American Cake Decorating Magazine

As for the ideas and pictures, it does provide some VERY good ideas overall (especially when they put some of Colette's work in there!). The real challenge with the ideas contained in ACD comes in that there seems to be two spectrums, either fondant and totally elegant/difficult, or the other extreme of something that even a kid could do with little to no cake decorating experience(even though they moved their kid section over to Mailbox News)... Also, they seem to cover to no end the Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show... Granted, there are many categories, it'd just be nice if they centralized it to one issue per year instead of using it as the base for the magazine every 2 months. It is very well printed consistently (on much better paper than you'll get from other magazines out there)..

If having to choose between MBN and ACD, I'd recommend going with MBN because the ideas are more realistic to what most bakers will make or reproduce. The only reason I have to say that ACD gets 4 stars (and was tempted to give it 3 because of this one issue alone) is that over the course of time myself and others all have had the same problem... Our address mysteriously changes in their database, thus, not getting issues and having to call the publisher on more than one occasion (or three) to get the situation resolved. Their customer service gal is great, but I'd rather just get the magazine to my home address from the subscription without calling them.. Overall though, a very good cake decorating magazine..

This subscription is being sold by a reseller called Magazine Express, Inc. I had this purchased for me and paid for in early December as a gift and just found out I will not receive my first issue until June! After researching I have found they are known for collecting money but not starting subscriptions until you call to complain. And for me, even then I was told I have to wait months to receive the first issue. I understand some of the delay being that it is only published 6 times a year, but this delay seems excessive. American Cake Decorating is a great magazine, but beware of the seller.

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The magazine is nice. There were some nice cakes, however it took months to get my first issue & I'm still waiting to see if I'll get a second issue. Not sure yet if its really worth the money. I've certaintly got more out of cake decorating books that cost less, but time will tell.

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I have never had any problems getting both American Cake Decorating or Mailbox News. I have found them both very helpful and informative. When I have moved, I have easily had the address changed and continued receiving issues. I highly recommend both magazines from Grace McNamara.

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I ordered this magazine and it took so long to get one issue. Then I didn't recieve another one for months. Then maybe after about three to four months, I get it and it was damaged. --the pages and cover were torn. I had a hard time getting a straight answer from them and had to demand a refund. This magazine is really interesting, but not worth all the headache to get it.