It's Friday - which is excellent reason to talk about cakes. I first met Sue at a wedding Fayre in 2008, she had lots of yummy samples on her table so it was always a treat if your stand was next to hers at a Wedding Fayre. So good are her cakes that she is the one I chose to make our Wedding Cakes in 2011...and yes I did say "cakes" as in plural; we had a 10 inch cutting cake with 100 cupcakes which were either vanilla or lemon flavoured. She even went to the trouble of making 6 gluten free cupcakes for my mother.
Today she shares with us how Tier Celebration Cakes came to be.
Welcome to Tier Celebration Cakes. When I was asked to write a blog for Once upon a North Wales Wedding, I felt a little daunted – what do I write? Will anyone be interested? So this is where I start…..
I set up my cake business 7 years ago from my home in the Conwy Valley, quite quickly converting an old work-shed into my studio – yippee, I could commute to work – OK, across the garden, but better than being stuck at the kitchen table all day long!
Why exclusively Royal Iced cakes? When I got married – more years ago than I care to remember now – my hubby to be didn't want a wedding cake coated in sugar paste, he really hates the flavour, so we tried really hard to find someone who could make us a royal iced wedding cake. No one locally, or even as far away as Chester could help us, we were told there was no call for royal icing nowadays!! So, I took the plunge and enrolled on a course to learn the basics of royal icing!!
I turned up on the first day of the course with my polystyrene dummy cake, my ingredients to make the royal icing and a set of strange looking tools that I’d been asked to buy…… the rest is history. From that first day, I took to cake decorating like a duck to water – and although it took a long while to master, my family and friends all had amazing birthday and celebration cakes – I could see them improving as time progressed. Our wedding got closer, I baked the cakes, iced and decorated….. I’d taught myself to make sugar flowers during the year and decided to have our cake decorated with wild flowers – briar roses, moon daisies, red campion, forget me nots. I was soooo proud to see it set up and it tasted sooo good.
I carried on making cakes for friends and family just for fun, and realised that through word of mouth, people were coming to me because they wanted royal icing…… so when my kids started school full time, after lots of thought and sleepless nights, I set up Tier Celebration Cakes, and that’s it…… people do want royal icing! Wedding fayres, recommendations and my website/facebook page keep me busy all year long with beautiful wedding cakes being ordered mainly from North Wales and Chester, but also from all parts of the UK. It’s so lovely meeting up with my clients to design their cakes – some have no idea what they would like, apart from royal icing, and it can take hours going through the design process. There is nothing better than delivering a cake to a venue, setting it up, stepping back and knowing that I made it……. long may it continue!
The business has now been up and running for seven years! Sometimes it’s chaotic, sometimes stressful, sometimes terrifying, but ultimately amazing. I'm now coming up to the busy wedding season, so 3 kids, 5 chickens, 3 cats, a husband who travels all over the world and loads of cakes leads to an interesting life….. I’ll let you know how it goes! Sue.x
For more information please visit the Tier Celebration Cakes website or the Facebook page
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