Delicious cakes.
So-so designs.
Tell me what you want in a sentence. I will think about it for roughly four seconds, say yes, and then draw whatever I pictured in my mind. The cake will taste incredible and look like it was decorated during an earthquake.
You asked for this. You got this.
Here's the one that started the website. A real text, and the real cake that turned up five days later. There is no step in between.
“So easy.”
Two words. No follow-up questions, no reference image requested, no practice run, no discussion of what a unicorn looks like.
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One (1) “unicorn”
Vanilla confetti, white buttercream, and a creature of unknown origin, with a rainbow emerging from a location of her choosing.
Five years of saying yes immediately.
Tap any of them for the full incident report.
Nobody has ever complained about the cake.
Every flavor below is made from scratch the day before pickup. This section is almost entirely sincere.
The Damage
A selection of cakes people have been brave enough to commission, filed by what it was supposed to be.
Flavors
Baked from scratch the day before pickup. Real butter, real vanilla, no fondant, ever.
Decoration only
You bake it. You frost it. You bring it to Windsor. She does the one part you came to this website for. Store-bought is completely fine and she will not comment on it.
The boring but important bit.
Made in a home kitchen
Which contains wheat, dairy, eggs and tree nuts, and cannot promise otherwise. Sonoma County cottage food operation.
Gluten-free & dairy-free
Available on the vanilla confetti and the chocolate with two weeks notice. They're good. They're not secretly better.
Request sent.
Meredith reads every one of these herself.
Roughly 96% of the time
Everyone involved is playing
A note about Nala.
Pickup is at the house, and the house comes with a dog. Nala is a mix of every breed you have ever been warned about, and she has never once acted like it. She will emit a terrifying howl when you arrive, she will meet you at the door and demand pets, and she will be openly delighted that you exist.
She does, however, occasionally turn into a vampire for about four seconds at a time. It is entirely play, it is only directed at other dogs, and it has never involved a customer. It is simply worth knowing before it happens in front of you while you are holding a cake.
Reactions
Nobody has ever complained about the cake. The decoration is a separate conversation, and it is the one people repeat to their friends.
Meredith
No formal training. No natural ability. A truly remarkable amount of nerve.
Meredith at work · this is the Shrek, four minutes in
It started because nobody stopped me.
I started baking for my own family. The cakes were good, so people kept asking, and at some point somebody asked for something specific on top of one. I said yes without thinking about it, which is the only way I have ever said yes to anything. I did not do a practice run, and I have not done one since.
The cake came out. Everyone laughed for a full minute before anyone cut it. Then they ate all of it. That combination turned out to be the whole business: the decoration is the entertainment and the cake is the reason you're glad you ordered it.
One thing I will not apologize for: every animal I draw is pooping. All of them. It started in a painting class years ago and it has never once stopped being funny to me, so it stays. Every artist has a signature. This is mine, and I have never been talked out of it. On the unicorn it is a rainbow, which I would argue is the single most accurate thing on that cake.
It is not limited to cake. I also paint, which has gone about as well as you would expect. The penguins below are, in my opinion, fine.
Now I get requests from people I've never met, which is flattering and a little alarming. So this site exists to do one thing before you send me any money: show you exactly what you are signing up for. Scroll The Damage first. Then ask me anyway.
— Meredith Barlin, Windsor CA