Meet Our Team
Gloria
Creative Director & Award-winning Cake Designer
Gloria brings elegance and beauty to cakes and desserts of her clients’ wedding and celebration parties. She aims to achieve haute couture in the wedding cake designed for you.
Gloria is also an internationally certified instructor by Wilton and PME. Her attention to detail and excellent teaching skills ensure students’ satisfaction.
Besides her cake adventure, Gloria has worked in banking. She is also a make-up artist, and she loves art, painting and traveling.
Dave
Manager & Chief Instructor
Dave is a multi-award winning cake designer, instructor, and columnist, who loves to create whimsical and elegant cakes, and bring pleasant surprises to his clients and students.
Dave has won a number of major awards in the Australian Cake Decorating Championships, Royal Arts and Crafts Competitions, and Art of Cake Competitions. His cakes have been awarded the First Prize of the largest art competition in Australia three times.
He is the runner-up of The Great Australian Bake Off 2018, one of the biggest baking shows on TV in Australia.
Dave is an internationally recognized WMI, a PME approved teacher, a senior instructor of SFCA, and a passionate instructor with over 10 years of teaching and training experience.
He has been invited to teach the making of modern wedding cakes at many culinary schools such as the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu.
Outside the cake world, Dave is a Chartered Accountant and has worked for financial institutions in Australia and Singapore. He is also a marathon runner and a food lover.
Julie
Cake Designer & Instructor
Julie is a renowned cake designer in Sydney, known for her expertise in natural Korean-style buttercream piping, vintage style buttercream piping, and palette knife painted cakes, infusing unique aesthetics into each creation.
As a cake designer with an international perspective, she has studied under several international cake masters, absorbing distinct baking insights from around the world. She believes cakes are not only delectable desserts but also a feast for the eyes as visual art.
Beyond cake designing, Julie holds a Master's degree in Commerce and is a seasoned pet enthusiast, having successfully managed a pet grooming business for many years. Her life is filled with a pursuit and love for all things beautiful.
If you are interested in becoming part of the DeLovely team, please do not hesitate to send us your application via our Career page.
For collaboration requests, please feel free to contact us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
