Claire Owen Cakes

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I design and bake exquisite and delicious wedding cakes in West Sussex, delivering across the South and London. All my designs are bespoke and unique.
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£400
Claire Owen Cakes Details

Dietary Options

Gluten-Free
Dairy-Free
Nut-Free
Vegan catering
Vegetarian

General Services

Tastings
Last-Minute Orders
Tiered Cakes
Cupcakes
Delivery
Treats and Favours
Bespoke Design
Pre-Wedding Consultation
Set-Up
Claire Owen Cakes Full Description
Every cake I make is individually designed in collaboration with the couple, drawing inspiration from the style and feel of your wedding and the things you love. I invite every prospective wedding couple to a tasting and design consultation where you can try as many flavours as you like and we can discuss design ideas in more detail. I work from the big kitchen of an old Victorian School where I live in beautiful West Sussex, but if it is tricky for you to get to me I can post out samples for you to try at home and we can chat over the phone. I also offer an extensive menu of 'Sweet Treats' - from meringues and iced biscuits to macarons and miniature cakes, which make beautiful dessert tables or personalised favours for your guests. Contact me for my full menu!

Personal Message from the Manager

Name of Wedding Contact: Claire
Hi! Congratulations on your engagement! I would love to chat to you about your wedding cake, so do get in touch for more info and to order a sample tasting box! x Claire

Experience

Year Business Was Established
2012
No. of Weddings Hosted
More than 50
Public Liability Insurance
Yes
Reviews
(21)
Eliza & Jordan
Happy couple married in February
May 2020
So glad we chose you!

Thank you for the beautiful cake you created for us for our special day. We loved it as did our guests - the carrot cake with cinnamon was one of the best cakes we and our guests have ever eaten. So glad we chose you, you were so lovely to work with.

Drew & Jess
Happy couple married in August
December 2017
Marbleous

Claire did an amazing job with our wedding cake. It really enhanced our theme and decorations. She was so creative with our vision and really flexible with our dietary requirements. It tasted amazing!

Melissa
Happy couple married in August
December 2017
A Cake Without Compare!

Claire not only created my breathtaking wedding cake this year, but also my recent birthday cake. After seeing her cakes displayed at the Most Curious Wedding Fair, I just knew that she had to do my wedding cake. I could not get her "sugar ball" cake out of my mind as I had seen nothing like it before! Claire creates the most beautiful and elegant cakes that embody a certain rarity among those that I have tasted over the years --- they are as delicious as they are gorgeous! The minute people walked into the room for our wedding breakfast you could hear their audible gasps --- my friends and family still can't stop talking about our wedding cake! And my birthday cake was just as beautiful --- a stunning pink-hued marbleised creation accented with a large pink peony on top with rose gold butterflies. Claire was so lovely to work with --- she is a true artist both from a design and a baking perspective. Somehow five stars don't seem to do her justice! Her Instagram page is a constant source of delight, and I'm just waiting for that next special occasion when I can work with Claire on one of her creations!

Alex & Hywel
Happy couple married in August
December 2017
A work of art in cake

Claire was great to work with and we couldn’t have been happier with the final result. Claire came up with a gorgeous design based on the peacock motif from our wedding stationery and executed it beautifully. We had so many compliments on the day and each of the different flavoured layers tasted wonderful too - we particularly recommend the pistachio and rosewater!

Mina Park
Happy couple married in July
December 2017
It was more than perfect!

I was very pretty and delicious. Many of our wedding guests were impressed how the cupcake was amazingly yummy. We decided lemon poppy seed and red velvet and they turned up really well matched with our wedding theme. It arrived on time or little bit early. Both me and my husband thought it was definitely right choice and highly recommend to others. Thank you Claire, we enjoyed them so much!

Jennifer Watterson
Wedding: October
December 2017
Stunning wedding cake and cupcakes!

Claire had quite a task with my mother-in-law's wedding cake request - the main cake had to be vegan and chocolate, we needed a mixture of vegan and non-vegan cupcakes of all different flavours and none of them could contain nuts! But she was amazing and so helpful with coming up with flavours and the design of the wedding cake for the Indian themed wedding was just stunning! And most importantly, the cakes were absolutely delicious! Thank you so much xx

Tyrah
Happy couple married in September
December 2017
Loved our wedding cake!

