Colette's Christmas: Spectacular Holiday Cookies, Cakes, Pies and Other Edible Art

Colette Peter's Christmas confections have adorned the White House and Tiffany's windows. Using this guide, cakemakers at all levels of ability can create her cakes and edible decorations including: marionette Christmas biscuits with moving arms and legs and lifesize edible Christmas stockings, a Swiss chalet gingerbread house, centrepieces such as chocolate and almond pine cones, a mosaic candy tree and a multi-tier Victorian Christmas cake. With full-colour photographs, step-by-step instructions, easy-to-follow patterns and helpful line drawings, the recipes should enable anyone to create Christmas magic in the kitchen.