Delicious and uniquely beautiful wedding and special occasion cakes, made with organic ingredients.
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I hosted five wedding cake tastings in the last two and a half weeks. Here were the top flavors my couples loved most:
🍊 White Almond Orange with Wild Blueberry 🫐
🍫 Dark Chocolate Earl Grey 🫖
🍦Vanilla Bean Praline 🍨
Honorable Mention: Salted Caramel Mocha! 🤤
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*UPDATE - NEW FLAVOR ADDED
I have Frost Bites in three different flavors available for pickup this evening (very limited quantities).
Layers of cake, buttercream, fillings, and garnishes in a cup. Ready to enjoy since it comes with a spork! (2-3 servings per cup)
Three amazing flavors, made with fresh, organic ingredients, $9 each:
💙 Kelly + Matt's Wedding Cake - Lemon blueberry cake, vanilla bean orange swiss meringue buttercream, wild blueberry preserves
💜 Bentley + Aaron’s Wedding Cake - Ghirardelli chocolate cake, Chambord, whipped Callebaut Belgian Chocolate Ganache, raspberry preserves, chocolate swiss meringue buttercream
🤎 Gracie + John’s Wedding Cake - Ghirardelli chocolate cake, whipped Callebaut Belgian Chocolate Ganache, chocolate swiss meringue buttercream, chopped Belgian chocolate garnish, chocolate ganache drizzle
Hi all!
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One of my favorite aspects of the work I do involves the connections I am privileged to make with my wedding cake couples and their families. I love to sit down with you for your tasting and consultation, presenting you with beautiful cakes I've baked and created just for you, in the flavors you've chosen. I want to learn as much as I can about you and what this day means to you and your family. It's one of the most important ways for me to truly step into your world to create your perfect cake.
Venue:
Photo: .blog
That first slice delicious moment together kinda feeling. 😍
Ashley and Jake's beautiful three tier wedding cake, featuring all handmade florals and greenery.
Photos: Ginger Snap Studios LLC
Venue: Woodmont Golf & Country Club
What were the top wedding cake flavors my couples chose for their spring weddings this year?
🫐🍓Mixed Berry Vanilla Bean
🍊Orange and Cream (most chosen)
🍦Blackberry Vanilla Bean (second most popular)
Which of these sound the most delicious to you? 😋 Don't ask me, because I can't decide.
Groom's cake shown: Double Chocolate, chocolate drip, chocolate crumbles, styled to coordinate with the bride's cake
Photo by: Andrea Kelley Photography
These twooooo… 🤩🥰
Just a sweet little hand sculpted chocolate bird amongst blooming handmade sugar flowers. 🐤🪻
Let's hear it for a wedding cake that represents you! The process of choosing the ✨perfect✨ combination of sprinkles colors took weeks and it was worth every moment of wondering if we were all overthinking. 😜 (For what it's worth, I don't ever consider it overthinking.)
Can you guess the flavors inside? (Hint: They chose two flavors and I bet you know one!)
What a joy to create this "faded sprinkles" cake for Barbara and Jeff - two of the sweetest people I've ever worked with.
Venue: 42West Entertainment Group
Photography: Meli & Chris Wedding Photography
What flavors did Nyana and Curtis choose for their wedding cake, that we can see peeking through the buttercream on the outside?
Pink Champagne and Vanilla Bean cakes, all filled with vanilla bean swiss meringue buttercream. 😍
Venue: Ashton Gardens
Planning: Events by Tiffany
Photos: Viridian Images Photography
✨Vintage vibes✨
With handmade gumpaste and wafer paper floral details. 😍
There are a lot of new faces here, so hello! Can I share a bit about myself and my business, Shannon Turner Cakes?
It's so strange but also so very much in alignment with my life that this is where I am today. I have been working in restaurant kitchens since I was a little girl, baking and decorating cakes since I was a young teen, and have been living the dream in my custom cake business for the last 7 years.
My mission is to create alluring and provocative wedding and special occasion cakes, with meticulous attention to detail. With a focus on sustainability wherever possible, I use high-quality, fresh, organic ingredients in all of my cakes and desserts.
