Hamburger 'n Fries, Oh My!

Join NYC  Cake Decorators in March to learn how to create your own Hamburger 'n Fries Cake! Perfect for outdoor gatherings, kids' parties, and picnics!  Zakia Hassan, Assistant Organizer will show you quick and easy techniques.

Yummy Donut Cake Workshop!

 3D cakes are so very popular from purses to donuts. Yes, donuts! This 3D Donut class taught by Assistant Organizer Zakia Hassan, taught students the basics of cake carving, covering a cake with fondant, and presentation.

A round, frosted, and filled cake is cored and carved for that yummy doughnut effect.

The "doughnut" is covered with fondant.

Covered with sprinkles and placed in a bakery box, it looks oh so yummy!

3D Donut Cake Workshop! Yummy!

Something yummy's coming up! 3D Donut Cake workshop is scheduled for late January in NYC at an unbelievable price. Beginners and non-members welcome. Members, check out the details on our Meetup event page. Non-members send a message for the details. Got a cup of coffee?

Casting Call for Food Network's Halloween Wars!

Food Network's Halloween Wars Looking for Highly Skilled 3D Custom Cake sculptors! Casting for Season 3! Check it out!

Super Delicious is NOW CASTING Season 3 of FOOD NETWORK'S 'HALLOWEEN WARS'! They are looking for the most passionate and skilled PUMPKIN CARVERS, CAKE SCULPTORS, and SUGAR ARTISTS this country has to offer!

Are you COMPETITIVE? Do you LOVE a challenge? Do you want the opportunity to compete on a TEAM for the chance to win $50,000? For more information or to apply, email casting with your name, city, specialty, and why you'd be great for the show! Also send photos of yourself and your artwork.

HALLOWEENWARS3@SUPERDELICIOUS.NET

October 2012 Cake of the Month

Boo! Chef Janet Ben-Ami's haunted house cake is spooktacular! Check out Chef Janet's other amazing cakes on her website, Hey! Cookie.

A Slice of Cake Workshop!

This cake was designed by cake artist and instructor Zakia Hassan.

Join the NYC Cake Decorators for this fabulous "3D Slice of Cake" workshop on September 29th in the Bronx, New York. Only $62.10 per person for a 4hr. class!  You do not have to be a member of our group to join us. If interested, contact me asap!

Happy July 4th!

Lobster anyone?  This delish lobster cake was created by Laura. It's sure to astonish your guests this holiday.

July 2012 Cake of the Month

This amazing 3D leopard cake was created by master 3D cake sculptor Chef Janet Ben-Ami.  Janet will be conducting a number of Demos for NYC Cake Decorators this summer. Some of the techniques scheduled are topsy-tuvy cake construction and chocolate modeling of shoes and figures.  If interested, please contact me.

June 2012 Cake of the Month

Award winning International Member Michelle Wibow, owner Michelle's Sugar Art, is an extraordinary cake designer and cake sculptor from England.  Her very first cake was a plain sponge cake that she made at the tender age of nine. Fast forward, after graduating with a degree in architecture, Michelle enrolled in the National Bakery School in Southbank, London. In 2007, she began her custom cake business.

 Michelle reveals her decorating secrets in several videos on her website and Youtube, including the amazing suckling pig video downloaded here.

Bronwen Weber 3D Cake Class, Fall 2012

That's right, the NYC Cake Decorators Meetup is  "Marching to the Beat Of Our Own Drum" with  Celebrity Cake Artist, Bronwen Weber, November 3 and 4 2012!

Just in time for the holidays, we will be  sculpting/constructing our very own Three  Dimensional Standing Toy Soldiers complete with  adorable drums. If that's not enough Bronwen has  agreed to put a special twist on the design just for  the NYC Cake Decorators,  so the project we complete  will feature the soldier with one foot in the air, as if  in mid-march...how fab is that?

If you are interested in this class and are not a member of NYC Cake Decorators Meetup, please contact me and I will send you a link with more information about the class, tuition, and how to register.

Win a Free 3D Sneaker Cake Class!

NYC Cake Decorators will give one lucky reader an opportunity to attend Sweet Grace, Cake Designs upcoming May 20, 2012, 3D Sneaker Cake class for FREE!!!! That's right. Learn how to carve one of 3 cool sneaker cake designs shown in this post with Lisa Rochelle for free.

 All you have to do is comment leaving a tip or hint on how you save time and/or money in your cake decorating and sugar art on this post by 11:59a.m. [EST] Monday, April 30, 2012. Please leave contact information such as an email address, so I can get in contact with you in case you win. The prize is for class tuition only.  

