Top That! Cake Designs

12/27/2025

Love him

12/22/2025

I have friends who need this.

12/21/2025

This is it! I’m officially retired!!! Last cakes. Still have a few orders next year and a venue I’m still working with and I’ll take on cakes as I feel to, but I’m retired. It’s been an amazing 15 years.

11/08/2025

Two more weddings this year and then official retirement of my cake baking side of the business. We have serviced over 100 brides since we started our business in 2009. So much fun working on this cake for yesterday’s wedding flowers. Thanks for all the memories.

09/09/2025

When your customer is a friend you’ve known since her little girl was five and now that little girl is gonna be a mom and they ask you to do the cookies for her baby shower, you reflect on the years you’ve known your friend and how quickly time flies by. Congrats to on her grandbaby coming soon. And to the mama, Alexa. This was fun and something different.

09/01/2025

This has been an amazing journey. I’ve been part of it since 2009

14 Years Ago Today…

Fourteen years ago today, the first Texas Cottage Food Law passed despite opposition that was wildly disproportionate to its scope. It allowed the sale of homemade baked goods, jams, jellies, and dried herb mixes - but only from one’s home.

Of course, the opposition wasn’t really about what the bill did. It was about the paradigm it shattered: the belief that making and selling food isn’t for ordinary people. That privilege belonged to the “properly trained” - those working in oh-so-sterile, commercial kitchens under the watchful eye of government regulation. The rest of us? Clearly, we’d poison someone with our homemade cakes and jams.

But 14 years - and three expansions - later, here we are: celebrating the most expansive Food Freedom bill ever passed in a major state.

When I wrote my first letters to my State Representative and Senator in 2007 asking for a cottage food law, I couldn’t have imagined the journey ahead. Thank you - for accepting me, for giving me a purpose, for making the calls, writing the emails, and showing up at the Capitol. You made this happen.

Now, it’s time.

It’s time to make a real living through cottage foods.
It’s time to support our communities with healthy, local options.
It’s time to stop being pushed around by local health departments.
It’s time to donate that cake to the PTA cake walk.
It’s time to get your product on store shelves.
And yes - it is cheesecake time.

Profound thanks to:
• Lacey Hull , for her savvy and skillful leadership in the House this session.
• Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance - a wonderful friend and ally.
• And of course, Senator Lois Kolkhorst , who was there in 2011 fighting like hell -and winning - for the little guy, and whose support of Texas cottage food makers has never wavered.

Go do your thing, people.

It’s time.

08/20/2025

Cecily is a friend. She’s so sweet and talented.

04/22/2025

Forty years of marriage and I can so agree with this. Conversations you’d never have with someone else because you’d be embarrassed, but not with your love, who knows you so very very well

02/23/2025

Come by and see us at the wedding show at 2/23/2025 @ 1:00-4:00, booth 105. Say you saw this post and where and get a 10% off your order. We brought the desserts!!! Come and meet your people !

02/14/2025

We purposely do not work on Valentine’s Day. For us, it’s the anniversary of the hotdog luncheon date. It’s the day my boyfriend picked me up from work for lunch and we went to Coney Island in the galleria area in Houston before going back to my apartment because he needed to talk to me. I don’t remember what he said, but I do remember that he asked me to marry him. And of course I said , you don’t want to marry me, I’ve got so much baggage. But he insisted he really wanted to marry me. So that following June, we got married. 40 years have passed and this is our 41st Valentine’s Day. And every year we’ve celebrated with hotdogs and chili. Today I had lunch with my favorite fella, the one who has become my very best friend, my companion and my sweet love. There is nothing in this world that’s more important to me on this day. Celebrating the moment when he had me at “I really do “. Hoping you a very happy Valentine’s and someone who really does.

01/26/2025

Come@out and see us 1/26/25 1:00-4:00. We brought dessert!