Zane is a shining star in cake decorating with no formal training and an unlimited creative sense. He has worked on cakes for sixteen years and showed no sign of slowing down. He loves to work on cakes that have great movement and flow to them. He is famous for his White Chocolate Curl Cake and his three-dimensional chocolate figurines. Zane enjoys traveling to teach and perform demos. He creates beautiful bows and accessories with Choco-Pan . He specializes in detailed hand-painted cakes and chocolate molds. Zane is a real estate broker in Virginia and has worked with The Sweet Life for last sixteen years. He is married to Shazia and has two girls, Malayka who is 5 and enjoys working with fondant (Never too early to get children started), and Haaniah who is almost 2. Zane has demonstrated his art at the Food Network Challenges, ICES conventions, Information about ICES can be found at www.ices.org, and Cake & Sugar Artists of Northern Virginia meetings, and has appeared in American Cake Decorating Magazine. He designed the detailed painting, food styling, layout and editing of the book, Wedding Cake Ensembles. Look for his work in the new book that he is co-authoring with Norman R. Davis. The book is entitled Cakes on the Cutting Edge. Autographed copies can be purchased through The Sweet Life.
Learn how to make these cute baby animals including: giraffe in a diaper, elephant with flowers, and cute caterpillar. Students will have time to make all three characters in class.
