HOW WE MEASURE UP
Free Consultation – with the added bonus of a takeaway sample box of pure yum!
Stress-Free – working with us is the opposite of formal, even when we’re making a formal cake
Tailored to your tastebuds – choose from traditional cake flavours or something a little different… battenberg anyone?
Perfect match – we’ll work closely with you to design a cake that complements the style of your wedding
The Finest ingredients – we use only the best ingredients; organic where possible, free range and fairtrade
Fabulous flowers – with a background in floristry, you’ll get superior style when it comes to getting floral on your cake!
THE TEAM
Sticky Fingers Cake Co. is made up of Lou and Rob Marks. Lou is the wedding cake designer and face of the company and does all the baking and the gorgeous pretty things that make people go wow! Rob is chief taste tester and goes around telling people how wonderful our cakes are
About Lou
Hi, my name is Lou Marks, and I love to bake!
My first tentative steps into the world of baking were as a 9 year old. I was given a children’s cookery book for my birthday and in that book was a recipe for shortbread; I made it and entered it into a competition at our local school fete. It didn’t come anywhere but that didn’t matter, I loved it!
I had a difficult decision to make at school because I wanted to take both Art and Domestic Science but wasn’t allowed; Art won the day. I was pretty upset but still continued to bake at home, little did I know that taking Art would stand me in good stead later on…
Leaving school I trained as a Florist and continued with that career until I decided enough was enough, let me do something that I’ve always really loved doing – Baking! I mean, what a great job, making and decorating cakes!
So here I am after 20 years of playing with flowers; I’m a wedding cake designer, I’m doing what I truly love to do and I really hope it shows through all the cakes I make…
About Lou
Hi, my name is Lou Marks, and I love to bake!
My first tentative steps into the world of baking were as a 9 year old. I was given a children’s cookery book for my birthday and in that book was a recipe for shortbread; I made it and entered it into a competition at our local school fete. It didn’t come anywhere but that didn’t matter, I loved it!
I had a difficult decision to make at school because I wanted to take both Art and Domestic Science but wasn’t allowed; Art won the day. I was pretty upset but still continued to bake at home, little did I know that taking Art would stand me in good stead later on…
Leaving school I trained as a Florist and continued with that career until I decided enough was enough, let me do something that I’ve always really loved doing – Baking! I mean, what a great job, making and decorating cakes!
So here I am after 20 years of playing with flowers; I’m a wedding cake designer, I’m doing what I truly love to do and I really hope it shows through all the cakes I make…
OUR WEDDING CAKE PROCESS
Congratulations you’re getting married!
Whether you’re having a small, intimate wedding for 20 of your closest family and friends or a lavish affair with 200+ guests, we can make you a unique wedding cake that will perfectly complement and interpret the style of your wedding…
..but we don’t just want to make you a really lovely cake, we want it to be a really lovely experience for you – from our first conversation right through to cutting the cake on your wedding day
So with that in mind we offer a free consultation at Sticky Fingers Cake Co HQ in Westcliff, (no strings attached!), where we can go through any thoughts you may have, flick through our portfolio, and generally get some really good ideas down on paper. Plus, you get to take away with you a box of scrummy cake samples – what could be better?
We’ll then come up with a formal quote which we’ll email to you and if you’re both happy and would like to proceed, a booking fee of £100 is payable to hold your date. The remaining balance being due a month before your wedding day.
Although we love to design our own cakes, if you’ve seen a cake in a magazine that you’d like, we can make a similar design but will tweak it so that it’s still individual to you, so please feel free to bring along any pictures with you for inspiration.
12 to 18 months is an ideal lead-time for booking your wedding cake (the more time the better, especially if your wedding is in peak season), but please contact us if you’re pushed for time and we’ll help you out if we can! The price quoted will be inclusive of delivery and set-up at your venue. We will liaise with your venue regarding the set up, close to your wedding day and with your chosen florist if they are providing flowers for your cake.
For your peace of mind we have been awarded a 5* rating from Southend-on-Sea Council’s food hygiene department, have passed the Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate with top marks and have full liability insurance.
The Process
Congratulations you’re getting married!
