Welcome to ACADA

Australia's largest cake and cookie decorating association. Committed to providing the resources, training, inspiration and networking opportunities to help home based (hobby) decorators and professional cake and cookie artists, bakers and sweet makers upskill and to grow. 

"Sweet As"
 ACADA IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ASSOCIATION
We're genuinely committed to helping you grow. We don't offer you gimmicky give-aways. 
We offer you so much more
​including ongoing encouragement, support and inspiration.
The ability to network and learn from the world's best, award winning cake and cookie artists
Highly discounted decorators and bakers insurance - $20m coverage for $60 with one of Australia's most reputable insurers. It offers you what you need (rather than expensive add-ons you will never use).
Other benefits include 10% discount with many of Australia's leading retailers,
​ local and global networking opportunities, online sugar art collaborations, the Australasian Cake Oscar Awards, the Ultimate Australian Cake & Cookie Decorating Competition designed to inspire you and encourage you to step outside of your comfort zone, and 
INTERNATIONAL CAKE SHOW AUSTRALIA
As an ACADA Member you are part owner of Australia's largest cake, cookie and sugar art show. It's your industry's premier event, it attracts 10,000 + visitors each year from 27 countries!
​They come to learn, compete, share their skills and to celebrate everything sweet! 

Workshops

 We're busy organising more workshops for the rest of the year. ACADA work hard to bring the world's leading teachers to Australia to share their skills with you. This includes Australian, New Zealand and multi award winning global cake and cookie artists. If there is something you'd specifically love to learn, or a cake, cookie or sugar artist you'd love to train with please email us here to let us know. We will do our very best to lock them in for you. Below are photos from just a few of the many workshops we've already hosted this year

We're working on something very special for you!


​"International Cake Show Australia is the event that has sweet loving foodies, bakers, hobby cake and cookie decorators WORLD WIDE talking!"

These are just a few of the talented cake and cookie artists ACADA locked in to share their skills or to teach you at International Cake Show Australia in April. Regardless of whether you're a hobby home based decorator or a professional, we're committed to helping you upskill and to grow so stay tuned.

​ We're working on an exciting new workshop program that we will continue to offer you throughout the year.  Online and live workshops (being held throughout Australia) and accreditation programs coming soon!
If there is something very special you'd like to learn reach out to us via [email protected], we'll try to lock it in for you. 

You're Invited!

To learn about all the exciting free events, features and activities that were on offer at International Cake Show Australia this year click the "Cake Show" button below. Thousands of mums and dads who love to bake, home based and professional bakers, cake and cookie decorators, pastry chefs and sweet loving foodies flock to the show every year. Every year the show grows, in 2026 expect even more! The date and location of International Cake Show Australia 2026 will be announced soon. 
The preferred choice for thousands of cake and cookie ​decorators, bakers and sweet makers. ​​Learn why so many home based and professional  decorators are joining ACADA every day. Regardless of whether you're a hobby cake or cookie decorator or a professional sugar artist, there's a membership level perfect for you. 
3 fun filled days packed full of excitement, inspiration, learning and growth opportunities for the entire family. Tickets include 100 free demonstrations held across for stages, party zone, huge sugar features and competition zone. All activities other than the paid classes are free once you purchase your entry ticket.  
Showcase your brand or sell a huge volume of product at Australia's larges cake, cookie and sugar art show. More than ten thousand  home based and professional bakers, cake and cookie decorators, pastry chefs and mums and dads who love to bake are expected this year. 
PRE BOOK YOUR STAND NOW
Australia's biggest cake and cookie decorating competition & display. Unbelievable works of art created by cake and cookie decorators, kids and hobby home bakers from Australia and 26 countries!  - See all their entries at the show
Hands-on workshops taught step by step, by multi award winning sugar artists from across the world. ACADA brings the best in the industry to Australia to share their skills with you at ICSA. There are exciting workshops suitable for every skill level. 
Book Now! 
Join the International Cake Show Australia talent or delivery team. Volunteer! There are a huge number of volunteering opportunities available.   If you have a can do attitutude, passion for everything sweet, and a huge smile we have a role perfect for you! Register here!

Huge New Sugar Features

BATTLE OF THE SUGAR GIANTS
​2026 EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST ARE OPEN!

