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10 HD Video Lessons
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Colette Peters
Colette is an internationally renowned cake artist and author. When she’s not traveling the globe teaching, she’s at home in New York City where she owns Colette’s Cakes. View profile »
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Piece of Cake! with Colette Peters
with Colette Peters
The matriarch of modern cake decorating teaches you cake stacking, inlay techniques and how to make three-dimensional decorations.
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.
Discover the tricks of cake construction that'll make your cake stand up and stand out. Enroll today in Piece of Cake! with Colette Peters.
What You'll Learn
- Constructing decorative flowers, berries, bows, swags and pearls
- Adding depth to your cake by creating colorful fondant inlays
- Embellishing your cake with poufs, playful curlicues and a pop-out heart design
- Cake stacking from the bottom of the plate to the top of your dowels
What You'll Make
An eye-catching, mouth-watering, slice cake that displays classic and innovative fondant styles
What You'll Need
- Advanced beginner to intermediate cake-decorating skills
- Four cake tiers to decorate (cake, buttercream icing and royal icing recipes are included in your course materials)
- 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of colored fondant
- Standard cake-decorating tools such as piping tips, ball tool and rolling pins
- Flower, tassel and pop-out heart patterns (included in your course materials)
- Gum paste
- Piping gel
- Dowels
What You'll Need:
- Clay gun
- Pizza cutter
- Graft paper
- Pearl molds
- Soda ash
- Dowel cutter and dowels
- Luster dust
- Foam core - thick and thin
Special offer: Hand selected by Colette Peters, the Graduated Pearl Mold by First Impressions is the ideal tool to make pearl strands for you next cake project.
Lesson Plan
| 1 | Introduction | 4:48 |
| 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 |
Skills you should have:
- Cover a basic round cake in fondant
- Roll out gum paste to specified thickness
- Knead gum paste to a workable texture
- Roll out fondant
- Knead fondant to a workable texture
Recent 5 star reviews of this class
Average Review:
Fascinating
I've taken classes with collette peters in Las Vegas at Cake Camp a d have always loved her creative ways with cake art! She is just a rock star when it comes to cake. Thank you for being so talented collette!!
Fun Ideas, definitely thinking out of the box
There are so many great ideas in this course that I will need to watch this again and again. I learned another way to cover my cake with fondant, new flowers, pearls, swags, and a neat way to make the fondant have overlays.....can't remember what this technique was called. Thank you again for another great course.
Pretty Cake
This was a good experience for me I realy enjoyed the class, I am now going to watch it again and make my cake. Will post pictures soon. Thanks again for sharing.
Celebration Cake
I love this cake project and can't wait to make one just like it. Collette, you did it again! The cake is very whimsical and I can already tell that I will have lots of fun on this project. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I hope you have more classes to share with us. Thank you.
Wonderful
It is easy to understand, I love, I hope another video soon, congratulations
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