Bakey Bakes

05/09/2026

05/07/2026

Swipe through for a treat! Did you know that 95% of my cakes are dreamed up from imagery that is completely non-cake related? Even when I use industry techniques like vintage piping or buttercream florals to achieve my designs, they are completely custom for my amazing clients who send me images they love. There’s an endless pool of inspiration out there, some seem impossible and will leave you stumped, but may we look outside of the cake feedback loop and create new things! I hope these few examples inspire you to try to find your voice.
Inspo image credits:oddities, .labieniec, , , , , , Cardcaptor Sakura, Palacio Fronteira, Studio Ghibli, Square Enix, April H., January S., Mac H.

05/01/2026

I was bamboozled by an AI cake for the first time last week. I was so bummed and disgusted by it that I decided to one-up it instead of being mad. It was a teapot shaped cake in all pink, nothing a real person couldn’t do, which makes it even more pointless. I decided to make a REAL one in my style and voice. I collect teapots (I have dozens!) so I tried to make one that I’d love to have in real life. I’ve been wanting to make a teapot cake for a while and I also wanted to try a domed cake for a while. Many, birds, stones and all that.
Anyway, all this to say, I hate AI. If you use it, boooooooo. Use your hands and brain folks, don’t let convenience turn you to mush.
Shout out to ’s domed cakes which heavily influenced this one.

03/31/2026

Did you know that 95% of my cakes are dreamed up from imagery that is completely non-cake related? Even when I use industry techniques like vintage piping or buttercream florals to achieve my designs, they are completely custom for my amazing clients who send me images they love. There’s an endless pool of inspiration out there, some seem impossible and will leave you stumped, but may we look outside of the cake feedback loop and create new things! I hope these few examples inspire you to try to find your voice.
Inspo image credits:oddities, .labieniec, , , , , , Cardcaptor Sakura, Palacio Fronteira, Studio Ghibli, Square Enix, April H., January S., Mac H.

03/23/2026

This weekend we celebrated the birthdays of 6 friends and threw a costumed Monster Prom for the ages! I based the cake off the beautiful invitation she illustrated. Swipe to see the inspo, sketches and cake reaction 🖤🖤 Flavors were: top tier hummingbird with lemon cream cheese frosting and bottom tier was red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Hope this post also illustrates how you can use techniques and styles that exist and turn them into something completely unique using inspiration from other places.

Happy birthday , , , , and Willow!!

03/11/2026

This is my submission to the art challenge I set up in my last post called Make This In Your Style! I challenged artists of all mediums and fields to do a replica or interpretation of this cake (or the other in the same post) and then show it to us using the hashtag and tagging me in the caption so I can show it off to my audience! I’m trying to encourage folks to shout each other out and inspire eachother in order to cleanse the bad energy that many creative fields can have with people not being honest about replicas and profiting off the hard work of creators. Let’s show everyone how cool it is to build community and discover new artists.
I made this cute keychain using shrink paper (second slide) and I would love to mail it to the winner of my challenge wherever you may be! On April 13th I will do a random draw of the winner from all the people who participate 🥰🥰
Hopefully after this other folks will be inspired to set the same challenge to their audiences using their own original art for others to interpret.
Happy making!!

03/10/2026

CHALLENGE FOR ALL ARTISTS! Let’s change the tone on my feed to something more positive after the bad energy the comments in my last post left. I would like to engage with other creative communities outside of the cake community (cake community included) and challenge all artists to interpret or recreate one of these two popular cakes designs of mine using their own mediums and styles! Tag me when you post them so I can see your creation and share! Then pass on the challenge with one of your own original pieces of art for others to reinterpret in their art forms and mediums. I hope this might start a more positive conversation about sharing our art and reinterpreting it while still giving credit. Shouting eachother out encourages community and growth. When I’m able to work again (still recovering from surgery) I will be thrilled to cakeify some of your art when you present your own version of the challenge. What shall we call this challenge??
Can’t wait to see what you come up with. And as a cake art collector…I may even want to buy what you make 👀
Thank you for suggesting this 🩷🩷

03/08/2026

Not going to lie, part of the reason I’ve sort of disappeared is because I have become jaded, disenchanted and disappointed in this industry. For many years you have seen me speak on plagiarism and how it is the most blatant in the cake world than any other creative space I have ever witnessed. I don’t know what it will take for our industry to have higher moral standards and better ethics but while I have stood on this soap box seemingly alone, I have felt so violated. Not just violated for having my creative voice taken over and over again but because it’s thankless. I’ve been told to be grateful, I’ve been told to be flattered, I’ve been told that if I don’t want to be copied that I shouldn’t create.
I don’t have much of a point with this post other than I am tired. I just wish we could do better…

Please remember that imitation and inspiration are two different things. If you’re a professional and can’t come up with your own designs, please at the very least credit the artists you take from. Not just me obviously, but everyone who has inspired you all these years and set “trends” that they never meant to set. Educate your clients too, I know they bring you images to copy that you feel you can’t refuse. Pinterest is not a catalogue of designs to choose to copy from, it’s for inspiration only. Don’t forget about reverse image search too, og designers are so easy to find.

These slides are a MINUSCULE fraction of the uncredited copies of my work.
I hope to return with original work again soon but I’m trying to regain some faith in humanity in the meanwhile, on so many levels 😅

To all who have credited me, been kind, caught copy cats on my behalf and who understand how this feels, thank you.

02/24/2026

Haven’t made a post since December. Nor have I posted a cake top in over a year.
Nor have I posted buttercream flowers in a long while! So here’s a buttercream peony cake top to rectify and to remind those who don’t follow my daily stories that I am still here even if Instagram is slowly dissolving 🩷

12/28/2025

Me and my favorite cakes of 2025! This year was hard for all I think, in so, so many ways. So here’s to hope. May you find inklings of joy anywhere you can in 2026. Hopefully my cakes have brought you that, either in person or on screen. 🩷