Hi, I’m Jehonna!

Art has played a tremendous role in how my life has formed up to this point. I was born in the Philippines, and resided in Hong Kong throughout my school years, until meeting my husband in Hawai’i. After a formal art design and education background, and two young children later, I started my home cake studio in 2019. I often find my experiences in nature, art and education big contributors to my cake designs. I find them extremely relevant to my work and life, in part because they’re now part of my identity. This influences the creative process both in making cakes and working with real people.

I accept imperfection and embrace it. My work is wholly inspired by the Japanese philosophy of “wabi-sabi” on the acceptance of transience and imperfection—appreciating that beauty is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete” in nature. It is a marriage of my love for the fine arts, baking and Earth’s beauty by designing from a ‘blank canvas’ to a finished bespoke cake —with a touch of inspiration from nature, old-world structures and the arts.

Every couple I’ve come across is different, each cake truly is a collaborative effort between my clients. When I take this into consideration, I find that each cake project paints a different story every time, and rarely do I repeat a design.

My current favorites are aged stone textures, wafer paper, Swiss Meringue buttercream, using painting knives, free-flowing flowers, acrylic and watercolors.

I believe art (albeit cake art), should reveal the hand of the artist.

Mahalo nui,