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Thirsty Whale Bakery

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Timeless, tier to tier. All-white, hand-piped swags, scrolls, and shell borders in true vintage style — the kind of cake that's never out of fashion at the front of the room. Saying "I do" soon? Let's design the cake your guests won't stop talking about.

4149 Fremont Ave N MPLS, MN
www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com

#weddingcake #vintageweddingcake #buttercreamwedding #lambethpiping #cakedesign #engaged by @thirstywhalebakery

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A birthday 65 million years in the making. A baby dino breaking free from its egg, bark-textured layers, and prehistoric tracks all around — Happy Birthday, James. For the kid (or kid at heart) who roars. Planning a dino party? We'll hatch something epic.

4149 Fremont ave N Mpls, MN
www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com

#dinosaurcake #dinoparty #sculptedcake #birthdaycake #jurassicvibes #cakeart by @thirstywhalebakery

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4 months ago

Years of study, stitched into buttercream. From the crisp collar to the heartbeat tracing across the front, this one celebrated Dr. Mohammed and everything that title took to earn. Toasting a new doctor in your life? Let's make their milestone

4149 Fremont Ave N Mpls, Mn
www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com

#doctorcake #graduationcake #medschool #customcake #celebrationcake by @thirstywhalebakery

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4 months ago

Surprise — there's no pizza here, just cake. Pepperoni, olives, a cheesy pull, and one slice already gone, all for Asher's very first birthday. Because the best first-birthday cakes make everyone do a double take. Dreaming up a smash cake with a twist.

4149 Fremont Ave N Mpls, MN
www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com

#pizzacake #firstbirthday #1stbirthdaycake #noveltycake #sculptedcake by @thirstywhalebakery

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4 months ago

Under the sea, in pastel. Hand-shaped scales shimmering blue to pink, a pearl tucked in its shell, a mermaid tail mid-splash — a little one's birthday wish, made real.
We'll bring the magic.

4149 Fremont ave N Mpls, MN
www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com
#mermaidcake #undertheseaparty #birthdaycake #buttercreamart #kidsbirthday by @thirstywhalebakery

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4 months ago

Look twice. The screen, the readings, the contrast cylinder — it's all cake. We recreated this cardiac injection system down to the flow rate for a celebration in the medical world, because the best "how did they DO that" cakes start with a wild idea.

4149 Fremont Ave N Mpls, MN
www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com

#sculptedcake #3dcake #medicalcake #caketopper #howdidtheydothat #realisticcake by @thirstywhalebakery

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4 months ago

Some send-offs deserve more than a card. Every boat in this fleet was hand-painted by brush — sails catching wind, hulls cutting through the water — for a "Bon Voyage, Mark!" worth remembering. When the moment is big, we paint it onto cake.

4149 Fremont Ave N Mpls, MN
www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com

#customcake #handpaintedcake #bonvoyage #retirementcake #edibleart by @thirstywhalebakery

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4 months ago

Bruno Mars needed a cake.

Not just any cake. A Thirsty Whale cake specifically — because we make the best cakes and can consistently deliver as we are built a reputation as the bakery that simply does not miss — word travels. Even to people whose own name is on a marquee at the US Bank Stadium.

We treated it exactly the same as every other order we've ever made.

Same 4am start. Same obsessive attention to every detail. Same standard that has never — not once — been lowered for any reason, for any customer, on any morning in the history of this kitchen.

Because here's the thing we've always believed at Thirsty Whale:

Every person who orders from us is the most important customer we have that day. The bride who's been planning her wedding for two years. The dad who wanted something extraordinary for his daughter's graduation. The family celebrating a birthday that only comes around once. They all get the same championship-level work.

Bruno Mars just happens to have better tour merch than most.

We made his cake. We put everything into it — the way we always do. We don't kiss and tell on the details, but we will say this: it held up. Championship level, all the way.

And the next morning — after the calls and the excitement and the moment that the whole team will honestly never forget — we showed up and made cakes for the people of Minneapolis and St Paul with the exact same energy.

