Velvet Sky, located in the quaint neighborhood of Jenkintown, is a modern style of scratch bakery where quality trumps quantity and where our products have a shelf life of hours, not days. We are a specialty bakery that focuses on cupcakes and custom cakes. You won't find any muffins here, just forty different varieties of cupcakes and custom made cakes from the simplest of buttercream birthday cakes to the most ornate wedding cakes and everything in between.
Throw out everything antiquated about what you think passes for baked goods, and discover why Velvet Sky is the freshest bakery in the area. Loads of shortening and big cans of pie filling be gone! Here we use butter (literally, tons of it), sugar, eggs, fresh fruit, and all of the finest baking ingredients on the market. Our chocolates are from Belgium and the Netherlands, not the middle of Pennsylvania. Our products are always baked fresh daily, never pulled from a freezer.
Step into the clouds and find out why in less than five years, Velvet Sky Bakery has become the leading provider of specialty cupcake services and a top producer of cupcakes and custom cakes in the entire Philadelphia Area.
Welcome to Version 3.0
As you may have noticed, the website is a little different than the last time you stopped by. If this is your first visit, then welcome. We are sticklers for our website, as we operate a very visual business. You will see a number of improvements, based in no small part on your feedback. They include more streamlined explanations, pictures of the cupcakes and towers along with sizing, as well as more selective galleries. Please take a few minutes to enjoy the new vsb.com.
Vote for the Best
Velvet Sky Bakery has been nominated for Cityvoter Best Cupcakes 2010. Please click here to cast your vote,
Operation: Architecture August 2010
What do you get for the guy who maybe has everything? Why a replica of his house or a replica of his favorite baseball team's new one billion dollar stadium. We spent the better part of the week working on two very architecturally challenging cakes. The first is an exact replica of a house built by the owner of the past five years, the second is a groom's cake for some team in New York.
Operation: Mini Cake July 2010
A test of will, perhaps. Combining every skill necessary to produce a product, most definitely. There are times when we need to bring out our full toolbelt of tricks to produce high quality and artful products. In the beginning of July, we assembled eighty two tiered mini cakes, two tiers each to be given as favors, along with a matching wedding cake. In case you were wondering, here's the process your cakes go through from beginning to end.
We started with a tasting appointment where we took the bride's design into account. Based on color samples and input, we generated a contract and sketch. Half of the cakes were pink, the other turquoise. The mini cakes were fresh baked apple with caramel buttercream, the two tier multiple flavors. We spent time going back and forth with the bride in terms of flavors, design, and containers that were suitable for the cakes. We made sure to find the largest containers possible so we could give them a decent sized cake.
All of the cakes were baked fresh. An assistant spent the better part of the day assembling and icing each individual tier (thats almost three hundred individual layers in case you were counting). Each tier was fondanted individually and then assembled. Because we were in ninety plus degree weather everything needed to be finished as close to delivery on Sunday Afternoon as humanly possible
We worked well into the night and all day Sunday to ensure the product was not only as fresh as possible, but remained stable. Each of the four varieties of flowers were hand airbrushed with exact colors to match the scheme. The favors were then banded with opposite color transitions. The last step was packaging, being careful not to damage the product or dirty the containers.
The final final finished product is below. It was transported about an hour and set up in ninety plus degree heat. The service included over fifty pounds of fondant, one hundred and fifty hand made flowers, and dozens of hours of labor.
Instant Gratification: Extended through September!!!
Never before, not once, literally have we done this. So here we go we will be offering a cupcake tower ON SALE! All you need to do is tell us the flavors in increments of six and two colors for the tower and ribbon. The tower is yours to keep.
Thirty Six Cupcakes and a Petite Round Stand - $79
Forty Eight Cupcakes and a Petite Square Stand - $99
Please note that the
following applies only to this promotion. Any deviation will be considered regular pricing. Extra cupcakes, cakes, minis,
accents, etc will be regular price. Order cupcakes in increments of
six. Colors will be approximate. Can not be combined with any additional service or included as part of a custom service.
Finally Finished
After weeks of toiling in the basement building the counters, one broken piece of glass, and a mildly upset delivery driver; the second and most ambitious renovation has been completed. We streamlined our production so that you are able to purchase more than twenty different kinds of cupcakes each day from the new display. It includes led lights for display and highlighting the cupcakes. Step into the clouds soon and find the most cutting edge display anywhere.
Recent Cakes
Click through the gallery below for a look at our most recent masterpieces.