Store Biography

ABOUT RED ROBIN PANTRY 

Red Robin Pantry was established in Falmouth, Cornwall in 2019, specialising in bespoke buttercream wedding cakes, handmade confectionery and patisserie. Red Robin Pantry creates works of art using the finest quality organic and ethically sourced ingredients.

Hi I’m Debbie, founder of Red Robin Pantry. Red Robin Pantry truly began when I was given a book on professional chocolate making for Christmas 2014 by my sister Sam. I was already well into my baking career by this point, but I’d never really thought much about chocolates and sweets. I started experimenting after work and attended village markets back in Bradford-on-Avon, where I was at the time. A couple of years later I ended up as the head baker at a buttercream bakery in Brighton. I’d dabbled in sugarcraft since I was a child, but I’d never been a fan of buttercream. Too sickly sweet I thought. That soon changed, as I discovered all the wonderful finishes and techniques that could be experimented with, particularly with meringue based buttercreams – which not only taste way better, they behave better too. And that was it I was in love. 

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I decided in 2018 it was time to move back to Falmouth with my cocker spaniel Colin, where i’d studied for my MSc in Conservation Biology. At the start of 2019 I was back and relaunching Red Robin Pantry in its new incarnation as a buttercream wedding cake company. As well as being a baker since the grand old age of 5, making cakes with my nanny Irene – I am also an ex-ecologist and I love everything about nature. So blending my creative artistic side with my love of baking and of course nature, was the obvious path for me. This took me to specialising in edible flowers for all of my wedding cakes and developing my signature buttercream painting style.

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One of my favourite things about working in bakeries and tearooms was getting to experiment with unusual flavours. At the end of 2019 I decided it was time to start experimenting with making chocolates and gourmet marshmallows again, and in 2020, when the world of weddings shut down, I ploughed headlong into this at local farmers markets and our online shop. 

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Today I specialise in all things buttercream and ganache when it comes to wedding cakes. Particularly my signature buttercream and ganache painted cakes, but since 2022 I’ve also strived to grow all of my own edible and food safe flowers, and use these to adorn my real flower wedding cakes. 

Confectionery and patisserie is still a large part of what I love to do. I love creating extravagant dessert and sweet tables for weddings. Every Christmas confectionery and chocolate takes over and I head to Christmas markets around Cornwall with my sweet creations. Luckily for me I have a few helpers who come to my aid in the festive season, else I’d never manage it all alone.

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At the start of 2024 I was finally able to start including permanent art works to go along my cakes, so that couples can have a painted recreation of their painted wedding cake on a wooden canvas. I was also asked by a insane photographer friend to create painted candles for one of her wedding photoshoots to match the cake and canvas, so watch this space, as painted candles will be making a home for themselves at Red Robin Pantry very soon!!!