Norman, owner of The Sweet Life, Inc., a custom design cakery in Annandale, Virginia, and an award winning chocolatier. Norman is a member of ICES, GWAC, and is a charter member of CASANOVA. Norman is the former ICES representative and former cake club president for CASANOVA. He was the Show Cake Chairman for the 2004 ICES Convention in Washington, DC; he is currently a committee member of the annual Mid-Atlantic Cake Show and Wedding Cake Competition. Information on the Mid-Atlantic Cake Show can be found at www.midatlanticcakeshow.com. Norman co-authored Wedding Cake Ensembles, Cakes for All Seasons and was commissioned by the Washington Post to create a cake for President Clinton. He has also been featured in Cake & Sugarcraft, Cake Craft & Decoration, Food Art, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Pastry Art Design- Magazine, People Magazine (A Cake From Every State where he was chosen to represent VA), and has been frequently featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine. Norman has demoed at the Smithsonian, and he taught at Stratford College School of Culinary Arts. He is often featured on TV show Historic Tours and Recipes, and he has appeared on Fox 5 News. He has appeared on the Food Network Challenge s seven times. He participated in a Celebrity Cake Decorating Competition event with the T.J. Martell Foundation benefiting Leukemia. Norman has co-authored a new book, Cakes on the Cutting Edge, with Zane Beg. The books and the Rose Chocolate Curler are a available from: The Sweet Life.
In this class, you will learn how simple it is to paint on fondant cakes. You will learn how to make flowers look like they are in the foreground, with just some simple shading. You will learn how to pipe simple lines and some dots to make beautiful flowers.
