{{Use Australian English, date=January 2016 Paris Cutler

''Planet Cake'' is a

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series that follows the daily operations of one of Australia's most renowned cake businesses under the tight rein of Paris Cutler, known to her eclectic team of designers and decorators as ''The Cake Queen''. Paris Cutler gave up her career in the corporate world and bought Planet Cake in 2003 as an existing small store with only one staff member; she had a dream to put decorated cakes on the map both in

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and globally and over the next 12 years made Planet Cake an internationally recognised brand. Planet Cake has created over 12000 couture cakes, including cakes for A-list celebrities such as Nicole Kidman,

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, Keith Urban,

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and

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to name a few, as well as for television and many magazines. They have also created a host of ‘stunt’ cakes, the most famous being a realistic replica of the

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for Australia Day 2011, which weighed over 1.3 tons and required 32 cake decorators to make. In 2012, Paris along with the Planet Cake team had their own TV show ''Planet Cake'' hosted by Foxtel's Lifestyle Food network; the show became one of the networks highest rating shows for the year and has now been shown in over 30 countries around the world. As a result, Planet Cake was awarded an

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for Best Lifestyle Program in 2012. Paris has written four books ''Planet Cake a Guide for Beginners, Planet Cake Cupcakes, Planet Cake Celebrate and Planet Cake Kids'' all published by

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and now translated into 7 different languages. The Planet Cake School was launched in 2004 and now has the title of being Australia’s largest cake decorating school. They teach in eight locations in NSW, Australia and they also run classes in Doha, Qatar. Planet Cake have a unique curriculum which is continually updated and improved upon and their education program has trained over 6000 students as well as educating many cake decorators who now operate their own businesses and have become well known in their own right.

References

Planet Cake - Lifestyle FOOD

External links

Planet Cake Official Website

Planet Cake TV Show from Official Lifestyle FOOD Website

Planet Cake Gallery

Planet Cake Books

Planet Cake School
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