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Piece of Cake! with Colette Peters

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Take your cake decorating skills to the next tier with Colette Peters as you learn cake stacking, inlay techniques and how to make 3-D decorations.

Skill Level

Intermediate

What You Get

  • 11 Streaming HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access
  • Class materials, including recipes
  • Hours of close-up instruction
  • Answers to student questions from instructor Colette Peters
  • Closed captioning available (web only)

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Class Overview

Learn decorating skills from the matriarch of modern American cake decorating in this innovative class: Piece of Cake! with Colette Peters. Add layers of color to your cake with inlaid flowers, squiggles and stripes, then learn to adorn Colette's unique slice cake design with bows, poufs, flowers, berries and pearls. Embellish a slice of cake using two distinct styles - classic decorations for the exterior of the cake and the innovative interior cake designs Colette has developed over her 22-year teaching career.gDiscover the tricks of cake construction that'll make your cake stand up and stand out. Enroll today in Piece of Cake! with Colette Peters.

Class Overview

Lesson Breakdown

1. Introduction
04:48
Meet your instructor, Colette Peters, as she introduces you to the techniques you'll learn in this class: flowers, inlay techniques, painting, embellishments and more!
2. Cover Boards & Gum Paste
16:22
3. Cutting & Carving
29:44
4. Quilting
11:41
5. Inlays
46:59
6. Fifty-Fifty
41:16
7. Gum Paste Techniques
23:54
8. Exterior Cake Decorating
22:14
9. Assembly
17:43
10. Embellishments
11:10
Lesson Breakdown

Taught by

Colette Peters
Colette Peters
Instructor
With a master's degree in painting from Pratt Institute in New York, and eight years' experience as a designer for Tiffany & Co., Colette brings a trained artistic eye to her work in cake decorating. She pioneered the now-classic designs of the topsy-turvy cake and gift box cake as contributions to Tiffany Taste and The Tiffany Wedding. Colette has published five books and appeared in a host of television programs over the years. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Food & Wine and Modern Bride, among others. Colette teaches cake decorating classes around the world and at her own school in New York City. Colette is also a longtime member of ICES (International Cake Exploration Société).
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