{"id":61762,"date":"2012-06-12T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com\/?p=61762"},"modified":"2023-09-06T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T09:36:10","slug":"wedding-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wedding-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbs and Doilies Wedding Cupcakes ~ New WWW Sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hope you aren’t hungry right now, if you are here is a warning.. you will be left wanting cake \ud83d\ude42 hehe!<\/p>\n

I am super excited to introduce the wonderful Crumbs and Doilies<\/a> today as WWW’s newest member of the sponsor family. Crumbs and Doilies<\/a> make the most incredible cupcakes, and cater for weddings and events. If you are still looking for cake options for your wedding, then this post is especially perfect<\/em> for you…<\/p>\n

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{w} Hi Jemma, could you firstly tell {www} readers a little bit about you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m Jemma and I own Crumbs and Doilies with my partner Sam. I started Crumbs and Doilies in 2006 and we have been making beautiful hand-made cupcakes for peoples\u2019 weddings ever since. We are a really small team of 6 and we bake our cupcakes in Wandsworth in South West London. Every single cupcake is hand-made in small batches. We think this is what makes them taste so good, as well as the incredible ingredients we use. Many of our ingredients are organic, though we are not an organic cupcake bakery. It\u2019s important that we use the best ingredients available and some of them happen to be organic, though that is not our main focus. Great tasting cupcakes is though!<\/p>\n

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{w} What do you love\/dislike about your job?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I love the creative process. I love getting a brief or a mood board from a bride and translating it in to cake. It\u2019s a real challenge. I love my team. There are only a few of us and we all have a great time both in and out of the kitchen. I love creating new flavours with the C&D gang. Not least because that is the only time I have a genuine excuse to eat lots of cupcakes! I don\u2019t like clearing up at the end of the day – the icing sugar gets EVERYWHERE. I don\u2019t love the early mornings but after 6 years I\u2019m used to it. Even on the rare occasions when I get a lie in, I can only manage 8am at the latest!<\/p>\n

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{w} How did you get into baking and into the wedding industry?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I was a late starter with baking but once I discovered my passion for it I went to work at Rose Bakery in Dover Street Market in Mayfair. After a while I wanted something more so I handed my notice in and got a stall at Brick Lane\u2019s Sunday UpMarket selling all my baked treats. When it became clear that the cupcakes were the big hit, I stopped making all the other stuff and cranked up the cupcake end of things. I used to have a blackboard on my stall that said I could do wedding cupcake towers and I used to give my number to people on little paper doilies before I had a website. Wedding cupcakes were always something I wanted to do because I have always hated traditional wedding cakes! You get a tiny piece which is mostly marzipan and it rolls around your handbag for a week or two, wrapped in a tissue until you find it and eventually throw it in the bin. I think if you are going to spend the money on a wedding cake at all it should be something beautiful, which people look forward to eating and rave about afterwards.<\/p>\n

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{w} What do you aim to achieve for your clients?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We have always tried to minimise the fuss and stress for our clients. Things needn\u2019t be complicated – organising a wedding is stressful enough! We like to put our clients at ease and with our body of work available to see on our website, our clients usually trust us to just \u2018go ahead\u2019. But every client is different. Some people book their order over a year in advance, some leave it to the week before. Some give us mood boards, colour swatches and specific requests and others give us the vaguest of colour schemes and leave us to it. We try and put all of our clients at ease regardless of how involved they want to be. Another really important thing for us is price. Our wedding cupcakes are the same as any order. We don\u2019t hike the price up just because it\u2019s a wedding.<\/p>\n

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{w} What style is your work?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We are incredibly versatile. Our trademark look I suppose is cupcake towers which are fun, varied and exciting. We are experts in translating a colour scheme into a cupcake tower and maintaining the wedding\u2019s theme and feel. But we are also pretty good when people ask us to do something out of the ordinary. We like a challenge!<\/p>\n

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{w} Could you tell us some information about your packages\/prices?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We sell our cupcakes by the dozen and do two sizes. Big cupcakes are \u00a324\/dozen while Minis are \u00a312\/dozen. There are extra costs for personalisation (such as initials or specific designs) and this varies depending on the complexity. We offer a variety of top cakes if you want something a little larger to cut and we have also started to do individual mini cakes as an alternative to cupcakes. We hire cupcake stands from 7-tiers right up to 11-tiers high starting at \u00a325 for week\u2019s hire. We can also provide a set-up service, subject to availability and location.<\/p>\n

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{w} Do you have any tips for couples in selecting their wedding suppliers?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Trust your instincts. Ask questions and if there\u2019s something you want that you\u2019re not seeing, ask if it can be done. You never know!<\/p>\n

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{w} How can we get in touch with you?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The best way to get in touch is by email (info@crumbsanddoilies.co.uk) or our Wedding Enquiry form on our website (www.crumbsanddoilies.co.uk<\/a>) or by calling 020 8874 8885.<\/p>\n

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Thanks so much Jemma!! Do go and visit their wonderful site, and if you make an enquiry with them please do mention WWW \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Mmmmmmm XOXO Lou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope you aren’t hungry right now, if you are here is a warning.. you will be left wanting cake \ud83d\ude42 hehe! I am super excited to introduce the wonderful Crumbs and Doilies today as WWW’s newest member of the sponsor family. Crumbs and Doilies make the most incredible cupcakes, and cater for weddings and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,18],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-61762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-cakes","category-in-the-hotseat","tag-sponsor"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":61771,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/whimsical-cdn.wedissimo.com\/2012\/06\/Crumbs-and-Doilies-9-300x429.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}