I’m not a confectioner – I’m an artist who works with sugar and once, in the not too distant past, I earned a living making exclusive celebration cakes, then moved on teaching sugarcraft (for the WEA and in Adult Learning for my LEA) and now, since ‘retiring’, although I still use this skill, the workload is far less and it’s really become more of a hobby.
Celebration cakes, for me, have to be unique and should be appropriate to the recipient/s, so I always find out as much about them as I can and then, using my artistic skills and experience, put together a design proposal which, once approved, is reproduced in sugar. Although the cake inside is delicious, it’s always amazing to me that people don’t want to cut into the cake – but I always take a photograph, which makes it a bit easier for them to use the knife!