Baking has always been a static fixture in my life. I remember being in the kitchen when my late grandmother would make massive lambeth-style cakes. Swiping a taste of the icing at a young age was a core memory! It wasn’t until my grandmother passed away that I received the urge to really get into the kitchen and master cake art. Prior to that, cakes were always a form of sugar art that seemed to have eluded me.

I gained my culinary training under my late step-father and master Chef Keilan Niles in 2008. It was his passion for food that seated me into the kitchen. I began working as a confectionary artist while in college selling chocolate covered strawberries from my dorm hall kitchen as a hobby. Initially a student at Tuskegee University for Occupational Therapy, I later transferred to Georgia State University for Fine Art. The culmination of experiences I amassed through art and my late family’s passion for baking birthed my own unique love for sugar art.

"Baking is more than a mundane act but an experience that invites all the senses to dine."

-Rae Anderson