Rosebud Cakes

ALL BARK, NO BITE… I heard about Rosebud Cakes from a few of my neighbors. At the time, I was new to the area, and had not, yet, partaken in Rosebud Cakes. I called to inquire because I was hosting an upcoming event. The manager on duty (an older man) bragged about Rosebud Cakes – of course, then invited me in for a tasting. The various samples of cake flavors that I tasted were ‘alright.’ Nothing your mouth would water over. However, my primary concern was the art work, cake design – if you will. Again, the manager on duty bragged. This time, he bragged on how adept his bakers were with achieving an artfully crafted cake while maintaining great taste. Emm… I don’t know about that. Anyway, I ordered the cake while crossing my fingers, hoping for the best. On the day of my event, the cake was delivered late without any form of contact. The delivery person sneaked through the back door of the venue to deliver the cake without me knowing – for good reason, I soon discovered… My cake looked nothing like what WE (the manger on duty and I) designed, or what I had asked for. When I called Rosebud Cakes to inquire about the error, I was told that the baker/​artist COULD NOT achieve the design, and did the best she could to portray the theme. Emm… You would think that I’d receive a courtesy call in advance so that WE could discuss an alternative for my cake. But, «NO!» She took it upon herself to change the design of my cake without giving me prior notice. The end result of my mediocre tasting cake was SIMPLE – at best. I could have ordered a BETTER tasting and BETTER crafted cake from Sam’s Club… Naturally, Rosebud Cakes, finally, CLOSED… I don’t understand how they managed for 27 years…

It’s so sad to learn that Rosebud Cakes is closed! Talented people who create happiness for people! My friend loves the cake, and it made his birthday unforgettable. The cake is so cute, and tastes really good. I had the strawberry filling and everyone in the party loved it. Thank you Rosebud Cakes!

Female owner was super super sweet! Immediately offered up a cake tasting of all there flavors just as we had walked in the front door. We chose the chocolate raspberry mouse cake for our wedding with an all white outside with white swirls. Cake was fresh and delicious. 2 tier cake about 10 in round bottom cake and 6 in top. cost about $ 180

Got my wedding cake here after tasting everything hip and cool on the west side. This little shop in a not so chic part of Beverly Hills turns out delicious cake. They have an amazing staff of talented artisans who will astound you with their decorating skills.
Seriously, why would you mark an important birthday with some boring knock off of a box style home made, when you can get a hand decorated, specialty baked, out if this world creation from ROSEBUD CAKES?
I wish I could eat a slice of Rosebud sponge cake with fruit and mascarpone filling right now!!!

Rosebud cakes, I come to Elin for all of my milestone birthday cakes. I always like to see myself as a cake, and I love that they always incorporate some of my favorite things too. The location is a little small, but I guess that works for them.
As for the cakes, not only do they look good… they always taste amazing. When I go I try the different flavors that they have and I always try to get something different each time. My first cake for my 21^st birthday was a mocha cake which tasted better then what I imagined it would. My 25^th birthday cake was a white cake with raspberry filling. This cake was even better than the first. I came in the some ideas and a picture of myself and they did the rest of the work Elin part some ideas on a piece of paper and I liked what I saw, but the finished product was the best part.
The only thing they got wrong this time was the color, I consider myself to be a dark brown color, but the picture of me on the cake was too light. Other then that it was perfect. On my first cake, they got the color of my skin perfect. I will be coming back for my 30^th (YIKES) birthday. I know that cake will be the cake of all cakes. I am setting the standard HIGH. I hope they are ready. Oh and there is a $ 300 minimum on ALL ORDERS, just so you know.

