About me.....Lorraine McKay

I am a self taught artist from Bonnie Scotland! I first realised my ability to create sugar art in 2003. My hobby soon became my passion and with the encouragement of friends and family I started my cake business...The Icing on the Cake.

Lorraine McKay is an Accredited BSG Demonstrator

Extra Icing!

While running a successful cake business, I won several Gold Awards entering my work in the Novelty Cake and Wedding Cake category at the annual Cake Show held at the NEC Birmingham. In 2006 I was approached by a group of ladies from the Edinburgh branch of the British Sugarcraft Guild and asked if I would demonstrate my work....I agreed without thinking, little knowing that I was about to begin a new chapter in my life! I started writing a blog and called it...Extra Icing on the Cake. "Extra" because I saw this as a spin off from The Icing on the Cake, a way to offer a little bit more to the viewers other than my cake business website. A little bit more personal, a little extra fun! Offering help online became a daily routine. With e-mails coming from all over the world, I decided the best way to help everyone all at once was to offer projects in the form of Online Tutorials. The rest as they say... is history!!

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Workshops with Lorraine McKay

I began offering workshops at my studio in West Calder in 2007. The following year I was invited to teach in Austin, Texas! Of course I agreed and have never looked back. With so many invitations to teach coming from all over the UK and Overseas, I had to decide between making cakes for all occasions and teaching as doing both was proving much too difficult...and stressful. Nowadays I dedicate my time to writing, teaching and demonstrating. The Icing on the Cake has been taken over by Extra Icing!

I have many plans for the future of Extra Icing...and for me,

Lorraine McKay