WOW!!! This is an AWESOME book to add to your collection!!!

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	• Colette's Christmas: Spectacular Holiday Cookies, Cakes, Pies and Other Edible Art Colette Peters Little, Brown, 1999 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Christmas Feast

If you're a Christmas junkie like me you'll *love* this book. The author manages to make breathtaking edibles that capture the season and will have you trying them out regardless of the time of year. Truly inspirational!!

Sumptuous photographs, great ideas, clear directions

I treated myself to "Colette's Christmas" by baker extraordinaire Colette Peters while on vacation. It seemed a strange thing to read while at the beach, but I was absolutely captivated. What a fevered imagination Ms. Peters has! The showstoppingly gorgeous desserts and projects she shows within include a layer cake covered with fondant that has been pieced and quilted to resemble and antique quilt (and it surely does); a chocolate bowl filled to overflowing with spectacular chocolate spheres (the cover photograph); hinged, jointed cookies which really move and make splendid Christmas ornaments (all in human forms, like Santa, Raggedy Ann, and so on); gift boxes made entirely of decorated cookie dough; a shimmering "stained glass" cake; and a three-dimensional Christmas gazebo constructed around a towering decorated Christmas tree made of piped icing.

Even if the projects herein appear way too complicated or time-consuming for most people--as they do for me, I'll admit--Ms. Peters gives splendidly clear, concise directions in a conversational tone that make starting your own gingerbread house seem, somehow, not as daunting as it really should be.

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WOW!!! This is an AWESOME book to add to your collection!!!

I'd definately give this book six stars if they had the option!!! The descriptions on each item are incredibly detailed making it so ANYONE can follow the directions and have it turn out as nice as the pictures. The book takes what looks INCREDIBLY complicated and makes it so even the novice could recreate it. Definately a must have in any Christmas or baker's collection!!

beautiful but

when will i have the time to make these cakes. some look so outdated. duh i should have known. but i love Collete Peters and am glad to have one of her books.

Wonderful!

Each year I prepare the desserts for my husband's office Christmas party (over 400 guests). I always try to come up with one special "show stopper" and Colette's chocolate bowl and ornaments was it for last year! I'm certainly a beginner but, with a little practice and Ms. Peter's clear instructions, I was able to create pieces that were the talk of the night. Several people even asked to take one home to show their family. I can't wait until next Christmas when I can try something even more amazing!

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Colette Peterss extraordinary Christmas confections have adorned the White House and Tiffanys windows. With Colettes Christmas, bakers at all levels can create Colettes magnificent holiday desserts and edible decorations, including: Christmas cookiesfrom easy drop cookies to marionette cookies, with arms and legs that move, to life-size stocking cookies that hang from the mantel, A Swiss chalet gingerbread house, a chocolate pumpkin pie wreath, and a raspberry-and-lime no-bake Christmas cheesecake, Gorgeous centerpieces like chocolate-and-almond pine cones, a greenhouse made of piped icing, a mosaic candy tree, chocolate ornaments in a chocolate bowl. Her specialty: beautiful and delicious cakesfrom a single-layer Stained-Glass Poinsettia Cake to a multitier Victorian Holiday Cake, the recipes in Colettes Christmas enable home as well as professional bakers to create Christmas magic in their own kitchens.

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