Hampton Cakes

29/04/2024

IMPORTANT
Hampton Cakes is closed for the time being. Life got in the way. I am now looking for new premises as my lovely landlady has retired from the meringue business. Anyone knowing of a suitable space for food production, please get in touch.

30/12/2023

To say this was a wonderful bride to work with is an understatement. I can absolutely agree with her about the suppliers too. Everyone I worked with on this wedding were professional, caring, approachable and a joy. Having examples of the flowers for the bouquet, pictures or those wonderful bespoke shoes and the images of Slaughters Manor made my job a breeze. Louise and Jamie, I wish you a life time of love, romance, laughter and adventure. Thank you for choosing Hampton Cakes for your special day.

From the bride and groom:

I promise it’s the last of our wedding spam , just wanted to shout out to some of the talented people we used to make our day extra special .. firstly Ellie Coggan Photography for capturing the day so perfectly. The photos ooze the happiness and love we felt on the day. Winnie & Olive to our lovely Vanessa who knew exactly what we were after and delivered the most stunning locally sourced flowers(even talking to the flowers 😂in the wedding bouquet as she handed it to me ) 🥰 Kinver jewellers Andy , thank you for designing our perfect rings and even calling round the house for the final fitting between our holidays ! You ⭐️ Hampton Cakes. Shani you are so talented . To be able to create a work of art that also tastes so delicious is amazing. To The Slaughters Manor House Gemma you put us at ease and replied to every email I sent ( I’m sure you’re glad of the peace and quiet now it’s all over! ) it was so lovely to have our very own Manor House for the day. Last but not least Di by Diane Hassall What are the chances of your husband to be having a best friend who’s a shoe designer?? Thank you from the bottom of my heart for managing to create the most beautiful shoes that managed to make me look like a lady for the day ! 😂
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21/12/2023

Another Sri Lankan Fruit Cake. Hand painted with a light festooned reindeer.

21/12/2023

Sri Lankan fruit cake for this family's three cakes. Hand painted with Christmas mice.

21/12/2023

Christmas cake last orders will be delivered tomorrow and then I stop! Top iced traditional English Christmas cake ordered for this one. Hand painted with a Robin in the snow.

20/12/2023

An Emerald Wedding celebration. The bride was 22, and the groom 25, when they married. She carried pink hyacinths for her bouquet. I made some out of sugar and accented with green.

30/10/2023

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was the theme for this Crazy Lady's 50th at Egypt Mill Hotel & Restaurant. A hand painted caricature of the Birthday girl in costume as Columbia, with iconic soundbites from the film. Pistachio, rosewater and cardamom cake and filling.

30/10/2023

A Biscoff cake with Biscoff buttercream swirled with crushed Biscoff biscuits for Sam's 40th. Guess what he likes? I made a sugar version of him (he trains every day) and added the message in a graphic style.

Message from mum...
"Sam loved his cake, thank you Shani.
Everyone loved the cake, Biscoff was excellent. I don't eat cake but I've had 3 large slices. Most of the 20 of us that were there had some in the restaurant and everyone loved it . He thought the figure of him was brilliant!!!! Xx❤️❤️❤️"

30/10/2023

The Matara Centre open day. This bas relief and sugar dog rose cake set up in the garden room. A beautiful space in a beautiful place, with a lovely team to support you and your guests on your wedding day.

30/10/2023

Sugar flower spray to match the Bride's bouquet, and a motif copied from the Bride's handmade shoes. The venue at The Lower Slaughter Manor Hotel was stunning.

30/10/2023

Sugar flowers for this marbled cake. The flowers and colours to match the bridal flowers and the bridesmaids gorgeous navy dresses.

15/10/2023

Matara open day on until 5pm today, Sunday 15th October. Its a beautiful day to check out this gorgeous venue.

23/05/2023

This fully chocolate cake was for James' 18th birthday. I was given a list of things he likes a d trusted to use my design discretion. He loves badgers and is off to law school soon. So Barrister Badger emerged! I'm thrilled with his reaction and hope he has a wonderful birthday.

26/03/2023

A lovely wedding fayre at Matara with louwoodsugarflowers.com ,Delight Vintage Tea Set Hire , Gemma Sangwine - Millinery & Headwear Wild and Co flowers and more. Such a lovely venue made even better by such lovely staff.

10/01/2023

I am seriously over the moon to be nominated in the cake section for the "Best of 2022" awards at Matara . To say I LOVE working with this lovely team at a venue that imspires.
If you feel I deserve it, please vote for me on the cake page.

We are so excited to be hosting these awards again after a two year hiatus. This is the time where you, the public, get to decide who were at the top of their game at Matara in 2020, 2021 & 2022 (yup, it's a multiple year event this year). We were overwhelmed by the nominations, thank you so much, s...

13/10/2022

Thank you Tewkesbury Sugarcrafters, for your lovely welcoming ways and your fabulous work tonight. Such beautiful dressing of your tailor's dummies.

03/10/2022

26/09/2022

Bristol Watershed Cinema, overlooking the water was the venue for this uniquely styled wedding. The bride is a prpfessional gardener and grew and dried an abundance of flower, grasses, seed heads and foliage which were turned into table settings, bouquets, ceremony arch, bouteniers and table plan decoration. The cake followed the theme with edibles grown, picked, prepped and pressed from my garden and that of louwoodsugarflowers.com - Lou Wood. A vegan Courgette and lemon tier, and a blueberry and vanilla tier covered in vegan vanilla buttercream.

21/09/2022

Come and see us with our talented friend, Fiona, of Cotswold Country Flowers at the Stroud Subscription Rooms Wedding Fayre on 9th October 11am-3pm.

15/09/2022

Brides and Grooms, come and see what a fantastic venue the Subscription Rooms are for your wedding.

18/04/2022

I had the real pleasure of making the wedding cake for a special bride and groom. I've known the groom since he was a boy, and always had a soft spot for him. Congratulations Alex and Rebecca. What a happy atmosphere you created for everyone on your wedding day. Wishing you a long and fulfilling life together. Xx

30/03/2022

This Bridgerton themed wedding shoot at Stroud Subscription Rooms was just gorgeous!
https://ceremonybydesign.co.uk/wedding-inspiration-modern-bridgerton/

The Netflix hit Bridgerton was the inspiration behind our shoot at The Subscription Rooms in Stroud. Regency style with a modern twist.

22/03/2022

A festival themed shoot, with our group of sustainability conscious local suppliers, at thr new wedding venue: Stroud Subscription Roons.
https://ceremonybydesign.co.uk/wedding-inspiration-indoor-festival-wedding-shoot/

Wedding inspiration - Indoor festival wedding shoot at The Sub Rooms in Stroud. Festival, but indoors, urban, sustainable and accesible.

26/10/2021

Who is having a summer wedding?
Wisteria design for a three tier wedding cake. A cascade of wisteria hand painted and a branch of handmade sugar wisteria vine, with painted butterflies fluttering through.