Our 2019 Instructors

MEET OUR 2019 INSTRUCTORS!

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[ult_buttons btn_title=”Chef Serdar Yener” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554897996291{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554899844523{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Chef Serdar Yener has over 40 years of experience in cake decorating. His vast international experience & artistic talent has been acknowledged by his peers both in Australia and abroad. He has competed in International competitions and been awarded “Best Pastry Artist” in Igeho, Switzerland 1987 & “Best Pastry Chef” in Singapore, Food Asia 1990. His Sugar centerpieces are displayed in museums at Champagne in France, Culinary Art Museum in Switzerland & The National Museum in Singapore. Serdar has also judged at major culinary competitions in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and USA World Pastry Championships.
After years of leading pastry operations in many international 5 star hotels in Europe and Asia, he moved to Gold Coast, Australia in 1992, opened his family business and produced thousands of wedding and novelty cakes. In April 2014, together with his son Serkan founded Yeners Way Online Cake Art Tutorials. where he publishes detailed videos of cake decorating tutorials that make it possible for almost anyone to replicate his amazing creations. Since then he has connected with thousands of subscribers worldwide and is delighted to impart his knowledge of accumulated tips and tricks with the next generations of cake decorators. He is also publishing regular tutorials on his YouTube channel, Yeners Cake Tips to his 190000 subscribers. Yener has been the finalist in “ Best online Teacher “ category at UK Cake Masters and won the title twice “ Best online Teacher of the Year “ at ACADA Oscars 2018 and Australian Cake Decorating Network. Occasionally he conducts workshops and demonstrations by interstate and overseas invitations.
Yeners Way: https://www.yenersway.com/
Serdar’s autobiography: https://www.yenersway.com/serdar-yeners-autobiography/ 
Email: serdar@yenersway.com [/ultimate_modal]
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[ult_buttons btn_title=”Nicholas Lodge” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554898270527{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554899986965{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Little did Nicholas Lodge know that when he started training to become a pastry chef where this path would eventually lead him. The field of sugar art has transported him around the world, introduced him to Royalty and celebrities and has opened numerous doors to exotic locations that most people only dream about. The author of over a dozen books and fifteen instructional DVD’s, Nichola teaches and demonstrates his unique skills around the world. Over the years his teaching tours have taken him to twenty‐six different countries, and he has introduced sugar art into unlikely places such as India, China, and Fiji. He is internationally known, not only for his unique skills in sugar art, but also for the quality of his demonstrations and classes, at which he inspires enthusiasm in everyone who attends. This reputation has also involved him in judging sugar art events around the globe and as one of the original judges of Food Network, “Challenges” television series. The base of operation for Nicholas is Atlanta, Georgia where his classroom, warehouse and retail gallery are all located under one roof. Nicholas was inducted into the International Cake Exploration Societé (ICES) Hall of Fame in 2001, being the youngest person ever to receive this honor. Nicholas is a Chef Instructor at the French Pastry School in Chicago where he is part of the faculty teaching the sixteen‐week cake decorating program, “Le Art of Gateau.” In 2010 Nicholas was honored by receiving both the Top 10 Cake Artist and Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America Awards, making Nicholas the only person to have received both awards in the same year.

In January 2015 Chef Nicholas was appointed Brand Ambassador for Renshaw, of the United Kingdom, purveyors of fondant and gumpaste since 1898. As their Brand Ambassador he will conduct product demonstrations and road shows throughout the United States. Chef Nicholas is a featured instructor on the Craftsy series of downloadable cake decorating classes. Currently eleven Nicholas Lodge classes are available on Craftsy.com. In 2017, Chef Nicholas Lodge was honored as the Educator of the Year at the Golden Tier Awards.[/ultimate_modal]

Samie
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A computer engineering guy who fell in love with cakes and took cakes as a  profession. Right after his Diploma, his short but blessed journey of 6 years has earned him many accolades including awe-inspiring creations that spanned 22*7 feet London bridge and garnered him a whole lot of media attention like NDTV, News 9 TV, etc; and most of the newspapers including Deccan Herald, Times of India, Indian Express and also been featured in many local and International magazines and blogs.

He has been awarded one of the Top Cake Artist in India by Cake Masters Magazine consequently for 2 years. Also been the finalist for Cake Masters AKA (cake oscars ) held in Birmingham, UK.

