Elliegantly Made - award winning cake designer - East Yorkshire

Elliegantly Made - award winning cake designer - East Yorkshire It started Easter 2012 when my mum passed on a cake decorating magazine. Elliegantly Made was born and the rest, as they say is history.

Multi award-winning cake designer, Hedon, East Yorkshire 🎂
Wedding cakes, celebration cakes & bespoke corporate bakes
Known for exceptional service and a personal approach
Message to enquire 💜 I've always been interested in baking & after trying recipes and techniques from the magazine I soon realised that I had a flair. Please feel free to like and share my page and message me for details.

🚢 HOMEWARD BOUND… 💜I’m enjoying my last day at sea today after the most amazing week with Tammy & Gayle celebrating Tamm...
02/10/2026

🚢 HOMEWARD BOUND… 💜

I’m enjoying my last day at sea today after the most amazing week with Tammy & Gayle celebrating Tammy’s 50th birthday. 🥂🎂

Lots of laughs, LOTS of cocktails, new places, fabulous food and some very special memories made along the way. 🥰

But do we ever REALLY switch off completely when we run our own businesses? 🤔😂

I’ve definitely tried, and for the most part I think I’ve done pretty well! But with a VERY busy week waiting for us at EMHQ, including some rather large corporate orders and wedding cakes, there may have been a few sneaky orders placed from the middle of the ocean to make sure everything we need is waiting for us. 🙄😂🎂

The inbox is also looking rather busy! 😬

If you’re waiting for a reply from me, thank you for your patience. I haven’t forgotten you, I promise. I’ll be working my way through everything as soon as I’m back at EMHQ.

For today though, I’m going to enjoy this view and squeeze every last drop out of what has been a fabulous week with two gorgeous friends. 💜

Then it’s back to reality… and CAKE! 😂🎂

Much love,
Ellie 🎂💜🌈

By the time this post goes live, I should hopefully have a cocktail in my hand, standing on the deck of a cruise ship at...
26/09/2026

By the time this post goes live, I should hopefully have a cocktail in my hand, standing on the deck of a cruise ship at our sail away party with my best friend of 25+ years, celebrating her 50th birthday. 🥹🥂

So just a little heads up that replies from Elliegantly Made might be a little slower than usual over the next week… because The Cake Lady has officially left the building. 😂🎂👋🏼

Tammy and I have done LOTS of holidays together over the years. We’ve travelled with Ray, our mums, our families and made so many fabulous memories along the way.

But amazingly, this is the first time the two of us have actually been let loose on our own (for any amount of time) since our very first holiday together, 25 years ago in Ayia Napa.

And judging by the photographic evidence from that particular holiday… I’m not entirely sure letting us loose again is a sensible idea. 🤣🤣… What could possibly go wrong?! 🙄😂🍹

Running Elliegantly Made means the absolute world to me. I love my business, I love what we’ve built and, after 11 years, I genuinely still love what I do.

But life can’t always be about the next cake, the next email, the next wedding or the never-ending admin. 🥴😂

Sometimes you have to slow down, switch off and spend precious time with the people you love.

So for the next week, I’m going to do exactly that.

The cakes can wait.

Let the 50th celebration continue Tammy. Now let’s see if we can behave ourselves a little better than we did in Ayia Napa…

Absolutely no promises. 🤣🍹🚢☀️

Much love,
Ellie 🎂💜🌈

Earlier this week I dropped some Elliegantly Made cupcakes off for the lovely Kate for her HMJ event at The Wheatsheaf, ...
26/09/2026

Earlier this week I dropped some Elliegantly Made cupcakes off for the lovely Kate for her HMJ event at The Wheatsheaf, and of course it would have been rude not to stay and join in the fun! 😂🥂

I’ve known Kate for a few years now after we first worked together on a wedding shoot, and what an absolutely gorgeous human she is. 🥰

Always smiling, always encouraging and always happy to lend an ear when you need one. She’s one of those people I’m blessed that running a business brought into my life. 💜

And apparently, just in case there was ANYONE left who didn’t already know me as The Cake Lady… Kate has now made it official. 🙄🤣🎂

LOOK AT MY BAG!! 😂

I absolutely LOVE it.

