Colette's Cakes: The Art of Cake Decorating, Vol. 1 » (1st ed)

Colette Peters's one-of-a-kind wedding cakes — for which she charges hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars — have made her America's most sought-after culinary artist. Now, with this dazzling cookbook, brides-and-grooms-to-be can bake their own Colette's wedding cake — or commission a professional baker to follow one of Colette's designs.

Illustrated throughout with eye-popping color photographs, step-by-step drawings, and templates, Colette's Wedding Cakes showcases more than thirty of the author's most amazing wedding creations, organized by season — a love-in-bloom cake, an Edwardian cake, a chocolate fantasia cake, an art deco cake, a coral reef cake, and many others.

Library Journal

Peters is an artist and former Tiffany's designer turned cake decorator extraordinaire. Here she presents detailed instructions, accompanied by line drawings and color photographs, of three dozen of her elaborate creations. Her collection is somewhat more sophisticated than Greg Robinson and Max Schofield's The Icing on the Cake ( LJ 5/15/89), and cake bakers with lots of patience should find it inspiring. For special collections.