No where else in Australasia are young home based cake decorators given this type of opportunity. ACADA and International Cake Show Australia are designed to help you grow and to give you exposure. We've helped catapult so many young decorators careers, onto the world stage.  This area of the cake show is designed to give you the opportunity to really stretch your boundaries and to give you not only national, but global exposure. It's a fantastic opportunity to showcase your extreme caking skills. Think TV shows like "Cake Boss", THINK BIG!
The minimum size of these sugar exhibits is 3m x 3m. 

The Battle of the Sugar Giants is a special category in the Ultimate Australian Cake Decorating Competition at the show. The exhibits are made by the contestants (usually ACADA members) in their homes and transported from all parts of Australia (or around the world) to the show. 

Interesting Facts: 

​There is so much interest in competing in the Battle of the Sugar Giants each year, the official registration period is limited to 2 weeks!

Competitors register their official expressions of interest long before the competition schedule is even written.

In 2025 entries were limited to six.

​We've already received international applications for 2026. The theme choice is entirely the contestants. Usually the themes are novelty, however they could even choose a giant wedding cake! The winner is chosen by public vote at the show. 

​Feel like giving it a go? Lodge your "Official Expression of Interest" here 
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Meet the 2025 BSG Competitors

Daniel Greensill 
Creative Cakes By Dan
Jessie Oliver
Nambour - Qld
Daniel Perry
Cake It Simple - NSW
Louise McDonald
Toowoomba - Qld 
Cheryl Moore
Chez's Cakes & Sugar Art - Qld
Laurina Bowlen (GABO 2024)
Cocoa & Cake - Qld 
Their Creations!

GLOBAL SUGAR ARTISTS' COLLABORATIONS
Participate Online, Live or Both! The Choice is Yours! 
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Stay Tuned ...   New Collab being announced soon!

 

In conjunction with the last International Cake Show Australia, ACADA hosted two global sugar artist collaborations. Both were a huge hit. 

The Auditorium of Oddities & Curiosities attracted online participants from 14 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Romania, Indonesia, Israel, USA, Mexico, Peru, South Africa and Spain. It was an incredible experience where cake decorators and sugar artists, all at different experience levels connected, inspired and supported each other online, to deliver showstopping pieces. Many of which were transported from interstate or around the world to be displayed in the live feature at the show. It was so popular we almost needed crowd control! 
Click the "Enter Here" button above to visit this collab's Facebook Group to see the incredible exhibits and to meet some of the people involved. We'll also add pics here soon. 

Congratulations to ACADA members Rachel Karras (Vic), Rae Dare-Smith (NSW), Leah Walton (SA), Sarah Theaker (Vic) and Mandy Suckling (SA) for managing this incredibly popular global sugar artists collab. This one may be done and dusted, but they are already back at the drawing board. Expect another incredibly exciting 2025 Global Sugar Artists Collaboration to be announced soon.
​You're invited to be involved!

​If you'd like to be notified when the next ACADA collab goes live,
sign up to be the first in the know at the bottom of this page. 

Floriade Flower Market
Global Online & Live Sugar Artists Collaboration

The Floriade Flower Market global online sugar artists collaboration, also held in conjunction with the show offered a pretty sweet alternative to global sugar artists wanting a sweet fix. What a wonderful opportunity for Australian and New Zealand decorators to connect and be inspired by their global sugar heroes. This year we expanded the Floriade Market to be more inclusive. Not only were sugar flower and wafer paper enthusiasts invited to participate, invitations were extended to all sugar artists, regardless of their speciality or preferred medium. It was lovely to see so many beautiful floral cookies featured too. 

88 sugar artists from 20 countries participated. To meet all the sugar artists involved and to see their work click the "Enter Now" button above.

Participants joined from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Maldives, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and USA

Thank you to ACADA members Ali Djohan (Indonesia), Rae Dare-Smith (NSW) and Mandy Suckling (SA) for managing the Floriade Collab this year. A special mention to Ali from Hanaya Clay & Sugar Flowers who not only put the live exhibit at the show together, managed it every day but also did two demonstrations each day to show visitors to the show mediums and techniques used around the world

 TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL CAKE-OFF
~ Dreams Do Come True ~


