Be careful what you ask for because Shannon Pridgen can bake your sweet dreams come true. An artist whose medium is sugar, anything goes. She designs and sculpts all elements employed in her cakes completely from sugar. Some of her wondrous and tasty creations include blooming bouquets, renditions of contemporary art and detailed sculptures. Her cakes are more like art than food. Defying gravity and stretching the imagination is her free standing elephant cake (yes, on all fours!) One delighted birthday girl tried to take the cuddly stuffed animal to bed until she was told that it was a cake.

Shannon’s sweet indulgence led her to attend New York City Technical College’s Hospitality Management program and then later the Institute of Culinary Education where she attained a degree in Pastry Arts. A baker first, all of her cakes must not only be beautiful but delicious. Every cake she custom designs for her clients from the inside out, often inventing novel flavors and taste combinations. A cake can be infused delicately with Jardeeling tea or torted with a sublime lemon and thyme mousse. Each cake, is the melding of her creative nature and her passion for baking whether it is a portrait of Langston Hughes for the Museum of Natural History, a sculpture of record player for R & B artist Ashford and Simpson or a beaded Victorian wedding gown for the Macy’s Bridal Showcase.