Schillicious - Contemporary Cake Studio, Edinburgh (2026)

31/10/2022

E A R D L E Y

A wee elopement cake for and her love who ran away to the highlands last week to tie the knot 💙

Hayley and I took inspiration from the artwork of one of Scotland’s most admired artists, Joan Eardley, for the colour palette which I then finished in my signature ’Acrylic’ style — swipe through to see the original artwork 👉🏼 (‘Harvest’ [1961] / ‘Field of Barley by the Sea’ [1962]) and more filthy textures!

Inside is one of my more unusual flavour combinations, Matcha and Mango cake: Matcha and Vanilla sponge, Mango Ganache, and Matcha Streusel 🍵 🥭

Hayley & Matt, I hope your elopement was as dreamy as it sounded and thank you for letting me be a part of it! Love and hugs to you both 💙

24/10/2022

D U N C A N

Okay before I talk about the cake, can we all just take a moment to please appreciate the FLOWERS!? Huge shout out to the .flowers team because they were phenomenal 👏🏼 💐

My beauties Carole & Calum tied the knot at the delicious Hopetoun House on Saturday. At our design meeting, we dreamt up a 360° white-on-white textured brushstroke design with accents of burgundy and mauve as the cake was to sit pride of place in the centre of the (incredibly opulent) dining hall — et voilà, here she is and I am SOLD on this idea ✨ 🤍

I also had the greatest pleasure working alongside the formidable team on this wedding. They organised everything with the utmost care and attention to detail and the results of their hard work and commitment to their job really showed on the day. Big love to you guys 💙

As ever, swipe on through for those filthy textures and some more pics of the amazing venue (a little surprise awaits in the final pic!)

Carole and Calum, you were both a delight to work with and design for! Thank you for that pleasure 🙏🏼

Right, now everyone tell me your thoughts on white-on-white textures in the comments👇🏼

09/10/2022

A D D I S O N — S C O T T

I must have spent about 10 minutes GAWPING at this venue when I first walked in the door!

This is Gosford House’s Marble Hall where the lovely Anna and Jamie married yesterday. Isn’t it absolutely breathtaking?

I loved working on this cake design with Anna and Jamie. A single blue-green textured brush stroke accented with flecks of rich gold. I particularly love the juxtaposition of this contemporary design against the neoclassical interior of the Marble Hall.

Swipe through 👉🏼 for close ups and more pics of the incredible hall!

Two delicious flavours inside: Lemon and Almond cake with lemon ganache and toasted almond streusel; and Coffee and Cardamom cake with coffee ganache and cardamom streusel.

Congratulations Anna & Jamie — so much love to you both 💙

24/06/2022

🎨

Hello from London 👋🏼

I saw this striking mural whilst walking around Covent Garden yesterday and thought I’d post it here as a reminder to each and every one of you!

I hope you’ve had a lovely week 💙

– Tim

17/06/2022

COUPLE’S CAKE

Do you know any friends who have got married and didn’t get a chance to eat any of their own wedding cake?

I do, so as part of my Bespoke Wedding Cake service, all of my couples receive their very own ‘Couple’s Cake’.

A nod to the tradition of saving top tiers for the first anniversary, my Couple’s Cake is an additional miniature sharing cake made just for my couples to enjoy when they can steal a private moment away together, or perhaps to save to enjoy whilst looking back over wedding photos.

Either way, it’s a little way of ensuring that whatever happens on your wedding day, you don’t miss out on the cake we’ve worked so hard to design together.

If you’re planning on getting married next year or beyond and think I’m the cake designer for you, click the website link in my bio and fill out an enquiry form and let’s start making your wedding cake dreams a reality!

These GORGEOUS pics are taken by the hugely-talented Charlotte Kinsella, with whom I worked on a beautiful styled shoot last summer with a whole host of fab Scottish wedding suppliers. Check them all out below 👇🏼

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13/06/2022

CZULOWSCY–BURNS

My goodness, where do I even begin?

India and John, you guys were an absolute DREAM to work with! I mean just look at them 😍

I always consider myself extremely lucky to work with creative couples who share my penchant for creative, contemporary cake design, and from the moment I met India and John at our consultation we just ‘clicked’.

Taking their architectural backgrounds as inspiration, we envisaged the most daring (not to say the largest) project to date: a four-tier black and white square cake. Yes you read that right… a 23” tall black and white wedding cake! What a bold statement for an even bolder couple!

India and John really wanted their cake to be a significant part of their day, and so they didn’t just stop with a striking design; they held a ‘Whisky and Cake Tasting’ for their guests, too! 🥃 🍰

Everyone got to enjoy the three different wedding cake flavours alongside five different Islay whiskies taken from India & John’s 2020 trip to the Isle of Islay where John proposed! I mean… how amazing is that!? 🤌🏼 Swipe through to see the gorgeous map India designed with all the tasting notes on 👉🏼

The most incredible team came together to make this wedding the design-led dream that it was:

📷 (The silver photography is such a BOSS MOVE! Thank you for your utter magic 🪄)
🛖 (What a venue! An industrious dream)
🍽 (I wanted to stay and eat everything 🤤)

Oh and that dress? None other than

So here’s the question: black and white wedding cakes, yes or no? Drop your answer in the comments 👇🏼

09/06/2022

C A R M I N E

Remember those colour palettes I showed you the other day on my stories?

Well, here is the most popular one in glorious cake form … and what an explosion of colours!

Carmine red takes centre stage accompanied by orange yellow, dusky green, and greyish lavender.

