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2023 Instructors for the Contra Costa Cake Show

​Peggy Tucker   School of Cakeology & Cake Play   https://www.cakeplay.com/

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PEGGY IS A CERTIFIED MASTER SUGAR ARTIST AND IS INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN, NOT ONLY FOR HER UNIQUE SKILLS IN SUGAR ART, BUT ALSO FOR THE FUN DEMONSTRATIONS AND QUALITY CLASSES, AT WHICH SHE INSPIRES ENTHUSIASM IN EVERYONE WHO ATTENDS. THIS REPUTATION HAS OPENED MANY DOORS FOR HER IN THE SUGAR WORLD, HAS ALSO LEAD TO HER BECOMING THE OWNER OF CAKE PLAY INC.

​SHE IS A CERTIFIED MASTER SUGAR ARTIST, ONE OF 32 IN THE WORLD, AND IS THE OWNER OF SCHOOL OF CAKEOLOGY. SHE SPECIALIZES IN TEACHING THE ART OF SUGAR, CAKE DESIGN, AND CAKE DECORATING, AND IS AN INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTOR.

SHE HAS BEEN SEEN ON THE FOOD NETWORK, FOX NEWS, HAS WRITTEN ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN CAKE DECORATING MAGAZINE, EDIBLE ARTISTS NETWORK MAGAZINE, ICES MAGAZINE. THE MINNESOTA WOMEN MAGAZINE AND ROCHESTER NEWSPAPERS HAVE WRITTEN MANY ARTICLES ON HER OVER THE YEARS.



Classes scheduled:  Garden Fairy and Gnomes for All holidays 

Laura Saporiti  _ ​https://laurasaporitipastryandcakeart.teachable.com/

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Laura Saporiti is an Italy based International pastry chef and cake & cookie artist, with a past as Historian of art, who loves to travel the world teaching her passion, on a mission to raise the professional consciousness of the art of decorating.

Laura has had the privilege of being published in several international magazines, like Italian Pasticceria Internazionale, American Cake Central, British Cake Masters, Indian Sugar Magazine or Chinese Café&Gateaux. Throughout her career she also has had the opportunity to participate in a large array of International exhibits and has received many awards and recognitions for the quality of her work: from the first prize at the Cake Design Italian Festival (2013), to the special prize for aesthetic at the Italian Cup of Cake Design (2014), followed by a gold medal at the British Cake International Show Competition (2014), to the 2017 Rising Star award received at the 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.

At the same time, her international reputation led her to be invited to judge several competition, like the Italian Cake Festival, the 2015 I’m Chef Bakery Master Championship in Shanghai, the Istanbul Cake show in Turkey and the NY Cake Show in 2016, the 2019 Indian Cakeology Fest in Mumbai. She was also appointed judge for the cookie section of the Soflo 2020 competition in Miami.

She proudly badge herself of winning first place in the 3D category of 2020 Julia Usher’s Cookie Art Competition hosted at That Takes the Cake Show in Austin and being invited to be a judge in Julia's online international edition of her cookie competition in 2021 and 2022.
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In May 2021 she has been selected by magazine Dolcesalato as one of the 50 best Italian women pastry chef of the year and she was also a finalist for the Cookie Category of the 2022 Cake Masters Magazine Award.


CLASSES SCHEDULED:  Royal Mirror Gloss Method, Beatrix Potter Cookies and Dancing Ballerina ​

Tunde Dugantsi _ tundescreations.com

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Tunde Dugantsi is a Hungarian gingerbread artist and cookie decorating instructor living in the United States. Gingerbread is an ancient tradition that is still flourishing in many European countries.

​Tunde combines the old traditions of her native country with modern techniques to create beautiful edible art pieces. She shares her art in her cookie decorating books, Youtube videos, live and online classes and her Saveur Blog Award Finalist blog. She lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky with her husband and three children.

Classes scheduled: Winter Landscape Design, Needlepoint and Lace Design.

Sachiko Windbiel _ www.mimicafeunion.com

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Sachiko is the owner and creative force of mimicafe Union – a modeling paste & fondant skills resource based in Santa Monica, California. Her specialty is figure modeling, creating fantastically lifelike and expressive figures. Her artistic skills are inspired by her childhood fascination with manga and animation features which fueled her imagination and dreams. Sachiko likes to say her mission is to “Spread Joy”.

Classes Scheduled: Woman Figure “Head & Bust” Modeling Class,
​ "Harry Potter" Kawaii Chibi Style Figure Modeling and "Alien Space" Figure
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