THE DMAs
Our Sponsors
Community Not Competition
If your business is part of the cake world and you're not supporting the D'licious Magazine Awards, you are missing the most exciting, talked-about event in the industry. The DMAs aren't about cutthroat competition - they're about community, creativity and lifting each other up! They're a bold, brilliant celebration of the incredible talent in our world, shining a global spotlight on the people who make the sugar art scene so extraordinary. The event creates genuine connections between brands, artists, and audiences and being a sponsor isn't just about money - it's about becoming part of something meaningful, building real relationships, and celebrating the heart and soul of this industry.
As a sponsor, you're not only aligning your brand with the most innovative and inclusive awards in the cake world - you are putting yourself front and centre of the community's biggest buzz.
Visibility, credibility, connection... it's all here. The only question is: why aren't you?
Meet the Sponsors
THE DMAs 2025
Meet The Team
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HEADLINE SPONSORS - RAINBOW DUST & SQUIRES KITCHEN
Since 2008 we have been helping bakers and cake artists to create ‘wow’ moments with our high-quality products, becoming one of the leading suppliers of colourings and decorative touch products in the UK & EU.
We’re both obsessed about quality and constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation. All of our products are uniquely produced, packed and picked in our BRC AA+ accredited factory in Preston. Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional, we are passionate about supporting our communities. With our expertise, we strive to educate and inspire those who are as passionate about baking and cake decorating as we are.
At Rainbow Dust we are a proud British brand supplying the cake decorating market with an extensive range of bold and vibrant food colourings, edible dusts, paints, sparkles and our range of essentials.
And we couldn’t stop there…
In 2024, Squires Kitchen joined the Rainbow Dust family, expanding our offerings with even more high-quality products, including sugarpastes, cocoa colourings, and more. These products have been expertly crafted for a flawless finish.
Some things really our ‘Better Together’.
Website: www.rainbowdust.co.uk
Facebook: @RainbowDustColours
Facebook: @squireskitchenuk
Instagram: @rainbow_dust_colours
Instagram: @squireskitchen
TikTok: @rainbowdustsquireskitch
CATEGORY SPONSOR - PROP OPTIONS
Known for their incredible range of premium cake stands, accessories and event props, Prop Options brings a touch of creativity to any occasion. Established and managed by Brad and Emily, Prop Options is a UK brand which design and manufacture leading, luxury cakes stands, serving boards, cake separators and event props - the options really are endless!
A family business that relies on perfection, quality materials and customer satisfaction, their bespoke designs are brought to life at their workshop on the south coast of England. Working hard to provide unique stands to aid the latest cake trends, Prop Options takes pride in using industry approved materials while delivering an experience that centres around providing outstanding customer service and a unique range of premium products.
Prop Options will be sponsoring our Cake Artist of the Year award.
Website: www.propoptions.co.uk
Facebook: @propoptions.cakestands
Instagram: @prop.options
YouTube: @prop.options
Pinterest: @propoptionscakestand
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CATEGORY SPONSOR - SUGAR DESIGN
Liz Ungless has been playing with sugar for over 40 years and it is about as opposite as you could get from her old day job as a computer programmer. Liz has been teaching and demonstrating for over 30 years and travels regularly throughout the UK and overseas to share her knowledge.
Born in Scotland, Liz lived in Africa for 26 years and this is where she discovered the world of sugarcraft. Having been taught by some of South Africa’s best teachers, she began with royal icing and progressed to the wonderful art of sugar flowers. After returning to the UK in 1992, Liz immediately began demonstrating flowers to the various sugarcraft clubs in East Anglia and has been visiting some of them on a yearly basis for over 20 years.
Since semi-retiring from full time work some 17 years ago, Liz has been running Sugar Design and is a multiple gold flower award winner with a number of best in Class awards.
Due to the difficulty of obtaining local sensibly priced flower and leaf veiners, she has created her own range of food grade, botanically correct, silicone veiners and matching cutters. The range began, in her husband’s words, as a few little veiners for an online course…. and soon featured veiners and cutters for over 75 different plants together with various tools to make life easier. Due to ongoing health issues, Liz has passed the veining part of Sugar Design over to Miriam at Sweet Creations, but continues to manufacture cutters and tools for flower making.
