The Spice Jar Bakery and Farmstead

09/06/2024

Chewy pumpkin spice snickerdoodle cookies. Warm cinnamon, Cardamom, nutmeg and ginger spices perfect for getting ready for fall.

08/31/2024

Custom order for 13 dozen cupcakes for the grand opening of Nikki's Naturals in Tunica, Mississippi.

Half vanilla, half chocolate, with buttercream frosting and some pretty gold edible glitter to top them off.

Congratulations on the store opening!

08/19/2024

This is a photo from Google, not my work... Credit goes to the original poster. I am posting this as a reference photo...

I have had some inquiries on cake sample boxes. Who would be interested, if I created sample boxes, offering a variety of 6-8 flavors of cake that I offer? It would be a very good way of trying the cakes without buying the whole cake!

08/18/2024

Thank you to this weekends' customers for their orders.

Plain traditional 9" cheesecake, and 9" double layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

08/18/2024

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, customer requested it without raisins or nuts, but I can do them with one or both, if specified.

08/18/2024

9" plain cheesecake, customer requested plain to add their own topping. The photos don't do justice to how tall and pretty this one turned out.

08/18/2024

Customer photo, I can never get an inside photo, for obvious reasons, of how pretty the fruit fillings look. This one was a strawberry fruit filling and vanilla buttercream

08/11/2024

IMPORTANT POLICY- NO CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR ANYTHING, AND CUSTOM ORDERS WILL REQUIRE A NON REFUNDABLE CASH DEPOSIT. IF PRODUCTS ARE EATEN AND NO RETURNED PRODUCT - NO REFUND WILL BE PROVIDED IF CUSTOMERS ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THEIR ORDER.

I recently spent 18 hours on a birthday cake. I quoted the price for this cake via phone weeks ago and the cake order was to be picked up August 3, 2024.
On August 1, the customer called and asked to change it to this weekend and pickup the morning of Saturday, August 10th because her child's birthday party had to be postponed. Although it meant the first cake was a waste of supplies, I could understand unforeseen circumstances and I told her I would re-bake a fresh cake for her, no problem.
I made a fresh cake, and instead of fondant, decorated the cake entirely in buttercream decorations.

This cake was picked up, paid for by check (I know someone who vouched for this customer so I trusted them) My mistake for trusting a check.

25 hours after pickup, I was told the customer was unhappy with their cake, and placed a stop payment on the check, but also upon looking at their check I noticed they dated it for 2023, making it invalid anyhow. They did not show me the cake and claimed it was in the trash.

This client took money out of my family's pocket on the ingredients for a large order. They took my time from other things I could have been doing that I put off for them, and when contacted for payment by mutual contacts, claimed they would try and ruin my business if they were contacted again

It's sad that in the world we live in today, that we can not trust others. My husband is a Veteran, and I try and offer baked goods and cakes to help our family with a little extra cash and this client knew this, and had no shame in hurting a Veteran family with children. We are out $170 on this unfortunate problem.

We understand if someone is unable to pay for a cake and has maybe fallen on a hard time, we donated a different birthday cake this weekend and we're happy to do it, even delivering an hour away. Just be honest if you're in need but sadly, from here on out, I will not accept any payment but cash until I decide if I am going to open a Venmo account

Thank you.

08/11/2024

Customer pic sent in after the pony pasture cake was decorated with the ponies after they transported it home.
Very happy with how this one turned out.

08/11/2024

This has been a very busy week for cakes!

We sent off a cake for a young lady's birthday, and we made a cake with a coordinating smash cake for a little one's first birthday.

The first cake was a white cake, with vanilla buttercream and strawberry filling decorated in buttercream with sunflowers and roses.

The second cake is a pony pasture cake, in vanilla with vanilla buttercream. All decorations were done in buttercream so no fondant was necessary. (Ponies are not pictured as they would be placed on after transport to avoid them falling.or shifting.) This cake had the smash cake done in the same flavors.

Happy birthday to both of our customers! 🎉

08/11/2024