Long before cake and cupcake reality television or the Food Network, Charmaine Jones aka Cakediva earned her stripes making fabulous decorated cakes for celebrities such as Beyonce, Wendy Williams, Erica Badu, and Queen Latifa. Her wedding cakes were a staple on the Soaps for over 27 years. Charmaine pioneered Afrocentric, Asian, and Latino cake designs long before ethnic cake designs became fashionable.
Charmaine is fun and crazy about cake but dead serious when it comes to her custom cake business.
Charmaine graduated from Loyola University with a Masters of Fine Arts. Her cakes have been seen in numerous national and international magazines including Brides, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Modern Bride, and Contemporary Bride and her cake designs were featured in the African American style guide, Jumping the Broom, by Harriet Cole.
It's Black History Month and NYC Cake Decorators Meetup is thrilled that Charmaine will teach a hands-on workshop in African Textile effects on fondant. For information contact Dina at nyccakeecorators@yahoo.com. You do not need to join the group to take the class.
Charmaine is also a featured artist at the upcoming Connecticut Cake Show. She will host a hands on sculpted frog class. The technique shown is transferrable to other sculpted cakes. To download the registration form and purchase tickets visit Connecticut Cake Show website.
