Silviya Jankowski is a renowned cookie decoration artist specialising in hand-painted and sculpted cookie displays. Her passion for edible art has earned her multiple Gold and Best in Show awards at numerous international competitions. Beyond competing, she also serves as a Judge at prestigious cake competitions in the UK, Bulgaria, Brazil, Italy and South Africa. Additionally, she shares her expertise through masterclasses, helping others refine their cookie decorating skills. 

Born and raised in Romania, Adelina has been artistic since childhood. She took private lessons in painting and drawing but didn’t follow an artistic education and went on to get a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. Adelina travelled the world with her family before settling in Italy, inspired by its immense artistic heritage, she was able to rediscover her passion for art and there she became involved with Cake&Cake and today works for the company.

Adelina’s love is modelling and sculpting and in 2019 was involved in the Stephen King feature at Cake International, as well as a finalist at the Cake Masters Awards in the Modelling Excellence category.

Adelina is The Cake International Official Representative for Romania.

Based in Italy with her own academy, Shaki brings over 27 years of knowledge and experience within the cake industry. Shaki has a multitude of awards and has competed with Cake International since 2014.  Trained in royal icing, sugar flowers, novelty cakes and sugarpaste carvings and decorations, Shaki will be teaching her Royal Icing Embroidery class.

I’m Michael Wehrmann, 36 years old, born and raised in Amersfoort, The Netherlands but living in France for almost 14 years now.

I graduated as a pastry chef at a young age, but I quickly realized that traditional pastry work wasn’t quite what I was looking for-I wanted something that allowed me to express my creativity in a bigger way.

In 2017, I discovered the world of cake design and was instantly hooked. Soon after, I launched my own business, Mi’Cakery Atelier & Cake Design, where I could fully explore my passion for creating unique edible art

Modelling, sculpting, and painting quickly became my true passions.

Being entirely self-taught, I developed my own distinctive style, which has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including Best in Show at Mjam Cake show and Best in Class at Cake International, along with multiple gold medals.

Today, I’m proud to be a Saracino tutor, sharing my expertise through classes and demonstrations worldwide. It’s incredibly rewarding to inspire others and share the techniques I’ve developed on my journey as a cake artist.

Aimee Ford is an internationally renowned, multi-award-winning cake artist, judge, and educator from the Isle of Man. A rebel in the cake world, she refuses to be boxed into one style—her work defies convention, blending sleek modern minimalism with bold textures and unexpected details.

Aimee is a Cake International judge, progressing to judging from being a Gold award winner at Cake International, amongst other competition success. 

With features in the world’s top cake magazines, Aimee teaches globally and creates innovative product lines, including embossing mats, pre-cut wafer paper wraps, and wafer paper petals and leaves. Despite all this, she remains delightfully weird, endlessly creative, and just a little bit chaotic—but in the best way possible.