He imparts this passion to his students, teaching them to challenge creative frontiers in cake art as an advanced sugar instructor in Whitecaps and also he travels across India and to other countries to take classes and impart his knowledge to his students.[/ultimate_modal]

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[ult_buttons btn_title=”Prachi Dhabal Deb” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554900546490{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554900570756{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Prachi Dhabal Deb is a multi award winning cake artist based in Pune, India.She has been trained under the renowned artist Sir Eddie Spence MBE.She was awarded as one of the top 10 Cake Artists of India, 2017 and 2018 by Cake Masters Magazine.She was also a finalist for Royal Icing Category in 2017 and 2018 and Best Magazine Cover category in 2017 Cake Masters Awards, UK.She is the country manager(India) and official judge for Global Sugar Artists Network.Her work has been featured in various national and international books and magazines.[/ultimate_modal]
AshwiniSarabhai
[ult_buttons btn_title=”Ashwini Sarabhai” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554900615715{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554900718553{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Ashwini Sarabhai is an award-winning Cake Artist, born and brought up in the lovely city of Mumbai. An electronics engineer, Ashwini worked in the IT sector for a while. In the Cake decorating and Baking field, She is trained from reputed institutes and experts in the industry in USA. Her Venture “The Dream Cakes” is where she creates designer cakes, conduct workshops and Online Classes\workshops for Cake Decorating Art. Her creations have been featured in many National & International Magazines, websites, Newspapers and TV Shows. She is the proud Ambassador for India and Approved Teacher for the prestigious International Cake Exploration Society (ICES.org) headquartered in USA. She has been awarded the Top 10 Cake Artist in India by Cake Masters Magazine, UK for 2017 and also 2018. She was also the finalist in the prestigious Cake Masters Magazine Awards 2018, aka Cake Oscars, in the Sugar Flowers Category.

Website: www.thedreamcakes.com

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/TheDreamCakes 

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_silvia mancini
[ult_buttons btn_title=”Silvia Mancini” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554900773388{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554900808654{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Silvia’s creations are born out of her two great passions: baking and modelling.  The realization that the two could be combined to produce delicious and visually stunning cakes and desserts was, for Silvia, a eureka moment and she hasn’t looked back since.

Initially self-taught, Silvia has since attended many specialized training courses to enhance her knowledge.  This has given her the skills she needs to make her beautiful creations, always personalized in the unique style for which she has become world renowned. “Her cakes and characters tell stories in a truly original way”.

“The first period it has not been so easy because my cakes were not so common. I loved to tell well-known story in a different way.”

Winner of the Cake Masters Awards 2015 for Modeling Excellence, Silvia organizes individual and group training courses all over the world, participates in cake design events throughout Italy, and collaborates with ice-cream salons and patisseries as a consultant or lead designer in the decorative phase of production.

“I developed my own technique to showcase the face of the figures and give them truly individual  expressions. The technique is unique to Silvia Mancini Cake Art and easy enough for all to try. Everyone with a little practice can reproduce a face with a variety of expressions at home.”

In 2017, Silvia has designed and patented the first modelling tool of her line, Silvia Mancini Cake Art & Accessories: Easy eyes by SM. This unique range of modelling tools can be used to create in a quick and easy way different kind of eyes on sugar crafted figurines, nevertheless  with modelling chocolate, cold porcelain, clay, marzipan and fimo.

More info

www.silviamancinicakeart.it

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Anjali Tambde
[ult_buttons btn_title=”Anjali Tambde” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554901318142{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554901354044{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Anjali Tambde has done what no one before her has ever done. With her very first participation at Cake International 2016, she and her showpiece received the highest award of the competition, the title “Best in Show”.

This happened to her a few months earlier at the Irish Sugarcraft Show in Dublin before, but the success at the world’s biggest competition in Birmingham can’t be beaten.

Apart from winning these competitions, she has also won several Gold and Best in Class awards in Ireland, United Kingdom and Germany.

But Anjali can do much more than win at international competitions. She proves this very impressively in her demonstrations and workshops, which she also offers at trade fairs, cake events and schools all over the world.

With her tutorials, which are regularly published in various cake magazines and in online tutorial websites, she enriches the cake community and especially her extraordinary pattern techniques are very popular.

For more than a decade, Anjali has been offering her cake figures and passing on her techniques and skills in courses. She is completely dedicated to the sweet arts and always eager share her pro tips to the budding artists.

The trained fashion designer proudly belongs to the ambassadors of the Italian brand manufacturer Saracino.[/ultimate_modal]

Ruhee Bhimani
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Chef Ruhee Bhimani may not have been born with a silver spoon but she seemed to have been raised with a spatula in her hand and an undying passion for culinary arts.