The class location is Haworth, New Jersey which is 15 minutes from the George Washington Bridge and a quick ride from NJ Transit. Arrangements can be made with Lisa directly for pick up if traveling by train. Random.org will select the winner. Good Luck!

......AND THE WINNER IS.........SELINA!!!!!
Thank you to EVERYONE who entered the contest.  I read all your tips and hints and got a lot of great ideas that I plan to try out.

3D Dog Cake Workshop with Celebrity Cake Artist Bronwen Weber!

Love dogs? Ever wanted to be able to create your own standing 3D dog? Would you love, Love, LOVE, to network and learn from one of the best?  If you answered yes, you can't miss out on NYC Cake Decorators Meetup with Bronwen, Saturday May 5th and Sunday May 6th 2012.

New Yorkers, forget about booking a flight and hotel room and have a fun time at this 2 Day workshop which will take place in midtown Manhattan! Interested? You can join NYC Cake Decorators Meetup and get the scoop at the site [joining is FREE] or you can email for additional information.

Out of town and international cake decorators, you do not have the join the group if you want to attend this class.  Email me and I'll send you a payment link. Seats are limited, so do not delay! Hope to see you there.

Owl Sculpted Cake Class with Karen Portaleo!

Learn how to sculpt and paint fondant at this 2 day class June 24-June 25, hosted by Mother of Cakes, Sugar and Cake Academy. For the scoop visit Mother of Cakes!

Charmaine Jones - The Cake Diva!

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.

Season's Greetings!

Photo courtesy of Rafael 

This adorable snowman with presents cake was designed and decorated by member Rafael.  This talented teen is so passionate about cake decorating that he started his own custom cake business in PA!

December 2011 Cake of the Month - Reader Showcase!

Photo courtesy of cake designer Roxanne Hernandez.

This stunning gumpaste shoe and shoebox cake was made by one of my readers, cake designer Roxanne Hernandez.  Roxanne is a self taught cake artist, having only taken a few sugar flower classes.  Her custom designed Christian Louboutin crystal pump is extremely detailed along with the hand painted logo on the shoe box cake.

Although the pump is made from gumpaste it is not edible as the sugar paste pump is decorated with real Swarovksi crystals. Roxanne created the mold/shoe design and placed every single crystal on the shoe one-by-one to give it the realism of the real shoe. Check out Roxanne's other amazing cakes at her website, Amazingly Delicious Desserts.

Roxanne grew up in Brooklyn and is proud of her Dominican heritage.  I look forward to sharing her recipe for Dominican Cake in the near future. If you would like to submit a cake or sugar art related article or digital photo for Cake of the Month, please contact me.

 

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

This sweet turkey cake was made by member Janet Ben-Ami.  Janet is a master 3D cake sculptor.

Eiffel Tower Cake Workshop with Mike McCarey!

The 4-Day Workshop with Mike McCarey and Lauren Kitchens was FABULOUS! 100% of those attending loved, loved, loved the worshops: Mike McCarey was truly amazing as he explained in fine detail the thinking process involved with planning a 3D cake.  Here is a peek of an Eiffel Tower cake being made during class.

Special thanks again to Mike McCarey and Buddy Valastro for making the venue (Buddy's Lackawanna Center) possible.

Character Sculpting 101 with Lauren Kitchens and Mike McCarey!

Character Sculpting 101 with Lauren Kitchens and Mike McCarey was BIG fun! Members were overwhelmed with the spectacular kitchen space at Buddy Valestro's ("Cake Boss") Lackawanna Center facility where all Meetups with Mike and Lauren are being held. I heard nothing but accolades about the focused and thorough instruction by Mike and Lauren, and as an extra special treat, members were able to chat and take photos with Mauro Castano, Carlos Bakery ("Cake Boss").

Lauren Kitchens and Mike McCarey headline NYC Cake Decorators first 4-Day hands-on workshops. Registrants came as far as Washington DC and Tennessee,  and Zacharoula Christou, owner of Sugar Designs, flew from Greece to take today's class! Now that's someone crazy about cake!

Our sincerest thanks to Mike and Buddy for the availability of the Lackawana Center, and to Assistant Organizers Ayana Brantley  and Marisol Cuevas for their outstanding coordination of this event!

November 2011 Cake of The Month

This outstanding pillow cake was created by member  Mercedes after she completed a Colette Peters class at Wilton confectionary school in Illinois.

Questa torta eccezionale cuscino è stato creato da Mercedes membrodopo aver completato un Colette Peters classe a scuola Wiltonpasticceria in Illinois.


Este bolo excepcional foi criado pela Mercedes membro depois que ela completou um Colette Peters classe na escola Wilton confeitariaem Illinois.