Cakes by Gray | Custom Wedding Cakes in Asheville, NC

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  • Flavors
  • Pricing
  • Tastings
  • Cake Art
  • Contact
  • Lend me some sugar
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It's too bad you can't marry your CAKE.

 (I did. I'm married to cake.)

It's the first thing I think about when I wake up, and the last thing I think about as I fall asleep. 

Not that I sleep.


It’s always with me, even when I’m snatching a rare cake-free second to spend with my real (human) family.

That's right — somehow, I manage to raise two small humans WITHOUT feeding them cake for every meal. (This is a major accomplishment; you should be impressed.)

I'm a classically trained pastry chef, and I've worked in the restaurant industry for (cough cough) a looong time. That's where I learned to be so witty. ;)

In 2014 I started making cute little custom cakes (like these) for friends and family. Just for fun, because I missed making art, because friends don’t let friends eat a dry cake.

Then people started requesting them, paying for them, coming up with crazy ideas.

I spent the next year or so making four or five celebration cakes a week, holding down a full-time job, and running my entire business from a Facebook page. (And continuing to feed my kids vegetables and protein and NOT CAKE, thankyouverymuch.)

I made baseball cakes. I made Hello Kitty cakes. I made a Sweet Sixteen cake for a 46-year-old. I made Minecraft cakes and Fourth of July cakes and piggy cupcakes and oh so many superhero cakes.

I didn't know it at the time, but what I was really doing that year — besides wrestling fondant and studying under my cake-iest idols — was perfecting the art of making a gorgeous wedding cake.

That’s the beauty of cake art (besides, you know, the actual beauty). It’s always evolving.

Last year I learned to make geode cakes. This year I’m dancing around in a field of sugar flowers.

I’m always learning, expanding, practicing, and growing as a cake artist.

Which means that when you come to me for your wedding, 11 months away?

I’m way ahead of you.

Need some inspiration? Here ya go.

Hi. I'm Melissa Gray. You may recognize me from such places as... 
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​Phone

(828) 279-8121

​Email

info@cakesbygray.com
Bakery Address
Rosabees
27 Foundy Street
Unit 20
​Asheville NC 28801

Cakes by Gray is a bakery in Asheville, NC, and is open by appointment only.
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