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20th September 2016 // 0 Comments

Our Macarons in Love Our Wedding Magazine!

Assorted macarons by Juniper Cakery

Did you spot our fabulous macarons adorning the pages of Love Our Wedding magazine? If not then you should really head on over to their site, download a copy of their amazing FREE magazine and enter the competition! If you’re in the UK and you’re recently engaged or planning your wedding (lengthy engagements are welcome too) then winning lots of lovely things to help make your wedding happen is going to be a no brainer right?

We’re honoured to have our macarons be the main image on their blog and contents page too! We created these as favours for a fun yet glamorous wedding reception with romantic pinks as the main colour palette. They’re pretty darn popular for weddings and so easily customised to fit in with so many different themes too. We’ve whipped up deep navy blue macarons streaked with 24k gold, pink champagne ones filled with Gosset Grand Rose Brut NV infused buttercream, oversized macarons, even pink candy cane studded beauties!

Tips for perfect macarons by Juniper Cakery

Flavours in the image include… Raspberry Chambord, Strawberry Milkshake and Vanilla Confetti! Our Raspberry Chambord option is a mid-pink macaron filled with Fortnum & Mason raspberry preserve infused with Chambord liqueur and fruity raspberry buttercream, drizzled with Belgian white chocolate and sprinkled with raspberry pieces. Strawberry Milkshake features a creamy strawberry and Belgian white chocolate ganache filling with shells drizzled in more Belgian white chocolate and finished with miniature edible sugar pearls. Finally our Vanilla Confetti flavour is created using white macaron shells sandwiched with Madagascan vanilla buttercream and studded with fun rainbow confetti sprinkles!

Remember, head over to Love Our Wedding magazine for your chance to win our macaron wedding favours as well as wedding rings, a manicure, designer veil and lots more! You can even fill out a form and enter via this blog post on their site. Good luck!

15th July 2016 // 0 Comments

Tanfield House Photoshoot in Your Yorkshire Wedding Magazine!

Did you spot our pretty in pink Rococo-inspired wedding cake and gilded magnolia cupcakes in the July issue of Your Yorkshire Wedding magazine? This gorgeous countryside photoshoot was styled and organised by Luxe by Minihaha and photographed by Kirsty Mattsson at the beautiful Tanfield House with florals by Hart Company. You can get your hands on a copy of Your Yorkshire Wedding Magazine here!

Stylist & Co-ordinator: Luxe by Minihaha
Cakes: Juniper Cakery
Venue: Tanfield House
Photographer: Kirsty Mattsson
Florist: Hart Company
Dresses: Prestige Gowns & Eliza Jane Howell
Make-Up: Elizabeth Daisy
Hair: Terri Georgina
Model: Kern Kaur

Our cakes in Your Yorkshire Wedding magazine!

Though this cake design was originally inspired by Luxe by Minihaha’s mood board for a ‘City Chic’ bridal shower (see the photoshoot here on our blog and also here via Ultimate Wedding Magazine) with high fashion textures and architectural references the design was also perfect for a countryside wedding. Our Rococo-inspired wedding cake lends itself well to a glamorous country venue due to the a romantic palette, carefree florals (and bees) with gorgeous historical influences.

Colour-wise this shoot was inspired by Pantone’s Colours of the Year (Rose Quartz and Serenity). The delicate ice pink and blush tones throughout the Rococo-inspired cake easily mimic the more grown-up and sophisticated pink tone that Pantone heralded as one of the Colours of the Year! Teamed with sleek whites and luxurious gold metallics this cake is a definite show piece too.

Lots of full, luxurious blooms reminiscent of country glamour adorned the shoot including full hydrangeas, sweet cherry blossoms and the ever popular eucalyptus leaves. The table centrepieces were positively filled to the brim which we love! We both absolutely love full flowers and foliage. To accompany such show-stealing florals our cupcakes featured large white magnolia blooms re-created out of sugar perched atop gold painted acanthus leaves. The cake itself had our signature sugar peonies adorning it’s tiers that each span a rather dramatic 6 inches in width! We then added some extra texture and fullness with white sugar blossoms, cupped white lilacs and pretty fondant berries!

Our gilded magnolia flower cupcakes were created as sweet and sophisticated favours / table settings. They’re iced in scalloped white fondant before being adorned with golden acanthus leaf details and voluminous sugar magnolia blooms with gold painted centres.

Finally, here’s a close-up look at the sugar flowers on our Rococo-inspired wedding cake! We create all our flowers to order and also by hand which means there’s room for tweaks and customisation. For this design we tinted our peony petals a shade or two darker than the ice pink cake to make sure that they subtly stood out, but also so that they didn’t fight too much for attention against the golden acanthus leaf frame. To soften the arrangements and give them more of a carefree or fluid feel we then added smaller blossoms, buds and berries around the focal peonies.

Thanks to all the wonderfully talented people involved in the shoot including the insanely gorgeous venue of Tanfield House! You can also now find this styled photoshoot in the latest (July) issue of Your Yorkshire Wedding magazine here!

28th April 2016 // 0 Comments

Our Exclusive Interview in Wedding Cakes Magazine!

We’re (almost) famous! We’ve ooh-ed and ahh-ed at the wonderful designs that featured in the amazing Wedding Cakes magazine for some time. Now not only have we’ve found our own work adorning their glossy pages, but we’re lucky enough to have been interviewed and featured in their ‘Meet the Designer’ spread! On our blog, in consultations and even on social media we’ve briefly mentioned our backgrounds, but if you’re super nosey about how we started then this interview may hopefully be a good read! In the beginning both our future careers involved dusty lecture halls and endless thesis proposals before we found ourselves almost permanently covered in icing sugar a few years later. Yep, Juniper Cakery was born out of a nervous tick we both developed whilst trying to find the perfect Masters degrees.

