Ms. Candy Blog
Ms. Candy Blog, Marlo "Candy" Gorelick, is the first candy livestreamer, a World of Wonder (Emmy winning company of RuPaul’s Drag Race) award-nominated YouTuber/live streamer, and a bestselling author. An entrepreneur, she has created a number of properties focusing on all that is sparkly and sweet.
With a degree in English, two in theatre, and a MBA coupled with a background in corporate training, instructional design and community management, she has worked for such brands as Google/YouTube, Yahoo!, J.P. Morgan and American Express. A former theatre professor, Marlo has also taught ages 3 and up in middle school and high school in English, film, journalism, public speaking and acting.
As an actress, Marlo was handpicked by Fran Drescher and co-starred on 3 episodes of CBS’s The Nanny.
As a candy persona, she has appeared as a subject matter expert in The New York Times, NBC and FOX, partnering with such top brands as Hershey’s, Lindt, HSN, Epix, It’Sugar, Sour Patch Kids, Sugarpova, Just Born (Peeps/Mike & Ike), Jelly Belly, Torie & Howard, Adams & Brooks (Whirly Pop) and Dorval Trading Company (Sour Power) and has been named to FeedSpot’s Top 25 Candy Websites for Candy Lovers, becoming the #1 female candy website. As a speaker and educator, Marlo has spoken at Summit Live (San Francisco), Digital. (Vancouver), Cake Pop Con (Philadelphia), TedX Navesink (New Jersey), Midwest Digital Marketing Conference 17 (St. Louis), Social Media Camp (Victoria, BC), Blog Her 17 (Orlando), PR Daily (Virtual Summit), and Wedding MBA '17 & '21 (Las Vegas). She has served as a judge for Cake Pop Con and Werrk.com.
Marlo's award-nominated YouTube channel joined the multi-award-winning production company, World of Wonder’s network after receiving a contract in less than a week of posting her first video: a review of the RuPaul candy bar. Named Klout’s #1 female live streamer, she was awarded a contract with Periscope’s first talent network, Lifestream Productions, and placed on 3 top Periscoper lists after her first week of live streaming. A founding host of the live streaming platform, Gravy Live, she was a multi(platform)streamer, streaming on as many as 9 platforms simultaneously with audiences in the tens of thousands. She was featured on Live.Me, Pocket Live, GhostCodes & MeVee, and trended on Periscope & Hype. Having served Tik Tok as part of Tik Tok’s Creative Learning Fund, "Candy" created educational videos for TikTok, ByteDance, Bansho, and Likee.
Her first published piece, “Sweet from Sour: Saved by a Supermodel”, is part of the best-selling “Open Your Gifts”, and received its debut at TedX Navesink.
Working as a fashion designer beginning in 2018, Marlo’s work has been coveted by such icons as Cher, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, and club diva Amanda Lepore. Her work has also been featured in The Huffington Post and The Guardian as well as on CBS, VICE, and CNBC.
As Covid surged in 2020, Marlo married her interest in cake with her mother’s love of handbags, thereby creating Cake Purse. Always looking to learn, Marlo studied cake decorating with acclaimed cake decorator Toba Garrett at New York’s Institute of Culinary Education, in addition to the French Pastry School and Wilton School, penning several articles for American Cake Decorating Magazine.
In the summer of 2023, the iconic NYC eatery, Serendipity 3, handpicked Marlo to bring their famous Frrrozen Hot Chocolate to life as a purse! 2,500 hand placed crystals decorate a Frrrozen Hot Chocolate replica which takes 3 weeks to complete.
Wanna contact Marlo? Email cakepurse@gmail.com.