Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.