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mayday bakes

The cakes

a little lookbook

Custom celebration cakes, tarts, and pies — every one made to order in Los Angeles and finished by hand with fresh flowers. No two are ever the same, so yours won't be either.

Custom vanilla bean celebration cake with yellow tulips, pink dahlias, and lavender-dusted buttercream dollops
Custom chocolate layer cake topped with a magenta rose, blackberries, and chamomile
Funfetti dollop tart topped with a pink peony, burgundy mums, and a fern frond
Pink strawberry buttercream cake on a blue plate with a variegated carnation and orange dahlia
Torched lemon meringue tart with chamomile flowers and a magenta rose petal
Custom celebration cake topped with a red gerbera daisy and an orange rose
Matcha checkerboard tres leches cake with fresh flowers and citrus zest
Toasted meringue celebration cake topped with halved kumquats and baby's breath
Custom chocolate cake decorated with dried orange slices and fresh flowers
Key lime pie topped with whipped cream, lime zest, and fresh flowers
Custom chocolate cake topped with a vivid blue morning-glory bloom and an orange gerbera

A taste of past flavors

flavors we've made

The menu rotates with the season — here's a sampling of past bakes to spark ideas. Dreaming up your own combination? We'll build the flavor around it.

Cakes

  • Vanilla bean sponge swirled with raspberry purée, fresh berries & strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream
  • Vanilla funfetti with soft vanilla bean cream cheese frosting & lavender lemon curd
  • Red bean mochi cake with a salty yuzu glaze & matcha
  • Buckwheat chiffon with yuzu Swiss meringue buttercream & cherry curd filling
  • Classic yellow sponge with a clementine-rosemary curd & whipped dark chocolate ganache
  • Cardamom carrot cake with a salted maple cream cheese filling & brown butter Swiss meringue buttercream
  • Dark chocolate rye cake with Earl Grey mascarpone cream & dark chocolate ganache
  • Buckwheat cake with a buckwheat milk soak, yuzu curd, coconut custard & torched meringue
  • Rye chocolate cake with hazelnut chocolate custard, sweet woodruff cream & German chocolate buttercream

Pies

  • Lemon passionfruit meringue pie
  • Key lime pie with a toasted coconut & brown butter graham cracker crust and fresh whipped cream

See one you love?

let's make yours

Bring a photo from here or an idea all your own — we'll design something just for your day.

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