I decorate cakes for a living, have you heard much about cake decorating?
I read that it is considered a "sugar art"
I think that's a fair term, it's basically art with sugar I guess. Do you have a favorite kind of cake?
I love anything chocolate!  I know that cake decorating uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative pieces to make plain cakes more visually appealing
Yes we use a lot of decorative pieces like cookies and other small snacks to make it shine. I like strawberry short cake myself.
oh that is really good one!  I also was reading how they will mold and sculpt cakes to resemble three-dimensional persons, places, and things
Oh yeah sometimes we build cakes in the form of statues or sometimes even like people if they want. I learned a bit about that at culinary school.
What type of occasion cake to do you like best.  I know you can make cakes for weddings, birthdays, or basically any special holiday
I like making birthday cakes, they just feel more special to me.
Cake decorating originated in 17th century in Europe. During the 1840s, the advent of temperature-controlled ovens and the production of baking powder made baking cakes much easier. As temperature control technology improved, an increased emphasis on presentation and ornamentation developed. Cakes began to take on decorative shapes, were adorned with additional icing formed into patterns and flowers, and food coloring was used to accent frosting or layers of cake.
Cake decorating was rumored to be started by a French bakery in the 1840s where a French baker wanted
Michelle Wibowo
Michelle Wibowo (born 1978, Indonesia) is a British sugar craft artist whose specialty is making sculpted cakes and sugar sculpture
Biography.
She graduated from the National Bakery School and begin career in cake decorating in London. 
Her first international success was in October 2008 when she was awarded a gold and silver medal for her creations in International Exhibition of Culinary Art in Germany. She created a lifesize hound dog shape sugar sculpture which won her gold and picked up silver for a cake of Elizabeth I of