Hi, I'm Sue Field - the cake designer, baker, decorator (and well everything really to do with cakes) at Finesse Cakes in Hockley, Essex, England.
I first discovered cake decorating in 1999 when I designed and decorated my wedding cake. Since a young age I'd always loved expressing my creativity through model making and I wanted to bring something of this to my wedding. As our cake was being baked for us by my husband's grandfather, decorating it seemed the perfect opportunity for me. I'd had no previous experience in cake decorating so I completed a couple of local cake decorating courses in flower making and piping work and since then I haven't looked back.
After having 2 lovely children much of my early cake making was based around birthday cakes for them whilst undertaking commissions for friends and family where time permitted. Once the kids were older I decided to dedicate more time to my cakes. I launched Finesse Cakes in April 2009 after being award a 5 Star Food Hygiene Rating from Rochford District Council. In 2010 I was shortlisted for Celebration Cake Maker of The Year with the national Baking Industry Awards and I have since gone on to win awards for both my wedding and celebration cakes, including Essex Wedding Awards - Wedding Cake Designer 2012, Highly Commended Cake Maker - East of England 2017 in the Wedding Industry Awards, and Large Celebration Cake Maker - East of England in the Cake Professional Awards 2020. Many of my wedding cakes have featured in National Press and I was also featured in the Evening Echo. I am the recommended wedding cake supplier for a number of venues including The Lawn in Rochford (where I celebrated my wedding), Apton Hall in Rochford and The Rayleigh Club.
I have made literally hundreds of cakes for my lovely clients and it means the world to me that so many of them regularly return to order more cakes to celebrate special occasions in their lives. It is a real pleasure and honour to make cakes for others and to continue to have the opportunity to play my part in so many special celebrations.