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Tiffany Rosales is a cake designer and owner of Commonwealth Cake Company in Charlottesville, Virginia.

VIRGINIA WEDDING CAKES | COMMONWEALTH CAKE COMPANY
NAMED TOP US WEDDING CAKE ARTIST by Loverly (2024 & 2025) & WedVibes (2024)
Features: MAGNOLIA ROUGE | Style Me Pretty | MARTHA STEWART | CARATS & CAKE She takes great pride in creating beautiful bespoke wedding and event cakes. She loves working with those highly discerning clients that desire a statement cake that will visually wow their guests and taste amazing. Each cake is custom made to order and baked from scratch, using the freshest and finest ingredients. Tiffany strives to deliver a first class experience...from the design process down to the presentation of your cake. She believes that your cake should be as unique and distinctive as you are. You can select any of her popular flavor combinations, or a she can create one tailored to your specific wishes. Wedding planning can be stressful enough...so let Commonwealth Cake Company handle the cake details for you. Visit www.commonwealthcakecompany.com to begin the consultation process.

10/16/2026

My Granny had these beautiful, dark volcanic rocks in her garden when I was little. She also had something she called “Coke bottle rocks.”

I remember being absolutely fascinated by them. I was forever picking them up, turning them over, studying their shapes and surfaces. And she never once scolded me for disturbing her garden. She just let me be curious.

I hadn’t thought about those rocks in years.

Then I started creating this piece during Jasmine Rae Cakes’ Earthly Textures workshop with Azara K. & Jasmine Rae.

I wasn’t trying to recreate anything from my childhood. I was learning new techniques, experimenting with materials, and seeing where they took me.

But the more this cake developed, the more familiar it began to feel.

And suddenly, I remembered my granny’s garden. It’s funny how something you haven’t thought about in decades can find its way back into your work.

I signed up for this workshop because I wanted to learn something new. I certainly didn’t expect my first piece to bring me back to being a little girl collecting rocks in her granny’s garden.

I’ve named her Obsidian. 🖤

And I think my granny would have loved her.

10/11/2026

My cakes get to go to the party. I get to go to bed. 😂

It’s called balance.

09/30/2026

You don’t need to know anything about wedding cakes before you contact me.

You don’t need to know how many tiers you need. You don’t need to know whether your favorite flowers can be recreated in sugar. You don’t need to understand serving sizes, structure, delivery logistics or what happens to a cake at an outdoor wedding in July.

That’s my job.

Bring me what you do know.

Maybe it’s the flowers your florist is using. A detail from your dress. A painting you love. The architecture of your venue. Or simply a feeling you haven’t quite found the words for yet.

From there, I can take what you’ve shared and translate it into a cake that makes sense for your wedding.

You don’t need to arrive with the cake already designed. That’s part of what you’re hiring me for. 🤍

09/26/2026

One of the most valuable things we can do as artists is give ourselves permission to explore beyond what we already know how to make.

Jasmine Rae’s Earthly Textures virtual workshop is a four-session opportunity to do just that.

This isn’t simply about learning another cake technique. It’s an invitation to study texture, movement, composition, and material in a way that can help you see your work differently and begin uncovering more of your own artistic voice.

Whether you’re newer to cake or have been creating for years, there is something incredibly valuable about stepping outside of your usual process and learning to approach cake with curiosity again.

If you’ve been wanting to push your creativity, experiment more freely, or unlock a new direction in your work, this is a perfect place to begin.

I’m so excited that Azara K. & Jasmine Rae has added Jasmine Rae’s Earthly Textures workshop to its 2026 workshop lineup. The four-session virtual workshop takes place on each of the four Wednesdays in October, giving you the opportunity to learn, explore, and build on what you discover from one session to the next.

Registration is open now through the link in my bio.

I may earn a commission when you register through our affiliate link, at no additional cost to you. ✨

09/21/2026

A little Commonwealth Cake Company update. 🤍

I’ve wrapped up my September weddings, with just three October commissions left before I close the kitchen for the remainder of 2026.

Why? Because…we’re moving. 😂

Not far! Commonwealth Cake Company isn’t leaving the area. We’re moving about 20 minutes away. But somewhere between packing this house, unpacking the next one, setting up my new kitchen and getting it inspected, I decided adding winter weddings to the mix might be a questionable life choice.

So after those final three weddings, I’m giving myself the rest of the year to get settled, set up the new kitchen and prepare for what comes next.

2027 commissions are already underway, and this move doesn’t change the weddings or areas I serve. It simply gives Commonwealth Cake Company a new place to call home.

I’m finally excited about what we’re building for this next chapter. Quite literally, at the moment. 😂🤍

09/15/2026

Three years on the Loverly List. 🤍

I’m incredibly thankful to be named one of Loverly’s Best Wedding Cake & Dessert Bakers Across the US for the third year in a row.

What makes this one especially meaningful is looking at the work I’m creating now and realizing how much has changed over those three years.

