Colette's Birthday Cakes

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 192 pages
• Published by: Little, Brown and Company April 1, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0316702749
• ASIN: B0015UV044
• Book Dimensions: 11.2 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 2.3 pounds

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
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Book Description
No one makes more gorgeous cakes than Colette Peters. Now anyone with an interest in pastry Art can make them at home. There are cakes for every sort of birthday celebrant. Each month has a sign of the zodiac cake (for Aquarius, a Water Pitcher mosaic), a birthstone cake (for June, a Crown of Pearls), and a flower cake. In addition there are assorted cakes such as a doctors bag, a chess set, and an Art Deco confection. The book includes delicious basic recipes and instructions for everything from how to build a tiered cake to airbrushing with sugar. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Colette's Birthday Cakes (Hardcover) Mainly a picture book -- but WHAT a picture book! If you want ideas, get this book. In fact, I've seen bakeries whose best work are variations on (obviously inspired by) cakes in this book! The directions are laughable because only someone with experience (or another sugarcraft book) could really get these results. On the other hand, there are so many sugarcraft books out there that I can understand why she doesn't go into so much detail. It still gets 5 stars because as usual for Colette, this book gives so much variety, so many ideas, that you'll want to look at it again and again. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)