festival commission · 2026
Four hundred servings for a one-day food festival — single-serve cakes built to survive August, a tent, and a queue.
A summer food festival asked for a centrepiece that could feed a field and still look like something. The constraints were deeply unromantic: full sun, no fridge, a tent, and a line that did not stop. So the cake became forty of them — a long table of single-serve cakes in five flavours, restocked twice before noon.
Forty cakes instead of one — a long table of single-serve rounds. The cream was reworked with olive oil so it wouldn’t weep in full sun, and the whole table was styled to empty well rather than sit full.
Five flavours at once: olive oil & citrus, pistachio, lemon-elderflower, fig, and chocolate. The line-up flexes to the season and the crowd.
Ordered for festivals, markets, launches, and large outdoor events — anywhere you need to feed hundreds with no fridge in sight.
up close
We sold out an hour early and got mildly told off for it. Worth it.
I queued twice. The second time I pretended it was for a friend. There was no friend.