Michelle Ashley Custom Cakes – Scratch bakery featuring cakes and desserts in Salem, Oregon

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Best Bakery

Best Cupcake

Best Dessert

Best Woman-Owned Business

Best Wedding Cake

Best Food Delivery

Top 3 Cakes in Salem 2023

Top 3 Cakes in Salem 2024

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Custom Cakes & Cupcakes

We bring the cakes of your dreams to life to sweeten any occasion! Cakes, cupcakes, cake pops, cupcake bouquets, desserts and more can be completely customized just for your event. Click below to browse galleries filled with our favorite creations!

Weddings

Cakes

Cupcakes

Our Sweet Creations

Holiday Pies

NEW this season we are excited to offer classic pies for the holidays! Choose from pumpkin, pecan, apple and more, many available gluten-free, vegan and keto.

Desserts

We are proud to use top quality ingredients and ALL of our treats are always baked from scratch. From cupcakes to cake pops, bars to macarons, we’re always surprising our guests with different, creative sweet treats daily. We are proud to be a Ghirardelli bakery!

Sweet Pastries

We now offer a variety of artisan, hand-crafted pastries including gluten-free, keto and vegan options daily in our pastry case! From cinnamon rolls to keto bars to cannolis, you’ll discover something different every day.

About Michelle

Michelle Ashley began baking and creating beautiful custom cakes in June 2015 after a long career in the tech industry. Her creativity and budding talent lead her to explore cake decorating and after completing a few classes she was on her way to a sweet new career. With just a couple of classes under her belt Fred Meyer gave her a chance and offered Michelle her first cake decorating job. Her skills quickly grew from rookie to professional artist and only 6 months later she left to start her own business.

After two years of running her new business out of her licensed home kitchen Michelle opened her first storefront bakery in September 2018 in the 45th Parallel Shopping Center on Hyacinth Street in NE Salem to much success. Michelle’s unique designs and talent have won her both gold and silver in the Statesman Journal’s Best of the Mid-Valley poll in 2018 and 2019! In 2020 Michelle won gold for Best Cupcake and Best Bakery in Best of the Willamette Valley and won first place for Best Wedding Cakes in Willamette Living Magazine’s Best of the Valley poll!

In August 2020 Michelle moved her bakery to a storefront space at the 45th Parallel Building. Visit us now in Suite 101!

Press

Creating celebrations one cake at a time

June 22, 2022

Daydreaming in buttercream isn’t just a fantasy for Michelle Ashley Timberlake of Michelle Ashley Custom Cakes; it’s her whole world – at least the professional part, that is. Read full article

Courtesy of www.bestofthewillamettevalley.com

Top 5 Worldwide!

On March 7, 2021 Michelle Ashley Custom Cakes was awarded 5th place by Amazing Cake Idea’s worldwide contest for “World’s Super Skillful Cake Artist!”

Learn more about Amazing Cake Ideas at amazingcakeideas.com

Featured on HGTV!

We are excited to have been featured on HGTV’s show You’ll Be Home For Christmas that aired on December 18, 2020 and was filmed right here in Salem, Oregon! Salem real estate agent and Santa impersonator Albie Mushaney helps several local families find their perfect home just in time for Christmas and before they move in, Albie and his team deck each home with the ultimate holiday décor of the homeowners’ dreams, including indulgent, festive treats from Michelle Ashley Custom Cakes!

Order

Ready to order your completely custom and unique special event cake? For custom orders contact us via Facebook Messenger. We look forward to making your next event a sweet success!