Swipe through for more close ups of those — you guessed it — FILTHY TEXTURES and also to see the full cake at the end 👉🏼

Inside is my Scottish Cranachan Cake: raspberry & vanilla sponge, raspberry reduction, Scotch whisky & honey ganache, and crunchy raspberry streusel 🤤

What do you love about this colour combination? Tell me in the comments below 👇🏼

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🎨 .mill (Burgundy, Red, Mango, Lavender, Forest)
📦 (Matte Black Cake Board)
🪵 .options (Acacia wood gold hairpin cake stand)

28/05/2022

C O L O U R S

I propose a game 🎲

What one word comes to mind when you see this colour combination?

Drop it in the comments below 👇🏼

(I found this picture whilst trawling through my archives and realised I never posted it 🫠 but I really think it’s one of my favourites!)

🎨 (Navy, Yellow, Forest, Rust)

25/05/2022

NICOLA & NIGEL

I’m throwing it back to Autumn 🍂 today!

Nicola & Nigel got in touch with me last year to work with me on a wedding cake that captured the feeling of autumn for their November wedding.

Forest and olive greens with hints of rusty oranges and burnt sienna was the colour palette of choice, with big bold pops of gold 💥

Each ‘panel’ of the cake is unique in its expression of the various colours used, applied with a single movement of my trusty scraper. It gives a gorgeous blend of all those lovely colours. Swipe for some close-ups 👉🏼

A single, beautifully-shaped stem of eucalyptus offsets the contemporary square tiers, and three little chrysanthemum heads really make those orangey inflections sing!

Inside were two of my quintessentially-Scottish flavours: Cranachan cake and Deep-Fried Mars Bar cake! 😋

Such a great team on this fab wedding 👇🏼

📷 (thank you for showing my cake in the most glorious light!)
💐 (flawless stems as always!)
📜 (effortless styling as per)
🥘 (I was drooling over the food menu!)
🛖 (one of my fave venues hands down!)
🎨 .mill (I believe in using the best cake products from the best companies!)

Let me know what you love about this cake in the comments below 👇🏼

22/05/2022

ACRYLIC I … again!

How much do you love these blue textures!?

My blue ‘Acrylic’ style design has become something of a signature look — it was the first design I ever created just before I launched Schillicious back in 2020.

Those chunky blue textures were inspired by my dad’s old acrylic paint palettes. He used to (and still does) paint seaside landscapes and I when I was younger I would pick off the paint when it dried (‘cause I knew how to party 🎉)

Though I’m focussing much more on wedding cakes these days, I couldn’t resist making up this Amarena Cherry and Chocolate cake for a special 50th birthday with the design that started it all!

Inside is Amarena Cherry and Chocolate chiffon sponge, Amarena Cherry chocolate ganache, Amarena Cherry pieces, crunchy oat streusel, all finished in silky vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream… are you salivating yet? 😋

As the famous song goes, “EEEY, AMARENA!” (or something like that, anyway…)

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🎨 .mill (Royal)
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🪵 .options

11/05/2022

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

Hello 👋🏼

It’s been a while since I posted here but as it’s Mental Health Awareness Week here in the UK, I thought now would be an appropriate time to say a little something.

The past two months have been some of the most difficult I have ever experienced in my life to date. My partner Co and I were in the middle of moving into our first home together, an extremely stressful event in itself, when suddenly and very tragically a member of our family took their own life.

No words could ever articulate or adequately communicate what discovering something like that is like and so I won’t try. What I can say is that it’s changed me in a way I don’t think I quite yet understand, and the journey to that understanding is likely very long — if I get there at all.

I’m sure I’ve felt every emotion possible over the course of the past month. I’ve felt so low that some days I don’t want to get out of bed. I’ve felt immense grief. Anger. Distress — you name it, I’ve felt it.

It can be so tempting in times like this to ignore our emotions and suppress them. Maybe it’s because we already feel out of control and we’re scared that engaging honestly with our feelings will only make that feeling worse. Maybe it’s because we’re scared to face the frightening reality that we really are just… fragile.

But as Charlie Mackesy’s illustration (above) beautifully depicts, admitting when we feel at our lowest is far from an admission of weakness – it is one of strength. By doing so, we not only strengthen ourselves but also others. We remind each other that we’re not alone in our experiences, that we all feel this way at various points (plural), and that it is absolutely normal and okay.

And so I’m sharing this with you because I want you to know that you are not alone. Because behind this grid of cakes is a human who also hurts and isn’t always okay. Because if you’re in the midst of your own despair, I hope I can encourage you to be courageous and speak openly with someone you trust.

My DMs are open to any of you who would like to talk and would appreciate an empathic ear. Alternatively, head to www.mentalhealth.org.uk.

All my love,
Tim x

21/02/2022

D E S I G N E R

My job as a wedding cake designer is to help you bring your wedding cake dreams to life!

How do I do that?

Well it’s all about me interpreting your story through cake design.

After you get in touch and tell me a little bit about what you’re after, I will meet with you for a Tasting and Design consultation.

You’ll get to taste a few delicious cake samples over a drink with me (a treat in itself 😉) and I’ll start sketching through some initial design ideas with you.

I’ll send you a couple of options post-consultation, and then we’ll tweak and perfect the final design.

Only then is it time to turn on the oven and start baking!

I’ve said this before but it’s worth repeating: your wedding cake is as much an opportunity to make a statement about who you are as a couple as it is about feeding your guests!

I can help you make that statement through contemporary cake design, just like I did for Hannah and Ross whose cake is shown here.

Want me to tell your own story through cake? Click the link in my bio and get in touch for 2023. I can’t wait to hear from you 💙

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