Palette Cakes

Palette Cakes offers artfully inspired cakes and desserts to the Greater Sacramento Area, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and beyond. Specializing in individually tailored wedding cakes featuring handmade sugar flowers, ornate details, and plenty of charm. Palette Cakes also offers a wonderful dessert menu featuring elevated childhood favorites and French inspired classics.

Although weddings are a specialty here at Palette Cakes, we also offer cakes and desserts for other special events, birthdays, showers, and more!

Palette Cakes is currently located at 7901 Fair Oaks Blvd, Suite C, Carmichael CA 95608. At the bakery, we will continue to serve the wedding and events community, but also offer retail sales to the general public. The bakery is open every Friday-Sunday from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Monday-Thursday we are currently by appointment only.

Palette Cakes’ bakery is a quick service bakery, intended to grab and go with your treats and pick up your pre-orders. We offer items like 6inch Cakes, Individual Tarts and Desserts, Cookies, Cupcakes and more!

Palette Cakes offers delivery, setup, tastings, and cake/dessert catering for larger events like Weddings, Corporate Functions, Showers, and more! For your larger events, please see our Ordering Information and Wedding & Events Menu section for more details!

Palette Cakes has been featured on Style Me Pretty, Wedding Chicks, Carats & Cake, Ruffled Blog, Burnett’s Boards, Green Wedding Shoes, Magnolia Rouge, BHLDN, Inspired By This, 100 Layer Cake, Wedding Forward, Happily Ever Borrowed, Hey Wedding Lady, Wedding Rule, American Cake Decorating, Cake Masters Magazine, Tacardi Weddings, Kleinfeld, The Knot, Wedding Wire, Shoutout LA, Style Magazine, Real Weddings Magazine, The Granite Bay View, Fox 40 News, and Studio Live 40.

VOTED #1 WEDDING CAKES & DESSERTS IN ROSEVILLE/GRANITE BAY/ROCKLIN

The People Behind Palette Cakes

KELLIE VELASQUEZ- Artist, Pastry Chef, & Owner

With an art background as a painter, Kellie Velasquez attended the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) to hone her baking and pastry skills. After her first year in school, she sought out the opportunity to work with world renowned Cake Designer, Maggie Austin, where she developed her fundamental skills with wedding cakes and design.

After completing the prestigious baking and pastry arts degree program at CIA, she held positions at some of San Francisco’s top bakeries, including Craftsman & Wolves, Susie Cakes, and Pastry Chef at the popular Jane the Bakery.

Mrs. Velasquez is passionate about great food, quality ingredients, and her art. Her love of baking and art stems from a young age and opening a bakery has been a dream of hers since she was a child. Mrs. Velasquez has been working in professional kitchens since was 16 years old and has never steered away from this dream.

Kellie handles the baking, management, designing, and administrative tasks at Palette Cakes and can be found doing a little bit of everything!

CARLOS VELASQUEZ- Co-Operator, & Owner

Carlos Velasquez grew up in the San Francisco area surrounded by incredible food and some of the best bakeries. Carlos’ love of food and quality ingredients stems from a young age. He was raised by a family of remarkable home cooks who truly spoiled him with the best meals (homemade tortillas, tamales, fresh baked bread, all of the best Guatemalan staples).

Mr. Velasquez career started off at Craftsman and Wolves as their delivery driver and this is also where he met Mrs. Velasquez. Since then, Carlos has helped build Palette Cakes from the ground up and developed his full-time career in the Solar Industry.

Mr. Velasquez has impeccable attention to detail, natural leadership skills, and his prior experience in the delivery world helps create a seamless delivery schedule for Palette Cakes. You will find Carlos behind the scenes helping manage the day to day, out on deliveries, setting up dessert tables, and ironing out all the operations details.