Michelle Sugar Art Blog

  Michelle is applying finishing touch to her sushi's creation (Photo credit: Simon Jacobs/PinPep) To celebrate World Sushi Day 2024, Michelle, in collaboration with Yutaka, has unveiled a stunning collection of edible portrait sculptures of British celebrities and TV personalities, all made from sushi ingredients. She dedicated approximately 120 hours to sculpt these portraits using sushi rice, konbu, seaweed, roe, and soy sauce for colouring. Her impressive creations include: (excuse the pun): Singer-songwriters: Eelton John and Edamame Sheeran Footballers: Bukayo Saké and Herring Kane This Morning hosts: Alison Salmond and Dermot Roe’Leary British TV host Lorraine Kelpy, made from dash konbu and fukujinzuke Academy Awards winner actor: Benedict Cucumberbatch These remarkable artworks were exhibited in a London gallery as part of the #SushiMe campaign by Yutaka - one of the leading brands of Japanese food ingredients in the UK, inviting Brits to get creative with their food...

To celebrate the return of the most anticipated TV series finale this year, Stork baking spread – the ultimate ingredient of great bakers since 1920 – has commissioned food artist, Michelle Wibowo , to pay homage to this pop culture moment and create a bake inspired by the show. The cakes was on-display overlooking the iconic London Tower Bridge  This morning, the ‘Stork’ family line-up was unveiled in the country’s capital, overlooking the iconic Tower Bridge. Made from fluffy sponge – thanks to Stork, each life-size sculpture took an eye-watering 300 hours to make. 3 lifesize cake from the character of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark and Arya Stark The largest statue comes in at a mammoth 173cm tall and weighs in at 70kg kg – the equivalent to TEN TYRES. The three sculptures used a whopping 30KG of Stork Original. Who wants a piece of o Jon Snow from Game Of Thrones? Press coverage: Evening Standard - Game Of Thrones - Inspired cake statues...

Celebrating Christmas this year Heathrow Airpot, the Europe's largest airport  has commissioned Michelle Wibowo to create 5 meters long and 2.5 meters wide massive gingerbread installation at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5. It took Michelle 200 hours to make and weighs around 50kgs! The gingerbread airport features Heathrow’s four terminals, the runways and the control tower as well as the much loved stars of Heathrow's Christmas advert, Doris and Edward Bair. Heathrow discovered that one in four Brits (25%) believe that the smell of gingerbread is the main scent that reminds them of the festive season The gingerbread airport is in Heathrow Terminal 5 on Thursday 13 December. On the media: https://blog.heathrow.com/gingerbread-heathrow-airport/ http://mediacentre.heathrow.com/pressrelease/details/81/Brand-News-22/10403 https://bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/20468/Bake_Off_winner_creates_50kg_gingerbread_airport.html https://london-post.co.uk/...

Michelle created a pottery theme cake for BBC Show Marrying Mum and Dad, where the kids are making all the big decision about their parent's wedding day including theme and the cake!. Watch the clip below and of check out full programme in BBC iplayer

Working in collaboration with Mr Kipling's brand, Michelle Wibowo of Michelle Sugar Art reveals the 3 meter tall (sitting down) or about 7 m tall when standing up a life-size giant sculpture of Big Friendly Giant (BFG) from one of the famous Roald Dahl's Children storybook. The sculpture was covered with around 7500 individual Mr Kipling's cakes from 7 variety, the skin was made using Viennese Whirls, his trousers and top half are made from different types of Angel Slices, plus a few Bakewell tarts around the shirts. Concept: BFG Character in  Roald  Dahl book The new range of Mr Kipling Cakes celebrating Roald Dahl's book, notice the BFG Sketch which later is transformed into 3D by Michelle Mapping variety of Mr Kipling's cake to the surface of BFG Getting BFG out from Michelle's workshop in the evening when the weather is cool Transporting such giant sculpture was a real challenge Arrived undamaged at...

