Marta Torres is an award winning sugar artist from Portugal and is the creative force behind The Cookie Lab by Marta Torres and Marta Torres – Royal Icing Cookie Art. Marta expertise lies in creating amazing cookie decorations using her signature style on dimensional piping with royal icing.
Marta found her passion for cookies by accident around 2013. She came from the banking and consulting industries and knew nothing about royal icing or cookies, but through desire and passion she taught herself anyway. After six months of practice she entered a contest and won! This changed her life.
Marta is now an international teacher of her own dimensional piping techniques with coloured royal icing. She has spent the last 7 ½ years teaching in a very impressive 32 countries to over 2,000 students. She is currently teaching as well on on-line platforms such as Zoom Livestream for over 1.300 students.
She is also frequently asked to judge for prestigious competitions all over the world, including Cake International where she is now an Official Judge. She has been featured in many international magazines, either with her work and interviews, National TV interviews, and even had a Portuguese publication release a special edition of just her work.
If you would like to learn more about the personality behind these amazing cookies, checkout Marta´s social media.
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The Cookie Lab by Marta Torres
Prizes and Awards:
. DMA’s Winner Cookie Artist of Year 2023 ( U.K.)
. DMAs Finalist on Sugar Auter of the Year 2023
. Winner Cake Masters Collaboration Award 2022 (Incredible India Collaboration)
. DMAs Finalist on Cookie Artist of the Year 2022
. Global Sugar Hero Finalist 2021 – ACADA (Australia)
. Artist of the Year 2020 – Worldwide Excellences Edible Art (Italy)
. Finalist 2020 Cake Hero Award – ACADA Australia
. Finalist Peoples Choice Awards 2017 (USA)
. Winner 2016 EAGA Awards on “Most Inspirational Royal Icing Artist” (Hong Kong)
. Finalist at the 2015 Cake Masters Magazine Awards (AKA Cookie Oscars)(UK)
. Triple finalist in collaboration category for 4 years in a row.
. Cookier of the year Finalist 2014 (USA)
