We had the opportunity to make a special birthday cake for the one and only Miss Idaho USA, Hannah Menzner! She said, “the cake was a hit–people loved it and kept asking where it was from!” Thank you Hannah!
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Hiring Part-Time Baker
We are looking for a part-time baker for Whipped Bakeshop in Fishtown. This job is perfect for someone who wants to work 2-3 days per week with some scheduling flexibility. We are estimating 15-18 hours per week, with seasonal fluctuation. Professional baking experience is required for this position. If you have availability and a passion for baking, you are encouraged to apply!
Primary tasks:
- Bake/prepare cakes, fillings, doughs and icings
- Create weekly planning/production lists
- Conduct weekly ingredient inventory
- Maintain a clean, organized workspace
- Wash dishes
Requirements:
- Professional baking experience
- Good organizational skills and time management
- An excellent tasting palate and a love of awesome baked goods
- Ability to lift heavy ingredients (up to 50 lbs) and mixing bowls
- Good energy and a positive attitude
- Sense of humor
Bonus points:
- A Servsafe certificate is helpful
- Ability to develop/test new recipes
Hours:
Part-time. Estimating 15-18 hours per week, depending on season and week-to-week needs.
Compensation:
Hourly wage, based on experience. Minimum wage at Whipped Bakeshop is $15 and up.
Benefits:
- Fun and relaxed work environment
- Paid time off
- Working with a close-knit team of artists
- You get to make desserts you can be proud of
Salary: $15.00 – $20.00 per hour
Application:
Please apply by sending your resume and cover letter to info AT whippedbakeshop.com. Applications without a cover letter will not be accepted.
Lizzo Cookies
We made cookies for Lizzo when she came to Philadelphia for a concert at the Wells Fargo Center! Our genius cookie decorator Liz McHale spent an entire day crafting a special cookie portrait to give to Lizzo as an artist gift from LiveNation. Ally, one of our cake decorators, got to go to the concert and she said it was a total lovefest. Thank you to Lizzo and LiveNation for the amazing project!
Cookie Artist Liz McHale Joins Whipped Bakeshop
This past week we welcomed a new team member to Whipped Bakeshop! Superstar cookie artist Elizabeth McHale (AKA Baked Imperfections) will greatly enhance our decorated cookie capabilities, and she’ll be helping us to create fun new designs throughout the year. If you’ve been thinking about ordering decorated cookies from Whipped Bakeshop, now is the time. Our corporate logo cookies are always a huge hit. Welcome Liz!!!
125th Anniversary Cake For Campbell’s Soup
We recently helped Campbell’s Soup celebrate the 125th anniversary of their invention of condensed soup. We made a giant soup can cake (4:1 scale), several serving cakes and over 500 cupcakes using Campbell’s own Tomato Soup spice cake recipe paired with our signature old fashioned vanilla icing.
The soup can cake was incredibly heavy, weighing in at about 50 lbs, and required a lot of extra internal supports. The cake survived the journey from Philly to Camden, NJ and the event was a huge hit!
We are Hiring!
We are looking for a talented cookie decorator to bake and decorate yummy sugar cookies at our popular appointment-only bakery. If you love cookies and baking, this is a sweet opportunity. We will train the right candidate!
Requirements:
- Minimum 1 year of professional cookie decorating experience (home decorating counts)
- Must be a positive and productive team member
- Must enjoy baking
- A nice portfolio of decorated cookies
- Impeccable piping skills
- Excellent people skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Sense of humor
Bonus Points:
- Servsafe certification
- Photoshop skills
- Customer service experience
Primary Responsibilities:
- General baking (cakes and icings) one day a week
- Dough and icing production
- Rolling, cutting and baking cookies
- Decorating and wrapping cookies
- Organizing orders and planning for each week
- Working cooperatively with other decorators to complete orders
- Working with clients to design and price their custom orders
- Answering phones and emails, and creating invoices
Secondary Responsibilities:
- Maintaining clean workspaces
- Assisting with daily cleaning tasks
Pay:
- Part-Full time (20-30+ hours per week)
- Competitive hourly wage commensurate with experience and skill
- Paid time off
How to Apply:
Email us ([email protected]) a cover letter, resume and a link to your online cookie portfolio (or 3-5+ photos of your best cookies). Tell us about your availability, your passion for decorating, and let us know why you’d like to work for Whipped Bakeshop. We are excited to learn your story!
