Debbie Brown is a cake decorator, demonstrator, tutor and author of cake decoration and sugarcraft, with many books published on novelty/sculptured cakes. Based in Ashford, Middlesex, on the Surrey/West London border area, she is the UK's best-selling author of character and novelty cake books. Debbie started cake decorating when her children were very small, mainly as a creative outlet. The very first cake was a train with carriages filled with sweets. A new career went on from there, making cakes for special occasions which led on to commissions, books, magazine articles, teaching and demonstrating, sometimes around the world, and television. She is also in demand at specialist cake decorating shops, sugarcraft groups and clubs, colleges and schools around the world, who also organise demonstrations and workshops where her skills are taught.
Eddie Spence Profile:
Eddie Spence MBE started his career as an apprentice baker for J W Mackie in Edinburgh. He then went on to study confectionery and cake design and began teaching the skills he had learnt at a wealth of prestigious colleges, including Napier College in Edinburgh, Kedleston College and Wilmorton College in Derby. Eddie’s renowned royal icing skills have earned him the opportunity to decorate many cakes for the royal family, including Her Majesty the Queen’s golden wedding anniversary cake. He also won the British Open Confectionery Trophy and was awarded an MBE in 2000. Eddie has been teaching at Squires Kitchen’s International School of Cake Decorating & Sugarcraft in Farnham, England for over 15 years.
