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.
Cake decorating
Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative elements to make plain cakes more visually interesting. Alternatively, cakes can be molded and sculpted to resemble three-dimensional persons, places and things.
Cakes are decorated to mark a special celebration (such as a birthday or wedding). They can also mark national or religious holidays, or be used to promote commercial enterprises. However, cakes may be baked and decorated for almost any social occasion.
History.
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