Roxanne Riley, owner of Foxy Cakes in Jackson Hole, is a self-taught baker and cake designer. A lover of arts and crafts, Riley started her business in July 2019 baking cakes after they became popular with friends. In 2020, making the best out of quarantine, she decided it was time to teach herself the art of baking cookies, too.
With little-to-no professional baking experience, Riley has come a long way in a short time, learning to use a pocket projector to create uniform letters and spacing, airbrush machines to fine tune details, and food coloring to create a beautiful, hand painted, watercolor look, with her designs.
I really didn’t know anything about cookies. I paint with food coloring and vodka. The vodka just evaporates but it helps to dry the colors quicker and leaves less of a sticky feel. I learned all about this during quarantine.
Roxanne Riley, owner of Foxy Cakes
The process takes Riley about three days, from start to finish, to cut, bake and decorate a dozen cookies. She makes her own frosting, often a variety of colors per order, and then outlines any words and details with icing. Then the cookies need at least eight hours to dry before adding the finishing touches. Riley finds inspiration for her cookies and cakes from designers like Lisa Frank, and anything colorful, like tie dye, rainbows, and sunshine.
She has created a number of fun, flavorful custom designs for baby showers, and birthdays, weddings, holidays, rehearsal dinners, and as gifts. Some of her favorites to date are, African-themed elephant and giraffe animal cookies for a rehearsal dinner, a multi-colored leopard Lisa Frank design, for a birthday, and Border Collie cookies herding sheep cookies, for an animal couples’ wedding.
I love the Lisa Frank ones, the leopard cookies. I love anything bright colored and kid oriented. The ones that I thought were going to be impossible were the Border Collies herding sheep. I was so stressed out.
Roxanne Riley
Although Riley is new in the baking business, she has found a passion for designing cookies and cakes, making them both beautiful and delicious, while bringing joy to any occasion. Starting at $60 a dozen, Riley can design and create a cookie or cupcake that will light up the room.
Custom cakes start at $125 and include a variety of cake flavors like classic vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, lemon, and carrot cake. For something a little more unique try funfetti, matcha, coconut, red velvet or graham cracker, and top it off with a homemade lavender, marshmallow, salted caramel, peanut butter, raspberry or key lime, buttercream frosting. Gluten free, dairy free, and vegan cake options are also available.
To place an order visit Foxy Cakes online, email foxycakesjh@gmail.com, or send @foxycakesjh a direct message on Instagram. Foxy Cakes will also ship USPS, allowing Riley to be a part of her customers’ events from afar. And if you’re looking for something festive and fun for the upcoming holidays, preorders are available two weeks in advance.
You’re paying for a little work of art. I love it when a customer will give me a color scheme and an idea and I can tie in my own creative element. My favorite cookies come from those creative freedom situations, the ‘just go for it,’ ones.
Roxanne Riley
