Sue McMahon has quite literally spent her lifetime making cakes! She won her first gold medal for a cake with marzipan roses when she was only about 8 years old! Her latest competition achievement was at La Salon Culinaire International de Londres in 2006, where she won not only the best sugarcraft entry, but she beat over 1,200 culinary exhibits to win the supreme “Prix d’honneur” for the whole exhibition. She has now retired from competiting and is now attends competitions in a role as Judge.After graduating from Bath University with a Batchelor of Science Degree with Honours, Sue knew that she wanted to be a food journalist, and she realised her ambition as she is the Cookery Editor of Woman’s Weekly magazine in Britain. Although she’s happy to take on the challenge of any culinary recipe, and her work at the magazine is very varied, her passion is cakes and she travels the world teaching cake decorating as far afield as Malaysia and Japan, and most importantly, here at the Notter School in America!
As well as working at the magazine and teaching cake decorating, Sue has edited several cookery books, for which she has also done the food styling and she works as a consultant and freelance writer for several publishing companies.
Sue is a member of the Guild of Food Writers, Craft Guild of Chefs and the British Sugarcraft Guild.