I don’t usually re-​review any location but I felt after my experience with Rosebuds I would.
I had visited them the first time before my bridal shower and ordered both the cake for that party and my wedding from them. Honestly, there are really no words to describe how amazing my cakes turned out. For my shower Elin made a replica of a Chanel purse, YSL shoes, and Christian Dior shopping bag. It was literally out of this world. It took people a second look back to realize that was the cake. Not to mention how delicious it was.
For my wedding, Rosebud made a gigantic and regal pillow cake accented with trim and sugar flowers. There was actually a line at the cake table for guests to take pictures. It was better than I could have ever dreamed. Every detail fit perfectly with my Arabian nights theme and I had enough cake to feed an army.
I just ordered my baby shower cake from them and can’t wait to see what Elin does with my circus concept. I do know it will be out of this world and my guests will be talking about it for a long time.
They are an amazing bunch of cake makers and decorators. Try the poppy seed cake with raspberry and pistachio. It’s my new favorite.

I’m shocked at the less than stellar reviews. Where else can you go in for tasting after tasting without an appointment and try such a wide variety of cakes? Most cake shops are far too sweet for me and quite dry, but Rosebud cakes are nice and moist, and with such a wide variety to choose from I was able to find several great options. They made me a beautiful rose covered wedding cake textured to match my design. I was thrilled. Note that their tasting selection changes weekly, so if you have a particular cake you’d like to try, put in a request beforehand.

I absolutely love Rosebud Cakes! I have used this bakery for 2 baby showers and 4 of my birthdays. This year, I looked at another bakery since I was really fond of a cupcake flavor and wanted that flavor in a cake. They were not helpful in trying to get my cake design down to my set budget. They refused to assist me in downsizing the design and offered to make the majority of the cake rice crispy treats. This was unacceptable, so I gave up the flavor and went to Rosebud Cakes since I knew they would assist me in getting the design I was seeking for the cake (not rice crispy treats). Elin is always willing to work with me to get the design I try to obtain with my budget. The cakes are always spectacular and this year, I received more than I thought I would get for my budget.
Thank you once again, Elin!!!

I couldn’t be happier with the service we received from Rosebud Cakes for our wedding! When looking for our wedding cake vendor we started out pretty discouraged with some unsuccessful appointments.
Meeting Elin was a breath of fresh air! From our first sit down when she gave us more samples than we knew what to do with to hand sketching my wedding cake (yup, I have a full sketch of my wedding cake which is a great little keepsake) I knew we found «our guys.»
Being from the South, we also have a tradition of a groom’s cake so we tasked Elin not only with the design of the wedding cake (I wanted a 3 tier cake with champagne ruffles & lace overlay… she nailed it) but also with a 3-​D Alabama golf bag with an elephant head golf head cover (it’s the groom’s cake, he gets whatever he wants…).
Both cakes exceeded our expectations & were the talk of our wedding. Not only did they look stunning but they were delicious! The groom’s cake was a traditional yellow cake (very moist & flavorful, simple but perfect to balance out all of the icing). My wedding cake was 3 tiers with two being a white red velvet cake and one being a chocolate cake with rasberry ganache… A-​MA-​ZING! The «red» velvet still gave you that amazing velvet cake flavor, but there was a lightness to it… more flavorful than traditional wedding cake, but not overwhelming and the chocolate was just decadent. We got the best of both worlds.
Customer service was wonderful… we sent pictures of my wedding dress (she matched the lace on my dress to the lace on the cake) and pictures of my husband’s golf bag. Elin was prompt with any questions and the cakes were delivered without a hitch on our big day.
I am still getting compliments on both of the cakes and can’t thank Rosebuds enough for their fantastic service!

This place had pretty good reviews and seemed worth checking out, so I scheduled a cake tasting here for my friend Christina C. and myself last year for her wedding. We managed to find parking behind the store but then it went downhill from there. We entered through the back, but we had to walk through a really dirty back area before going in through the kitchen to get to the front. That was not appealing at all… Then we were seated and presented with four cake slices. I didn’t take any pictures since they all looked mediocre, and they also tasted mediocre :/
They didn’t even have red velvet to offer us, which I would think would be one of the most popular wedding cake flavours! What they did have was a white velvet cake… which then made both of us really question what was in the cake since red velvet is a CHOCOLATE cake. I get that places add food colouring to change up the colours (ex: Milk has blue velvet) but how do you make a cake that should have cocoa powder white? I know there is white chocolate cocoa powder but it’s not the same thing… anyway, we both were not happy with the cakes so we got out of there as soon as possible. While I’m grateful that this place offers complimentary wedding cake tastings, I would not come back or recommend it to anyone.
It seems like all their really positive reviews are from 2011 or earlier, so I guess this place just isn’t what it was before. It does seem like they do really interesting/​weird cake designs here though so if you are into that kind of look and value that more than the actual taste of your cake, this place could be worth checking out.

