About

About the Chef

Hi, I’m Alex – a professional chef and cake maker with over 15 years’ experience creating celebration cakes. I started out simply loving to bake, and that slowly grew into a passion for designing cakes that are both structurally ambitious and genuinely delicious. Over the years I’ve crafted everything from elegant wedding tiers to playful 3D novelty builds, and I’m always looking for the next technical challenge. On this blog, I take you behind the scenes of cake art: the design process, tricky structural problems, unusual client requests, and the occasional disaster – plus what I learned from it. You’ll also find my go-to recipes for sponges, fillings, buttercreams, and other bakes that earn their place in a professional kitchen. If you’re interested in cake decorating, baking, or the engineering that keeps showpiece cakes standing, you’re in the right place. You can see more of my work on Instagram at Cakez.by.alex and on Facebook at Cakes by Alex.