Introducing Master Sugar Artist Mark Seaman

Award-winning Sugar Artist and Cake Stylist Mark Seaman developed his nationally-recognized style and expertise in special occasion and wedding cake design through many years of intensive training with leading cake decorators, chocolatiers, and sugar artists from around the world. Mark owned and operated a highly successful cake boutique in Chicago for nearly a decade before launching the International Pastry Tour. Currently, Mark teaches cake design and sugar artistry in group and private classes in his Chicago-based studio. In 2009, Mark joined the faculty of the French Pastry School’s L’Art du Gâteau,The Professional Cake Decorating and Baking Program where he teaches celebration cake design and conducts wedding cake business lectures.

In addition to winning first place honors at the Grand National Wedding Cake Competition in 2007, Mark judges professional cake and gingerbread competitions across the country, including the National Gingerbread Competition at the Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville, NC.  The Food Network, HGTV, the Travel Channel and ABC 7 in Chicago have all featured his culinary masterpieces.

Fluent in French and conversational in Russian, Mark has lived abroad in Italy and France, where he studied French art and literature and taught English.

The International Pastry Tour is a culmination of Mark’s vast knowledge and expertise in both food and language and desire to pass that knowledge on to others in an intensive, multi-sensory, once-in-a-lifetime experience. Join Mark on this intimate food and cultural journey and experience France from the inside.

Mark designs a cake for celebrity chef Art Smith’s 50th Birthday. 2010 Chocolate Dress Mark is guest speaker at the Culinary Historians of Chicago Mark is guest speaker at the Culinary Historians of Chicago
Mark is a judge at the All American Cake Show!	2010 TLC’s Ultimate Cake Off!	Mark judge’s the National Capitol Area Cake show in Fairfax		Mark judge’s "That Takes the Cake" February 2010

Award-Winning Pastry Chef and Sugar Artist Mark Seaman join The French Pastry School Faculty Steve Dolinsky visits The Neighborhood Bakeshop MFD receives highest ranking for wedding cakes in the upper Midwest by The Knot Brides! Mark judges Gingerbread House Competition featured on the Travel Channel’s "Most Extreme Christmas" Enchanted Forest Wedding On HGTV’s Design on a Dime Mark Seaman appears on TLC’s competition ULTIMATE CAKE OFF Marked for Dessert Opens New Sugar Art Studio in Chicago Mark’s wedding cake design was featured in Grace Ormonde’s Wedding Style Magazine Listen to Mark’s interview with Chef Tom Beckman You can find the Podcast here. Mark wins 1st place at the 2007 National Wedding cake competition!

Leonardo da Vinci at the Museum of Science and Industry in 2006 2003 competition Butterfly Garden Mark creates jazzy cake for the Chicago Cultural Center’s tribute bronze finalist in the 2003 Oklahoma Sugar Art Show commissioned to create custom cake for "Night of 100 Stars" at the DuSable Museum featured centerpiece at Chicago’s annual Visions of Chocolate Gala. Beaded Lace, an award-winning exhibition cake for the Oklahoma Sugar Art Show FoodTV BroadcastOklahoma Sugar Art Show selected to serve Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa     awarded first place in the professional division of the first annual "Let Them Eat Cake" competition featured on NBC 5 News with Art Norman