Over a year later and we STILL love this peony ruffle wedding cake. It was inspired by a couple’s (excellent) choice of gold sequin table runners and floral centrepieces. After going through graphic designers and brand consultants we just didn’t gel with we ended up re-designing and re-branding our business by ourselves with this glamorous cake as our main source of inspiration. The gold sequins = celebration and (of course) champagne bubbles… obviously the perfect accompaniments for cake. Our new branding colours then centred around pink, white and gold.

One of the best things about this cake is the movement. After sketching it and then staring at the end cake for some time we realised that it looked like ruffled gown bedecked with nature - a bit like a Pre-Raphaelite muse really. Fondant ruffles are one of our favourite design elements to include on any cake and we receive a lot of compliments and even class requests for it. We learned how to do ours the Maggie Austin way at first, but her top secret trick terrified us so we developed our own method to get the best super textured look.

This two tiered beauty was one cherry explosion! The smell was insanely tempting as it was a chocolate cake filled with Morello cherry preserve, smoothed with Kirsch infused buttercream and then adorned with fresh roses, juicy cherries and cherry flavoured macarons (Cherry Ripple and Sour Cherry).

We turned a simple and petite design into a mini show-stopper with a floral crown of gardenias, sweet peas, 24k gold bees, tulips and ‘Juliet’ roses wrapped around the base of royal icing pearl studded cake. We loved adding in those gold painted berries, bees and also the swirls of sweet pea tendrils!

This naked cake was made super glam with 24k gold dusted peanut butter macarons, gold silk eucalyptus leaves, pink macarons and large blooming bubblegum pink roses.

If you’re on the hunt for Wedding Cakes magazine you can find it on the magazine shelves of most good supermarkets or book stores in the UK. You can also order a copy from the Squires Kitchen website or even via iTunes!

12th January 2016 // 0 Comments

Our Work in Bridal Guide Magazine USA!

Peony Ruffle Wedding Cake by Juniper Cakery in Bridal Guide Magazine!

Oh la la! What a stunningly glamorous spread our Peony Ruffle Wedding Cake was featured in recently! We’re honoured to have one of our stunning bespoke wedding designs grace the glossy and chic pages of Bridal Guide magazine over in the USA. Our gold sequin embellished cake was featured in Bridal Guide’s November/December 2015 ‘Shine Bright’ inspiration spread alongside luxurious designs and products by Guerlain, Deux Lux, Marchesa Bridal and Kate Spade!

Peony Ruffle Wedding Cake by Juniper Cakery

Our work in Bridal Guide magazine USA!

We created this gold sequin encrusted cake finished with our signature hand made sugar peonies, berries and leaves last March and so far it has been listed on various blogs and online articles, featured in a book, re-posted and share a number of times on social media, garnered so many emails and phone calls asking about it, found its way into the pages of Wedding Cakes by Squires Kitchen, and Bridal Guide; plus it’s also scheduled to appear in a few more magazines later in the year.

Design-wise this cake was inspired by the current (and hopefully non-ending) trend for gold and golden sequins that have been adorning everything from high-end couture gowns to chic yet affordable notebooks. Of course, if you read our blog enough you’ll know how much we freaking love the colour gold (seriously, its too much of a luxurious and stylish colour to pass up on). We were obviously over the moon when we got the chance to design and make this cake from scratch. The happy couple came to us with such amazing ideas, colour palettes and style-inspiration and we’re more than delighted that this beauty got the amazing feedback and features it did! Everything from the delicate pink fondant ruffles, hand painting the gold sequins and arranging the blush pink peonies and pearlescent dusted berries was a joy for us!

5th January 2016 // 0 Comments

Our Work in Wedding Cakes Magazine Spring 2016!

What a way for us to kick start 2016! Not just one, but two of our most popular cakes from 2015 just so happened to be featured in the pages of the exquisite Wedding Cakes magazine by Squires Kitchen. It’s such an honour as this publication obvious has some damn high standards… plus it’s one of our favourites! You can pick up a copy at most magazine aisles (in the UK), grab an online digital copy via the Apple store, or even order it direct from the publisher.

Our work in Wedding Cakes magazine!

Pink Black Forest Gateau Naked Cake by Juniper Cakery featured in Wedding Cakes magazine

Our Black/Pink Forest Gateau Naked Cake graced the side of the introduction (or editor’s letter) as well as a full page at the beginning of the ‘naked cake’ section. This pretty wedding cake was like a cherry explosion! It’s a chocolate cake filled and smoothed with a vibrant pink Kirsch infused buttercream and adorned with Picota cherries, cherry flavoured macarons (Cherry Ripple and Sour Cherry), lovely pink roses and plumes of rosemary sprigs!

Peony Ruffle Wedding Cake by Juniper Cakery featured in Wedding Cakes magazine

Whilst our Peony Ruffle Wedding Cake with Gold Sequins can be found nestled in amongst other beauties in the ‘luxe’ section of Wedding Cakes magazine! Oh la la! This creation featured the still popular hand painted gold sequin effect along the two top tiers with a toppled look on the third. A burst of pink was added along the bottom tier with textured fondant ruffles. The design was then finished with our signature handmade open sugar peony flowers!

NOTE: To anyone who has found us via Wedding Cakes magazine please note that the issue lists us as being located in the Greater London area which unfortunately is a misprint. We are in fact located in Hull and Yorkshire. We’ve had quite a number of enquires by phone, email and social media from people in the London/Reading/Essex area which we’ve had to sadly turn away.

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