Whether you’re having a small, intimate wedding for 20 of your closest family and friends or a lavish affair with 200+ guests, we can make you a unique wedding cake that will perfectly complement and interpret the style of your wedding…
..but I don’t just want to make you a really lovely cake, I want it to be a really lovely experience for you – from our first conversation right through to cutting the cake on your wedding day
So with that in mind we offer a free consultation, (no strings attached!), where you and your other half can sample some cake flavours, go through thoughts you may have, flick through our portfolio and generally get some really good ideas down on paper.
And we’ll even come to you if you’re local…. or of course you can visit us at Sticky Fingers Cake Co HQ in Westcliff (where tea and coffee will be provided too!)
We’ll then come up with two or three designs and prices and if you’re both happy and would like to proceed, we can take it from there. Although we love to design our own cakes, if you’ve seen a cake in a magazine that you’d like, we can make a similar design but will tweak it so that it’s still individual to you, so please feel free to bring along any pictures with you for inspiration.
9-12 months is an ideal lead-time for booking your wedding cake (the more time the better, especially if your wedding is in peak season), but please contact us if you’re pushed for time and we’ll help you out if we can! The price quoted will be inclusive of delivery and set-up at your chosen venue, although you can of course pick the cake up from us instead if you wish.
For your peace of mind we have been awarded a 5* rating from Southend-on-Sea Council’s food hygiene department, have passed the Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate with top marks and have full liability insurance.
WHY OUR CUSTOMERS LOVE US
Thank you so much for creating our dream wedding cake! It was absolutely beautiful and so delicious! X
“Dear Lou, I just wanted to thank you so much for creating and delivering our beautiful and extremely delicious wedding cake on 30th June – you contributed to making our day so perfect.
With love and best wishes for the future,
Faye & Mike Xx”
“Dear Lou
Thank you for the most amazing tasty cake! We loved it and thank you for creating the perfect design for us!
Paul & Andrea
Xxx”
” Lou is an absolutely amazing lady who made our beautiful semi naked, 4 tier wedding cake. It had a different cake flavour for each layer, my favourite was the lemon cake which tasted gorgeous! Our wedding guests all commented on how beautifully decorated the cake was and enjoyed eating it! Lou made this part of our wedding easy as she was friendly, helpful and put our mind at ease, would highly recommend! X”
“Lou was an absolute dream to work with, she got what we wanted straight away, gave us so many lovely flavours to choose from and helped advise on what would suit our cake in terms of density and tiers. The communications were great throughout the process and the final cake was simply stunning! Everyone made short work of it when served as our evening dessert.
Now all we need is a good excuse for another cake!
Thank you Lou, you’re a star xxx”
“I cannot recommend this company & Lou highly enough ! Lou made our 3 tier naked cake with gold glitter berries for our wedding 22/10/2016 and it was absolutely perfect. From the first email I sent, Lou was so helpful and even posted us some samples when we weren’t around to meet up! All of the cakes were so tasty it was so hard to just choose 3 flavours ! The whole experience was totally stress free and Lou travelled to our venue to set the cake up (beautifully) on the morning of our wedding !
One of my bridesmaids has already booked Sticky Fingers in for her wedding in 2018 as she was so impressed and I will be recommending to anyone that needs a wedding cake !”
“From the moment I met Lou I knew I’d found the perfect wedding supplier!!
She came up with 3 beautiful designs and modified a cake flavour for us and then when I fell in love with a new design, she changed it for me!!
I recommend her to everyone, she truly is my favourite wedding supplier”
“We wanted to say a huge thank you for all your help and for the beautifully elegant wedding cake, cupcakes and cakepops that you made for us- we’ve had lots of comments on how tasty they all were, and everyone loved the bride a groom cakepops!
The whole process was professional, friendly and really put us at ease, we were so glad we chose you.
We’ve attached a few pictures of the beautiful cakes you provided!
Thanks again!”
“Thank you so much Lou, our cake was so beautiful!!!”
“We had a 3 tier naked wedding cake and it looked absolutely amazing. The cake was delivered to our venue and dressed onsite and tasted better than we could’ve imagined.
If you are looking for a wedding cake do not look any further.
Thanks again Lou for our wonderful cake.”
“Thank you so much for our beautiful wedding cake, it was perfect!!
