I Tried To Say "Okay!" But it Sounded Like "Oh Cake!"

Find a trifecta of flavor with the Neapolitan cake: Chocolate cake, strawberry cream, white cake, and non-dairy cream frosting unite!

Just Call My Name (I'll Be There)
She's there for you when you celebrate your many birthdays, your white wedding, your stork-themed baby shower, and she'll be there for your little one's special days, too. Whenever there's a major milestone in your life, she's one of the first people you call. If she doesn't pull through, everything could fall apart. But you won't find her on your guest list.

She is Laurel, cake maven and owner of Oh Cake!. While Laurel's lovecrafted creations may end up at your event, she doesn't have any time to party. Instead, you'll find her at the farmers market choosing seasonal ingredients from California's bounty, or in the bakery mixing up fluffy cake batter, or in the kitchen tinting buttercream and fondant, or even at the counter molding chocolate landscapes. "There's very little time that I'm not baking cake," she says, but thankfully this cakesmith took a few minutes to hang out with FeedMe Fremont.

Cake decorator and owner Laurel of Oh Cake! brings the circus to Fremont.

The Month of Wedding Cake 
Like any little girl, Laurel loved play-time and sweets. But ever since a pastry chef instructed eight year-old Laurel in the dao of frosting, play-time became bake-time and sweets were not just things to be eaten, but an art form. When little Laurel tried saying "okay!" she inadvertently said "oh cake!" instead, and these series of fortuitous events would influence her life's path. Not long after her encounter with the baker, nine year-old Laurel found herself knee-deep in icing and gum paste roses when her aunt commissioned the youngster to prepare her wedding cake. Of this unforgettable food memory, Laurel exclaims, "I thought she was nuts!...To date it is still one of the prettiest I've ever done." Counting down to the big event, she spent weeks making intricate details like countless drop flowers for the three-tiered cake. But the night before that glorious masterpiece was to make its debut, her aunt canceled the wedding! "So the neighborhood ate cake for about a month! It's true!" Years later Laurel made a wedding cake that would be eaten at the reception this time: it was for her own wedding. Très romantique!

Riddle: What do the Royal Family of Morocco, a Bleeding Warthog, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Have in Common?
For many, a birthday is just another day unless there's crumbs of red velvet on your lap, and it is a minor sin to read your vows without ivory towers of genoise waiting in the wings. Since Oh Cake!'s own birthday in 1999, these magic mixtures of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar have been the linchpin in many a local family's milestones. Fan Cristina sought Oh Cake! for her wedding, baby shower, several years of her son's birthdays, and her niece's quinceañera for which she ordered an orange-hued nine-tiered cake to delight the many branches of her family tree.

Disney's Cars gets a cake-over.

In short, Laurel has just about seen it all and baked it all. While interning at Disney World, she created an edible animal kingdom of giraffes and zebras for the Royal Family of Morocco. Through the magic of fondant and the wild imagination of one customer, a warthog cake that squirted "blood" when cut into came to life (or death, depending on how you look at it!). For some, the old standards of devil's food and vanilla bean just aren't enough, so new flavor territories are explored. One couple's story involves the bride-to-be noshing on a tub of chocolate chip cookie dough when she first met her intended. What could be better than a chocolate chip cookie dough cake to celebrate their nuptials? At first a challenge, this special request was realized with bits of chewy cookie dough incorporated into both batter and filling. Aside from pushing the flavor envelope, Oh Cake!'s most frequent request is the Neapolitan, a trifecta of flavor: chocolate cake, strawberry cream, and white cake united in sweet harmony.

Assistant cake decorator Alissa Evans recreates the Mushroom Kingdom in cake-form.
Does this make it the Cake Kingdom?

Lovecrafted 100%
If you're looking for one of these lovecrafted cakes, you won't find it in any supermarket or store front. You'll have to tell a real person that you're jonesin' for chocolate cake layered with fudge truffle filling, chocolate Bavarian cream, and a healthy coating of Guittard chocolate ganache. Your private obsession with a certain Italian plumber will come to light when you request to have a true 3-D Mario party. For our friends that have to pick and choose their sweets carefully, you can cozy up to frosting that is low in sugar and dairy-free. As our favorite San Francisco sons like to say, any way you want it, that's the cake, you need it! At least that's how FeedMe thinks the song should go.

Store Details
Oh Cake!
Fremont, California


Phone
(510) 713-2257
(Please Call for a Personal Cake Consultation)

Hours
Tuesday-Friday, 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Saturday, 9:00 am-5:00 pm

The cake artists' palette is a kaleidoscopic array of frosting.