Transporting a Wedding Cake

Transporting a wedding cake is a nerve racking experience and not for the faint hearted. We constantly have people come into our shop, some in tears, desperate for us to help.
Being one of the top destinations in the country to get married, people often bring their cakes from home to their Lake District wedding, but my heart [...]

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Wet Weddings

This weekend was probably the wettest weekend for a long time. My heart went out to my brides & grooms. One of our weddings was in a marquee in the garden of the bride’s mother. It couldn’t have been more beautiful, set on the banks of the fabulous Lake Windermere, the whole scene was idyllic. [...]

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Sexy Cakes and The City

I recently returned from a wonderful trip to New York where I had the pleasure of working with a renowned American cake decorator Elisa Strauss. She designed Charlotte York’s second wedding cake for an episode of Sex and the City.
 
I am always looking for new and exciting techniques and loved her sexy shoe-and-shoebox cake. I [...]

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Who’d be a cake decorator

It’s stressful, long hours and quite frankly exhausting! I love what I do, I consider myself to be fortunate to do something creative and I get to deal with people who are at their happiest, making fantastic choices for what will be their dream wedding. Cake decorating is an art and [...]

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