Sugar Design will be sponsoring our Sugar Floral Artist of the Year award.
Website: www.sugardesign.co.uk
Facebook: @SugarDesign
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CATEGORY SPONSOR - ORIDA
ORIDA Group is a UK-based hospitality and leisure operator with a diverse portfolio including hotels, health clubs, and golf courses, with a particular focus on the Maidstone and Newbury areas. Their properties offer guests a range of facilities including event spaces, fitness facilities with pools, and various dining options.
ORIDA Hotel Maidstone is located off the M20, less than 10 minutes from central Maidstone and just an hour from London. A perfect destination to take in countryside scenery, visit local attractions such as Leeds Castle and Mote Park, and attend the prestigious DMAs at Allington Castle. With motorway links to Dover and the Channel Tunnel it is perfectly situated to accommodate guests from far and wide.
With 146 spacious bedrooms, guests will enjoy every comfort ORIDA has to offer. Such as their lounge bar, Starbucks café, restaurant and Orida Health - featuring an indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna, spa and gym. If that’s not enough you could also arrange to play golf at one of the nearby ORIDA Golf Clubs.
With facilities to host both corporate events and celebrations, the venue is the choice for D’licious Magazine classes and the base for guests attending the DMAs.
Orida will be sponsoring our Business Coach of the Year award.
Website: www.oridahotels.com
Website: www.oridagroup.co.uk
Facebook: @oridahotelsmaidstone
Instagram: @oridahotelsmaidstone
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CATEGORY SPONSOR - JULIA M. USHER, LLC
Julia M. Usher is a world-renowned sugar artist most recognized for her pioneering work in 3-D cookies. She is also the author of two books, 13 e-books, and an app, all about cookie decorating.
When not spreading her love for cookie art in classes across the globe or online, Julia produces videos for her popular YouTube channel and website; oversees Cookie Connection™, the world’s largest online cookie decorating community; sells cookie stencils and cutters under her JULIA brand; and manages Julia M. Usher’s Cookie Art Competition™, which was filmed in 2019 for a Food Network documentary.
Julia is Past President of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and has received multiple food writing, decorating, and video awards, including James Beard Food Writing Award finalist (2008), Cordon d’ Or Food Writing Award winner (2009), Cake Masters Magazine Cookie Award winner (2013), Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show (OSSAS) Medal of Honor (2014), both Edible Artists Global Academy Association (EAGAA) US and International Sugar Artist of the Year Awards (2016), Cake Masters Magazine Cookie Icon (2018), TASTE Breakout Foodie of the Year (2019), and Best Online Cookie Decorating Classes from The Spruce Eats (2020). She has also been a two-time Global Sugar Hero finalist in the Australian Cake Artists & Decorators Association (ACADA) annual Cake Oscar Awards (2021/2022), and a 2023 finalist in the global Positive Leadership Awards for her impact on the cookie arts community.
Among her most prized accomplishments are the Australian Cake Artists & Decorators Association (ACADA) Global Sugar Hero Award and American Cake Awards (ACA) Industry Icon Award, both received in 2024.
Most recently, Julia launched a series of licensed 3-D cookie decorating courses in Asian markets with the highly regarded Japan Salonaise Association.
Her favorite mantra is “live sweetly”, which she urges everyone to do every day!
Julia will be sponsoring our Cookie Artist of the Year award.
Website: https://juliausher.com
Website: https://cookieconnection.juliausher.com
Facebook: @JuliaMUsherFanPage
Instagram: @juliamusher
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CATEGORY SPONSOR - SOPHIA FOX CAKE ART
Sophia Fox Cake Art - an artistic and innovative vision where creative pastry becomes art and culture.
A multidisciplinary brand that pushes the boundaries of flavor to inspire through magazines, masterclasses, shows, exhibitions… elevating sweetness to the level of great artistic expression.
Sophia will be sponsoring our Sugar Auteur award.
