Sidney Galpern is a Certified Professional Chocolatier, Cake Designer, Sugar Artist, and International Instructor. She graduated with honors from the prestigious Ecole Chocolat School of the Chocolate Artsm and has the distinction of being the youngest student to ever complete the program. She trained and interned with top sugar artists and chefs in New York City, Orlando, and West Palm Beach. Her company was chosen for ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Space Coast.
Sidney teaches and demonstrates sugar and cake decorating to professionals and amateurs at venues such as: Keiser University, cake shows, ICES Convention and Days of Sharing, culinary schools, restaurants, at the Festival of Chocolate, at cake clubs and cake supply stores, private classes, as well as judging and sponsoring special isomalt awards. She is a member of the Icing Images Design Team & Team Sugar Art. She designs and manufactures her own line of sugar art tools, manufactures her own brand of isomalt, as well as writes articles published in American Cake Decorating Magazine, Edible Artists Network Magazine, CakeFu.com, featured on About.com, in the Florida Today Newspaper, Today in Brevard Television Show, the ICES Magazine, and as a CakeFu Master Trainer. She released her first DVD for cake decorators in the fall of 2012. In her spare time Sidney likes to read and write fiction. Sidney co-found the Brevard Cake Artist’s Club and her bakery, Simi Cakes & Confections (Pronounced See-Me) is located in Melbourne, Fl.
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