Norman is the owner of The Sweet Life, Inc., a custom design cakery in Annandale, Virginia, as well as an award winning chocolatier. He is famous for his White Chocolate Curl Cake and his three-dimensional chocolate figurines. Norman is a member of ICES, GWAC, and is a charter member of CASANOVA. In addition to being a former Virginia ICES representative and former cake club president for CASANOVA, Norman was the Show Cake Chairman for the 2004 ICES Convention in Washington, DC. He is currently a committee member of the annual National Capital Area Cake Show. Information on the show can be found at www.cakeshow.org. Norman is a ICES Hall of Fame inductee and a Certified Master Sugar Artist one of seven in USA.

Norman has demoed at the Smithsonian, and he taught at Stratford College School of Culinary Arts. He is often featured on the TV show Historic Tours and Recipes, and he has appeared on Fox 5 News. He has competed in ten Food Network Challenge's. He participated in a Celebrity Cake Decorating Competition event with the T.J. Martell Foundation benefiting Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS research and helped raise $16,000. During the event he was paired up with Country Music celebrities Aaron Tippin and his wife, Thea Tippin. They were given 3 hours to create a cake to one of Aaron songs, "There Ain't Nothin Wrong With The Radio". They received the People Choice and 2nd place with the judges.

Norman co-authored Wedding Cake Ensembles, Cakes for All Seasons and was commissioned by the Washington Post to create a cake for President Clinton. He has also been featured in Cake & Sugarcraft, Cake Craft & Decoration, Food Art, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Pastry Art Design-Magazine, People Magazine (A Cake From Every State where he was chosen to represent VA), and has been frequently featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine. Norman is working on a new book, Cakes on the Cutting Edge, with Zane Beg. The book and the Rose Chocolate Curler are available from The Sweet Life.

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.