Naturally, I couldn’t go to an HMJ event without doing a little shopping either. I bought a gorgeous bracelet to match my mum’s necklace and the earrings I’d previously commissioned Kate to make, so I now have the full set. 🥹

AND I even had a sneaky win on the Glambola! 🙌🏼😂

Throw in a couple of glasses of w**e and the fabulous company of Michelle Bowler from The Business Culture HEY and I’d say that was a pretty successful evening. 🥂

It’s funny where running a business takes you. Sometimes you meet someone through “work” and somewhere along the way they become one of those lovely people you genuinely look forward to seeing.

Thank you Kate for a fabulous evening, for my fabulous bag and, most importantly, for just being you. 💜

Although I think we can safely say my transformation into simply “The Cake Lady” is now complete.

There’s no going back, is there?! 😉🤣🎂

Much love,
Ellie 🎂💜🌈

18/09/2026

🖤 COME AND DELIVER A WEDDING CAKE WITH US… TO THORNBURY! 🚙

Yesterday’s wedding delivery was just a LITTLE further than our usual East Yorkshire weddings… 😂

We headed all the way down to Thornbury in Gloucestershire for the wedding of the gorgeous Julie & Wayne… nearly 180 miles away! 🥂🖤

And this cake had quite a story behind it…

Julie actually wasn’t going to have a wedding cake at all, until someone pointed her in the direction of our website. She spotted one of our black wedding cakes, fell in love with it and, well… suddenly there WAS going to be a wedding cake. 😂🖤

From there, we designed something completely bespoke for them.

Julie wore the most beautiful black lace wedding dress, so we brought elements of that into the cake with black lace detailing. The gorgeous deep red roses complemented her bouquet and the buttonholes, along with those fabulous pineapple leaves. 🌹🖤

But possibly my favourite detail was right at the bottom…

After 19 years together, Wayne proposed to Julie in front of the pyramids in Egypt, so we just had to recreate them in bas relief around the bottom tier… a little piece of their story, quite literally built into their wedding cake. 🥹💜

THIS is why I love creating bespoke wedding cakes. It’s those little details that actually mean something to the couple that make them truly theirs.

Once the cake was safely delivered and set up, Julie & Wayne had very kindly invited us to stay and join them for some of their wedding too. So the cake kit was put away and we took a little time out to enjoy their celebration. 🥂

Then it was back on the road to East Yorkshire, finally rolling into EMHQ just before midnight last night. A 360ish mile round trip meant we didn’t take much rocking to get to sleep! 🥴😂

Congratulations Julie & Wayne. Thank you for finding us, trusting us to create something so personal for your big day and for inviting us to share a little of it with you. It really was an absolute pleasure. 🖤🥂

So… East Yorkshire based, but apparently we’re delivering wedding cakes nearly 180 miles away now.

Can we call Elliegantly Made NATIONAL yet?! 🤔🤣🎂

🎂💜🌈

Last week we had the absolute pleasure of helping House of Light celebrate their first anniversary in their new premises...
16/09/2026

Last week we had the absolute pleasure of helping House of Light celebrate their first anniversary in their new premises. 🥂🧁

House of Light itself has actually been running for an incredible 19 years, supporting parents and families experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties here in Hull and East Yorkshire. 💙

We supplied cupcakes for the celebrations and, judging by what was left when I popped back the following morning to collect our stand… I think they went down rather well. 😉

But actually, one of my favourite parts came the morning after.

I got chatting to CEO Sarah Straker about the incredible work House of Light does, the people they support and her hopes for the future of the organisation.

It was an absolute joy to listen to someone speak with so much passion about something that clearly means so much. You can tell this isn’t simply a job. Sarah genuinely cares about the families House of Light supports and is incredibly proud of what they have created over the last 19 years. 💙

And naturally, what started as “I’ll just pop in and collect the cupcake stand” ended with us rolling our sleeves up and helping dismantle the gazebos after the celebrations🤣

Because apparently we now offer cakes, cupcakes AND gazebo removal services at Elliegantly Made . Who knew?! 😂

Huge congratulations to Sarah and the whole House of Light team on your first year in your new home. Thank you for letting us play a tiny part in the celebrations, and more importantly, thank you for the incredible work you continue to do for families in our area. 🥰

Here’s to many more years of House of Light Hull☀️💙

🍂 WEDDING FAYRE SEASON IS BACK! 🎂💍Yesterday saw us kick off our autumn wedding fayre season at the gorgeous Oaklands, wi...
14/09/2026