I’ve become more willing to take something apart when it isn’t working. More curious about materials and form. More comfortable leaving space where I once might have added another detail. And far less interested in making something simply because I already know I can.

These cakes feel like a pretty good snapshot of that.

There are pieces here that challenged my patience, changed the way I think about cakes, pushed me toward unfamiliar shapes, and made me trust an idea before I knew exactly how it would turn out.

So yes, I’m incredibly grateful for the recognition. But I’m just as grateful that three years later, I can look at my own work and know I’m still learning and still growing, without losing sight of the standard I’ve worked so hard to build. I’m proud of this body of work. And I’m equally proud of the level of service behind it.

Thank you, Loverly, for including Commonwealth Cake Company on the 2026 Loverly List. What an honor to be here again. 🤍

Cover Photo by Casey Smith | Destination Wedding Photographer

09/14/2026

I removed my favorite part of this cake design.

My original sketch for Samantha and Austin included a sculptural ruffle at the base, and I loved it.

But when Samantha reviewed the design, she wanted the cake to lean more heavily into lace.

So I went back to the sketch.

If lace was going to have a larger presence across all three tiers, the ruffle suddenly felt like another idea asking for attention. I removed it and let the lace move across the cake in smaller, irregular groupings, leaving plenty of untouched fondant between them.

For the lace, I used the Angela Morrison “Wedding Necessities” mold, pulling individual pieces from Angela’s design and arranging them differently across each tier.

The finished cake is actually quieter than my original sketch, even though we added more lace.

And I like it better.

The ruffle wasn’t a bad idea. It was a good idea for a version of the cake we ultimately didn’t make.

09/06/2026

I think my work started changing when making a pretty cake stopped being enough for me.

For a long time, I was very good at making cakes I knew how to make. But there had been a few uncomfortable moments when vendors mistook my work for another cake company’s. I knew they meant it as a compliment. Instead, it made me wonder if I had spent too much time looking sideways.

This cake came during a period when I was deliberately trying things that made me uncomfortable.

I learned this collar technique from 𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆 ＣＡＫＥＤＥＳＩＧＮ, and making these tested every bit of my patience. Pieces tore. I couldn’t completely control how they curved as they dried. Too much water could destroy what I’d just made. I had to stop expecting every piece to behave exactly as I’d imagined it would.

The cake actually started out completely white. Then I added blush and touches of gold.

I hated the blush at first.

I almost changed it.

But once the collars went on, something shifted. The blush wasn’t standing there asking me to like it anymore. It was disappearing and reappearing between all those layers of white, and suddenly I understood why I wanted it there.

I didn’t know it at the time, but this cake was teaching me something I needed to learn.

I didn’t need more control. I needed more curiosity.

Some of the work I’m most proud of now can probably be traced back to the moments I stopped asking whether I could make something perfectly and started wondering what might happen if I couldn’t.

Archive No. 002
Commission Completed, 2025
Commonwealth Cake Company

09/04/2026

How do you turn a painting into a cake without painting the painting on the cake?

That was the question I kept returning to when creating this piece for Garden Reverie, an editorial imagined by Grace Winters FDI CFD | Virginia Wedding Florist as an ode to Monet’s Water Lilies.

I didn’t want to recreate the artwork literally. I wanted to understand what made it feel the way it did.

So much of the cake remained white, allowing tier shapes, texture, and delicate sugar work to create movement without competing with the garden surrounding it. Peach and blue appear more quietly near the base, creating a transition between the cake and the abundance of color below.

The goal was never to make a cake that looked like a Monet. It was to understand what the painting made me feel, and find a way to express that in sugar.

You don’t have to copy something beautiful to let it influence what you create.

Host & Florist Grace Winters FDI CFD | Virginia Wedding Florist
Photographer Madison Rae | Roanoke Photographer
Lead Planner NC + VA Wedding Planner & Coordinator
Assistant Carissa W
Venue Big Spring Farm
Rentals MS Events Event Rentals & Styled Design | Roanoke, VA
Cake Tiffany Rosales | Virginia Wedding Cake Atelier
Dresses Ivory On Campbell | Downtown Roanoke bridal shop
Makeup LillyStyles
Couple Content Couple | NC + Beyond

08/20/2026

The more I create, the more I understand my own design language.

I continually find myself returning to white. Not because I want the work to feel simple, but because removing color asks every other element to do more.

Texture becomes more visible. Layers create depth. Negative space becomes part of the composition. Light and shadow reveal details differently depending on where you stand.

For this piece, I stepped outside my natural preference for traditional round tiers and introduced a square base. Its architectural structure gave the softer draping and organic sugar flowers something to push against, creating contrast without introducing more color.

I’m learning that creative growth doesn’t always mean becoming someone different. Sometimes it means understanding more clearly what makes your work yours.

Restraint doesn’t mean less to look at. Sometimes it simply invites you to look closer.

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