Because that's what this bakery is.

That's what it has always been.

If it's good enough for Bruno Mars — and it is — it's waiting right here for you

www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com
4149 Fremont Ave N Mpls, MN by @thirstywhalebakery

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5 months ago

Nobody writes about the flour on the floor.

By 6am it's already dusted white. By 10am there are rings where the turntables spun, streaks where someone moved fast between the cooling racks and the decorating station, a single boot print near the walk-in where someone stopped mid-step because they needed both hands for something that couldn't wait.

The flour on the floor in June is different from any other month.

Somewhere right now, a woman who spent four years studying something everyone told her was too hard is walking across a stage while her mother films it sideways on an iPhone and cries so hard she can't see the screen. Somewhere else, two people who found each other in the most improbable way are standing in front of everyone they love and saying — out loud, in front of witnesses — that they are choosing this. On purpose. Forever.

Two beginnings. One season. Colliding right here, right now, in the most cake-worthy convergence of the entire year.

A four-tier wedding cake that took eleven hours to build, each sugar flower placed by a hand that has placed ten thousand of them and still pauses to make sure this one is right.

A graduation cake decorated with the graduate's actual handwriting — transferred from a photo their parent sent us at midnight, because they wanted it to feel like their kid made it with them.

The thing we're most proud of is the flour on the floor.

The proof that in a small shop in North Minneapolis, a team of people showed up before the sun did and gave everything they had to make sure that your beginning — your wedding, your graduation, your family's most important Saturday — had a cake worthy of the moment.

That's Thirsty Whale. That's June. That's us. 🐋🎂

We still have summer dates available for wedding and graduation cakes. If your moment is coming — we'd be honored to be part of it. by @thirstywhalebakery

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5 months ago

You know that person in your life who has everything?

Get them a Thirsty Whale cake.

Not because they need it. Because no one has ever given them something made by a team that treats every single order like it's the only one they've ever made.

Nobody has ever given them that.

Until you do.

This weekend — the graduation parties, the summer celebrations, the "I just wanted to show up with something extraordinary" moments — stop bringing the same thing everyone else brings. Bring a Thirsty Whale cake. Bring the cheesecake that makes people pull out their phones before they even cut into it. Bring the custom creation that makes the host say "wait, where did you GET this" before they've even set it on the table.

Be the person who found Thirsty Whale.

You'll never bring anything else to a party again.

www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com
4149 Fremont Ave N Mpls, MN

#ThirstyWhaleBakery #GiftIdeas #CakeGift #FoodNetwork #CustomCakes #Cheesecake #MNBakery #WeekendPlans #GraduationGift #BirthdayCake #Goldbelly #MNFood #ShipNationwide by @thirstywhalebakery

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5 months ago

Its just sooooo good.

#ThirstyWhaleBakery #StrawberryCrunch #Cheesecake #CustomCakes #WalkerMN #Wayzata #MNBakery #NationalChampions #FoodNetwork #ScratchMade #TreatYourself #MNFood #CakesOfInstagram #Goldbelly #ShipNationwide #BakeryLife by @thirstywhalebakery

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It doesn't show the 4am starts. The sugar flower that took forty minutes to get right because it needed to be exactly right. The team that shows up every morning not because they have to — but because they genuinely believe that a great cake can change the way someone's day feels.

That's what you're ordering when you order from Thirsty Whale.

Not just a cake. Not just a cookie. The work of a team that competed at the highest level in the country — to make something extraordinary for you.

www.ThirstyWhaleBakery.com
4149 Fremont Ave N Mpls, MN
#ThirstyWhaleBakery #NationalChampions #FoodNetwork #TravelChannel #AwardWinning #WalkerMN #Wayzata #MNBakery #CustomCakes #CakeArtist #ScratchMade #BestBakery #TwinCities #MNFood #CakesOfInstagram #BakeryLife by @thirstywhalebakery

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