You want to see some amazing cakes?

Check out the brand-new "The Confetti Cakes Cookbook: Spectacular Cookies, Cakes, and Cupcakes from New York City's Famed Bakery" (Little Brown, $29.99).

The book is written by the proprietor, Elisa Strauss, who's made a name for herself and her shop by turning cake, fondant and frosting into purses, baseball hats, wine bottles, even a Chocolate Embroidery Wedding Cake for which viewers lusted on the show "Sex and the City."

With this book, Ms. Strauss shows you how you can do it, using everything from scalpels to tape measures. Recipes range from easy to advanced, from various cookies to Sushi Cake to the shop's signature Sugar Stiletto and Shoebox Cake. The realistic shoe and tissue paper are crafted from gum paste and the shoebox and lid are cake and filling.

So really you can have your shoe and eat it, too.

-- Bob Batz Jr.