Seeking an Amazing Cake Decorator
We are looking for an experienced cake artist to decorate gorgeous custom cakes and other delicious treats at our popular appointment-only bakery. This coveted Senior Decorator position is rarely open at Whipped Bakeshop. If you have the passion, skills and experience, this is a stellar opportunity to shine! If you meet or exceed the requirements below, we urge you to apply ASAP. Please follow application instructions below.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3-5 years of professional cake decorating experience
- Must be a positive and productive team member
- A strong portfolio of impeccable and artistic designs, including tiered wedding cakes
- Ability to tort, fill and ice perfectly level cakes
- Experience modeling 3D figures and objects out of fondant
- Experience making sugar flowers
- Impeccable piping skills
- Excellent people skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Sense of humor
Bonus Points:
- Ability to create sculpted cakes
- Experience decorating cookies with royal icing
- Basic baking skills
- Servsafe certification
Primary Responsibilities:
- Cake, cupcake and cookie decoration
- Organizing orders and planning for each week
- Working cooperatively with other decorators to complete orders
- Working directly with clients to design and price their custom orders
- Answering phones and emails, and creating invoices
- Conducting wedding cake consultations
Secondary Responsibilities:
- Maintaining clean workspaces
- Assisting with store opening and closing as appropriate
Pay:
- Full time (30-40 hours per week), with occasional overtime
- Competitive hourly wage commensurate with experience and skill
- Paid time off
How to Apply:
Email us at [email protected] with a cover letter, resume and a link to your online cake portfolio (or 3-5 photos of your best cakes). No calls please. Tell us about your availability, your passion for decorating, and let us know why you’d like to work for Whipped Bakeshop. We are excited to learn your story!
Whipped Bakeshop Wins The Knot’s Best of Weddings 2022
We are pleased to announce that we been selected as a 2022 winner of The Knot Best of Weddings, an accolade representing the highest- and most-rated wedding professionals as reviewed by real couples, their families and wedding guests on The Knot, a leading all in one wedding planning destination.
This year, only five percent of hundreds of thousands of local wedding professionals listed on The Knot received this award. We are thrilled to be counted among such an elite group.
To determine the winners, The Knot analyzed its millions of user reviews across various vendor categories to find the highest rated vendors of the year. These winners represent the best of the best wedding professionals that engaged couples should consider booking for their own unique weddings.
Citrus Wedding Cake Serving Sweet Summer Vibes
Partnering with Truly You Events, we created this one-of-a-kind citrus themed wedding cake for a BHLDN styled shoot that just appeared in Modern Luxury Weddings. Our four-tiered design features a rustic vanilla buttercream finish with mimosa cake layers filled with orange meringue buttercream. Dehydrated grapefruit, blood orange, lemon and orange slices embellished with gold complete the look. Photos by the amazing Alison Conklin. Scroll down to see all of the local vendors that made this magic happen!
Planner: Truly You Events
Venue: Conestoga House
Photography: Alison Conklin
Video: Visual Rose Productions
Florals: Allium Floral Design
Hair & Makeup: Bristle & Prim Salon
Models: Kiandra & Jordan Steffy
Rentals: White Glove Rentals
Paper: Papery of Philadelphia
Bridal Gown, Separates & Shoes: BHLDN
Menswear: The Black Tux
Linens: La Tavola
Gift Ideas for Father’s Day
We’ve created a special Father’s Day shop with some sweet gift ideas. From giant cookie cakes to customizable cupcake sets, we’ve got you covered!
A Cake for Starrs
We got a call from the one and only Stephen Starr last week! Mr. Starr needed a 30th birthday cake for his daughter Sarah. He wanted something dramatic, and gave us total creative freedom on the design (which we love). Here’s what we came up with!
The flavors were classic vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream icing.
