ABOUT
RED ROBIN PANTRY
Red Robin Pantry is an independent cake and patisserie business based in Falmouth, Cornwall, specialising in artistic buttercream and ganache wedding cakes, wedding desserts and small-batch baking.
Inspired by the coast, flowers and the natural world, my work combines hand-painted details, seasonal edible flowers and carefully chosen ingredients, with flavour every bit as important as how everything looks.
Hi I'm Debbie....
I've been baking for as long as I can remember, starting with cakes made with my nanny Irene when I was little. By Christmas 2014 I was already working professionally as a baker, when my sister gave me a book on professional chocolate making. I became slightly obsessed, started experimenting with chocolates after work and selling them alongside my baking at local markets, and Red Robin Pantry was born in 2015.
A few years later I moved to Brighton, where I worked as head baker at a buttercream bakery. I'd decorated cakes since I was young, but discovering meringue-based buttercreams — rather than the very sweet traditional kind I'd never particularly liked — completely changed the sort of cakes I wanted to make.
In 2018, I decided it was time to come back to Falmouth, where I'd previously lived while studying for my MSc in Conservation Biology. I relaunched Red Robin Pantry here in early 2019, with wedding cakes becoming an increasingly large part of the business.
My slightly unusual route from ecology to cake making still finds its way into what I do. I'm endlessly inspired by flowers, wildlife, the Cornish coast and the changing seasons — whether that's painting them onto a wedding cake or growing edible flowers in my garden to decorate one.
Red Robin Pantry Today...
Today, Red Robin Pantry is centred around artistic wedding cakes, wedding desserts and patisserie, with both completely bespoke cakes and a collection of designs available to order online. I still love experimenting with flavours and techniques, and my background in chocolate and confectionery continues through the handmade chocolates and sweets I make today.
Alongside weddings, I make celebration cakes, chocolates and confectionery, and run the Falmouth Cake Shed from home each weekend, filled with a changing selection of cakes, brownies, cookies, cheesecakes, patisserie and seasonal treats. Everything is made by me in small batches, using carefully chosen ingredients including Cornish butter, free-range eggs, Madagascan vanilla and Belgian chocolate. I also grow my own seasonal edible flowers in my little edible flower garden for use on all my cakes.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
"Our wedding cake was absolutely delicious. The range of cake flavours on offer was impressive, and every single one we tried was incredible, we genuinely struggled to pick a favourite"
Izzy & Ash - Google Review