Cake Artist Feature: Jen Drury

Food Artist Feature, Jen Drury Here is the true story of one baker’s perseverance in the face of adversity. My friend, Jen Drury, is the owner of the specialty cake bakery, No More Boring Cakes in San Marcos, California, USA. All of the beautiful custom themed cakes that appear in this feature were made by her.

Junk Food Lover’s Cake

Junk Food Lover's Cake by Jen Drury

Angry Birds Cake

Angry Birds Cake by Jen Drury

When I met Jen in 2011, she was running her bakery business out of part of a commercial catering facility in San Marcos, California.

Food Artist Feature, Jen Drury

She had a sweet set-up with her own work area and space to meet with clients. Most bakers would love a corner spot like that! Jen makes gorgeous cakes so her weekends were filled with orders.

Paint Splatter Cake

Paint Splatter Cake by Jen Drury

Summer on the Prairie Cake

Summer on the Farm Prarie Cake by Jen Drury

Pet Lover’s Cake

Pet Lover's Cake by Jen Drury

Baseball Lover’s Cake

Baseball Cake by Jen Drury

So you see how talented she is. How clean and professional of a style she has. How well-balanced and poised her cake designs are. Which is why it is such a shame that in 2012, Jen got hit with a triple whammy.

Mad Hatter Tea Party Cake

Mad Hatter Tea Party Cake by Jen Drury

Above was the last cake that she made before it all went wrong.

Fire in Bakery

First, there was an electrical fire in the commercial kitchen. A hole incinerated part of an inner wall and the building was forced to close for repairs for so long that the catering company moved out and Jen lost her sublease. At that time, there was no cottage law in California that allowed bakers in her situation to work from home so No More Boring Cakes had no choice but to shut down business.

Empty Bakery

Two days after the fire, Jen’s dad was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Two short months after that, he passed away, her #1 fan and the biggest supporter of her baking dreams.

Jen Drury with her father

But it wasn’t over yet. Then Jen was held up by a thief at a sporting goods store. It was a messy robbery too in which the owner of the store was brutally run over by the assailant’s car, and Jen witnessed it.

Fire, death, and then mayhem! What a whopper of a triple whammy it was that brought Jen Drury’s business to a halt and uprooted her life in 2012. Reflecting on it optimistically, she told me that perhaps the fire was meant to be since the time away from work allowed her to be with her dad and family when it mattered most.

The only problem with that arrangement: There were THE MOST BORING cakes in the San Marcos area throughout 2013 while Jen’s cake stuff was piled in storage.

Food Artist Feature, Jen Drury

Her customers never gave up on her though. They kept on calling. So it wasn’t long before she got back up and running again.

Food Artist Feature, Jen Drury

Monkey Themed Birthday  + Smash Cake for Baby

Monkey Circus Cake by Jen Drury

Barnyard Cake

Barnyard Garden Cake by Jen Drury

Announcement >> No More Boring Cakes in San Marcos, California is officially re-opened! She’s back, cake lovers! By appointment only. If you are in Southern California, especially north of San Diego (Escondido, Carlsbad, Rancho Bernardo, Vista, Encinitas) and are looking for a specialty cake, here’s who I want you to contact. Jen works with both fondant and modeling chocolate. You can check out some more of her work on her website here here: No More Boring Cakes.

Firetruck Cake by Jen Drury

Send Your Support!

If you can relate to this story of a bakery enduring so much and surviving or if you want to tell Jen how pumped you are that she’s back in business, please find her online at:

No More Boring Cakes Website Link
Food Artist Feature, Jen Drury No More Boring Cakes Facebook Page

 

Subscribe to Wicked Goodies
9,583 Subscribers

New to Wicked Goodies? Start *HERE*
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors

Let’s Connect!

Find Wicked Goodies on YouTube

Follow Wicked Goodies on Pinterest

As an Amazon associate, I earn commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you.

You might also enjoy

Cake Hall of Fame
Cake Hall of Fame

Gingerbread House Hall of Fame
Gingerbread House Hall of Fame

Comments are closed.