After working on a series of cakes requiring sugar paste flowers, it’s always exciting to switch to marzipan to sculpt animals for a barnyard cake. Imagine the joy of creating a marzipan managerie?

So out of the five of us, I've always been the brooding one. I remember as a kid, I wept--that's right--over the beauty of a song. Let me be as clear as possible. I didn't cry as a result of the song's capacity to make me feel. No, my tears originated from a different revelation. I wept because I was entralled by the beauty that the composer must have experienced in the act of creating. I wept because the thought of a composer stringing together notes that floated in his imagination, literally made me feel that he was that much closer to God. I remember telling this to an older friend of mine, who didn't laugh at me. He just said: Well, maybe when you get older you'll be able to create too. For now you should just try to experience life.

I've since grown-up but I'll be honest; everyday is a struggle for me to stay as unjaded, uncynical as possible. Therefore, sometimes just sculpting a managerie of marzipan barnyard animals makes me feel that indeed there are still dreams to be actualized and that life really is beautiful.

A customized cake takes time.

People are always shocked when they're told how many hours it takes to produce one of our customized cakes. Due to our commitment to make everything from scratch—nothing from a mix—we like to think that we literally pour time-earned love into your cake.

From the moment we're approached to make a cake, we're thrilled to be a part of the celebration. We have quickly discovered that the more and more time we devote to each cake the better and better the results. Therefore time is our most valuable resource. Anything worth achieving takes time.