Christine & Phil Jensen

Christine and Phil Jensen have owned and run small yet internationally recognised cake design studio improbably located in West Cornwall. Their innovative custom cake creations have been sought out for both flavour and design flair, and are delivered across the UK.

Their award winning skills and business experiences are regularly demonstrated and shared at national cake shows and industry events across the UK, with customary warm, engaging, open style. Phil joined the business in 2015. (Christine & Phil have been married for 25 years this year, but working in cake together was an entirely new level of togetherness!) With backgrounds in the health service and architecture (and both with MA’s that further enabled us to teach in our respective fields), we refocused and retrained with some serious study of patisserie and confectionery.

Peboryon is now a preferred cake supplier to The Dorchester, The Langham, The Ned, along with other 5 star London hotels. In the South West, we’re preferred suppliers to Watergate Bay, Hotel Endsleigh, Hotel Tresanton and fine Country Houses like Boconnoc Estate.

Their experience of the isolation, hardship, and lack of knowledge when they started out in the industry drove them in 2018 to found The Cake Professionals, a business organisation focussed on practically supporting UK cake entrepreneurs, to help them thrive, not just survive. 

This will be their third annual conference. It will be followed later this year with The Cake Professionals Awards, their second national awards programme for real cake orders.

The desire to honour and celebrate people well is the fuel behind their passion. 

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Pubic speaking/Baking Demos:

Both Phil & Christine are trained public speakers. With decades of experience in working in groups, workshops and at the podium, across subjects as varied as dealing with your demons to global supply chain development. They really enjoy bringing a little lightness, laughter and learning to the room. 

They can regularly be found at food festivals across England demonstrating their favourite sweet treat, or at wedding industry or business gatherings sharing what they’ve learned along the way. They’re rubbish at doing fake, so feel free to bring your real self.

Masterclasses:

During 2020 Christine & Phil had to chance to return to the foundations of great cake. They were able to indulge their love of baking. These popular baking masterclasses were filmed during the pandemic, and include the recipes and processes that have made them award winning bakers. They released these through BLACK BOX CAKE, their pivot cake-by-post business.

TV work:

Extreme Cake Makers (Featured in over 50 episodes across Series 1-4) 2017- 2019. Boomerang for Channel 4. Their commissions lead to contributions including responses on camera from: Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Chef Rick Stein, Dame Esther Rantzen, Carol Vorderman, Chef Will Torrent.

Julie Walter’s Coastal Train Journeys – 2017. Alaska TV for Channel 4. A short, but fabulous afternoon visit from Julie Walters in Episode 3. She helped in the kitchen and studio and explored our London delivery service.

The Mel & Sue Show – 2015 - Brief live appearance, with the most ridiculous interactive tombola cake, for Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Comedian Alan Davies and Chef legend Ken Hom. 

Awards:

Great Taste Awards - Sept 2020 -  PinaColada Cake: A light coconut sponge with rum roasted pineapple, rum and pineapple syrup & rum buttercream.

Cake Masters Magazine – Nov 2019 - Top 10 UK Cake Maker

Broadcast Awards - 2018 - Extreme Cake Makers - Best Daytime Show

The Great Cornish Food Breakthrough Award 2015 - Finalist - Peboryon identified as a newcomer of high standing in the food and drink sector in the South West.

Cake International (the world’s biggest cake show) – 2015 - Best in Class – A handwritten replica of Magna Carta in the decorative cake category

Port Eliot Festival – June 2015 - Kitchen Cup for Best in Show – winning with a cake designed to celebrate the festival, cup presented by Rick Stein.

Writing:

Christine has worked as a freelance writer for the last nine years. She has had feature pieces published in Cake Masters Magazine (distributed in the UK & USA), and also American Cake Decorating Magazine. She is responsible for covering relationally focused pieces bi-monthly for WED magazine (calling on her work in mental health and as a counsellor). She has also had several pieces on leadership and grief published in online magazines based Stateside.