Sylvia Weinstock, famed wedding cake designer, dead at 91
the nickname “Queen of Cakes” for her extraordinary edible art — has died. She was 91.The Brooklyn-born baker — who’s made nuptial confections for Oprah, Mariah Carey, Billy Joel and Sofía Vergara — passed away at her Tribeca home Monday, her family announced in a statement Wednesday without elaborating on her cause of death.“Sylvia Weinstock, the cake designer who pioneered an industry of towering, sugar-flower wedding cakes, died peacefully in her home in Tribeca, surrounded by her loving family,” an obituary posted on her Instagram page read.