Check out behind the scene of Michelle creating a giant train cake for Haywards Heath 175th Anniversary of the arrival of the Railway in West Sussex. Watch today on Channel 4 UK at 5.30pm Photos are courtesy of Laura Morgan Check out other episodes of Extreme Cake Makers featuring Michelle Sugar Art

Channel 4 - Extreme Cake Makers , has been following Michelle Sugar Art on some of Michelle's amazing cake projects. These episodes will be premiered on: Wednesday 3rd May  - Episode 3 5.30pm-6.00pm Michelle is producing a six foot long miniature steam train made entirely out of cake for Haywards Heath's 75th Anniversary Celebrations of the arrival of the railway. Thursday 4th May - Episode 4 5.30pm-6.00pm Celebrating 25th anniversary of a book publisher Michelle is creating a Pop up Book Cake. Friday 5th May - Episode 5 5.30pm-6.00pm         A lovely surprise is created hidden inside a Marble Egg Cake for a birthday party. Tuesday 9th May  - Episode 7 5.30pm-6.00pm For one lucky little birthday girl, Michelle is creating a five foot edible Wizard of Oz mural out of Genoese sponge and covered in painted icing and sweets. Thursday 18th May -  Episode 14  5.30pm-6.00pm An incredible portrait cake painting made out of spon...

Alzheimer’s Society is launching the UK’s first ever Cupcake Day on 16th June. Cupcake Day is a fundraising event where supporters are able to bake or buy cupcakes and sell them in aid of people with dementia. Celebrating the first ever cupcake day, Michelle from Michelle Sugar Ar t created the most iconic London's landmark: Big Ben in front of the parliament square made out of 240 individual cupcake design. Cupcake Day is all about celebrating your individuality and hope we can raise more awareness to help people with dementia. Find out more about Cupcake day and Alzheimer's society . Christina Macdonald (Media Champion), Jeremy Hughes (CEO Alzheimer's Society), Michelle Wibowo (Food Artist), Donna Air (Actress, Model, Singer), Sue James (Editorial for Woman & Home)

Portrait of Dr. Gatchet in Jelly Belly Beans by Michelle Wibowo Elements Shopping Malls has teamed up with Jelly Belly to spread message of 'Sweet Happiness' to the people of Hong Kong while inspiring them to unleash creativity and follow their dreams. Transformation from Van Gogh's original painting - Pencil Sketch - Brightly-coloured version of Jelly Belly Painting Michelle Sugar Art was commissioned to recreate 4-meter length Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gatchet, one of the most expensive paintings in the world. 100,000 brightly coloured Jelly Belly Beans were used to inject 'sweet happiness' to the originally melancholic painting. Around 100,000 expired Jelly Belly Beans (120 kg) were used to create the artwork. Planning art-board. Around 24 different Jelly Belly Colours were carefully selected. We teamed up with HongKong's youngsters, get creative, have fun, and work together on this giant masterpiece. Getting r...

CBBC team was visiting Michelle Sugar Art Studio to create a weird and wonderful egg-shaped wedding cake for their Mum and Dad. We're experimenting with different kind of fillings, from bake bean to tasty caramel Having fun time making things!      Yes, they've made a complete mess!   Dinosaur Egg Wedding Cake Be sure to check out the sneak preview on CBBC

8 feet tall Giant Bunny Cake for Lisa's 50th Birthday Party by Michelle Sugar Art The Troxy, ex-bingo hall in East London has been transformed overnight to host 1000 guests for Lisa Tchenguiz's 50th Birthday. It was no ordinary party by any means and Michelle has been commissioned to create a pink giant bunny cake made for the party’s centerpiece. It took Michelle 100 hours to carve, sculpt and cover the cake with 40 kg pink and white fondant. The cake weights more than 250 kg, 6 men to carry them and lift up the stage. "Your cake was a huge hit. Everyone was blown away" .   Steve Varsano Last minute touches at the venue before the party started. The Troxy, ex-bingo hall in East London has been transformed overnight to host 1000 guests for Lisa’s 50th Birthday. Lisa & Steve cutting the cake (picture courtesy of Getty Images) News clipping from Daily Mail (Monday 26 January 2015) Also check out ...

Celebrating 10,000 Bi-Fold Doors Manufactured by Origin , Michelle Sugar Art has created an edible house out of sponge cakes featuring bi-fold doors which can be opened! Front facade of the house