When Sylvia Weinstock married in 1949, she started to learn domestic skills while working full-time as an elementary school teacher. She soon became a proficient chef and baker.

Sylvia, husband Benjamin, and their family of three daughters spent many weekends skiing at Hunter Mountain, New York. Unlike the rest of her family, Sylvia did not ski. But it was in Hunter where Sylvia met Andre Soltner, of Lutece fame. Soltner recommended Sylvia become an apprentice to pastry chef George Kellner, who operated a guesthouse on the mountain. Sylvia was a star pupil, and before long she was supplying local restaurants with dessert selections on weekend while her family hit the slopes.

Her children were in college when Sylvia was diagnosed with breast cancer, requiring a mastectomy and a course of chemotherapy three times a week.  During this time of healing, Sylvia was asked by baker William Greenberg Jr. if she could begin to fulfill orders for romantic floral cakes that he had no time to do.  It was then that Sylvia developed her signature hand-made, sugar paste flowers…and Sylvia Weinstock Cakes was born.

Sylvia’s secret to success is simple, there are no shortcuts.  Her cakes are made of the finest ingredients to insure every client – down the street or around the world – receives a fresh, moist cake AND delicious work of art.

Sylvia looks upon her success as an artisan of romantic, beautiful cakes as a reward for diligence in her fight against breast cancer, and believes conquering her illness created a better life.  As a result, Sylvia donates a substantial portion of her free time to bolstering the spirits of those afflicted with breast cancer, and is a generous contributor to organizations supporting medical research in the fight.