Piece of Cake! with Colette Peters
Colette Peters
Class Preview
- In-depth Instruction; over 226 mins
- On-demand video access anytime
- Bonus downloadable PDF resources
- Access to class Q&A
Introduction
4:48
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!
Cover Boards & Gum Paste
16:22
Give your cake a fabulous foundation with a royal-icing-covered cake board and gum-paste plates.
Cutting & Carving
29:44
Fill your cake with delicious buttercream before carving it and adding a crumb coat. Colette will demonstrate how to cover the cake in fondant using a two-step method and how to dowel your cake so it has the proper support.
Quilting
11:41
Add beautiful quilted texture to your tiers with a stitching tool. Make either straight lines or trace free-flowing custom designs right on the cake.
Inlays
46:59
Colette shares her tips and techniques for making beautiful wavy and circular inlays as well has her lovely, whimsical puffy flowers.
Fifty-Fifty
41:16
Mix gum paste and fondant together in equal proportions to create a richly textured covering, ruffled poufs and charming embellishments including blueberries, curlicues and lace.
Gum Paste Techniques
23:54
Work with gum paste to make striped candles, flowers, leaves, ribbon roses and fringed bows.
Exterior Cake Decorating
22:14
Turn your focus to the exterior of the cake as Colette demonstrates painting flowers and adding swags, pearls and a tassel to the back side of your cake.
Assembly
17:43
It's time to add the finishing details, a fondant rope and a bead border, before you stack the cake, adding the proper support for each tier along the way.
Embellishments
11:10
Attach the final embellishments: pieces of cake on gum-paste plates, flowers and candles as you complete your masterpiece.
Description
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.
Colette Peters
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).
Bonus materials available after purchase