Pétale

A New York atelier making a small number of cakes each month — each one designed, built, and finished by hand.

01 — atelier

A small number of cakes, each one finished by hand.

Pétale began in 2021, in Inês Valente's kitchen downtown. The scale has barely changed — and that's the point.

founded2021 · New York
makerInês Valente
capacitya few each month
Inside the studio
A pastry maker’s hands setting sugar flowers onto a cake at the studio bench

02 — selected work

We take a limited number of commissions, so every cake gets the same attention as the last.

Single-tier pale green pistachio cake crowned with a low arc of sugar roses
dinner-party showpiece · 2025

Pistache & rose

A single sculptural tier for a loft dinner — pistachio sponge, rose-water cream, a low crown of sugar roses.

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A three-tier sage-green wedding cake with peach and cream sugar roses, on a table by the river
wedding centerpiece · 2026

River house

A three-tier in green and cream for a riverside wedding — sugar grasses set so the cake looks grown rather than arranged.

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A single-tier bitter-orange birthday cake ringed with candied peel
milestone birthday · 2026

Eighty candles

Eighty years, one cake, zero fondant roses — a deep bitter-orange tier ringed with candied peel.

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A long table of single-serve festival cakes in five flavours
festival commission · 2026

Field day

Four hundred servings for a one-day food festival — single-serve cakes built to survive August, a tent, and a queue.

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the reel — recent pieces

Scroll sideways through the year.

the reel — recent pieces

Scroll sideways through the year.

Crème study2024
Rosé monolith2024
Garden table2025
Blue hour2025
Lemon & thyme2026

what we make

We make one thing. It just turns up in very different rooms.

From a wedding that has to behave itself, to four hundred slices at a festival, to whatever’s on the counter the day you walk in.

01

Weddings

The big ones. A cake that has to look composed from the back of the room and still reward the people who get up close — ivory on ivory, sugar flowers built petal by petal, not a plastic pillar in sight.

02

Birthdays & celebrations

Milestones, anniversaries, “we got through the year” — cake for the occasions that don’t come with a rulebook. Tell us who it’s for and we’ll make the one thing only they would understand.

03

Festivals & events

When it has to feed a field. We scale up without scaling down the work: single-serve runs, dessert tables, and showpieces engineered to survive a tent in August and a queue that won’t quit.

04

The studio counter

On the days we’re open, a short rotating list of whole cakes and slices sold straight off the bench. Seasonal, first-come, usually gone by mid-afternoon. No two weeks look the same.

Inês made the one thing at our wedding that guests still bring up.
— A client, Tribeca, 2025
featured in The Standard Cherry Bombe Resy Gossamer

from the bench

We post the in-between bits.

@petale.nyc
A pale buttercream cake catching the morning light on the studio bench Hands setting a single sugar flower onto a finished tier A tray of single-serve citrus cakes lined up before an event A green pistachio cake photographed from above Sugar petals drying on parchment across the workbench A slice cut from a celebration cake on a pale plate

03 — commission

Tell us about the celebration.

A few dates open each month. The sooner we talk, the more the cake can be yours.

We reply to every inquiry within two business days.

Now booking summer — a few dates remain
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