We had loads of comments of how wonderful the cake looked and how good it tasted. Xxx”
“Hi Lou,
The wedding cake was stunning! Exactly how i imagined it would be! It was the best cake ever!! …
We are keeping the top layer for first anniversary so its been put in the freezer.
Everyone said how yummy it was we are already trying to think of an excuse to
get you to make us another cake lol. Love Chantelle and Alex x”
“Lou,
Thank you so much for baking such a beautiful and delicious wedding cake. All 4 tiers were really tasty and not one of our 110 guests was disappointed. The gluten free cupcakes went down well too”
“Lou we LOVED the cake sooooo much thanku it was better than perfect also tastes amazing! Thanks again xx
Lou made our wedding cake after we were let down by another supplier with only two weeks’ notice. She very quickly understood what we were looking for. The cake was gorgeous and tasted amazing! Excellent choice of flavours as well. Highly recommend Sticky Fingers Cake Co.
“Our wedding cake was absolutely perfect all thanks to Lou. She is friendly, down to earth yet professional too. She listened to what we wanted and advised accordingly. Her cake tasting session was great for us to decide what flavours we wanted. The cake looked so gorgeous on the day, tasted perfect and all of it got eaten! (I was eating my slices at midnight!). If I ever need another cake made then I will be going back to Lou at Sticky Fingers Cake Co. that’s for sure! Thank you so much Lou”
“Went to see Lou for a cake tasting and knew straight away we wanted her to make our cake, she is such a lovely lady, really cares about what you want and was so helpful on the lead up to our wedding. Our cake was absolutely beautiful and tasted amazing. I can’t recommend Lou enough, thank you for everything xx”
“You made the wedding cake for my daughter Hannah and her husband Luke for their wedding at The Lawn on Thursday.
The cake was stunning and the different layers were delicious. Great job. Thank you very much”
“We just wanted to say a massive thank you for making the most amazing cake, it looked and tasted absolutely incredible! We had so many guests comment on how excellent it was and we have been eating it for days. Highly recommended! Thanks again,
Chris & Charlotte”
“Thank you to Lou for baking our amazing naked sponge Wedding Cake (cherry bake-well & vanilla) tastes & looked fantastic, everyone said how yummy the cake was at our Wedding. Very happy Bride & Groom. Vicky & Dan xx”
“We’d like to say a huge thank you to Lou for making our gorgeous wedding cake. Everyone we spoke to thought the cake was stunning and delicious. All 3 layers suited us perfectly and the color matched our theme perfectly. We’re so happy we found Lou and couldn’t have asked for a better cake”
“I can’t recommend Sticky Fingers Cake Company enough.
Due to circumstances out of the control of everyone involved we were without a cake 24 days before our wedding. One email to Lou and she had agreed to make our cake and match our previous order. Due to the time restrictions we couldn’t make a tasting in person but Lou sent cake samples via recorded delivery to allow us to make our choices. We changed the order anyway as she offered more flavours.
Our cake was delicious!! It looked amazing and we had loads of comments on how incredible it tasted too!
Thank you so much!!“
” Our cake for our wedding day on Thursday was absolutely stunning everything about it was amazing especially the taste thank you so very much, our guests and ourselves loved it !! Xx”
“Beautiful looking cake and incredible taste too! Thanks Lou, you’re the best x”
“Cake was fab! Everyone enjoyed it! Flavours were fantastic, we couldn’t have wished for any better. Thank u soo much xxx”
“Thank you soooo much once again for the fabulous cake – it was truly beautiful and the two flavours were delicious! I particularly liked that the icing was perfect to look at and yet soft to eat…”
“The Red Velvet cake was particularly nice”
“Where do I start?! From the very beginning of our wedding cake planning, Lou had been there listening to my ideas. She welcomed us into her home (baby and mother in tow) and let us taste some of her gorgeous cakes! Lou listened to everything I asked for in our wedding cake and made suggestions which helped! Lou, you made this so easy for us and the final product was incredible.
From somebody who isn’t a huge cake fan, you have certainly won me over. Our favourite tiers were definitely the strawberry and champagne and the chocolate and Nutella. And that Swiss meringue buttercream! Absolutely beautiful.
