May 3, 2021
My Small Business Spotlight this week is The Cake Maiden, also known as Amber Reynolds in Piedmont! She creates beautiful custom cakes and desserts, and has even started selling fresh pizza dough lately!!
Amber uses only the best ingredients to make her creations as delicious as possible, and you can definitely tell the difference. She can create custom cakes or cupcakes for any occasion, with a huge variety of yummy flavors.
- Tammy (T): How did the Cake Maiden business begin?
- Amber (A): Back in college, it was kind of a side business I had back in Florida to earn money on the side. I kind of put it aside when I graduated and my husband and I moved out to Colorado and I had a career out there. Once Covid hit, we had to move back to the South, closer to family and that’s when I started up the cake business again. It’s really been taking off here locally and people seem to really enjoy it. It’s nice to get back into it again.
- T: What kind of yummy things do you have on your menu?
- A: I brought some cupcakes today, yellow cake with fresh lemon buttercream icing. It’s very fresh and seasonal. One of my personal favorites is called a pig pickin cake, which is very regional. It’s basically an orange cake with a cool whip frosting that has pineapple and coconut in it. It’s a very fruity, light, and summery option for hot weather.
- T: What have been some of your most popular items?
- A: My banana pudding cake, its a yellow base cake with vanilla and in the center is my grandmother’s banana pudding recipe and the outside is a cool whip frosting to keep it nice and light.
- T: Tell me about some of your custom creations.
- A: I’m doing my cousin’s wedding cake soon, which is based off a dirt cake. I’m going to take what’s normally a pudding and make it into a cake form. So that’s something I’ve been working on a bit lately and I’m really excited about. The banana pudding cake was something I really created myself.
- T: What are some of the wildest or most fun projects you’ve worked on?
- A: Back in the day I did a Spongebob cake that was a lot of fun. There was so much intricate piping and so many different colors and it comes out so cool looking. One of the others was one I made for my husband’s birthday back in the day when we first started hiking. It was a giant cupcake that I made into a mountain and little cupcakes around it that created a hiking trail all the way up to the top.
- T: So you can do pickups or delivery for customers?
- A: In Piedmont, I do free delivery for up to 5 miles. Any delivery beyond that, there might be certain fees.
- T: Where can people go to find out more and place an order with you?
- A: My Facebook page, The Cake Maiden, is definitely what I use primarily. I have a menu, pictures, reviews, all my local information is there. Any other questions you might need answered, I can get to you really quickly up there.
- T: Anything else you’d like to share?
- A: I do have sugar free recipes that I’ve been starting that have been really popular. I have a lot of family that’s diabetic so they’ve been appreciative of those kinds of recipes. So if you’re really interested in trying something sugar free, it’s definitely something I highly recommend. Something a little different and it tastes good too!
I hope you enjoyed this week’s Small Business Spotlight
