Veloquinash is a boutique confectionery workshop in Raleigh where every cake, pastry, and dessert is made from scratch using only natural ingredients and classic techniques. We create custom celebration cakes, French-inspired pastries, and dessert tables for weddings, birthdays, corporate events, and everyday sweet cravings.
Custom Celebration Cakes
Every cake begins with a personal consultation to understand your theme, favorite flavors, and design vision. We bake fresh to order using real butter, fresh fruits, premium chocolate, and house-made fillings with no artificial preservatives. Final cakes are hand-decorated with artistic details that look almost too beautiful to cut but taste even better than they look.
Wedding and Event Dessert Tables
We design and create complete dessert displays featuring miniature tarts, macarons, cake pops, cupcakes, and signature pastries perfectly matched to your color scheme and style. Everything is prepared fresh the day before or morning of your event and delivered with professional setup. Guests receive a stunning variety that serves as both decoration and delicious takeaway memories.
Daily Pastries and Take-Home Treats
Our display case offers freshly baked French croissants, Danish pastries, cookies, brownies, and seasonal fruit tarts every morning. Special orders for office meetings, teacher gifts, or family gatherings are ready for same-day pickup or local delivery. Regular customers love our weekend specials and limited-edition flavors announced each Thursday.
We are one of the few patisseries in North Carolina owned and operated by a husband-and-wife team formally trained in classic French pastry in Paris and New York. Every single item leaves our kitchen only when it meets our personal standard of perfection because our family name is on the box. Customers return week after week because they taste the difference that real ingredients and genuine passion create. No shortcuts, no premixes, and no compromises have been our promise since day one.
Unlike large commercial bakeries, we limit daily production so nothing sits under heat lamps or gets frozen for weeks. Your cake or pastry is baked specifically for you, cooled properly, and decorated just hours before pickup or delivery. This small-batch approach guarantees the flakiest croissants, the creamiest fillings, and the freshest possible taste in every bite. Clients constantly tell us our desserts remind them of European bakery experiences they thought were impossible to find locally.
We source dairy from local North Carolina farms, use cage-free eggs, and buy fruits at peak season from farmers we know personally. Supporting local producers matters deeply to us and creates noticeably better flavor than mass-produced ingredients. Seasonal menus change every few weeks so regular customers always discover something new and perfectly timed with what tastes best right now. This commitment to quality and community sets us apart from chain dessert shops.
Nothing is frozen or premade — every dessert is freshly baked the same day you receive it. This guarantees the best possible texture and flavor in every single bite.
Every custom cake order includes a complimentary tasting and one-on-one design session at no extra charge. You see and taste exactly what your final dessert will be before committing.
We bake fresh daily and offer pickup or delivery throughout the Triangle area every single day including weekends. Last-minute dessert emergencies are never a problem for us.
Veloquinash opened in twenty nineteen when husband-and-wife team Daniel and Sophia relocated from New York City to raise their family in North Carolina. After years working in some of the finest pastry kitchens in Manhattan and Paris, they wanted to create a neighborhood workshop where people could experience true European-quality desserts made with Southern hospitality. The tiny shop on Brookside Avenue quickly became known for cakes that taste as incredible as they look. Today the same couple still personally makes every dessert with help from a small team of passionate bakers.
We start work at three in the morning to ensure croissants come out of the oven exactly when the shop opens at seven. Watching customers take their first bite and seeing their eyes light up is the reason we keep such early hours. Regulars have become friends who celebrate birthdays, graduations, and new babies with us year after year. Many say walking through our door feels like stepping into a little piece of France right here in Raleigh.
Community matters deeply to us, so we host monthly pastry classes for adults and children, donate leftover treats to local shelters, and participate in every downtown Raleigh food festival. Supporting other small businesses by featuring their coffee, flowers, and artwork in our space creates the warm atmosphere everyone loves. Couples who ordered their wedding cake here now bring their toddlers for Saturday morning pastries. Watching these relationships grow is the sweetest part of owning SweetBloom.
Let’s Make Something Sweet Together