From the consultation and beyond, I am ✨highly✨ dedicated to the full experience I provide my clients. As such, I strictly limit the type and quantity of the orders I book, and I only accept one wedding cake per date, because I believe this is what my clients deserve from me and I am joyful to provide it consistently.
My current obsessions include daydreaming about decanting my next vanilla extract and further refining my skills with creating handmade wafer paper and gumpaste flowers. When I see an interesting flower growing randomly somewhere, I can't keep walking. I want to stop and study it for a bit, sometimes grabbing a photo to reference later. I'm drawn mostly to imperfection and oddities - they're always the most beautiful!
Random personal detail: I'm a voracious reader of actual books with paper pages and print that you hold you in your hands. I fantasize about taking a cue from Bill Gates, filling a backpack with books, and disappearing for a week at a time. 😍📚 I'd bring way more books than I'd ever be able to read in a week.
Now tell me about you! 🫶
How do you decide on your perfect wedding cake flavors? It's actually a beautifully simple task. Choose what ✨you✨ fall in love with.
Whether its Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffle or Lemon with Fresh Strawberry, choose what you love - your wedding cake should reflect your special taste and style.
Photo by: Hannah Forsberg
If you have your heart set on any of these, I can make them out of sugar so we avoid the whole gastro disaster bit. 😜
Mark + Lillie's buttercream beauty, captured here in moody lighting by Maekoi Media. The design idea was to nod to "golden hour", featuring a hand-marbled bottom tier, with watercolor and subtle marbling in gold, soft pink, lavender, and sunset orange details across the other tiers.
Venue: The Atrium
Cake flavors: Vanilla Bean Blackberry and Salted Caramel Mocha
Happy Friday! I can't believe Natalie and Ben have already been married for two whole weeks (tomorrow). Some sneak peeks from the most perfect day ever.
Planning: Madelyn Tenney Events
Content Creation: Hashtag Engaged
Cake: Shannon Turner Cakes - Woodstock, Ga
Venue: The Wimbish House
Photography: Stepping Stones Photography
HMU: Vigilante Cosmetics
Bridal: Serendipity Bridal
Catering and Bar: Zest Atlanta Catering
Florals: Flux Floral
DJ: One Night Entertainment
Officiant: Thomas at Christ Covenant
The Girls Who Brought This Couple and I Together: Engaged Wedding Library Atlanta
Get deep with me for one second and ponder this incredible thing.
One vanilla bean is born halfway across the world. Over several years, the vanilla bean will travel many thousands of miles, spanning continents and seasons, passing through the skilled and careful hands of numerous cultivators, having endured the delicate process of hand-pollination, the day and night curing process, and more. At last, against all odds, the vanilla bean reaches my grateful hands.
To bake is to engage in science.
But to create art with food is to first feel profound wonder at the storied and impossible journey of the ingredients we choose; the passion and care they have absorbed. As with all things, the gifts we give are returned to us in serendipitous ways. So let us give love.
Photo bottom right by Tags Photography and Atlanta Style Weddings
My strong feelings.
I promise you: the cake really does matter. (If you know, you know.)
A moment for the incredible Kim Vargas Productions for capturing my absolute favorite photo sequence ever to accompany this glowing review by the groom.
Flavors: Pink Champagne with Strawberries and Cream Filling and my Signature Vanilla Buttercream
Venue:
Ridge Rose
One of the top questions my couples ask me is: Can you include more than one flavor in our wedding cake?
The short answer is YES!
During my wedding cake tastings, couples often fall in love with more than one flavor profile, so including multiple flavors in your wedding cake is a great way to have everything you want. I'll help you find the best way to incorporate multiple flavors into your cake, ensuring the perfect split of flavors across the servings included in your wedding cake.
Flavors featured in this wedding cake included Double Chocolate Ganache and Vanilla Bean Blackberry! As a guest, which would you choose between the two? 😋
Photo by Sophie Lindler at Sophie Brendle Photography
Venue: Ambient+Studio at Ambient + Studio
Handmade edible flowers. This process has my whole heart. ❤️ And she'll keep them forever, just like this.
