Home bakery makes custom cakes

Carol Seng, owner of “Cute Cake!” Lady & Bakery, is in the business of making edible art. She sells homemade cakes and other baked goods for weddings and special occasions.

Seng began her bakery in Waco about four years ago, when her youngest child started kindergarten. Two years later, her family relocated to Pflugerville and she continued her business here. “When I had kids, I kept saying, “I can make a cake for them.” And then the next year it had to be bigger and better. It snowballed into making cakes for other people,” Seng said.

Seng bakes cakes at home and customers pick up their orders there. She enjoys using her creativity to decorate cakes with new and unique designs, and frequently customizes her creations by using client ideas to produce themed cakes.

She entered two decorated cakes for the recent That Takes the Cake competition, hosted by the Capital Confectioners club.

One of her entries this year won third place in the intermediate single-tier novelty cake division, which had a “Once Upon a Cake” theme. For the competition this year, Seng decorated a cake to resemble a tabletop, with a Tiffany lamp centerpiece that resembled a stained glass window. It was lit from within by batteries hidden within the cake.

It also included a looking glass made with a special gel so it would appear transparent.

She also sells a variety of cookies, rocky road fudge bars, cherry cordials and a mixture of white chocolate, milk chocolate and peanut butter, which she labeled “tiger butter.”

She tries to limit herself to making one wedding cake per week. “Weddings are very personal and I want to get them right, especially since there’s only one chance at it. I want to give the bride and groom all of my attention,” Seng said.

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