Lou, you’re incredible and there aren’t enough words to explain how grateful we are! Thank you xxx”
“Lou was a pleasure to meet and a delight to work with. Her cakes are delicious, she is highly professional, thoughtful and full of great ideas. We highly recommend her. Our wedding cake looked and tasted incredible and we got loads of compliments. She even supplied us with a special gluten & lactose free cupcake we needed for a guest.
Thanks Sticky Fingers!
Best wishes Joe & Jeff Brown x”
“We absolutely loved our wedding cake! Thank you so much Lou – not only was the cake stunning on the outside and beautifully crafted and finished, it was completely delicious. Our guests were raving about it all!
To top it all off, you were a dream to work with – totally professional whilst being warm and supportive throughout the whole process. We couldn’t recommend you enough!!!
Thanks again x”
“Hi Lou, We just wanted to say a huge thank you for our wedding cake! It was absolutely stunning, everyone was commenting on it and it tasted delicious!!! Steve and I make sure we had two slides of each tier boxed and put in our room so we got to taste each flavour. Lucky we did because the strawberry and champagne disappeared like lightening! We were also asked to pass on thanks and compliments for your vegan cupcakes. Apparently they are the best vegan cakes that they had ever tasted. Again a huge huge thank you, our cake was the perfect centrepiece in our reception room
Kindest regards
Stacey and Steve xx
“Dear Lou,
Thank you so much for baking and creating our wedding cake! It was absolutely fantastic! Your flavours are to die for and we still very much talk about your salted caramel cake! Thank you for making the cake look so beautiful with your artistic flower arranging skills, we had so many comments from our guests saying the cake looked and tasted stunning!
Good luck at The Wedding Industry Awards – you get our vote 100 times over! We hope to have the opportunity to work with you again in the future.
With thanks & best wishes,
Lauren & Chris Leonard x”
“Sticky Fingers Cake Co made our 4 tier naked wedding cake and vanilla bride and groom cookie favours for our guests for our wedding on 22nd June, and they were delicious!! Everyone said how beautiful the cake was and my new hubby was very happy as even though a lot of the cake was eaten he still got to have some of his favourite salted caramel flavour! Would highly recommend Lou she has been brilliant throughout the process emails back almost instantly and was there for any questions or concerns! Lovely lady and stunning cakes! Thank you so much x”
“Huge thankyou and 5* recommendation to Lou and her company! From tasting sessions to the actual wedding cake on the day. It was all faultless. It was everything I wanted and more. I’ve never known a wedding cake to be eaten so quickly! Thank you for making my ideas a reality.”
“Lou was great from initial tasting (yum!) to delivery on our wedding day. Our ‘Naked Cake’ turned out perfectly – we went for a 4-tier cake made from Lemon, Chocolate and Vanilla decorated with berries and figs. It suited our venue perfectly and our guests loved it as much as we did!”
“Tasted as good as it looked. So light, moist and full of flavour. Thank you Lou, was so much more than I expected”
“Dear Lou,…THANK-YOU SO MUCH for the cake you made for our wedding on Saturday.
I couldn’t believe how amazing it looked when I saw it – the sugar flowers were absolutely beautiful and the cake tasted sublime!
Thank-you so much, it has been a real pleasure to have you as our cake supplier.”
“..thank you so much for the beautiful cake – it was stunning and everyone commented on how good it was and how great it tasted.
Thank you for contributing to what was a fantastic day and making our wedding such a success (and cake ordering easy)”
“Ordered miniature wedding cakes to give as gifts at our wedding – nothing was too much trouble and they all looked gorgeous!
Thanks Lou! X”
“Dear Lou
I just wanted to say a quick thank you for the cake. It looked amazing and tasted even better!
I will send you along a photo for your use once we return from honeymoon.
Thanks again!”
“I am writing to thank you both for the offer of and the making and delivering of the cake for our Golden Wedding. Everyone who had a portion was impressed and thought the cake itself was beautiful, the lady who was operating the bar for us that evening was duly presented with the flowers from the top and thought that the idea of fresh flowers was lovely.
I hope that your business goes from strength to strength and success to success”
“Hi Lou
Just a quick email to say thank you for out stunning delicious cake, everyone loved it!
Also can I ask what’s the best way of storing the top tier?
Thank you so much again, just superb! X”