Wedding Cakes
Hi! I’m Emily, owner and baker behind Big Spoon.
Read on for a little insight into my journey…
From Assistant Commercial Manager to Full Commercial Bakery.
My journey began at The Body Shop Head Office here in Littlehampton as an Assistant Commercial Manager, but a bump in the road (redundancy) led me to learn Patisserie at Prue Leith’s School of Food & Wine up in London.
Fast forward to mid 2019, I built myself a website and started selling baking kits online so you could make delicious, non-processed, show stopping cakes at home. Lockdown hit, and the kits were a success, I even designed a rainbow inspired cupcake kit with a proportion of the profits going to Feed the NHS to support our front line workers. Post lockdown, everyone was completely over baking at home and sales took a massive hit. Running a business is like riding a rollercoaster, so I absolutely jumped at the chance to supply cakes to The Brewhouse Project, upon their re-opening post Covid. Big Spoon transformed into a wholesale bakery and I was grateful to take on multiple stockists.
As I outgrew my kitchen at home, I moved into a commercial kitchen in a village hall, before taking a huge leap and taking on my very own industrial unit in Littlehampton. It was a cave, with no running water or electricity, and we got to work to totally transform the place with stainless steel worktops, double ovens and a huge dishwasher. This massive risk allowed me to speed up my wholesale baking, and have time to concentrate on birthday cakes, and ultimately wedding cakes.
Wedding cakes are my passion. Making your cake dreams a reality is super exciting, and incredibly rewarding. I am very fortunate to work with so many amazing couples, venues and other suppliers.
I love working on weddings so much, I am married to a wedding florist, Beachtown Blooms, and we have just launched our own prop hire company, Gubbins, so you can get everything you need under one roof!