I thought I knew what I wanted for a wedding cake (very traditional with flowers tumbling down the side)...Until I stumbled across Claire at a wedding fair. I spotted this beautiful, elegant, simple, 2 tall tier cake with the most beautiful script writing on it. Immediately I knew that's what I wanted and I also knew what I wanted writing too! So I arranged to meet with Claire for a tasting and she was so helpful and friendly and understood exactly what I wanted; a stripped back cake, which incorporated our wedding colours - ivory, pale pink and silver along with the writing 'Tyrah' which is our nickname and 'if music be the food of love' which I thought was perfect as we are actors and it's cake! Claire drew a design so we knew exactly what it would look like and was really helpful at each stage. We chose pistachio and rose and carrot cake with cinnamon buttercream as our flavours and both tiers were absolutely delicious! Claire is so lovely and so are her cakes so I highly recommend her!

Amy and Jason
Happy couple married in July
November 2017
Amazing wedding cake!

Claire made us an amazing semi-naked wedding cake for our wedding at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London. We wanted something classy and simple to compliment the rest of the look and feel of the wedding and she understood what we wanted. Claire was also extremely accommodating and lovely to work with throughout. We started with a tasting and we were so pleased and had no doubts that the cake would be amazing, especially the zesty lime cake infused with spiced Opihr gin and fevertree tonic with creamy coconut buttercream (to die for!) - perfect for a summer wedding with many gin lovers among the guests. Guests were really complimentary about the cake and one of them said it was the best they'd ever had! We were extremely happy to have found Claire and would recommend her to anyone. She is clearly extremely talented and creative and would love to have her make us another cake at a celebration in the future!

Jo Cornwell
Happy couple married in July
November 2017
Most beautiful cake I’ve ever seen

Claire designed and made the most fabulous wedding cake to match my wedding dress. 3 layers of gin and tonic lime drizzle cake and one of sticky toffee date. When I first saw the cake I was so delighted it made me cry! The cake looked and tasted sensational.

Kate & Steve
Happy couple married in October
November 2017
If you like cake you'll LOVE Claire's Cakes.

We weren't going to have a wedding cake, and then I found Claire'e website and I knew i just had to have one. Claire makes the most beautiful cakes ever. AND they taste delicious. We opted for a traditional vanilla sponge with jam and butter cream but it was a difficult decision, we were given a selection of four flavours to taste and they were all amazing. The theme for our wedding was relaxed, informal and 'non-wedding'! So i knew I didn't want a traditional white wedding cake, but something colourful and fun which is exactly what Claire made. We had great fun discussing ideas and Claire very quickly came up with a design that was perfect, based on liberty fabric I had selected for the groomsmen's ties. After meeting Claire I totally trusted her to transform our ideas into something beautiful so I left her to use her creative flair. The finished cake was a bit of a surprise on the wedding day so I was very excited to see it and it exceeded my expectations. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Claire, I am so pleased I came across her. Not only is she incredibly talented she is lovely and professional too. I have even asked her to draw a sketch of our cake as a nice memory of our day. I was also very happy to support a local mum in her business venture - she deserves every sucess.

Claire Owen Cakes Location & Contact Details
Address
Billingshurst, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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FAQs
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What is your most memorable wedding?

Honestly? My own! I made my own cake which took forever - hundreds of handcut flowers - but it was the cake that gave me the confidence so start my business and is holds a very special place in my heart for everything that it represented.

Describe your style in 5 adjectives.

Unique, elegant, original, showstopping, delicious

What about your business are you most proud of?

Starting something from the ground up, that grew from the odd cake here and there to multi big-orders weekly.

What is your No. 1 wedding planning tip for couples?

Throw the rule book out of the window! Make it yours, eat the cake, dance to the music, say the vows that YOU want!

What is your favourite personal touch you have seen at a wedding?

A farming family's son came to his parents to announce his engagement, swiftly followed by a request to hold the reception in a dilapidated barn on their farm! Over 9 months, the whole family came together to renovate the barn, replacing beams, rebuilding stone walls, laying a new floor. The love that went in to that space was amazing and the result... the most magical space I have ever seen!

Describe your typical process with a couple.

I invite every prospective wedding couple to a free, no-obligation tasting and consultation where I invite them to choose four flavours of cake to try and we can chat together about the style of the wedding and how they would like their cake to look. You can come with no ideas or a folder full! Usually there is lots of drawing, tea drinking and enthusiastic conversation after which I make a drawing of the cake and produce a detailed quote. I like to keep an ongoing dialogue with each couple and am happy for the design of the cake to evolve as the wedding planning progresses. I liaise directly with the venue with regards to set-up and delivery to try and make the cake part of your wedding one of the most enjoyable parts of the planning process!
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