Rolands Life-Size Cake Sculptures

He was a double gold medal winner at the World Culinary Olympics held in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1976. (Photo of one gold medal and accompanying plaque are shown below.)

Roland is the author of several instruction and pattern books on cake decorating which are available nationwide (U.S.) through cake decorating supply shops as well as through A-J Winbeckler Enterprises.

He has written many articles for trade magazines dealing with the cake decorating and the bakery field including Bakery Production and Marketing and American Cake Decorating.

Roland has been teaching professional cake decorating since 1975.

He has taught at the Culinary Institute of American in Hyde Park, New York, the Wilton Cake Decorating School in Chicago, as well as many other prestigious institutions. He is also a Craftsy.com instructor of his online class on Piping Buttercream Borders.

Roland has also has been a featured demonstrator at national Retailer's Bakery Association Conventions, the international cake decorators' conventions of the International Cake Exploration Societe and the Australian National Convention.

He has been featured on several instructional video tapes produced for The Retailer's Bakery Association as well as videos produced for the decorating public.

Roland has appeared on national television several times on such programs as "To Tell the Truth" and "You Asked for It" and on Food Network's Sesame Street Cakes and TLC's Ultimate Cake. He has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles throughout the country.

He has created many life-sized cake sculptures of and for famous personalities such as Cher, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Wayne Gretzky, Colonel Sanders, Princess Diana, Albert Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals), and others.

In 1992, Roland A. Winbeckler was inducted into the International Cake Exploration Societe's (ICES) Cake Decorator's Hall of Fame.

He was also named as one of the "Top Ten Cake Artists in North America for 2012" by Dessert Professional magazine.

Roland met his wife Marsha, also an accomplished decorator (Marsha's cake photos), at the  ICES (International Cake Exploration Societe convention.

Besides working with cake and icing, Roland enjoys creating many other types of artwork and working with digital photography. And when possible, he and Marsha enjoy riding their Harley-Davidson motorcycles around beautiful Northern California.

Step-By-Step Life-Sized Cake Sculpture

Click here or on the photo to see step-by-step photos of how a life-sized cake sculpture is made.