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.