Crumb Cakery

Crumb Cakery Bend, OR wedding and event cakes, dessert bars, birthday cakes, cupcakes, pies, macarons, and more!

Designer cake and dessert bakery in Bend Oregon and Surrounding Central Oregon Areas for your weddings, events, & holidays

04/13/2026

No turntable for this cake!

Snuck in a styled shoot before a trip, no regrets even though I’m in crunch time to pack today! If I always “protected my peace” and “ rested when I’m tired” and “stuck to my boundaries” I’d have missed out on making half of the cool cakes I’ve been invited to create and photoshoots to contribute to.

I’m always tired whether I do extra or less. Anyone else? Part of what made me want to own my own baking business was so I could dictate my schedule and have more control over my life.

Of course, then life was said “sooooo, that’s not how it works. Here’s borderline (read: absolutely) too many cake orders all at once for events with deadlines. Oh but you can have the entire month of January off when everyone is on a diet. Then back to it! Oh! And don’t forget about your inbox so you can continue this cycle!!”

I promise I’m not complaining, that’s actually how I like it most of the time. The inspiration comes with the faint toasted aroma of cakes baking, my kitchen slathered in buttercream, and my apron dusted with cocoa, flour, and vanilla.

So I’m trying to stop acting like I don’t like it. I get to play with buttercream and meet cool people and organize orders and play with creating new flavors. Hence my wet shirt in the video because, in the making of the matcha tea buttercream, I splashed matcha right down my entire front (rip white apron).

Anyway, this was messy and fun and cake decorating is the best job ever even when I complain like it’s the worst. Just wait for part 2 to see what I do with the cookie scoop!

04/10/2026

I promise I am, just right after my dreamy, fully-booked June! And the best part is that my June cake calendar is packed like a big beautiful cup of brown sugar, but it feels contained, controlled, surprisingly balanced with multiple perfectly stacked wedding orders and cake deliveries per week that are spread out over a couple days. The cake goddesses were definitely looking out for me!

I have multiple Sundays off in June, which is always my goal (I love a slow Sunday morning and a house reset before the next work week hits).

I booked mostly large and tiered cakes, not as many tiny cakes or mini desserts to keep track of. For a busy month like June, it’s honestly nice to not have to work in a pick-up time frame for all of the small cakes before my deliveries!

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the tiny cakes and mini desserts, but I am absolutely over squeezing people in last minute, dealing with late pick-up customers when I have a delivery to leave for, and changed plans when your cousin Charlie is suddenly the person picking up and you forgot to send him my *explicit* pick up directions.

So June will be a stunning month of smooth deliveries and recording the cake journey to share with you!

I still have a handful of July-October dates available, but summer and fall are quickly booking up and I couldn’t be more thankful to be creating for you.

Ps: I redid these drop lines twice after this. My hands were so tired and shaky, which naturally created extra work hahaha love cake decorating

03/24/2026

It’s fine. I’m fine. Stoked when it’s over actually hahaha

Mirror glaze took a rest for a while, until randomly last year, I had customers bringing me photos from my insta 6-8 years ago when I first started business and every other cake I booked was a mirror glaze cake.

Needless to say, it had been a while, but the designs never went out of style and I never got over how fun, yet panic inducing it is to glaze a buttercream cake. This one was made to look like the northern lights behind a mountain scene.

So intense to replicate, but worth it in the name of pushing myself to create cool cake art!

01/27/2026

M’am. There is quite literally an endless to-do list when I’m in the bakery. The concept of “sitting while the cakes chill” does not compute.

A friend said that to me once and I, along with the stank face I inherited from my nana, came to the realization that people have absolutely no idea what I do all day in the bakery 🤯

A flowing day in the bakery looks like:
Day 1:
Pull ingredients
Mix cakes, pour into pans
Bake first round & mix next batch
Pull cakes from oven & place next batch in.
Wash cake pans between batches
Wrap and chill freshly baked cakes
Repeat until all cake flavors/sizes are baked.
Make any fillings that need to set up overnight (compote, jams, ganache)

Day 2:
Fill, frost, chill to set buttercream
Pull the next cakes, repeat.
First cakes frosted are ready to stack and decorate.
Repeat until all cakes are stacked and decorated (which yes, takes many hours)

And that’s just cakes. Desserts are another beast entirely.

I admit, I sit while I decorate detailed cakes sometimes, but I feel like lifting my arms in weird positions kind of negates the perk of being off of my feet 🤣

Point being, the list doesn’t end if I am in the bakery and the order has yet to be picked up or delivered. I assume most bakers (and probably other event entrepreneurs) feel that.

Baking is time sensitive, there’s always a deadline, and the day isn’t over until the tasks are crossed out.

While I’d never give up my creative cake making career path for the chance to get off my feet, I’d love to vent to a friend about being physically exhausted without having to also come to the realization that people think I sit, twiddle my thumbs, & eat bonbons while I wait around for things to bake and cool 🤣 this is part of why I share BTS!

So when you hear a baker complaining, ask how their day was and maybe feed them a pizza. They probably need the basic replenishment of calories, electrolytes l, and, idk, being heard after sweating in a kitchen all day?

Ps: “siting around eating bonbons” was a joke made by a friend who worked with me at a bakery back when this situation hit 10 years ago & we’ve NEVER let it go hahaha

12/30/2025

I adore making recap reels because seeing the pure joy, excitement, and simultaneous exhaustion on my face from the year makes me truly believe that baking & cake decorating & running my cake business are actually my calling.

I mean, my whole face lit up in each of these clips!! I’ve forgotten more moments of enjoyment & awe at the cakes that I’ve created than some people have ever experienced.

In 2025, I took on a new content project, which is why many of these clips of me literally falling in love one cake at a time are from projects that you have yet to see (but they’re coming and I am SO excited to share)! Balancing sharing here and recording all of that was so much work hahaha but I think it’ll be so worth it for a more in depth on my cake designs and Crumb Cakery as a business!

It’s been hard to not let the cake business absolutely take over my life because I love it so much. But I am dedicating this upcoming season to running Crumb Cakery, my content, and my life with intention.

So please, for the love of cake, do not ask me to “squeeze in a last minute cake” unless you like hearing “no” or more likely “we’re fully booked, best wishes!” because my parents taught me manners that I can’t shake.

Anyway, may our customers be kind, our cakes be tender, and our bank accounts juicy! Cheers to 2026🥂

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