Vintage Wilton Wedding Cake Book, Celebrate! 1986 4th Printing

Here’s a photo-rich classic for decorators and collectors: Celebrate! Wedding Cakes from Wilton Enterprises.

First issued in the 1980s—when grand, tiered confections ruled receptions—this guide gathers 100 designs with clear how-tos. Inside you’ll find full-color plates, step-by-step patterns, trims, and an appendix on using the templates, plus an index.

It’s clean, complete, and ready to inspire your next showpiece or to anchor a vintage baking shelf.

Quick Specs

  • Item Type: Vintage book (hardcover)
  • Size: 11x9x.05
  • Material: Pictorial boards (hardcover)
  • Color: Multicolor jacketed boards with yellow/orange tones
  • Origin or Maker: Wilton Enterprises, Inc., Woodridge, Illinois
  • Year or Era: 1983 text; Fourth Printing, September 1986 (as shown)
  • GENRE: Culinary Arts · Baking & Cake Decorating
  • Language / Pages: English · 192 pages
  • Identifiers: ISBN 0-912696-23-0; Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 82-21814 (photo-verified)

Edition & Features

  • Edition/Printing: Later printing — Fourth Printing (1986)
  • Illustrations/Maps/Plates: Hundreds of full-color photographs, pattern diagrams, step-by-step visuals
  • Extras: Appendix with cake patterns and directions; index

Condition Grade: Good

Notes: Solid binding; clean pages. Boards show edge and corner wear with rubbing and a peel/scuff at the upper front (visible in photos). Light shelf wear to edges and spine tips. No writing or highlighting observed on content pages.

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This 1986 fourth printing of Wilton's Celebrate! Wedding Cakes has 192 pages of full-color plates and pattern diagrams, and it suits a cake decorator's shelf or a vintage baking collection. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Wilton Enterprises, Inc., Woodridge, Illinois
  • Format and Binding: Hardcover with pictorial boards
  • Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
  • Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
  • Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
  • Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.

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