| Marsha Winbeckler began her cake decorating
career in 1980 with the desire to do her children's birthday cakes. She
discovered an immediate knack and love for the art. Within a year, Marsha was requested to begin
teaching decorating classes. A short while later, Marsha also began
coordinating a large and active teaching staff in Houston, Texas, for an
international cake and candy products firm.
Her talents have won her awards in many cake
decorating techniques, including buttercream decorating, cocoa painting,
royal icing work, foreign techniques, etc.
Marsha has planned and coordinated several cake
shows, including being a co-coordinator for two large state shows in
Texas. She also enjoys participating in shows as a judge and demonstrator.
Marsha's career and personal life came together
when she met her soon-to-be-husband Roland Winbeckler (Roland's
cake photos) at an ICES convention (international cake
decorator's convention). She then moved from Houston, Texas, to
Kent, Washington, where Roland resided at the time. In 2003, Marsha and Roland
moved to Redding, California.
Roland and Marsha own and manage
CakeSuppliesPlus.com--A-J Winbeckler
Enterprises, through which they teach classes, produce and sell
books and DVDs, and sell decorating products online. Cake decorating has
taken them across the U.S. and to Australia, Jamaica, and Canada.
Marsha edited Winbeckler's
Cake and Candy Chronicle international cake decorating newsletter (back
issues available on our web site) for 17 years and
the International Cake Exploration Societe (ICES)
Newsletter for over 13 years.
Appearances on TV, including the Food Network's
Sesame Street Cakes and TLC's Ultimate Cake Off (to air October 19, 2009), and
demonstrating at international cake
decorator's conventions (ICES) are among highlights in Marsha's career.
She is the author of three books, Cocoa and
Chocolate Painting, Wafer Paper Uses, and Decorating With Rolled Buttercream Icing, plus a candy
DVD, Easy Chocolate Tempering and
Candy Coating Uses.
Other interests of Marsha's include computer technology and, when time
permits, Marsha and Roland enjoy riding their Harley-Davidson motorcycles around
beautiful Northern California.
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