Zane is a shining star in cake decorating with no formal training with an unlimited creative sense. He has worked on cakes for sixteen years and showed no sign of slowing down. He loves to work on cakes that have great movement and flow to them. In addition to decorating cakes, Zane enjoys traveling to teach and perform demos. He specializes in detailed, hand-painted cakes and chocolate molds. He also creates beautiful bows and accessories with Choco-Pan.

Zane is a real estate broker in Virginia and has worked with The Sweet Life for last sixteen years. He is married to Shazia and has two girls, Malayka who is 5 and enjoys working with fondant (it’s never too early to get children started), and Haaniah who is almost 3.

Zane has demonstrated his art at the Food Network Challenges (ten times) (his 1st challenge with The Food Network he took 2nd place), ICES conventions (information about ICES can be found at www.ices.org), and Cake & Sugar Artists of Northern Virginia meetings. He has also appeared in American Cake Decorating Magazine. He designed the detailed painting, food styling, layout and editing of the book, Wedding Cake Ensembles. Look for his work in the new book that he is co-authoring with Norman R. Davis, Cakes on the Cutting Edge. Autographed copies can be purchased through The Sweet Life.

Norman and Zane's website is at www.thesweetlife.com