It’s really amazing how the co-​owner Elin all of a sudden has a voice about the whole incident, when at the time of this all happening was not vocal and did not offer a solution to correct their mistake. First off most of her facts in her reply are false, and if you read all the other bad reviews that has been written about her husband they are all referring to his poor customer service and bad attitude. Now how is that possible for customers who have never met, have the same negative opinions of Alan, the owner. Now without repeating myself, lets address some of the comments Elin has written, First Alan didn’t acknowledge his mistake, I did, until I arrive he didn’t even realize he had given my cake to someone else. He did not offer any solutions. all the ideas came from me in trying to solve this problem. My wife suggested that we be compensated by receiving some of our money back, but Alan did not agree at the time and did not think that it was any inconvenience being done to us on his part. Second, Elin made a comment about me following Alan to the gas station and threatening him, which is another lie. I did not follow Alan to the gas station. After I agreed to have Alan try and intercept our cake delivery, and telling Elin that if my cake is damage in any way, I want a full refund, which she agreed. Upon leaving the bakery my friend that was with me noticed at the stop light Alan was still in the area at the gas station and not on his way like we agreed to get our cake, that’s when i decided that this wasn’t going to work and too much time had passed and that the cake has been outside the bakery in other people hands. And I wasn’t comfortable with that. (It’s like ordering food and your order is given to someone else, that customer has given the food back because they didn’t order it. the restaurant doesn’t turn around and give that food to you, they make you a whole other order or offer a solution for the inconvenience) So making the decision after I seen him at the gas station I told him that I changed my mind and that I wanted a refund. Alan still with his shitty attitude told me that I would have to wait for him to deliver the other customer cake. That’s when I told him no that I would not wait and that I want my refund PERIOD!
SO I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW ELIN CAN SAY THAT I THREATENED HIM WHEN SHE WASN’T EVEN AT THE GAS STATION TO HEAR THE CONVERSATION, AND IF I THREATENED HIM THEN WHY WAS I THE ONE TO CALL THE POLICE.
Third I did not harass any employee, they did not get involve at anytime, one of the employees was kind enough to even offered me water. Last but not least, Elin said that Alan apologized for double charging me when he should have given a refund, another lie, she wasn’t even in the store when this happened she had left. He did not apologized, he wasn’t sympathetic, he was just a dick.
And if this a mistake that hasn’t happened in 25 years, you would think that both Alan and Elin would have handled the situation in a more professional way, and treated me, a customer with a lot more respect, and tried to go out of their way to correct what was a huge mistake on their behalf.
This is how I would have handled the situation if I was the owner. I would have first apologized sincerely, offered some sort of compensation for the mistake, or perhaps for the baby’s first birthday the cake would have been free or half priced, all the while not loosing a customer, and keeping them happy. Mistakes do happened, but in the end it’s how you handled and try and correct them that counts.

I am not a Beverly Hills resident but I wanted my 8 year old Grandaughter to have an amazing birthday cake so I sent my assistant to Rosebud bakery to see what was available. after picking a cake speaking to the owner I thought the price was fair for what I wanted. I was so disappointed the cake I picked from flicker did not show up. Not only was it not the cake I ordered but it tasted like red dye. My son and guest mentioned it several times. Upon seeing the cake I called the owner who told me I got so much more than I asked for No I did not get what I asked for and in this establishment the customer is definitely not not right. I should have read other reviews
before ordering. Also they could not Deliver after specifically telling my assistant if it was in April they could. Read all the reviews don’t be sorry as I am for choosing this bakery.

