We make beautiful and delicious custom cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for weddings, birthdays, and all other special occasions in Perth, Western Australia, along with healthy lactation cookies which we ship Australia-wide and that you can order through our online shop. We recently relocated from Canberra, where we operated among an amazing network of talented creatives and loyal clients for seven years, and look forward to establishing a similar community here in our new home.

We take bookings for custom orders up to six months prior to event dates. If your event is more than six months from now, you have the option of being placed on a waiting list for your date so you’re first in line when we confirm our availability. If you'd like us to do this for you, please get in touch via our contact page.

Our Story

The Forty-Two Cakes team is made up of Rachel (Owner and Chief Caker) and Alec (Assistant Cake Stacker, Chief Photographer, Design Consultant, Transport and Logistics Assistant, Heavy Lifter). They have just moved to Perth, Western Australia with their two young sons after operating for seven years in Canberra.

Rachel is a mostly self-taught** baker and cake decorator with a passion for designing beautiful cakes and sweets, emphasising clean designs and fantastic taste and texture. She believes in using the best quality ingredients (couverture chocolate, eggs from happy free-range chickens, grass-fed butter, premium dutch cocoa, etc.) and makes everything lovingly from scratch. Her designs reflect each client's style and theme, incorporating both traditional and contemporary design techniques with modern proportions and clean lines.

**She acquired most of her knowledge and skills through experimentation, sweat, blood, and tears in the kitchen over many years (actual blood and actual tears, but not in the cakes!). Early in her cake decorating career, she was also lucky enough to attend workshops with Faye Cahill Cake Design in Sydney, Sharon Wee Creations in Canberra, Erica O'Brien Cake Design in New York, and at ABC Cooking School in Tokyo, loving the opportunity to learn from those at the top of their craft. In the years since, she has refined and built upon the techniques she learned from others to create her own exacting style and processes to produce consistent results with her signature attention to detail.

Alec is the glue that holds the operation together, providing input into everything from design to logistics, and taking many of the photos you see of the Forty-Two Cakes creations. Some of his other contributions have included punching out thousands of custom edible confetti dots, folding hundreds of cupcake boxes, and carrying towering 20kg+ cakes across uneven surfaces (while Rachel held her breath). When he’s not busy with Forty-Two Cakes, he’s elbow deep in fresh pasta with their kiddos, and blogging about it at Pasta et Al - once you’re done looking at the sugary creations here, head over there to feast your eyes on dishes that are somewhat more savoury, but just as delicious, as the cakes!