Her dreams of opening up her own chocolate and dessert retail store led her to accomplishing it early in her career in 2011, in Pune, India. Established under the brand name ‘Cocoa Cottage,’ for two years it rapidly gained popularity and embedded Chef Ruhee as a professional pastry chef from there on.

She has been teaching everything to do with baking in professional hands-on workshops for bakers and home entrepreneurs, which are held at her personal culinary studio, in Andheri West, Mumbai.

Recently Chef Ruhee has ventured into Professional Training Consultancy where she curates Eggfree Menus for Brands, Cafes and structures Culinary studio set-up.

Pastry Chef Ruhee Bhimani is known all over India for her wonderful inventions in egg-free baking. She personifies Vegan and Keto bakes in her healthy yet delicious recipes. She has a flare for bringing her magic to culinary creations with epicurean colours and amazing flavours.

Chef Ruhee is dedicated to bring back flavour to your mouth with wholesome bakes![/ultimate_modal]

Laura Saporiti
[ult_buttons btn_title=”Laura Saporiti” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554901495605{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554901529191{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Laura Saporiti has been working with passion within the catering field for more than fifteen years, with a marked predilection for pastry, but at the same time holds a solid foundation of artistic training, both practical and theoretical: after attending the Art School she graduated with honors in Art History with a specialization in illuminated manuscripts. Cake design has allowed for both of Laura’s passions to come together, and she now works freelance creating cakes for various event planners and private pastry labs, being a technical demonstrator for producers and trading companies, but most of all teaching decorating classes throughout Italy and abroad, from China to USA, in many pastry and cooking schools, as well as judging in several competitions.

Laura has had the privilege of being published in several international magazines, including Italian Pasticceria Internazionale, American Cake Central, Indian Sugar Magazine and Chinese Café&Gateaux. Throughout her career she also has had the opportunity to participate in a large array of International exhibits and has received awards and recognitions for the quality of her work: from the first prize at the Cake Design Italian Festival held in Milan in 2013, to the special prize for aesthetic and third overall prize at the Italian Cup of Cake Design in 2014, followed by a gold medal at the English Cake International Show Competition later on in Birmingham, to the recent award as Rising Star 2017 received by popular and judge committee vote at the New York Golden Tiers Awards organized by American Cake Decorating magazine and the New York Cake Show. She also won two times in a row the title of Best Italian Painting Artist in 2015 and 2016.

Her technical predilection goes to royal icing and fondant painting, while her artistic research where possible reconnects constantly with history of art, although her main interest at present is all about experimenting the potential of her pictorial biscuit imprimé technique for naked cakes with a twist that look like painted.[/ultimate_modal]

Subhashini Ramsingh
[ult_buttons btn_title=”Subhashini Ramsingh” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”300″ btn_height=”40″ btn_title_color=”#dd9933″ btn_bg_color=”#000000″ btn_bg_color_hover=”#000000″ icon_size=”32″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_font_size=”desktop:18px;” css_adv_btn=”.vc_custom_1554901908556{margin-top: -40px !important;}”][ultimate_modal modal_title=”Artist Bio” btn_size=”block” btn_text=”Artist Bio” modal_size=”medium” modal_style=”overlay-show-genie” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″ css_modal_box=”.vc_custom_1554901942327{margin-top: -35px !important;}”]Subhashini Ramsingh is a cake artist, tutor and the face behind Fondbites, School of Sugar Art. She trains and guides students across the globe through her comprehensive online courses. Her meticulous attention to detail and her enthusiasm in mentoring young talent has made her one of the most sought after tutors.  She was also awarded one of the top 10 cake artists in India by Cake Masters in 2018. Subhashini constantly pushes the envelope in her search for excellence.[/ultimate_modal]
Rosie Cake-Diva-2
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Sussy pop
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Her background is not baking or pastries; instead, she has a dual Fine Arts degree.

With no prior formal training in the kitchen, she began to blend her passion for art and her love for sweets by creating tiny edible works of art. Then was encouraged by others to turn her passion into a {sweet} business … and the rest is SusyPops history!

Susy decided to put down all her art tools and pick up new ones. Now, she can proudly say that with a little bit of cake, chocolate, and candies she can create sweet and irresistible {Pop} Art You Can Eat! … and she can’t wait to share her love for cake pops in her classes.

She was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, but lives in Boca Raton, Florida ~ USA since 1997. In addition to running her business SusyPops, she’s also currently traveling and teaching cake pop classes in both Spanish and English… and will be joining Cakeology Fest 2019 in Mumbai!![/ultimate_modal]

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