Website: www.cakeartmagazine.com/en
Facebook: @Sophia.Fox.Cake.Designer
Facebook: @profile.php?id=100063717077446
Facebook: @profile.php?id=61574863600789
Instagram: @fox_sophia
Instagram: @sophiafoxcakeartstudio
Instagram: @cakeartmagazine
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SEBASTIEN H. CUPCAKE ARTIST
Sébastien is a French food blogger and award-winning cake artist. He ranked among the 2018 Top Ten Cake Artists for France and was crowned the Cupcake Artist of the Year 2023 at the D’licious Magazine Awards (DMAs). He was also a finalist for both Cupcake and Best Cover Cake Masters Awards and was a finalist for Best Cartoon Modelling at the DMAs.
His tutorials have been published in countless magazines including the D’licious Magazine. He has participated in the French version of Bake Off: The Professionals, has given cooking advice on a French radio show called 'A Glimpse into the Fridge', as well as running 'Un Cupcake, LE webshow!' on CakeFlix TV.
He has judged many competitions such as Cake & Bake in Germany, Salon du Cake Design in France and Puglia Cake Festival in Italy.
Formerly known as Un Cupcake, l’Addition!, his brand became Sébastien H. Cupcake Artist in 2022.
www.sebastiencupcakeartist.com
www.facebook.com/sebastien.cupcake.artist
www.instagram.com/sebastien.cupcake.artist
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CATEGORY SPONSOR - YENERS WAY
Chef Serdar Yener has over 50 years of experience in cake decorating. His vast international experience and artistic talent has been acknowledged by his peers both in Australia and abroad. He has competed in international competitions and been awarded "Best Pastry Artist" in Igeho, Switzerland 1987 and “Best Pastry Chef” in Singapore, Food Asia 1990. His Sugar centrepieces are displayed in museums at Champagne in France, Culinary Art Museum in Switzerland and The National Museum in Singapore. Serdar has also judged at major culinary competitions in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and USA World Pastry Championships.
After years of leading pastry operations in many international 5 star hotels in Europe and Asia, he moved to Gold Coast, Australia in 1992, opened his family business and produced thousands of wedding and novelty cakes. In April 2014, together with his son Serkan, he founded Yeners Way Online Cake Art Tutorials. where he publishes detailed videos of cake decorating tutorials that make it possible for almost anyone to replicate his amazing creations.
Since then he has connected with thousands of subscribers worldwide and is delighted to impart his knowledge of accumulated tips and tricks with the next generations of cake decorators. He also publishes regular tutorials on his YouTube channel, Yeners Cake Tips, to his 350,000 subscribers and occasionally conducts workshops and demonstrations internationally.
Yeners Way is sponsoring our Beginner Sugar Art of the Year award .
Yeners Way: https://www.yenersway.com/
Serdar’s autobiography: https://www.yenersway.com/serdar-yeners-autobiography/
Email: serdar@yenersway.com
Other LInks:
https://www.youtube.com/yenersway
https://www.facebook.com/yenersway
https://www.pinterest.com/yenersway/
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CATEGORY SPONSOR - CAKENOTE
Cakenote is a cake business management web application platform. At it’s core, it’s a tool you can use to visually design and price cakes. Built on the idea of itemisation, every aspect of your cake design comes with specific costing and pricing settings so you can focus on designing your cakes and let Cakenote calculate costing and selling price automatically as you add elements.
With this amazing tool you can design cakes by combining individual elements on a canvas; choose from a growing library of assets that will include a wide range of boards, cake sizes, decorations, construction elements as well as textiles and patterns; automatically price your cake as you design it; add your very own elements to be used for cake designs; automatically calculate the number of servings of your design based on predefined portion sizes; save designs as templates to be used on other designs; automatically calculate flavour and coating pricing based on cake volume; create orders with printable tags for easy kitchen operation, manage ingredients and recipes, visually create your own cakes and much more…
Created by Serdar Yener & Serkan Yener, the same father and son team that created Yeners Way Cake Art Tutorials you know that you are in good hands with Cakenote.
Cakenote will be sponsoring our Tutorial of the Year award.
Website: www.cakenote.com
Facebook: @cakenoteapp
Instagram: @cakenoteapp
YouTube: @cakenote-cakedesigningandp9525
