Fondant Studio — Est. 2018
Commissions for those
who understand
cake is architecture.
340+
Commissions delivered
6
Countries served
12
Michelin-starred venues
100%
Bespoke — no two alike
Commission 01 — Wedding
A Cathedral in the Dark
Commission 01
The Brief
"A 400-guest wedding in a converted Victorian cathedral with no refrigeration access and a 38°C forecast for the reception weekend."
The couple had chosen Southwark Cathedral for its architecture — vaulted ceilings, candlelight, stone floors that held the cold. But the venue's catering infrastructure was medieval in the most literal sense. No refrigeration, ambient temperatures that would ruin traditional buttercream within two hours. We had three months to engineer a solution that looked like it had never considered the problem.
Design Sketches
Initial concept explored heat-stable ganache as structural base. Final design used a proprietary fondant formula developed over eight test batches to withstand 38°C for six hours without surface cracking.
The Reveal
Six tiers of stabilised fondant. Zero refrigeration. One hundred and twelve hand-pressed sugar roses. The guests stopped talking when it arrived.
Commission 02 — Hospitality
The Langham Residency
Commission 02
The Brief
"A 12-month rotating dessert installation for The Langham London's afternoon tea service — a new centerpiece each quarter, each one a conversation piece for guests who've seen everything."
The Langham's F&B director needed something that would photograph well enough to anchor their social channels without looking designed for social. Each quarterly piece had to reference the season without cliché, hold up under the particular cruelty of afternoon light through Georgian windows, and be reproducible by our studio to exact specification across four separate deliveries.
Design Sketches
Quarterly design briefs submitted eight weeks before delivery. Colour palette derived from seasonal Pantone references. Each piece documented with full production spec for exact replication if required.
The Reveal
Autumn quarter: amber fondant, hand-painted sycamore veining, 24-carat edible gold at every edge. The afternoon tea waiting list grew by 340% in the first week.
Ready to Begin
Every commission starts
with a single conversation.
We take on a limited number of commissions each year. If you have an event that requires something that has never existed before, we'd like to hear about it.
Commission 03 — Brand Activation
A Sculpture for Opening Night
Commission 03
The Brief
"Commission a centrepiece sculpture for the global launch of a luxury fragrance house — edible, photographable from every angle, and structurally capable of surviving a four-hour standing reception with 600 guests and television crews."
The brand's creative director had a single reference: a Brancusi sculpture. Clean, monolithic, something that belonged in a gallery. The brief was to make that in sugar, at 1.2 metres tall, stable enough for a television broadcast environment, and beautiful enough that the room's photographers would choose it over the product itself. We had six weeks.
Design Sketches
Internal armature designed by a structural engineer in consultation with our studio. Load calculations performed for a 1.2m vertical form in isomalt-composite material. Surface finish: matte micro-textured fondant in three custom-mixed whites.
The Reveal
One point two metres of stabilised sugar. Six weeks of engineering. Four hours of broadcast. Every camera in the room found it eventually.
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Commission tiers from intimate to installation-scale
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