Product Description

Included in this collection are cakes for every month of the year and every sort of birthday celebrant. Each month has a sign of the zodiac cake, a birthstone cake and a flower cake. In addition there are unusual cakes, such as a "leather" cake, a doctor's bag and a chess set.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #364883 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 182 pages

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.

Customer Reviews

Superb for advanced decorators
The cakes in this book are stunning, although many are very advanced. There are cakes based on signs of the zodiac and birth stones, along with 'general' birthday cakes and flowers of the month, and the accompanying photographs are beautiful. There are clear instructions in most cases, but occasionally they can take a bit of working out. These cakes may prove costly to reproduce initially, as a large amount of equipment is required - an airbrush is used frequently. There are sections on basic recipes and instructions, but you will still need some experience to recreate cakes to this standard. It will take some time to produce cakes like this (in some cases a lot of the work can be done in advance of baking and decorating the cake) but it should be well worth it. I would definitely consider purchasing more of Collette's books in the future (once I've got my airbrush!)