Love is definitely in the air. Valentine’s day is right around the corner and we have been busy planning and making gluten-free wedding cakes. On the start of the Lunar New Year, we had the wonderful pleasure of making this gorgeous wedding cake for newlyweds Kristen and Roger. Cake info: Flavor: coconut cream Filling: raspberry [...]

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In addition to the gluten-free seaside wedding cake we made for Dave and Gale this weekend, we (Zest Bakery in collaboration with AntiCupcakeCo) also made three cheesecakes for a wedding shower. This wedding shower was particularly special because it was for my cousin Stefano and his lovely fiance, Jen. Stefano actually is responsible for introducing me to Patrick [...]

Today we delivered a seaside-themed gluten-free cake for Dave and Gale. This cake had layers of almond cake, raspberry jam, and pastry cream and was covered in white fondant and handmade white chocolate sea shells. We also made an edible fondant ribbon to wrap around each tier. Gale actually brought in a sample of their wedding [...]

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Today was a monumental day for Zest Bakery! We made our first full wedding cake! To prepare, we made 9 layers of cake (3 layers per tier), and spent a full couple of days baking and prepping for the cakes. Early on the happy couple, decided the bottom 2 tiers would be almond cake with [...]

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What a whirlwind of a weekend, we’ve had. In addition to prepping and competing at SF Food Wars’ Pie or Die competition, we had the wonderful pleasure of providing gluten-free cupcakes for a wedding reception over at Hiller Aviation Museum. The bride was super easygoing and gave us the freedom to do whatever cupcake flavors [...]

Yesterday we had the pleasure of doing our first wedding cake tasting! Since opening the bakery, we’ve periodically been asked if we do wedding cakes. Our answer usually is, “we can, but we haven’t… yet.” So we knew it was only a matter of time before we were asked to do one. We are so [...]

We’ve been married a little over a month now, and I’m finally getting around to posting about the wedding. More importantly (hehe), about the food at our wedding! Our goal was to cater the wedding ourselves and to make it entirely gluten-free. We succeeded in the later, but had to enlist the help of Anticupcake [...]

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