Product Description

Collette Peters applies her cake-decorating skills to the art of the birthday cake. Here are cakes for every month of the year, and for every sort of birthday celebration, with instructions of every aspect of the decoration process.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151919 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 11.25" h x 1.25" w x 9.00" l, 2.27 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

From Booklist
A cake is de rigeur for any American birthday celebration worthy of the name. Continuing her series of volumes pictorializing her sumptuous cakes, Peters brings her decorative skills to cakes designed specifically for birthday observances. And anyone receiving a cake like one of Peters' creations should be particularly grateful. Peters' skill with milled fondant overshadows that of most other professional bakers. She can carve fondant into tight, sharp geometries, or she can swirl it, fold it, and wave it into silken ruffles and curves that belie its solidity. Line drawings assist the cook in recreating these elegant pastries, but only professionals and those with some formal training in handling fondants and cake-decorating tools and techniques will readily pick up on Peters' barebones instructions. Recipes, too, reflect a professional's approach, measuring by weight rather than volume. Mark Knoblauch
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Bette Midler
"Colette is the most gifted cake maker I have ever encountered. She has great skill, great wit, great imagination..."

About the Author
Colette made the cake for the wedding of Chantal Miller and Prince Pavlos of Greece and she has decorated both the White House and Tiffany's Fifth Avenue windows at Christmas. Her work has also been displayed at the American Craft Museum. She lives and works in New York City.