Creating modern bespoke cakes in Essex
Welcome to Kate does Cake. I specialise in modern luxury bespoke cakes and realistic sugar flowers, be that for your wedding day or your special celebration. Based in Essex, near Chelmsford, delivering to Essex, London, Kent, Suffolk and Surrey.
Here at Kate does Cake we believe that your cake should taste even better than it looks, taste is soo important to me, as what's the point of a cake that doesn't taste amazing. Using recipes that I have perfected over the years, you get the home baked cake taste that is also finished to the highest standard to be absolutely perfect for your special day. ​A flawlessly finished cake made the be one of the centre pieces of your celebration
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I am exceptionally passionate about all cakes, if you've met me you know I'll talk about cake all day. This means I strive for perfection in everything that I do. Only using the highest quality ingredients and highest welfare products, this not only ensures amazing tasting cakes, but ones that are ethically made as well. I am continually increasing my skills, be that creating beautiful and realistic sugar flowers or creating an immaculate finish and keeping up to date with the new trends and techniques, to create you the perfect cake for your occasion.
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I adore my job, being a part of someone's special celebration means the world to me and nothing gives me more joy than hearing how couples felt when the first saw their cake or hearing how delicious their guests found their cake and how beautiful it looked. Then there's that tasty cake face that is my favourite thing in the world. There seems to be a assumption out there that a wedding cake won't taste delicious, and this is something that I am working very hard to dispel, you deserve delicious cake!
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I love modern cakes, tall tiers, hexagons, squares, bright colours, and exquisite sugar flowers, cakes, especially wedding cakes don't have to be white.
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Have a look at my main cake pages for more information about them. If you have any questions or would like any more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch, via my email kate@katedoescake.com or my contact form below.
That's me with the kitchen aid! I have always loved baking, I used to bake everything and anything, now its mostly cake. Over the years I've lived in lots of places, as a child it was France, Canada and a bit of time in the US, as an adult I went up north, to Yorkshire and spent about 5 years there. I went to the University of York and studied Economics and Econometrics (fun huh?)
I wasn't always a cake maker, for years I worked as an accountant, unfortunately I fell ill and couldn't go back to this type of work. So I started making cakes and the rest is history!
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Kate does Cake was founded by me in 2017 to create beautiful and and exceptional tasting cake. From small bespoke buttercream birthday cakes to elaborate fondant wedding cakes with handcrafted sugar flowers. Every bespoke cake is individually designed for each client, lovingly handmade and crafted to the highest standard, to create the most beautiful and delicious cake possible.
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All my cakes are made from the highest quality ingredients: every cake starts with flour, free-range eggs, sugar and butter. All made from scratch by me. All my recipes have been tried, tested and perfected over years, to create delicious cakes.
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I am a self taught baker, continually learning new methods and techniques and making sure to keep up to date with the latest trends. Regularly attending courses to ensure that my skills are continually improved and enhanced.
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My kitchen is registered, inspected and insured, receiving a 5* hygiene rating from Chelmsford City Council to give you piece of mind.
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About Me
Kate de Rousset-Hall
Hi, I'm Kate, the creator of Kate does Cake and I'm so pleased your search for a cake maker has led you to me and my website. It's just me in the business, so everything done in the business from washing up, doing the admin, designing and making the cakes, I do it all.
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I didn't always make cakes, in fact I'd not really done anything arty since I was a young child, but I did always love baking. I used to be an accountant and did an Economics and Econometrics degree up at the University of York. After an illness I could no longer go back to accountancy so thought I'd give cake making a try, and it turns out I was really good at it, so the rest, they say, is history. Ive never looked back and its a job I am hugely passionate about, and if love ever met me you'll figure that out pretty quickly.
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In 2020 we created a separate home cake studio, which has made such a difference to my caking life, I now have all the space I could want, and going to work gives a semblance of work/life balance. Though, Im sure if any of you have run a small business by yourself that there's not all that much life in that balance.
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When I'm not baking or spending my free time learning new techniques, especially sugar flowers, I am a massive geek. I love reading, watching comic book movies (I'm a marvel girls here) and anything fantasy, give me Game of Thrones over sappy romance any day.
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But generally, making cakes is my life, its got everything, I get to deal with fabulous clients, get out my artist side, but get to obsess about the details and the engineering of cake too.
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If you think we'd be a good fit, please get in touch, I can't wait.
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Kate
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Fully Registered with Chelmsford City Council with a 5* rating and insured.
"A party without a cake is just a meeting"
Julia Child
