A Cake Story

A Cake Story is a cake artist's studio rather than a bakery counter. It is based in Zurich and specializes in "statement wedding cakes for exclusive weddings", plus styled shoots, workshops and destination weddings worldwide. The medium is sugar-paste, and the owner sculpts movement and expression from it, drawing on nature, fashion, sculpture, pottery and architecture. We recommend it to any couple who wants the cake to be a design object in its own right, one that breaks the usual rules of what a wedding cake looks like.

A hospitality background behind the sugar work

The baker is not named, but the owner brings more than 20 years of business experience in the financial and pharmaceutical sectors and in luxury hotels and hospitality, a background that is unusual for this trade. That shows in the way the studio is organized: built around planners and stylists, with a clear process from first call to delivery.

Five-star rooms and wedding blogs

The sugar work has been featured on wedding blogs around the world, among them The Lane, Brides, Green Wedding Shoes, Wedding Chicks and Junebug Weddings. On the Swiss side, commissions have been seen at The Dolder Grand in Zurich, the Buergenstock Resort in Lucerne, Hotel Villa Honegg and The Alpina Gstaad, along with other luxury event locations and art galleries. A cake that has already been carried into rooms like these is one less unknown on your wedding day.

Your planner makes the introduction

The studio "prioritizes working through professional Wedding Planners /or Stylists", and in practice works exclusively with them. Your planner or stylist submits a collaboration inquiry, and the studio then arranges an initial conversation over Zoom or Teams (WhatsApp is also offered on the form) to see whether its services fit your vision. The form asks for the event date, the name and location of the event, the planner or photographer, a budget range and the number of guests.

For a couple living abroad this suits a planner-led wedding well. The first conversation is remote by design, the website and the FAQ are in English, and the studio signs NDAs sent by planners. The fit is narrower if you have no planner or stylist yet, and the studio does not take commissions for elopements.

What it costs, when to ask, and who carries it in

A commissioned wedding cake starts at CHF 2'000 and can go up to CHF 20'000+ (November 2026), with a detailed quote once the wedding style, location and expectations are clear. The inquiry should start between one year and six months before the wedding. Delivery is always done by the studio itself, because of the fragility of the cake art; it is never outsourced, and a pickup cannot be arranged. It is a rule that suits a fragile sculpture: the studio that built the cake is the one that carries it into the room.

Tastings take place at the wedding venue, with a fee that varies by the venue's location. During the tasting the studio walks through flavors, design direction, structure and services.

Six flavors with Swiss and organic ingredients

There are six flavors: noir chocolate with forest berry, pistachio gelato, carrot pumpkin spice, bourbon vanilla, maracuya with guava and mango, and lemon raspberry. Most pair the sponge with Swiss meringue buttercream; the carrot cake takes a cream cheese frosting. Several flavors can be combined inside one cake, so your guests have a choice at the table. Ingredients come from Switzerland where possible, from organic and fair trade producers by preference, with no artificial colorings or flavorings. All cakes contain eggs, dairy and gluten and may contain traces of nuts. Seasonal availability can change an ingredient, and any change is communicated to the client.

An academy for other cake artists

Alongside the commissions, the studio runs an academy for other cake artists. Its online video course on the studio's method costs CHF 299 (November 2026), with 48 months of access, and assumes prior experience with ganache, doweling and stacking tiered cakes. There is also a shop for cake design tools. Both are aimed at professionals, not at couples, though they say something about how seriously the craft is taken here. Anyone copying one of the studio's original designs 1:1 is asked to request permission and credit it.

Beside other Swiss cake studios

Sophie's Sweet Company trained at the Peggy Porschen Academy and delivers the wedding cake herself, assembling it on site anywhere in Switzerland. Cupcaker, a Swiss wedding cake studio, says its founder trained with A Cake Story. Where a planner already runs the day, A Cake Story slots into that structure from the first call, and for a sculptural centerpiece in a five-star room it has our full recommendation.