We are super excited to announce that we have been nominated for a 2014 Wedding Industry Award! We have kindly been put forward for Best Cake Designer in the South West. We have love creating every cake that comes out of our bakery and we would be delighted if any of our past wedding couples could spare five minutes...

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Pinterest is quite simply amazing!  It is the perfect tool for designers, dreamers and basically anyone who ever wanted to plan anything.  In simple terms it is a mood board for on the go.  Since encountering Pinterest last year we have set up our own Vanilla Pod Bakery page and even downloaded the app on to our bakery...

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"Help! How do we choose a wedding cake?" This is a question we often hear and we understand that if you are new to an area this can be a mind field as you won't know any of the word of month recommendations from the locals.  Well, it's time to relax, and dust all those scary thoughts away....

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One of our favourite types of cakes this year has to be our Mary Berry Cake, so called because is is simply a wonderful classic cake sponge pilled high with a wonderful array of fresh fruit and pretty flowers, a true British gem like Mary Berry.    We have had the joy of baking these type of cakes...

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Last week I attended Cheltenham's first Clandestine Cake Club which was organised by Eve Middleton.  As the day neared I become more and more excited about what type of cake I should bake, now I know I bake cakes for a living and I throughly enjoy every aspect of creating Vanilla Pod Bakery cakes for our wonderful clients....

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Last weekend Vanilla Pod Bakery attended our first April 2013 wedding show at the Cheltenham Park Hotel. It was a lovely event and extremely well run by Antonia and her team from JTTEvents. We met many wonderful couples and showcased our latest designs as well as being able to explore the up and coming wedding trends. One trend...

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On a beautiful spring day in March one of our very own Vanilla Pod Bakery team members tied the knot to her fiancé of 10 years in a gorgeous ceremony at Coombe Lodge in Somerset. It was a lovely #gloswed affair too with A'lissia Couture Bridal providing bespoke bridesmaid dresses, Bigeye Photography snapping fantastic photographs**, Dragonfly dressing Laura...

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We created this 4 tier wedding cake for a lovely couple who got married at the Frogmill Hotel in the middle of March on a beautiful snowy day. Yes, that is correct it snowed in the middle of March! I know the English weather is some what bizarre, but I never expected a spring wedding to have snow!...

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This Easter weekend we held a cake giveaway competition on our Vanilla Pod Bakery facebook page and were blown away with the response we received from it. Over 180 people entered and shared the post! The winner was picked at random the next day at 9:30am and the lucky person collected the cake on the Saturday afternoon. The...

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The other week we were commissioned to make a birthday cake for a fan of the Cheltenham Town FC football club (the robins). We had great fun creating this birthday cake, though the scarf caused a few problems! But we had lovely feedback from the client saying "Thank you so much for the delicious cake. Trevor was thrilled...

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If you are followers on our Facebook page then you may have noticed an influx of pretty powder blue cake designs. We simply love this colour. Plus we are super excited as this is the new colour for Vanilla Pod Bakery. We will be launching our new website in a couple of weeks and can't wait to show...

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We love the Cheltenham Festival at the Vanilla Pod Bakery. We love the excitement it brings to the town, and every year myself and my friends take a day off to attend the prestigious races. So you can imagine my excitement when Paddy Power contacted me and asked the Vanilla Pod Bakery to make pre festival branded cupcakes for...

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I have just got back from teaching a group of lovely ladies how to ice and decorate pretty birthday cakes using a spirit level, buttercream and sugar paste at Centre Arts, Cheltenham. The Vanilla Pod Bakery pre made the sponges the day before and the students learnt how to decorate their own individual 8" round birthday cake in...

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Today was a snow day in Cheltenham, so what better way to spend the afternoon in the bakery than making pretty sugar paste roses for a lovely Valentines Day inspired display cake.  This Vanilla Pod Bakery cake started life as a simple sketch and a rough colour palette of red, pink and white. We wanted to create an...

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