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Colette Peters has been the owner of Colette’s Cake, a specialty cake company in New York City for over 20 years. Her first love, though, was painting, and after earning a bachelor’s degree in painting, she moved to New York to earn her Master’s degree in painting from Pratt Institute. She then worked as a designer for Tiffany & Company for 8 years. While at Tiffany & Co. she made cakes for her co-workers, and was then asked to design cakes for the books Tiffany Taste and The Tiffany Wedding. In 1990, Colette began teaching cake decorating and has traveled throughout the United States, Brazil, and Europe sharing her expertise. She joined L’Academie de Cuisine in 2002 as an occasional guest instructor for the professional pastry arts program and became an Associate Professor in 2004. Colette is well known in the pastry arts field as one of the foremost cake designers in the United States. Colette has designed cakes throughout America, Europe and the Caribbean for many celebrities. She is the author of five books on cake decorating and her unique cakes have been featured in a variety of publications and on Food Network TV.
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