🍂 WEDDING FAYRE SEASON IS BACK! 🎂💍

Yesterday saw us kick off our autumn wedding fayre season at the gorgeous Oaklands, with Loved Up North, and what a lovely day we had! 🥰

We always adore going back to Oaklands and yesterday was no exception. We had such a busy day chatting to some gorgeous couples, hearing all about their plans and, of course, talking LOTS about cake. 🎂😂

We also got to show off our brand new pop-up banners for the first time, designed by the fabulous John at John Redhead Creative, and we absolutely LOVE them! 😍

And then there was the new BLACK wedding cake… 🖤

Black cakes are definitely having a moment and I’ve been itching to add one to our display collection. If you saw it yesterday, what did you think I’d love to know? 👀🖤

And a HUGE thank you for all the love since yesterday too! My phone has barely stopped pinging with new likes and follows. 🥹💜 If you’re new here after meeting us at Oaklands, hello and welcome! 👋🏼😊

If you missed us yesterday, we’re back out again THIS SUNDAY at Mercure Grange Park from 11am until 2pm.

So if you’re in the throes of planning your big day, come and say hello, have a chat about cake and see some of our designs in the flesh. We’d love to meet you. 💜

And to everyone who stopped to chat with us yesterday, thank you! What a fabulous start to the autumn season. 🥰

Much love,
Ellie (& Ray) 🎂💜🌈

👋 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE CAKE LADY… 😂🎂Whenever I’m at a function, networking event or meet someone new, at ...
10/09/2026

👋 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE CAKE LADY… 😂🎂

Whenever I’m at a function, networking event or meet someone new, at some point I’ll hear…

“Ahhh, so YOU’RE the cake lady!”

Apparently, after 11 years of Elliegantly Made, I no longer have an actual identity. I am simply… The Cake Lady. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

And to be fair, there are LOTS of cakes on this page, but maybe not quite as much about the slightly bonkers woman behind them.

So I thought I’d share a few things you may, or may not, know about me…

🎤 Before I became The Cake Lady, I was actually a professional singer! Yep, long before the KitchenAid and sugar flowers, there was a microphone. 🎤😂

🎂 After 11 years I genuinely still LOVE making cakes. Sugar flowers really are my happy place, but I also love the challenge of carved cakes. There’s something ridiculously satisfying about looking at something and thinking, “Can I make that out of cake?” Dachshunds, 8-seater taxis, tigers, factory buildings, HX60s (IFKYK), eagles… to name but a few! 😂

🍹 My cocktail of choice is a Mai Tai. ALWAYS. If it’s on the menu, I’m ordering it. 😂

🚢 I absolutely LOVE cruising and I’m disappearing off on another one very soon with my best friend of 25+years to celebrate her 50th birthday…☀️

💻 I use AI far more than I ever imagined I would. From helping with the day-to-day running of EM to getting some of the bonkers cake ideas in my head into something I can actually see. Who knew?! 😉🤖

🤬 There is considerably more swearing involved in creating beautiful cakes than the finished photographs would ever lead you to believe. FACT. 🤣

🏊‍♀️ I LOVE swimming and, random fact, in my younger days I actually swam competitively for Humberside! These days finding the time to actually get in the pool is the biggest challenge. 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

And finally, the reason for tonight’s very non-cakey photo…

🏃🏼‍♀️ I LOVE running too. I’ve run the London Marathon twice(2015/2019), but my first ever marathon was Edinburgh on Father’s Day in 2014. I’d lost 5 stone and ran it in memory of my Dad, raising money for the British Heart Foundation with umpteen 10k’s & half marathons too. ❤️

Running has always given me the most amazing headspace, but somewhere along the way life got in the way and I stopped.

I’m very much starting again from the beginning, and I know it’s going to take time, but I’m getting my trainers back on and got out there. Here’s a photo of me and my gorgeous boy on my first run in over 2 years.

So there you go… apparently there IS a whole person hiding behind “The Cake Lady”. 😂🎂

How many of those did you already know? And is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask me? 👀😂

Much love,
Ellie 🎂💜🌈

I’ll admit it… AI used to scare me a little… (just ask Deb Millar 🥴😂)Fast forward to now and I’m using it more and more ...
07/09/2026

I’ll admit it… AI used to scare me a little… (just ask Deb Millar 🥴😂)

Fast forward to now and I’m using it more and more within Elliegantly Made. Not to replace what we do, but as another tool to help with everything from the day-to-day running of EM to bringing the slightly bonkers cake ideas floating around in my head to life. 😂

And increasingly, our couples are using it too.