SUPERSTAR STAGE JUDGES & HOSTS 
PAUL DELANEY 
​Delaneys Cakes - Illawarra NSW
ROSIE DUMMER
Rosie Cake Diva - UK
ANNETTE PEFFERS
​Great Australian Bake Off - QLD
​TEAM INTERNATIONAL 
MARTA HIDALGO
Peccata Minuta - Spain
DOROTHY KLERCK
Eat Cake Party - South Africa
Benny Rivera
City Cakes - New York 
TEAM AUSTRALIA
SARAH THEAKER
Creative Cake Art Melbourne
LEAH WALTON
Cake Doll L'Amour -S.A.
DAN GREENSILL
Dan's Creative Cakes - Qld
TEAM RISING STARS
CHERYL MOORE
Chez Cakes & Surgar Art - Gold Coast
JANELLE FARQUAR
Cakery Road - Perth W.A. 
SAMANTHA HOPWOOD
Cake Yard - Sunshine Coast
 Theme - Transport!
Each year at International Cake Show Australia, ACADA invites three of the worlds leading cake sculptors to Australia to compete against Australia's best in the 2-day International Cake Off Challenge. This is a very serious competition, over two intensive days they are competing for the world extreme caking title, live on the superstar stage infront of the judges and audience! These cake artists are considered to be the world's best, they are incredibly talented. 

The International Cake Off Challenge is designed to give Australia's best and emerging top talent the opportunity to compete against their interantional cake idols. To showcase their ability and talent worldwide. Rarely do the Australian teams believe they will win. When they start the challenge they are incredibly nervous and starstruck! Well we're here to tell you, Australia has serious talent. Never ever lose sight of your dreams, believe in yourself because

DREAMS DO COME TRUE!  

​This year Team Australia won the World Title! 

Congratulatons to ACADA members
Leah Walton (Cake Doll L'AMour) South Australia - Team Leader
Sarah Theaker (Creative Cake Art Melbourne) - Victoria
Dan Greensill (Dan's Creative Cakes) - Queensland
L-R Team Rising Stars: ACADA Members Cheryl Moore Qld, Janelle Farquhar WA, Samantha Hopwood Qld
Team International: Chef Benny Rivera USA, Marta Hidalgo Spain, ACADA Member Dorothy Klerck South Africa 
Team Australia: ACADA Members Leah Walton SA, Sarah Theaker Vic and Dan Greensill Qld 
The Judges with Team Rising Stars
The Judges with Team Australia
The Judges with Team International 

ICSA Haute Couture Marquee 


​ABOUT THE MARQUEE

The Haute Couture Marquee is exquisite. Each year it displays the gorgeous creations of Australasia's top eight haute couture wedding cake designers. They are competing for the title of
​"ACADA Australasian Haute Couture Wedding Cake Designer of the Year".

They've been set a challenge to create a haute couture wedding cake a minimum of 1 metre tall that meets their clients brief. ​
THE BRIEF
Create a haute couture wedding cake that makes a statement and fits within their Dubai based "A List" celebrity brid and grooms brief. Their clients are organising a spectacular weding reception in a majestic French chateau which is romantic, ornate and screams grandeur! They love Easter and want to incorporate it into their theme. They love flowers and everything Easter brings, so think an Easter Wonderland theme would be perfect. Imagine whites or pretty soft pastels. They mention the venue will be filled with flowers. They want their cake to be the hero, however it must compliment the theme. 250 guests are invited. 
THE FINALISTS 


THEIR CAKES
Ekat Salinger
​Ekats Cakes & Chocolates
Nadine Drane
​Deelish Cake Creations
Theresa Fletcher
​TMF Cake Designs
Nicky Svensen
​Nicky Svansen Cake Design
Runner Up Winner
Karen Jeffery
​Blossom & Buttercream 
Diana Llanos
​The Sweet Society Co
The Winner
Terresia Welch
Lyons Den Cakes (SA)

Australasian Cake Oscar Awards

You're Invited to Join Sugar Royalty

This is the night the entire baking, cake anmd cookie decorating industry can't wait for each year. On this night we announce the Cake Oscar winners, celebrate and appaude the work of the best of the very best.  Everyone who is anyone attends. The black tie gala dinner is filled wall to wall with global sugar heroes, celebrity chefs and bakers and indsutry leaders. Most cake and cookie decorators are the sole operator in their business. On this night they let their hair down, come together to network, get to know each other and to party. Everyone is invited. Stay tuned. Nominations for the 2026 Cake Oscar Awards will be launching soon! 

ACADA & ICSA's Objective

ACADA and ICSA's objective is to ensure our industry as a whole grows.  To provide access to world class quality training to everyone regardless of their skill or experience level. To ensure the very talented people working within our industry are recognised as creative artists and that cake and cookie decorating, sugarcraft and chocolate sculpting in all it's forms, are recognised globally as a unique FORM OF ART


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