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Charlotte Campus Honors Colette Peters as a DVCColette Peters has been the owner of Colette’s Cakes, a specialty cake company in New York City, for over 20 years. Since she was 8 years old, living in Chicago, she made cakes and experimented in the kitchen. Her first love, though, was painting, and after earning a bachelor’s degree in painting, moved to New York to earn her Master’s degree in painting from Pratt Institute.
Peters 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. This exposure led to a contract to write a book of her own. Since then, her unique cakes have been featured in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Town & Country, Brides, New York magazine, Food & Wine, Pastry Art & Design, and Victoria, among others. Peters has served as a food stylist for Ladies’ Home Journal, Food Arts, Womens’ Day, and Good Housekeeping. She has also created cakes for films, Broadway plays, television, and commercials. Peters has delivered cakes throughout America, Europe, and the Caribbean and has created cakes for many celebrities, including Sting, Natasha Richardson, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, Joan Rivers, Tommy Tune, Al Pacino, Eartha Kitt, and Robert Altman, just to name a few. She created cakes for the weddings of Marie-Chantal Miller and Prince Pavlos of Greece and Alexandra Miller and Alexander Von Furstenburg. The Societé Culinaire Philanthropique awarded Peters three gold medals and the Grand Prix de Paris Award. In 2004, she won first place in the Beaver Creek Wedding Cake Extravaganza, sponsored by the TV Food Network. She is a member of The Baker’s Dozen East, the New York Womens’ Culinary Alliance, and The International Cake Exploration Society. |
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