Mrs. Pearl's Cakes & Pies

From Our Kitchen to Your Table

We're on a mission to bake, cook, and create the best cakes, pies, and dishes you can dream up - each one seasoned with New Orleans flair and finished with a little Jacksonville soul. Whether it's an intimate dinner for two, a birthday to remember, a wedding to celebrate, or an event that calls for something unforgettable, we're here for it.

So go ahead, tell us your dream cake, what's calling your name for dinner tonight, or what your sweet tooth is craving. Let's make it.


My story begins in New Orleans in the 1980s, in a small kitchen filled with the smell of home cooking that my mother was preparing as she worked in the kitchen. Her name was Gladys, and watching her cook is where my love for food truly began. She was a quiet, shy woman by nature, but something beautiful happened when she stood over that stove. Her whole face would light up watching people enjoy what she made. That smile is the reason I fell in love with cooking.

By the time I was 15, I couldn't stay out of her kitchen anymore. I started experimenting with New Orleans flavors right alongside her, learning by watching, tasting, and asking questions. Cooking was more than food in our house, it was how my mother expressed her love. It was how she gathered her family close and kept them near, even when words didn't come easy for her. Every meal was her way of saying "I love you" without having to say it at all. I've carried that gift with me ever since, along with a knack for keeping a dozen things going in the kitchen at once.


Signature Creations

Each dish are fresh ingredients, created with love and transformed not only to appeal to your sense but your eyes.

Carrot Cake

Red Velvet Cake

Sweet Potato Poundcake

A traditional, from-scratch carrot cake with a soft, moist crumb made with freshly grated carrots, warm spices, and pecans, then generously covered in velvety-smooth cream cheese frosting.

A classic southern favorite rich and decadent, moist velvet layers paired with luscious cream cheese.

A dense, moist sweet potato pound cake baked to golden perfection, draped in a sweet confectioner's glaze, finished with intricately swirled caramel.

N'awlins Spice, Jacksonville Nice

A Flavor Fusion Like No Other!

Every dish is a testament to disciplined prep, fresh ingredients, and unhurried patience, creating an intimate experience.

A Culinary Portfolio

Some of my favorite things to make are gumbo, pound cakes, and all kinds of pies. These dishes carry pieces of both my mother and Mrs. Pearl in every bite. And I'm still learning, still growing, blending old-fashioned country cooking with new ideas for the future. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's this:

“You never stop learning how to cook, because there's always more love to put into it”.

- Robert Claiborne

The Road That Brought Us Here

Building 2 legacies in Jacksonville, Fl.

In 2010, I moved to Jacksonville, Florida, not knowing that I was about to meet someone who would change my life and become like a second mother to me. Her name is Mrs. Pearl, and from the moment we met, something just clicked. She was known around town for the treats she created at her beloved bakery, Cakes Galore, at 48th and Main. I was studying at the Culinary Art Institute at the time, and Mrs. Pearl took me under her wing like I was one of her own. She taught me everything. I learned every trick, every technique, every ounce of love that went into her baking. I eventually became her head baker and assistant manager. While she still created recipes for Publix grocery stores.

Mrs. Pearl had a heart as big as her talent. She could be tough but a true perfectionist. Everyone around her knew it came from a place of deep caring. She is a master at designing cakes, and buttercream was her signature gift. I'll never forget the day she taught me how to sculpt the Eiffel Tower out of chocolate and buttercream, patiently guiding my hands until I got it just right. I was ecstatic because that was my 1st $5,000 creation and from there I knew I would only get better.

None of Mrs. Pearl's own children shared her passion for the kitchen. But she saw something in me and we considered each other family. She trusted me with her most treasured buttercream cake recipes, the ones she'd spent a lifetime perfecting and passed it on to me. That trust is something I carry with me every single day and something I want to live on with this new business.

Now, through “Mrs. Pearl Cakes & Pies”, I get to keep her legacy alive, one cake, one pie, one recipe at a time.


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