Zoe’s Fancy Cakes: Introducing Figure Making: A Guide to Creating Sugar People

Zoe’s Fancy Cakes: Introducing Figure Making is a constructive, unique guide to creating exciting and quirky decorative figures for cake decorators and home bakers.

Award-winning cake designer Zoe Hopkinson provides inspiration and guidance for all skill levels, showing you exactly what you need to recreate her adorable sugar figurines yourself! Featuring a dozen different projects to explore, Zoe’s Fancy Cakes: Introducing Figure Making is brimming with the author’s passion for her craft, encouraging us all to pursue those creative ideas and hidden talents.

Led by an expert with over 1.1m followers on Facebook, 316k followers on Instagram and 519k subscribers on YouTube, discover your new favourite hobby and remember, practice makes perfect!

Zoe is one of my very favourite cake artists out there. Her cakes and cake toppers are alive! Look into the eyes of any of her characters and embrace the mischievous twinkle of a sweet little critter just ready to scamper away before you blow out the candles and start slicing. Notice the perfect imperfection of a well-placed freckle. What Zoe truly understands is that the best cake art is all in the details. It is by understanding the language of creation that she is able to articulate her ideas into such striking work. Dive in head first and see how she uses the materials, tools and techniques to create dynamic cake toppers. Look closely and understand how Zoe uses colour and texture to bring her cake toppers to life.

─Duff Goldman

Born and raised in Leeds, Zoe Hopkinson graduated from university with a Fashion Design degree, and initially wanted to become a wedding dress designer. After a few years in the civil service, Zoe decided to apply her creative talents to the world of cakes, and in 2014, she took the plunge to pursue this full-time. Once she began to share her journey online, Zoe’s flair for cake decoration grew as more and more requests came in from followers and fans around the world for tutorials and guidance. Now, with over 1.1m followers on Facebook, 316k followers on Instagram and 529k subscribers on her YouTube channel (all @zoesfancycakes), Zoe teaches her talents both in-person and online around the world, as well as selling cake decorating supplies and moulds from her online store.