Category: Wedding Cake Designers

( Creative Director/Owner of Wild Flour) Wild Flour just happens to be one of the Premier bakeries in all of New York City. Founded by Gina Spinelli, we spoke with Gina about what it takes to be the owner of such a specialized bakery in America’s biggest city. Q – Gina, I’ve never heard the term Creative Director applied to anyone in the bakery business before. What exactly are your job duties? A – Essentially as Creative Director there a number of other titles that also exist alongside that. I’m…

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He is one of the premier Wedding Cake Specialists in New York. His cakes have been featured in the Top Magazines in the industry. And, he has a Celebrity clientele. He is Vincenzo Salvatore.   Q – Are you a wedding cake specialist, or do you bake other items as well, like cookies? A – Though we mainly only specialize in wedding cakes. We have a second sister company that actually specializes in mini cupcakes and pastries. So Vincenzo Salvatore Cakes is strictly,wedding cakes. And then my second company does,…

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Deborah Lauren is one of the top wedding cake designers in New York City. Her business, City Sweets has been open since 2000. Debra Lawrence cakes are a work of art. There is simply no other way to describe them. Q – What were you doing before you started City Sweets? A – I was an art decorator in the music industry. Q – Working for a record company? A – Yes, designing album covers and CD covers and advertising. Things like that. Q – What record company were you…

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Lael cakes is a Brooklyn New York-based boutique cake bakery specializing in vegan, dairy free and gluten-free cakes. Emily Lael Aumiller is the founder and owner of Lael Cakes. After graduating from New England culinary Institute Emily moved to New York City where she apprenticed with Sylvia Weinstock and Eric Bedoucha of Financier Patisserie. We spoke with Emily Lael Aumiller about her unique approach to cakes. Q – I hear a lot about gluten-free products. What exactly does that mean and why is that so important to people? A –…

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The editors of Dessert Professional Magazine called her one of the Top 10 Cake Artists in North America. She’s appeared on TV shows including Good Morning America, and news outlets like NY1 And the Huffington Post. Her cakes have been featured in the pages of publications and blogs including Sophisticated Weddings, New York edition, Brides, Style me Pretty, and New York Weddings to name just a few. We are talking about Madison Lee Q – Your name is actually perfect for the business you’re in. If you wanted to be…

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Amy DeGiulio is the owner of the Sugar Flower Cake Shop in New York City. She creates masterpiece cakes for wedding and other occasions by using fresh, high quality products from local farms and New York City’s Greenmarkets. Her cakes with artistically designed flowers she custom-makes from sugar have been featured on the STYLE Network and in Martha Stewart’s Weddings magazine. We spoke with Amy DeGiulio about her work.                                                 Q – Amy, how did you get this good at making cakes? Its this something that came naturally for you…

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Ruth Drennan is one of the most recognized names in cake creations in the United States. Her cakes have been featured in many national magazines. Maybe you’ve seen her and her cakes on the television program “Amazing Wedding Cakes”. In this interview we endeavor to tell you everything you wanted to know about Ruth Drennan and—-More!! Q – Ruth, 10 years ago you were working at a copy-writing desk. Was that an advertising agency or a newspaper? A – Ten years ago, I worked for a communications company. So what…

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Elegant Cheese Cakes owner and pastry chef Susan Morgan has designed wedding cakes, celebration cakes and other chocolate delicacies since 1988. Heralded as one of the Top “25 trendsetters” in Modern Bride (June/July 2005) Susan Morgan enjoys a national reputation as a Master Chocolatiere. Her work has been featured on such television programs as Good Morning America, the Food Network, Oprah’s Wedding Day Show, and Evening Magazine. Publications such as Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Modern Bride, and Newsweek have also featured her cakes. Located in Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco,…

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She’s a graduate of Princeton and the Manhattan School of Music. In 2005, she founded her own business – Elizabeth Hodes Custom Cakes and Sugar Art. Her cakes have been featured in New York Wedding’s, Brides, Modern Bride, Brides New York, and The Knot Live. She’s appeared on the Food Network, MTV’s Made and ABC’s Good Morning America. Her name is Elizabeth Hodes and she talked with us about her life. Q – Elizabeth, you studied music at Princeton and the Manhattan School of Music. What were you planning to…

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She’s been working professionally in film, theatre and radio since she was 5 years old—–but these days you’re more likely to find Jane Asher in the kitchen of her Party Cake Shop. Q – Jane, I know that you started your Party Cake Shop in 1990. How did you know you could make a go of it? A – The whole novelty cake idea started when my children were small. For their birthday’s I would do animals, fairy tale characters, and so on. I started to make them funny and…

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