Design by Zoe Lukas, baking by Jillian Magee & Abbey Biery, decor/assembly by Zoe Lukas, Jess Alber and Colleen Groh. Terrifying yet safe delivery to the Jersey Shore by Brennen and Zoe. Yes, the whole team works together on cakes like this, which is how we like to do things.
Thanks again to Stephen Starr for choosing us be a part of your celebration!
Sweet Gifts for Mother’s Day
We just opened our Mother’s Day Shop, so now’s the time to pre-order some special treats for Mom! We are featuring a stunning MOMosa cake (mimosa cake + orange meringue buttercream) as well as two beautiful cupcake sets with special flavors.
Happy Mother’s Day from our family to yours!
#1 Wedding Cake Baker in Philadelphia
This week, the team over at Wedding Rule surprised us by naming us the best wedding cake baker in Philadelphia! Here’s what they had to say:
A fixture in the Philadelphia area since 2009, Whipped Bakeshop prides itself on creating edible works of art that perfectly fit a couple’s style. With moist cakes and artful designs that will amaze your guests, Zoe’s sweet tooth and creative spirit drove her to open up her bakery in 2009. Since then, she and her talented team have made thousands of cakes for couples all over the Philadelphia area. Your dream cake will become a reality under Whipped Bakeshop’s loving hands.
Baking is hard work, so it feels amazing to get this kind of recognition. We are so proud to be a part of the Philadelphia wedding community. There are lots of other great bakeries included in the article, so go ahead and check it out!
See the Cake We Made for Jake Elliott’s Wedding
About a year ago, just before the Covid lockdowns, we made this really cool Southwest-inspired cake for Eagles kicker Jake Elliott’s wedding at the Horticultural Center. There were so many incredible details to the event, so go ahead and check out Philadelphia Magazine’s rundown with more photos by We Are The Kruks. If you read the article, you’ll find out that Elliott proposed to bride Annie Timyan in the cutest way! Wedding planning by All About Events.
Best Bakeries in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Style listed us among the 9 Best Bakeries in Philadelphia! From the article:
“Whether you are celebrating a birthday, a new job, a baby shower or a holiday, Whipped Bakeshop provides sweet treats for any occasion. Their easter cupcake collection showcases coconut cake with lemon curd and vanilla buttercream, carrot cake with ginger cream cheese icing and chocolate peanut butter cake with chocolate easter eggs on top.”
To order the Easter cupcake collection, please visit our online shop.
Whipped Bakeshop Featured in Al Día
A reporter over at Al Día recently reached out to us to learn our story and see how Whipped Bakeshop is faring during the Covid-19 pandemic. We told her that business survival has involved a lot of pivoting, but our small team is remaining strong thanks to the support our loyal customers. You can read the whole article here. Thanks to Tiffany Rivera for the lovely piece!
New Wedding Selfie Mural at Philadelphia Marriage License Bureau
There’s some good news for couples picking up their marriage license at Philadelphia City Hall. The Marriage License Bureau has a cool new selfie wedding mural. That means you can get some sweet photos to commemorate the occasion.
The mural was completed by Mural Arts Philadelphia artist Nathanial Lee. We love the montage of Philly landmarks!
If you need to grab your marriage license at City Hall, please check out our complete updated guide.
***Photo courtesy of Mural Arts and Philadelphia Register of Wills.
Last Minute Valentine’s Day Gifts
Oh no! Most of our Valentine’s Day gifts have sold out early. But there’s still hope! You can still snag something even better: Whipped Bakeshop Gift Cards. Delivered via email to your Valentine, our nifty gift cards can be used toward any online purchase through our website. You can check out our expanded selection of customizable cakes, cookies and cupcakes right here. Happy, happy heart day from everyone here at Whipped Bakeshop!
Lunar New Year Cookies for Bulgari
We recently created some unique custom cookies for Bulgari, an Italian luxury brand. Taylor Moore, Bulgari’s Senior Manager of Events & Promotions said this about the cookie project:
“I discovered Whipped Bakeshop through social media and was impressed by your creativity and delicate attention to detail within all of your delicious looking creations! We wanted to provide a sweet takeaway for clients within many of our local boutiques during the Lunar New Year holiday – and Mandarin Oranges, as a sign of good luck and good will for the new year, felt like the perfect cookie fit!”
