Our story
Everyone has some wild new years resolutions, I'm sure we can all relate. Jamila's (or Jam as all her friends call her) resolution for 2023 was to stop procrastinating. Through her ADHD hyper-focus, this resolution manifested itself into Semi-Sweet Cakes. Jam has always had a flare for baking, a passion for supporting local and a drive to help save the planet one concious choice at a time. This has given her an escape from her own thoughts, a chance to express her creativity (outside of the boring 9-5 *boooo*) and bring a little joy into others lives too.
Like everyone, Jam loves a good cake and is a massive sweet tooth, but always struggled to find cakes that have a good balance of sweet and taste delicious. It's always WAY too sweet or not sweet enough. Jam is also gluten intolerant (again, *booooo*) so finding a baker that can cater to her flavour preferences and make it gluten free is a hard basket task to say the least. So here she is, trying to create new flavour combo's and spark that creative joy by making cakes for others.
She truly hopes you love what she can create and is always looking for something out of the ordinary to elevate her own skills and hopefully wow her customers.
Meet Our Suppliers
The businesses that help make ours so great!
Meet Our Butter People
The Butter People - Our Story
Kylie has had a love affair with flavour for a very long time... she’s has always enjoyed making great tasting food using the best ingredients possible.
Her partner Kris, specialising in Perth’s hospitality scene appreciated fine food as well, (most notably the
delicious fare made right at home).
In 2012 Kylie started searching for a local WA butter that was free from cream using gums and thickeners but discovered that she couldn’t find one... It also turned out that butter was no longer produced locally anymore; let alone with the all-natural approach she was obsessively searching for.
Because of this, Kylie decided to make her own butter.One that was full of flavour, wholesome and exactly what was missing - areal grass-fed butter, made right here in WA!
In 2017 The Butter People was born. A husband-and-wife team dedicated to spreading the joy of great
tasting food for us all, one roll of butter at a time.
✓ 100% natural, free from preservatives, thickeners, and other nasties.
✓ Tastes amazing, a real butter that is unrivalled in flavour & aroma.
✓ Made from gorgeous cream, sourced from WA’s most ethical and sustainable dairy farm, Bannister Downs.
✓ Well-loved cows which are predominately Grass-fed, so happy & healthy that they frolic.
✓ Lightly garnished with a WA Lake Salt, sourced from the lowest-carbon-emission salt producer in Australia.
✓ Spreadable Butter is naturally softened with a cold-pressed, certified organic olive oil.
✓ Packaging that is biodegradable & compostable breaking down naturally within 4-6 weeks.
✓ WA Owned & WA Operated, a local producer crafting butter that consumers are desperately searching for.
✓ Made with love by two people who genuinely care.
If you want to learn more, check them out here
Vanilla Ice Ice Baby
Natural Vanilla O’Connor - About Us
Natural Vanilla has established ourselves as a premium producer of high quality vanilla products over a 15 year period of intensive research and development. We are very proud of the premium range of vanilla products that we have created using only all natural gourmet quality ingredients.
Our focus has been on creating a superior quality range of vanilla products that capture intense vanilla flavours.
If you want to learn more, check them out here
Need Flour?
No Worries!
Kakulas Sister - About Us
Kakulas Sister is a family owned business started by Eleni Kakulas in 1994 as an offshoot of her family’s business Kakulas Brothers. Eleni’s grandfather Evangelos and Uncle Stavros emigrated to Australia from Kastellorizo Greece in 1923 and opened Kakulas Bros in 1929.
Semi-Sweet Cakes sources all our dry ingredients like flours (SRF & GF), nuts, dried fruits etc from this fantastic store and their staff’s friendly faces and the fantastic ability to minimise on unnecessary packaging is a win for everyone!
If you want to learn more, check them out here
Freo’s Bespoke Blooms
Ivey Flowers - About Us
Ivey Flowers is a local Fremantle Florist, delivering flowers daily for any occasion. Claire Ives has over 25 years experience in creating unique and captivating floral arrangements to suit any style and taste. Please feel free to browse our online selection of floral arrangements, we take pride in being more than just a flower shop and look for opportunities to delight our customers, with stunning and original designs.
If you want to learn more, check them out here
Laser Cutting Extraordinaire’s!
Lockstone - About Us
I'm Adele - the creator of all things laser cut here at Lockstone and my husband Ron who helps out behind the scenes. We are a small business operating from the Perth hills in Western Australia.
We love custom work whether it be signage, cake toppers, wedding place names, table numbers, switch panels, labels whatever you can imagine we would love to help make your visions a reality.
The amazing Adele supplies Semi-Sweet Cakes with all our custom cake toppers and cake charms. She’s an absolute visionary and constantly helps us make all your cake dreams come true!
If you want to learn more, check them out here
Hand Dyed Sprinkles
Doe Sprinkles - About Us
Doe Sprinkles was started in 2019 by Danielle Buckett, a cake artist and mother from Perth, Australia.
Starting with a healthy sprinkle addiction of her own, and after hunting high and low for the elegant, subtle and sophisticated colours she craved, Danielle set out to create her own sprinkle brand that was different from the rest.
Doe Sprinkles provides all our stunning deluxe sprinkles you se all over our cakes and dainty sprinkles on our cupcakes!
If you want to learn more, check them out here