Cakes, cakes, cakes! We love gorgeous wedding cakes! Vanilla Bake Shop is one of our favorite cake vendors based in California. Owners of the shop, Amy and Jeremy, are passionate about providing couples with custom designed cakes for their wedding day and wedding events. Get to know them from our interview with Amy below and check out some of their lovely cake designs!
Photo Credit: Sean Watkins
What inspired you to start your business?
A few things…
I quit a great job working in the television industry after my dad’s advice of throwing caution to the wind and “doing what makes me happiest” for a career. I soon realized baking and being a business owner was what I was meant to do. I quit my job, went to culinary school to become a pastry chef and started a dessert baking company which evolved into Vanilla Bake Shop in 2007 with my husband. Haven’t looked back since!
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop
What options for customization do you offer?
What makes our cake team so awesome, is that they all have artistic backgrounds. The skies the limit with the customization we can do. Recently we were asked by Grace of ‘Grace Ormonde Wedding Style’ magazine to create an Asian inspired cake. Two of our lead designers worked on it together. Yuko handled the beautiful sketch and design, while Kim made the cake & hand painted Tsuru birds in traditional Japanese Sumi-e style of painting with real Sumi-e brushes.
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop
If you could give one tip to couples planning a wedding, what would it be?
When it comes to the cake, be creative!! Couples should have fun with their cake and weave personal touches into it. This will likely be the most extravagant cake they will ever have in their life, so it should taste incredible and reflect their personalities. One of my favorite cakes we made was 5 tiers with the couples names and wedding date hand painted in gold Edwardian script with each tier being a different flavor. They wanted enough cake so each guest could have 2 slices, one at the wedding and one boxed up as their favor to take home!
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop
What is one thing that most people don’t know about your biz or you?
Most people don’t know that we are baking 24hrs a day at our bakery. If you knock on the back door of our kitchen, there will always be somewhere there! Something about me, is that I grew up riding motorcycles and shooting guns with my dad and brothers! Its been a while since I’ve gone riding, but if you happen to stall your motorcycle, I know how to fix it! Or, if there’s a gun fight showdown I have some good odds.
What is your one must have item/tool to have while you’re working?
My iphone. I text, email, listen to music and conduct most of our business through it. When we opened our second bakery this summer I accidentally dropped it and shattered the face. I felt like a cave man without it, completely out of touch. It’s part of my body now.
If you had to chose one word that would describe you/your business, what would it be?
Evolving!
5 Things that Make You Happy?
1. Our 1yr old Max’s smile! (with his 4 teeth)
2. My husbands Chicken Parmesan
3. Noodles, our dog
4. Coffeemate
5. Paris!
Photo Credit: Kimberlee Miller Photography
Photo Credit: Elizabeth Messina Photography
Photo Credit: Hazelnut Photography
Photo Credit: Teness.com
Photo Credit: Jason Herring
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop
Vendors We Heart: Vanilla Bake Shop
Cakes, cakes, cakes! We love gorgeous wedding cakes! Vanilla Bake Shop is one of our favorite cake vendors based in California. Owners of the shop, Amy and Jeremy, are passionate about providing couples with custom designed cakes for their wedding day and wedding events. Get to know them from our interview with Amy below and check out some of their lovely cake designs!
Photo Credit: Sean Watkins
What inspired you to start your business?
A few things…
I quit a great job working in the television industry after my dad’s advice of throwing caution to the wind and “doing what makes me happiest” for a career. I soon realized baking and being a business owner was what I was meant to do. I quit my job, went to culinary school to become a pastry chef and started a dessert baking company which evolved into Vanilla Bake Shop in 2007 with my husband. Haven’t looked back since!
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop
What options for customization do you offer?
What makes our cake team so awesome, is that they all have artistic backgrounds. The skies the limit with the customization we can do. Recently we were asked by Grace of ‘Grace Ormonde Wedding Style’ magazine to create an Asian inspired cake. Two of our lead designers worked on it together. Yuko handled the beautiful sketch and design, while Kim made the cake & hand painted Tsuru birds in traditional Japanese Sumi-e style of painting with real Sumi-e brushes.
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop
If you could give one tip to couples planning a wedding, what would it be?
When it comes to the cake, be creative!! Couples should have fun with their cake and weave personal touches into it. This will likely be the most extravagant cake they will ever have in their life, so it should taste incredible and reflect their personalities. One of my favorite cakes we made was 5 tiers with the couples names and wedding date hand painted in gold Edwardian script with each tier being a different flavor. They wanted enough cake so each guest could have 2 slices, one at the wedding and one boxed up as their favor to take home!
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop
What is one thing that most people don’t know about your biz or you?
Most people don’t know that we are baking 24hrs a day at our bakery. If you knock on the back door of our kitchen, there will always be somewhere there! Something about me, is that I grew up riding motorcycles and shooting guns with my dad and brothers! Its been a while since I’ve gone riding, but if you happen to stall your motorcycle, I know how to fix it! Or, if there’s a gun fight showdown I have some good odds.
What is your one must have item/tool to have while you’re working?
My iphone. I text, email, listen to music and conduct most of our business through it. When we opened our second bakery this summer I accidentally dropped it and shattered the face. I felt like a cave man without it, completely out of touch. It’s part of my body now.
If you had to chose one word that would describe you/your business, what would it be?
Evolving!
5 Things that Make You Happy?
1. Our 1yr old Max’s smile! (with his 4 teeth)
2. My husbands Chicken Parmesan
3. Noodles, our dog
4. Coffeemate
5. Paris!
Photo Credit: Kimberlee Miller Photography
Photo Credit: Elizabeth Messina Photography
Photo Credit: Hazelnut Photography
Photo Credit: Teness.com
Photo Credit: Jason Herring
Photo Credit: Vanilla Bake Shop