Shawn
Meet the Artist and Baker
HELLO! I’m Shawn, a passionate wedding cake designer sharing my art and cakes with those around me who also have an eye for specialty made things. I strive to create beautiful and delicious cakes for you and your loved ones for years to remember.
About Me and Shawn Michael’s Luxury Cakes
Since the beginning, I have always known I had a passion for food and creating specialty desserts. I love being the guests at a get together who brought the dessert people are excited for. I enjoy making someone’s special day feel just a bit sweeter knowing I was able to partake in making them a dessert they loved. It wouldn’t sit right with me if I didn’t expand my love of sharing desserts with my community hence why Shawn Michaels was created.
This led to the creation of Shawn Michael’s where the world of specialty cakes and art combine. At Shawn Michael’s we value the relationships we build with our community and continually plan on how we can enhance our experience and service we bring you. Let’s work together to create the best experience possible with the people you cherish.
From Sketch to Edible Centerpiece
Below you can follow along and see how I bring your dream cake sketch into a focal point in your event. This is my favorite moment in the process of creating your wedding cake and seeing you and your guests face light up from sketch to finish.
How It All Started
My earliest childhood memories I always knew that there was a creative side needing to be expressed. From learning what playdough was and mixing different colors to achieve a whole new hue. And coming home to draw just about anything that inspired me that day. I look back and see now how I still carried over those same expressions of being an artist as I’ve grown up. Just now it is using an edible medium called sugar paste, and sketching my clients dream cakes.
After Graduating High school there were so many career paths introduced to me, but none of them sufficed. I had no idea that it would have ever been possible to run my own bakery that was not focused on mass production. My enjoyment in making cakes is working on a smaller scale and getting closer to my clients rather than shoving easy made cakes out the door. Looking for a new job I found my luck at a local bakery and met talented bakers who had dreams and a creative passion like me. Because of this experience I was able to talk to one cake artist who propelled me into further reaching my goals. Thanks to her I never would have never discovered my potential to not only make cakes, but sugar flowers and piping.
From there on I started to research my craft and get as much practice in as possible. I knew teaching myself was the only option in this time of my life because there were absolutely zero classes in my area. This started off with free tutorials and eventually into enrolling in classes by luxury cake artist and reading books from as early as 1934. From nights of recipe testing and hours and hours of practice I have finally reached a point where I can confidently say I’m proud of my own work. And with this experience behind me I began Shawn Michael’s Luxury Cakes.
Shawn Michael’s Today and Onward
Shawn Michael’s is now creating those magical moments for our clients with our specialty cakes. We take the time and care in each order to create tailored designs and deliver them ourselves to relieve some of the stress on that big day. No one should stress about their wedding cake leave that in our hands.
Since moving to New Mexico, we have seen an immense amount of love for our craft since certain florals can be unattainable here or hard to come by. And we love that we can capture our clients wishes because of the craft we do. We hear back after the event just how much guests could not get enough of the intrinsicses of the couple’s cake that evening.
Behind the scenes we are always testing our recipes and practicing new techniques to introduce into our style. There is always room and opportunity to grow in one’s work, and we hold ourselves to the highest standard. Adapting and learning is essential in Shawn Michael’s for the passion of creativity and how we present it to our community.
The future for Shawn Michael’s is about continuously growing and improving. We plan on always working on how we can create a seamless process of ordering a cake as well as excelling in superb service. One of our foundations at Shawn Michael’s is to never stay static in our quality. We take your words of feedback very seriously and use that to give us momentum into raising our standards. So, we thank you for your feedback and honesty.
If you love our style and story, we can’t wait to hear yours to create something completely unique for you.
Until Then Sweet Regards,