The Art of Cake Decorating

ICE’s 240-hour Art of Cake Decorating program was developed by award-winning Chef Toba Garrett, one of the country’s most notable authors, instructors and practitioners of the art of cake design. Chef Toba has won dozens of gold and silver medals at cake decorating competitions all over the world and her work has been featured by various media outlets including the Today Show, InStyle, Pastry Art and Design, Gourmet and many more. In 2010, Dessert Professional named Chef Toba one of the 10 Best Cake Decorators in America, and she has even had her work featured by the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.

Our cake decorating courses explore the history of this intricate art, including instruction in celebrated traditions of cake design from around the world. Students will also train in various methods of contemporary cake decorating, from the basics of piping, advanced sugarwork and hand-sculpting to airbrushing, hand-painting and novelty cakes. Among the professional cake design program’s many exclusive features, students will enjoy guest lectures with ICE Pastry & Baking alumnus Elisa Strauss, renowned for her custom fashion cakes, as well as ICE Pastry & Baking alumnus and owner of Brooklyn’s coveted bakery Sugar Couture, Penny Stankiewicz.

Armed with expert cake design skills, alumni of our professional cake decorating classes have placed among the highest rated cakes at esteemed cake competitions, including the prestigious New York Cake Show. One of our Art of Cake Decorating graduates won the competition’s grand prize — within mere days of graduating!