Colette's Birthday Cakes Book

No birthday celebration is complete without a birthday cake, and no one makes more astoundingly beautiful or imaginative cakes than Colette Peters, cake decorator extraordinaire. Here are cakes for every month in the year and 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 Colette's fabulous one-of-a-kind cakes, such as an astonishingly realistic "leather" doctor's bag, a chess set, an art deco cake, and a Cherry Pie Purse.

Although the cakes are almost too beautiful to eat, Colette has divulged her own delicious recipes for bourbon chocolate cake, basic buttercream, chocolate ganache, and cookies. And she has provided detailed instructions for everything from how to build a tiered cake to airbrushing on sugar, piping techniques, painting with gold, and much more. Filled with step-by-step, easy-to-follow directions, hundreds of line drawings, and gorgeous color photographs, this newest book from America's foremost cake decorator will enable anyone to duplicate her fantastic creations.