable insights about entertainment's role in the formation of citizenship and building of a civil society, which remains a site of great contention in Western theories and empirical efforts.