Our team had to work around a snowstorm. Despite the weather, we were able to ship the cookies across the country to the various Bulgari boutiques. We have dealt with some tough shipping delays this year, so we were grateful when all of the cookie packages arrived safely.
Taylor reported that the “oranges” were a big hit.
It’s fun to create custom cookies for brands! We can make logo cookies or more stylized options as we did with the oranges.
If you’d like to order custom cookie gifts for your brand, please fill out our contact form.
Micro Wedding Cakes Now Available
Micro weddings with small guest counts are a major trend in 2021 as we all do our part to slow the spread of Covid-19. But going small doesn’t mean you have to give up on having an amazing wedding cake. Many of our online order cakes are now available as micro wedding cakes serving 10-30 guests. You can select one or two tiers for your cake, and choose fancy design and flavor options like metallic gold leaf or dripped ganache.
You can browse our micro wedding cake designs here.
Benefits of Micro Cakes
We adore making micro cakes because they look so compact and perfect. With the right cake stand and accessories, you can create an amazing look for your photos. We look forward to making big wedding cakes again once it’s safe, but in the meantime, relatively tiny cakes are the way to go.
Pick-up and local Philadelphia delivery options are available for weddings. Many couples are opting to pick up their micro wedding cakes themselves. It saves some money and smaller cakes are very easy to transport. Remember, the sooner you place your order, the better! We do book up for popular dates.
Setting Up a Cake Tasting
If you’d like to discuss a customized wedding cake (of any size) or if you want to taste our flavors, please start by filling out our Wedding Survey. After that, we will set up a consultation with one of our artists. We are currently conducting our cake tastings via Zoom. So, you’ll choose your desired flavors and pick up your cake samples ahead of time. This lets you and your partner taste the flavors during our call.
During our Zoom call, we will walk you through every step of the process and create the wedding cake of your dreams, even if it is smaller than you might have once imagined. To get started, just fill out our Wedding Survey above!
Cake For Bryce Harper’s Son Krew
We created this custom Incredibles cake and matching smash cake to help Kay and Bryce Harper celebrate their son Krew’s 1st birthday. It was an intimate party, but they went big with the decorations with help from Bianca Makris, Philly Marquee and photos by Kseniya Berson. Happy 1st birthday, Baby Harper!
Cakes to Celebrate Your Pet
Our decorator Mitch created this adorable custom doggo cake for a customer who wanted to celebrate the fact that they are planning to adopt a Boston Terrier later this year. Here at Whipped Bakeshop, we love making animal cakes, and we have a whole line of original kawaii cakes that we’ve created. If you’d like to celebrate your furry friend, you have come to the right place!
Cute Birthday Cake for Nugget
What are you even doing with your life if you aren’t throwing your pup a 1st birthday party? Here at Whipped Bakeshop, we can create amazing handpainted pet portrait cakes like this one we made for Nugget! Photo by @tk_travels @nuggetpuptravels
Quarantine Care Packages Are Here! 5/1 & 5/2
This week’s #QuarantineCarePackage includes our ahhhmazing giant chocolate chip cookies, salted caramel Sasquatch brownies and CakeCups in surprise flavors. Available in standard ($20) and deluxe ($40) sizes and guaranteed to lift spirits.
We’ve added delivery to limited zip codes (additional fee), or you can opt for safe contactless pickup at Whipped Bakeshop. Once we get your order, we will send you a link to select your pickup time slot. Please wear a mask and maintain proper distance when you arrive.
Pickups and deliveries will be on Friday, May 1 or Saturday May 2.
Order your #QuarantineCarePackage here.
PS: Huge thanks to everyone who ordered cupcakes for this weekend! It was so fun putting together all the orders. We loved seeing everyone in their fancy masks, even if it was through glass.
PPS: We also finished shipping out the original paint-your-own cookie sets. Brand new designs will be launching on Etsy as soon as we catch our breath.