Planning: Haylan Events & Weddings
Venue: Atlanta History Center Swan House Weddings
Florals: Blosm Design
Catering:
Linens: I Do Linens
Rentals: Atlanta Party Rentals
String Quartet: Piedmont Strings
DJ: AMP'D ENTERTAINMENT
Bride's Cake: Shannon Turner Cakes
Groom's Cake: Baker's Man Inc.
Stationary: Minted
Hair:
Makeup: ._by._cam
Check out one of my sweet little vintage cake designs in the April issue of Cake Masters Magazine. So fun to be featured! 🫖🌸
Cake Masters
There are so many different tier configurations possible to achieve your required servings and the size and shape of your cake is a huge part of the design process. (It’s one of my favorite parts!)
It's also nearly impossible to guess the size and number of servings in a cake from a photo, but just for fun, how many servings do you think T+W’s cake yielded? 😍 (Answer in comments)
Cake details ~ 1: Chai Vanilla Bean; 2: Brown Butter Vanilla; Blackberry Vanilla Bean, all covered in Vanilla Bean Buttercream, shimmering edible lace and tiny satin pearl details
Venue: The Wimbish House
Planning: Soirée South & Co.
Catering: Chef Cary's Cuisine Catering
Florist: Peachy Keen Lady
Did you know that a wedding cake made with organic ingredients is a much more delicious wedding cake? Organic crops and plants are allowed to ripen naturally, and harvested only at the right time, resulting in a much superior flavor and texture to their non-organic counterparts.
Even better, reducing the risk of pesticides and herbicides means a cleaner and more incredibly delicious and complex flavor profile and even sweeter memories. 💕
Cake details: Orange and Cream cake with lemon curd and my signature vanilla swiss meringue buttercream filling and frosting, hand-piped floral details and delicate, edible pearls.
Photo ~ Andrea Kelley Photography
Venue ~ Little River Farms
Cake created by Shannon Turner Cakes with design inspired by the lovely Natalie at Cake Envy ✨
Perfect wedding day at Little River Farms. 💕
I've seen the difference between a wedding cake experience when the cake artist is a cooperative, but fearless, advocate for the cake and one with a cautious or nervous advocate. I'd love to say that I've only ever been the former. I'd LOVE to say that! I can't.
When I first started my wedding cake business, I was nervous about stepping on other toes in the wedding vendor team. I have immense respect for what they all do to bring incredible events to life. But each of us serves a critical, individual role that no one else can play. Only when I internalized this idea, did I start to bring my abstract vision for the perfect experience to reality.
And here are some things I know.
Wedding cakes are fragile, beautiful things, sensitive to temperature, sunlight, position, and placement.
Each cake has its own unique needs, including the type and size of the cake stand it can rest on, the amount of sunlight it can both tolerate and requires, the environmental conditions it can withstand (temperature and humidity), and millions of other little details only a dedicated professional is prepared to account for as easily as one takes a breath.
Nowadays, my wedding cake setup process includes a survey of the space, consideration for light and angles, assessing the cake table for integrity - is it sturdy? Is it perfectly level?
I am prepared to handle any issues when I find them, including moving the cake table, switching out cake stands, and shimming table legs.
I've taken bold steps, standing in the shoes of my couple and knowing their vision and desires. I've asked that multiple pieces of venue decor be removed from the cake table, or background. Was I nervous in this moment? Of course! (In this case, I was so grateful for the floral designer, who immediately jumped in to second my intuitions and requests. Shout out to you! You know who you are. 💫)
Commitment is about being cooperative and fearless, confidently asserting the unique passion and expertise I bring. This isn't just about delivering a cake; it's about delivering a dream. ❤️
Planner: 1105 Events
Venue: Enon Ranch
Hair/Makeup: Lush Beauty Bar
Florist: 1105 Events
Photography: Elevated Elopement Experience and Ginger Snap Studios LLC
Dress: A Day in June
Cake: Shannon Turner Cakes
Tabletop Rentals:
Tuktuk: Wonder Soirée
Models: (with fiance Colin) (of .m.keiffer)
Shannon Turner Cakes is nominated for an Allie Award (Wedding Category: Best Wedding Cake/Dessert)! 🎉
The nomination - alone - is so much to be proud of.
