ICE’s Center for Advanced Pastry Studies, led by Director Michelle Tampakis, is an incredibly unique program that brings the world’s leading pastry chefs to teach multi-day workshop classes for working pastry and baking professionals, taught by visiting chefs and pastry artists from around the world. Courses are two to three days in duration and are limited to 14 students.

Earlier this week, ICE alum Michelle Bommarito traveled from Michigan to teach one of these classes. In addition to frequently being seen on Food Network Challenge, she was named one of the Top Ten Cake Artists for 2011 by Dessert Professional magazine. While visiting, she made ICE’s kitchens her workshop to teachi the professional students a variety of techniques for decorating and sculpting cakes. Over the course of three days, the students made elegant sculpted tiered cakes, a boutique-style shopping bag cake of their own design, and a variety of cupcakes as well. More…

Whether as chefs, cake decorators, specialty food purveyors or caterers, ICE alumni are finding success in a plethora of different avenues in the food world. Check out just some of the alumni finding success and making recent headlines.

*Michelle Bommarito (Culinary ’97) and Alumni Hall of Achievement inductee Elisa Strauss (Pastry ’01) were named two of the 2011 Top Ten Cake Artists by Dessert Professional magazine.

*Alumni Hall of Achievement inductee Dan Segall (Culinary ’02) will be featured in a new Food Network Asia series, A Culinary Coup: The Launching of Ku De Ta, which follows the daunting task of developing this high-profile Singaporean restaurant’s menu and kitchen team, completely from scratch, within eight weeks.

*Alumni Hall of Achievement inductee Caryn Stabinsky’s (Pastry ’02) new venture, Loaf, was highlighted in the New York Times. Chef Caryn is also an ICE Chef Instructor.

*Allison Fishman (Culinary ’01) has published her first cookbook, You Can Trust A Skinny Cook. She was featured on the Today show on Monday, April 18, and on will be featured on The Early Show on Saturday, April 23. Allison is also a Chef Instructor in ICE’s recreational division.

*Kelly Senyei (Culinary ’10), Content Producer at Gourmet Live, visited Luke’s Lobster in the debut of Gourmet Live‘s Pic a Dish segment on NBC’s NY Nonstop Foodies.

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