I don't know what to say.

   Jennifer started as our awesomely talented Baker back in 2018. She was in before the sun wakes up, creating the most delicious cakes, probably in the world. (I mean, we sure think so!) With a passion for people, a degree in the Culinary Arts & two kiddos at home who love to bake; it is no surprise that Jennifer is always looking for the next thing she can learn. Her innate desire to learn & master new skills is enviable. She is one of the hardest workers I have ever met and she is always going out of her way to help someone else.

   It was not long before she earned the promotion to Customer Service Manager; running the front of the house, translating customer requests into decorator language & ensuring our customer experience is our number one priority, every day. 

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   Another well deserved promotion later, Jennifer is now our General Manager. She is always looking for new ways to take care of our team & our customers. She is a constant reminder to us all that kindness is powerful. 

    I feel confident saying that Sarah has the brain of a scientist (a mad scientist, but a scientist, nonetheless). This analytical perspective on cake artistry is an awesome thing to see. I have never seen someone be able to look at a complicated pattern and see it quite the way Sarah does. To understand it so well that she can easily recreate it on a cake, to the point where I am in sheer amazement. I can be starring at a cake, dumbfounded at incredible detailing she hand piped on a cake and she will respond with, “Oh no! It’s super simple! All you do is…” By the time she’s done explaining it, she’s right. It is simple. She is so comfortable pulling something apart and putting it back together that she makes you think you can do it to. And she will happily- no, not happily, eagerly, ecstatically- show you how you can do it to.

   Sarah, an award winning decorator, joined us back in 2000 and has been doing amazing cakes ever since. I love watching her puzzle together seemingly random pieces of cake to create a sculpted masterpiece. She is always looking for new techniques to master and impossible cake challenges to overcome.

   She is always working on something new; new cake flavors, isomalt techniques or cake designs, building stands or tutorials for our blog. 

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   We are all here today because in 1995 Ilene McHone had the crazy idea to start a business, with the dream of becoming the best cake shop, that specialized in innovative techniques. Against all the odds, and there are a lot of those, she succeeded. July 31th, 2019, she was able to sell Classic Cakes and retire having done something most of us only dream of. She set an unimaginable goal and achieved it.

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   While the cake is awesome, Ilene’s legacy is in her desire to care for people. I have worked with Ilene, in some capacity for the last 10 years, but long before I met her she had a tradition of caring for her employees. Cooking Thanksgiving dinner, throwing Christmas parties, giving us holidays off to be with our families and throwing pitch in lunches for everyone’s birthday. This care for people extended into her customer service too, ask any bride who met with her for a cake tasting, she was completely engaged and eager to figure out how we could help make their day just a little more special.

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   I am honored that Ilene has entrusted her business, her baby, to me. I feel I have the benefit of sharing several of her core values and vision for making Classic Cakes the best & most innovative. I’m excited to be the new leader of Classic Cakes, but Ilene McHone will always be her founder.

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This job is an opportunity to follow our dreams and create something beautiful, but we often find ourselves working late nights, holidays and every weekend. We are  incredibly grateful to our family & friends who understand this & support us.

We are forever grateful to our amazing, loyal customers who make it possible for us to do something awesome for a living and who value the work we do.

Thank you all,

 Classic Cakes Team

   For well over a decade, the staff has been hiding this ridiculous little dude around the shop to scare one another. You may pull out a chair, open a cabinet or move a box and see Philbert staring at you.   

This job is an opportunity to follow our dreams and create something beautiful, but we often find ourselves working late nights, holidays and every weekend. We are  incredibly grateful to our family & friends who understand this & support us.

We are forever grateful to our amazing, loyal customers who make it possible for us to do something awesome for a living and who value the work we do.

Thank you all,

 Classic Cakes Team