Helena Appio set up Mai­son Mari as a result of her twin pas­sions of food and decoration. Helena trained in Tex­tiles and Fash­ion at the Cen­tral School of Art and at Mid­dle­sex Poly­tech­nic and has spent many years design­ing and cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful homes, arte­facts, films, clothes and tex­tiles. After being inspired by renowned sug­ar­craft artist Alan Dunn and attend­ing his and other train­ing courses, Mai­son Mari have now cre­ated their own range of beau­ti­ful and orig­i­nal cakes.

Mai­son Mari offer a friendly and pro­fes­sional ser­vice and can pro­vide either a range of stan­dard clas­sic cakes or bespoke cakes. Helena uses tra­di­tional fam­ily recipes , draw­ing on her Ital­ian, Scot­tish and African roots and adds her own mod­ern twist. Her most pop­u­lar cake flavours include Lemon polenta, Cuban choco­late and Mada­gas­can Vanilla. All our cakes are indi­vid­u­ally iced and dec­o­rated with beau­ti­ful, del­i­cate hand made sugar flow­ers. Each sugar rose is made up of an aver­age of 15 indi­vid­ual petals, sugar leaves are threaded with a thin wire in order to shape them real­is­ti­cally. Once the petals have been formed, the sepals are added and the flower stems are wrapped with coloured tape. Then the rose and leaves are del­i­cately dusted with edi­ble coloured pow­der. Each rose with its foliage can take up to an hour to finish.

Whether you’d like a wed­ding cake, a birth­day cake or any other spe­cial occa­sion cake we can work with you to cre­ate a unique cake. You can call or email us to arrange a con­sul­ta­tion. Our cakes start at £45. A one tier sim­ply dec­o­rated cake is priced at £125. As our cakes are usu­ally bespoke, the final price will depend upon the dec­o­ra­tion you’d like.

Con­tact Mai­son Mari to order a beau­ti­ful cel­e­bra­tion cake either from their clas­sic range or to cre­ate a cus­tom designed bespoke cake.