Hub bakery: We will always bake your cake

The country’s highest court may have sided with a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, but a Hub cake shop has a message for other engaged couples who fear being shunned by bakers.

“We will always bake you a wedding cake here,” said Krystle Brown, head decorator at Oakleaf Cakes Bake Shop. She added, “We’re not the only bakery that feels that way.

“We support all couples here,” added the 29-year-old Brown. “We have made a lot of wedding cakes for LGBT couples. We’re a very inclusive environment and that’s just something we’ve always been.”

Shop owner Amanda Oakleaf added, “We’ll make the cake.”

Brown, who identifies as queer, was decorating a pair of cake figurines yesterday when she learned of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision to side with the baker.

The case began in 2012 when Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, told David Mullins and Charlie Craig he couldn’t make their wedding cake because same-sex marriage went against his religion. The couple planned to get married in Massachusetts and have their wedding reception in Colorado, where same-sex marriage was not yet legal.

The decision was tough for Brown and comes as Boston prepares for this weekend’s annual Pride festival and parade.

“That was a little hard to hear,” Brown said of the decision. “Not only do we serve a lot of LGBT community here, but a lot of us are LGBT. It was kind of hard to swallow. Makes me kind of worried about the direction this country’s going in.

“We’re always going to have to fight to be who we are,” Brown added. “I feel tired and numb.”

Amanda and Tyler Oakleaf opened the bakery in Winthrop in 2010 but moved to the bigger space in the Back Bay nearly five years ago. The inviting shop sits in the shadow of Symphony Hall and is full of mouth-watering cupcakes, cookies and cakes, all made from scratch.

A wedding cake with rainbow fondant and two female figurines getting married on top sits in the bakery’s window. The cake was inspired by two former employees who fell in love while working at the bakery.

“We made a mock wedding cake imagining if they got married,” Brown said. “It’s just so a part of who we are. Why should we even have this debate again?”