Elizabeth LaBau

Elizabeth LaBau is a cookbook author, food photographer, video instructor, and culinary digital media personality. She is the founder of dessert website SugarHero.com. Elizabeth LaBau attended culinary school in Los Angeles, and began her culinary career as a pastry cook, then chef, working in bakeries and restaurants in Southern California. Elizabeth founded the website SugarHero.com in 2011 as a way to share dessert recipes and teach people how to become better bakers. Since then, it has been named a Best Baking Blog by Better Homes & Gardens, and it now receives millions of page views every year. SugarHero provides readers with hundreds of written recipes, photo tutorials, and instructional videos. In 2012 Elizabeth published a candy cookbook called The Sweet Book of Candy Making. It has been translated into 7 foreign languages and spawned a mini gift-sized companion, The Sweet Little Book of Candy Making. Elizabeth is also an on-camera instructor, and has released 2 instructional courses with Bluprint (part of NBC Universal). She also provides free video instruction on the SugarHero YouTube channel and in live videos on her social media channels.