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Meet Our Team
Welcome to Blossom Cakes! We offer a wide variety of cake-decorating courses tailored to meet your requirements. Our experienced teachers have a wealth of knowledge gained from years of working in this field before transitioning into teaching. Additionally, they are fluent in both English and Chinese, ensuring we can cater to your language preferences.
Peggy Wong
Peggy is the founder of Blossom Cakes, a professional cake designer, an experienced instructor, and the author of several popular baking books, including Desserts for Beginners, Bake a Gift and Gift-in-Return, and Fantastic Royal Icing Cookies. Born into a family with a strong baking background, Peggy developed a deep passion for the art of baking and handcrafted creations from an early age. In addition to gaining hands-on experience alongside professional pastry chefs, she also received formal baking training at the Haking Wong Technical Institute in Hong Kong.
With over 20 years of teaching experience in craft and design, Peggy has taught courses in Japanese Cut Ribbon Flower Art, European-style pastry and baking, and cake design and decoration. She is passionate about floral design and graduated in Graphic Design from the First Institute of Art and Design in Hong Kong. She has also completed several professional floral art certificate programs, including Certified Senior Instructor in Japanese Cut Ribbon Flower, Gift Wrapping Art, Wax Flower Making, Creative Ribbon Bonsai, Chinese Knotting, and Sogetsu Ikebana of Japan. She specialises in integrating floral art techniques into her cake decoration and is particularly passionate about teaching sugar flower techniques.
Since 2003, Peggy has dedicated herself to the field of cake design, earning recognition in the international cake community. She has served as a judge in numerous international cake competitions, including the 2017 Cake Designers World Championship FIPGC in Milan, Italy, where she led the Hong Kong team and also served as an international judge. Since 2019, she has been a judge for four consecutive editions of the HOFEX Professional Wedding Cake Competition and took on the role of Head Judge for the 2023 and 2025 competitions.
Peggy is an accredited instructor for the PME Professional Diploma Course for cake decorators and was honoured with the PME Honorary Five-Star Sugar Artist Medal in 2019 in recognition of her excellence in PME instruction. She is also a certified instructor for the Japan Salonaise Association (JSA) and the Squires Kitchen certificate courses, sharing her passion for sugar art through internationally recognised teaching programs.
Shirley Kwan
Shirley is a certified cake artist and instructor whose path to cake design began after years of working in administrative and managerial roles in the business sector. In search of a more fulfilling and creative career, she discovered her passion for baking and cake decoration. She later completed the Professional Certificate in Baker and Pastry Cook Training from the Vocational Training Council of Hong Kong, where she was awarded the Best Performance Award for her outstanding results.
With a strong foundation in baking techniques, Shirley began exploring cake decoration as a hobby, which quickly turned into a professional pursuit. To further enhance her skills, she completed several professional certification courses in the United Kingdom and Taiwan, including royal icing decoration, sugar flower techniques, and advanced clay art. Her dedication to continuous learning across different disciplines has shaped her unique and elegant creative style.
Shirley’s hard work and talent have earned her several international recognitions. In 2013, she won the Bronze Prize in the Professional Wedding Cake Competition at HOFEX. In 2015, she received the Gold Award in Class C: A Floral Arrangement at ExCel London. In 2017, she was awarded the Silver Award in Class N: Small Decorative Exhibit at Cake International in Birmingham. These accolades reflect both her technical excellence and artistic vision.
Beyond her accomplishments as a cake artist, Shirley is also a passionate educator. She teaches cake decorating and clay art, sharing her knowledge with aspiring students. She is an accredited instructor for the PME Professional Diploma Course for cake decorators. In 2019, she was honoured with the PME Honorary Five-Star Sugar Artist Medal in recognition of her excellence in delivering and teaching the PME program. Shirley’s journey is shaped by her steady pursuit of creativity, craftsmanship, and personal growth.
Learn from the Masters
Our renowned cake experts hail from various parts of the globe and possess exceptional skills in their craft. Many of them are well-known personalities who have authored books, conducted workshops worldwide and amassed a global fan base. They have joined forces to impart their knowledge through our school regularly.
We provide an extensive range of master classes in cake decoration, design, and Nerikiri Wagashi making. Our students can learn a diverse range of decorating techniques from these experts. We cover various topics, including rolled fondant, sugar flowers, modelling, cake painting, 3D sculpting, advanced airbrushing, and tiered cake assembly.