The 34th Annual Allie Awards will be presented on Monday, March 11, 2024, at the Signia By Hilton Atlanta Hotel. Get details and tickets at https://allieawards.org/
*UPDATE - It's gone! I was in a tasting - sorry for the delay! 🥳
*CAKE TASTING BOX AVAILABLE TODAY ONLY!*
I have ONE tasting box available for pickup today near 575/Bells Ferry Rd. 💕 My cakes are made with organic ingredients, including my own small-batch vanilla extract, aged 2+ years.
Your Tasting Box includes four scratch-made mini cakes (6-8 bites each) in the following flavors:
1. Salted Caramel Vanilla Bean
2. Vanilla w/ Strawberry and Lemon
3. Blackberry Vanilla Bean
4. Double Chocolate Raspberry (contains raspberry liqueur)
Letting it go for $55 today only!
Must be picked up today near 575/Bells Ferry Rd. First come, first served. Cannot hold.
DM ME TO CLAIM! 🥰
Shannon Turner Cakes has again been recognized as a Best of Zola vendor for 2024, for the second year in a row! 🎉
As one of a select group of wedding vendors with a proven record of exceptional service for my couples, (and with the reviews to prove it), I am so honored that Zola counts on Shannon Turner Cakes to deliver the same phenomenal experience to future couples, consistently and enthusiastically.
Thank you, Atlanta and beyond! ❤️
You can find my listing on Zola below, but please direct all inquiries to my website ( www.shannonturnercakes.com ):
https://www.zola.com/wedding-vendors/wedding-cakes-desserts/shannon-turner-cakes
One of the sweetest couples I've ever had the privilege to serve. Biggest congratulations, Linda Rae and Ken! 💕 Such a wonderful experience to be a part of your day!
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Here we go! ❤️ Congrats to our winner of today's Cake Giveaway! Please DM me to claim your cake. Should I do ANOTHER cake giveaway before the end of the month? I think I should! Comment below if you want to see another Cake Giveaway and let me know what flavor you'd most like to win! 😍
When an artist commissions another artist for a wedding cake! 😍 Handmade wafer paper and gumpaste florals and greens, handmade edible lace and pearls. Nearly 3 feet tall. Cake Details: Luxe Chocolate (bottom tier), White Almond with fresh raspberry buttercream and lemon curd (middle and top tiers) Congrats Jimette + Michael! 🥂
My lovely bride wanted a statement cake showcasing the artistry of wedding cake. Here she is, featuring all handmade, edible, wafer paper florals and greenery. Cake details: Top tier - White Almond Vanilla Bean; Bottom two tiers - Blackberry Vanilla; handmade edible paper florals. #cakeart #waferpaper #atlantacakeartist
Wedding cake! 🥰
Creating this one... ❤️❤️❤️
"Wedstock" themed wedding cake. 😍 Dried florals by Zelma Azul Creations
⏰ LAST CALL FOR OCTOBER CAKE FLIGHTS! PICKUP IS NEXT WEEK! 😍 *ORDERS ARE DUE BY THIS SUNDAY (10/24) EVENING AT 5 PM* See all flavors and options, and get yours here: https://forms.gle/H8wy5EvaH5kQF82E7 Details: Five different flavors of three layer cake and buttercream. 5-Slice Boxes (5 servings) - $25 (plus tax) 10-slice Boxes (10 servings) - $48 (plus tax) Pickup date is Thursday, October 28th from 9-11 am OR from 4-6 PM. Available until sold out! Get yours: https://forms.gle/H8wy5EvaH5kQF82E7
I have developed rituals I need to move through before beginning some of my absolute favorite work on a cake. There's nervous energy I need to burn through with dusting and cleaning strange places in my cake kitchen. There's all the left brain stuff I need to get way out of the way first. I do not enjoy left braining when I'm really trying to get deep into my right brain. I've gotta get all of that out of the way early. Then there's music and earbuds. There's dreaming with my eyes open. When that feeling fills my chest right up and I can feel it in my heart and my hands fill with energy, I am ready to see where the cake leads me and where we end up together. ❤️
This month's FINAL cake giveaway winner is........!! 🤩🤩
