Ruth Aspinall

Ruth's first serious culinary experience was serving blue mashed potatoes to her parents and brother at the age of nine. While the colour palette has changed, Ruth's interest in food hasn't waivered. Opting out of the corporate world, Ruth and husband Scott opened one of Niagara-on-the-Lakes' favourite restaurants, The Epicurean, in 1991.

Ruth has a great deal of food training under her apron. She has studied at Cordon Bleu in London, Escoffier in Paris as well as a certificate program in Pastry at The Culinary Institute of America, and Peter Kump's in New York City. She has also studied cake design with Lindy Smith as well as Bonnie Gordon, Canada's foremost wedding cake designer.

Ruth's wedding cakes have been featured in weddings in Vancouver, Toronto, Hamilton, Chicago, and Lexington (Kentucky).

Eda Marion

Eda has always had a passion for the Arts and began training as a fashion designer at Lasalle College in Montreal many years ago. Although she eventually settled on a ‘normal’ career-path in the corporate world and moved to Toronto, she continued taking courses in the artistic field including fabric design, oil painting, stained glass, photography & sculpting/mould-making to name a few.

Several years ago she stumbled across a book by Kaye & Liv Hansen (The Whimsical Bakehouse) and the colourful chocolate butterflies jumped from the page and changed her life forever. Eda has successfully channeled all of her artistic training to the field of cake design and has since studied with many top cake artists including Bonnie Gordon, Liv Hansen, Collette Peters and Lindy Smith to name a few. She is intensely interested in creating unique one-of-kind designs and creates her own moulds in order to achieve this. Her partnership with Ruth was a natural fit and she relocated to Niagara-on-the-Lake to help expand Ruth’s already successful wedding cake business.