Coral & Tom, who married at the gorgeous Whitehall Estate Tearoom Whitehall Estate last week, came to us with an AI-generated image as inspiration for their wedding cake.

But, as so often happens at our consultations, the design evolved. 🥰

They decided they wanted ivory rather than white and an additional tier adding, so we adapted the proportions and moved their C & T monogram onto the top tier. We added tiny fondant butterflies to the middle tier and recreated all those beautiful ornate details using a combination of moulded elements, beading moulds and individually hand-piped pearls.

Then came the bottom tier… 😍

Those delicate wildflowers were all hand piped, adding just the tiniest touches of colour against the ivory.

Can we recreate an AI-generated cake exactly? No, and we would never promise to. Just as with any inspiration image, what we create will always be our own interpretation, adapted to work as an actual cake and to suit the couple it is being made for.

But can AI help turn an idea into something we can see, discuss, change and eventually turn into cake?

Absolutely. And I think this one is a pretty fabulous example.

AI… to consultation… to me getting my hands on it… to REAL CAKE. 😉

And I have to say… I think reality did rather well, what do you think?

Congratulations Coral & Tom. I absolutely adored bringing this one to life for you. 🎂💜🌈

🎂 11 YEARS OF ELLIEGANTLY MADE! 🎂From my dream starting in 2012 to that first paid commission in 2015… 11 years ago toda...
01/09/2026

🎂 11 YEARS OF ELLIEGANTLY MADE! 🎂

From my dream starting in 2012 to that first paid commission in 2015… 11 years ago today, Elliegantly Made officially became a thing.

Do you remember our original logo?! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Looking back at our very first wedding cake brings back so many memories. I absolutely adored creating that cake, every tiny handmade flower (yes flowers took an age even 11 years ago 😂), I was SO proud of it. I still am, because it was part of the beginning of everything that Elliegantly Made has become.

Fast forward 11 years and quite a lot has changed. The cakes have evolved, the logo has DEFINITELY evolved, and this little business has grown beyond anything I could have imagined back then.

There have been thousands of cakes, countless cupcakes and cookies, hundreds of weddings, some completely bonkers corporate creations, awards, ridiculously late nights, early morning deliveries, a few tears, a LOT of swearing 😂 and some incredible memories along the way.

But the important bit hasn’t changed.

I’ve always wanted to create cakes that don’t just look incredible, but taste incredible too, and to genuinely care about every celebration we’re trusted to be part of. 💜

So today I’m feeling incredibly grateful.

To every customer, friend and supporter who has trusted us, recommended us, shared a post, left a review or simply cheered us on, thank you. You are the reason we’re still here 11 years later.

Happy 11th birthday Elliegantly Made! 🥂🎂

Here’s to the next chapter… because we’re definitely not finished yet. 🥰💜

Well… the out of office is officially ON! 🥳It’s Bank Holiday weekend, it’s family time and, as if I needed another excus...
29/08/2026

Well… the out of office is officially ON! 🥳

It’s Bank Holiday weekend, it’s family time and, as if I needed another excuse to put the cake tools down for a few days, it’s my birthday today! 🎂🥂🎉

After what has been a slightly bonkers few weeks at EMHQ, I’m ridiculously excited to have a FULL Bank Holiday weekend off and spend it with some of my very favourite people. 💜

Benji is safely back from his Vietnam adventure, Ray and I aren’t delivering a wedding cake anywhere, and there isn’t a Cake Safe in sight! 😂

Instead, there will be family, friends, birthday celebrations, probably a few glasses of something fizzy… and apparently a BBQ in the rain. ☔️🍔😂

You honestly couldn’t write it after all the gorgeous weather we’ve been having!

So EMHQ is officially closed for the weekend. Messages and enquiries are very welcome, but I’ll be picking them back up after the Bank Holiday while I make the most of a very rare few days away from cakes. 🥰

Whatever you’re doing this Bank Holiday weekend, I hope you get to spend a little time with some of your favourite people too.

Now… where’s that fizz? 🥂😂

Much love

Ellie 🎂💜🌈

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