Tami is an award winning sugar artist, a sugar art instructor and ICES approved teacher. In her studio in sunny San Diego, CA. she has a beautiful garden of flowers where she gets inspiration to recreate them in life-like sugar. She has written several articles for American Cake Decorating Magazine , and was featured on the cover of the Dec/Jan 2007 issue. She was also featured on Channel 6 'San Diego Live' in March 2011 and in the Jan 2011 ICES newsletter.

She makes flowers for several bakeries and private chefs in the area, including making the fondant figures featured in the 2004 1st place Gingerbread City entry for the Epilepsy foundation. She was asked to be a guest presenter at The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of California–San Diego for their pastry class and participated in a sugar art display for the graduating class banquet centerpiece with her sugar flowers. She has studied with top sugar artists from England and the United States and has assisted both Nicholas Lodge and Colette Peters in their classes. Tami's attention to detail and realistic coloring effects have rewarded her with winning several Best of Shows and many top awards in cake shows.

Tami also has studied many other decorating techniques in addition to flower making such as floodwork, stringwork and the much sought after Lambeth style of decorating.

As shown in her work, she is versatile in many different styles of sugar art and blends it all together to become a stunning sugar centerpiece.

With years of teaching experience, she has now begun making online video instruction books and DVD's. Instructional DVD's are now available for some of these cakes and projects!

You can contact Tami for a private class, or if you would like her to travel to teach in your area. If you are interested in an online source for cake instruction, you can find her online videos and DVD's at Yummy Arts.

 

See Tami when she was on 'San Diego Living'