About

My name is Bob Woodington, and for me baking was always a hobby. Whether it was my great-grandmother’s fudge recipe or sugar cookies at Christmastime, or homemade rolls at Thanksgiving, I always felt at home with something rising in the oven.

At James Madison University, I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, though a series of jobs left me without a regular outlet for my creative side.

In time, I married, and had three beautiful daughters. Each year as their birthdays would come, I found us spending more and more for birthday cakes that were…unspectacular. I felt that I could make a cake as good or better than those we were getting from the store. But if I were going to make a cake, I wasn’t going to just make an ordinary cake – I had to kick it to the next level. And Cakes by Bob was born!

I have lived in Virginia most of my life- in Fredericksburg, Alexandria, and Sterling, and I went to school at JMU in Harrisonburg, VA. For the last three years I have lived in Chesterfield, VA and that is where Cakes by Bob makes its home.