What they do
Custom cakes
You fill in their custom order form, they send back a price, and the design is confirmed before the cake is baked.
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Artistic Cake Design · Cake shop & decorating school
Ottawa’s original cake decorating school and custom cake shop — in one family since 1973.
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About
Artistic Cake Design is an Ottawa cake shop, cake-decorating school and supply store on Clyde Avenue, run by the same family since 1973. Its own home page calls it “Ottawa’s only and original cake decorating education center and supplier since 1973”, and describes the business as a socially responsible company centred on care for its employees and its community.
The About page tells the story in three generations. ICES award-winning pastry chef and chocolatier Russel Bloomfield opened the first store on Preston Street in 1973 and led it until 1984. His son Brian Bloomfield ran it from 1984 to 2020, from a location on Wellington. Since 2020 it has been in the hands of Brian’s son James Bloomfield, listed as President, together with co-owner Andrew Lacelle as Vice President.
James wrote publicly about how that handover happened. In July 2020 the shop was preparing to close, with COVID-19 having made everything uncertain. James, by then a decorator at Artistic for five years, and co-owner Andrew Lacelle bought the business instead and reopened on 1 September 2020 for scheduled pickup only.
Nothing is baked before it is ordered — a rule the shop traces back to its founder. That once meant a two-week lead time, so in 2023 the team added a 24-hour cake service, which they say they announced on CTV Morning LIVE. These are set designs the decorators choose themselves, baked, iced and decorated for next-day pickup, with vanilla, chocolate or marble inside. Alongside custom and 24-hour cakes there are tiered and wedding cakes ordered through their own form, cupcakes, edible-image cakes, and a counter of decorating supplies: fondant, gumpaste flowers, sprinkles and dragees, luster dust, piping tips, chocolate, cake boards and boxes.
Teaching is the other half of the business. The Saturday DECO-1 Foundations course runs from 10am to about 4pm for ages 16 and up at $195, and includes a tool kit, a flat-iced 8-inch cake, five hours of instruction and a certificate of completion; DECO-2 builds on it with basket weave, scroll work, garlands and swiss dots. The course notes say plainly what kind of room it is: “Artistic Cake Design values play in the kitchen, we believe perfectionism is a creativity killer.” The shop sponsored UAFest in 2024.
Since 1973, three generations
1390 Clyde Ave, Ottawa
Custom cakes, classes, supplies
Artistic Cake Design
What they do
Custom wedding and celebration cakes, buttercream sheet cakes, and a variety of flavours and fillings; also cake-decorating classes and sales of decorating supplies. Tel. (613) 722-4801.
What they do
24-hour cakes
Set designs chosen by the decorators themselves, baked and iced to order for next-day pickup, in vanilla, chocolate or marble.
What they do
Wedding and tiered cakes
Ordered through their wedding cake form; their annual Wedding Event runs in the new year with its own offer.
What they do
DECO Foundations classes
Saturday cake-decorating courses for ages 16+, DECO-1 then DECO-2, tools and a certificate included.
What they do
Decorating supply shop
Fondant, gumpaste flowers, sprinkles and dragees, luster dust, piping tips, chocolate, boards and boxes, over the counter and online.
What they do
Creation Station
Fondant decorations — plaques, flowers, figures — handmade by their own team and sold separately.
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Custom cake ordersWedding cake consultationsCake decorating classes and workshopsGift cardsIn-store supply shopping during store hours
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Where to find them
The shop is at 1390 Clyde Ave, Unit 106, Ottawa ON K2G 3H9, in the Nepean part of the city just off Merivale Road; the phone number on their own site is 613-722-4801. Store hours as published on their site are Monday to Wednesday 9am to 3pm, Thursday and Friday 9am to 5pm, Saturday 9am to 3pm, and closed Sundays. It is one address that does everything: the Mainstreeter reporter who visited describes a front counter with a display case of recent cakes and a central table reserved for classes, and 24-hour cakes are picked up here in set windows.
UAFest is held in Riverside Park on Lake Ave W in Carleton Place on Sunday 13 September 2026. The festival's own site puts the park about a 45-minute drive west of downtown Ottawa, by Hwy 417 W to Hwy 7 W and then Hwy 15 S.
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73
1973
Pastry chef and chocolatier Russel Bloomfield opens the first store on Preston Street
84
1984
Brian Bloomfield becomes president; the shop runs from a location on Wellington
20
2020
Announced 28 August — James Bloomfield and co-owner Andrew Lacelle buy the business rather than let it close, and reopen on 1 September for scheduled pickup
23
2023
The 24-hour cake service launches, announced by the team on CTV Morning LIVE
24
2024
Sponsored UAFest 2024
Artistic Cake Design
Questions & answers
Where is Artistic Cake Design and when is it open?
At 1390 Clyde Ave, Unit 106, Ottawa ON K2G 3H9, phone 613-722-4801. Their site lists store hours as Monday to Wednesday 9am to 3pm, Thursday and Friday 9am to 5pm, Saturday 9am to 3pm, closed Sundays.
How far in advance do I need to order a cake?
Their 24-hour cakes can be bought for pickup the next day, with pickup Tuesday and Wednesday 1pm to 3pm, Thursday and Friday 1pm to 5pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm; Saturday orders must be in by 1pm Friday, and Sunday or Monday orders are picked up on the Saturday. Fully custom work goes through their order form, and the shop says custom orders once carried a two-week lead time.
Can I learn cake decorating there?
Yes. DECO-1 Foundations is the starting course: a Saturday from 10am to about 4pm, ages 16 and up, $195, including a decorating tool kit, an iced 8-inch cake in vanilla, chocolate or marble, five hours of instruction and a certificate. DECO-2 requires DECO-1 and adds basket weave, scroll work, garlands, swiss dots and more piped flowers. Gift-card versions of both courses are sold at $220.35, and workshops are released quarterly on a first-come-first-served basis.
Do they make wedding cakes?
Yes, ordered through their own wedding cake form, with tiered designs in their wedding gallery. They also run an annual Wedding Event early in the year; for the 2025 edition, running 6 January to 28 February, they offered 15% off when the cake was paid in full, a complimentary anniversary cake matched to the wedding cake, and entry into a draw to win the wedding cake. Delivery was excluded from the discount.
Who runs the shop?
The third generation of the founding family. Their About page lists Russel Bloomfield as founder and president from 1973 to 1984, Brian Bloomfield as president from 1984 to 2020, and James Bloomfield and Andrew Lacelle as President and Vice President from 2020 onward.
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