… ordered a birthday cake and gave them the dimensions of what I thought would be sufficient for the amount of people I wanted to feed. The cake I ordered was in the shape of a cube. 16×16×16 Erin never asked me for how many guest the cake was for, but given the size I figured she would know.
The cake did look beautiful on the outside. I would expect this for over $ 700.
When I cut into it, I discovered that it was only a one layer sheet cake on top of four layers of Styrofoam! I was so frustrated since I didn’t have enough cake to feed all my guest.
When I called, I was told:“Styrofoam is a major ingredient in our cakes“
That is some expensive and very difficult to digest ingredient!
No more Rosebud for me.

Elin & the rest of the ROSEBUD cake team ROCKS!!! (Cake Geniuses & Beyond)
Thank you sooooooo MUCH for making the BEST looking and tasting cake for our dads 50^th BDAY party it was defiantly a SHOW stopper.
(poppy seed razberry pistachio cake was moist and amazing)

Elin is amazing! She surprised all with a big enchilada cake for my husband’s retirement as Scoutmaster for the Boy Scout Troop 764 and it was a tremendous hit!
My husband uses the phrase «this is the big enchilada» for all of his Eagle court of honor speeches and so this cake suit the purpose for his party.
She has been so thoughtful to provide our troop with so many cakes for several years now. The cakes have always been appealing and very delicious.
She is an artistic cake-​making genius!
Thanks so much Elin

It’s been 10 months since our wedding and every time I look at photos of the wedding cake it brings a smile from ear to ear! I made the best choice in the world to choose Rosebud Cakes! I can’t wait to use them again. you gotta go with them for your special unique cake!

My birthday cake came from here this year. It was pretty amazing. An Hermes box with vanilla cake and a cream cheese filling… yum! If you go in you can try a few of their flavors. They make cakes that are real head turners and they taste fantastic as well!

I had gone to taste cakes at several other bakeries and was pretty disappointed… most of them would open up a book and say «which one do you want?» I happen to be a designer myself and would NEVER want to pick a cake out of a book!!! If anything I’d want to draw up my own design.
Well, as a last ditch effort I had Rosebud’s contact information and so I called them up to see if we could come in. They didn’t need an appointment and told us it was no problem to come in for a tasting. This was the best decision we made that entire day! Alan and Elin have been tremendously helpful, friendly, and creative throughout our cake experience.
We started the whole consultation off with the tasting and it was by far the best cake we had tried. We were already sold… but to top it off when I explained our wedding concepts to Alan he got really excited and said «Oh yeah, this will be a a design we’ve never done before.» They designed a 3 tiered wedding cake for us in a White Alice in Wonderland theme. It was beautiful!!! I can’t believe the amount of detail Elin put into the cake, my guests were in awe of every inch of it.
Their prices are by no means expensive. We got the early bird discount for paying off our cake before February and if you subtracted the delivery fee their prices were right in line with the other less amazing bakeries we consulted with. The distance was the only reason we hadn’t originally visited rosebuds and I am so glad we did!

We used Rosebud for our 2008 wedding.
FANTASTIC cakes. We did tastings at 6 other LA area bakeries before Rosebud (all in similar price ranges), and weren’t anywhere NEAR as impressed with any of them. Rosebud was great – very responsive, flexible, and they truly love what they do.
Plus, the cakes are moist, tasty crowd pleasers!
I had to dock one star because they messed up our first anniversary cake. They put white buttercream frosting on it instead of chocolate ganache. I was really disappointed, but didn’t ask them to fix it because we didn’t have time… So I don’t know what their response would’ve been.

Our experience with Rosebud Cakes was disappointing and unprofessional. ‘The last word in original cake design’ did not live up to their own standards with our wedding cake, which fell apart immediately upon delivery. Within 30 minutes all of the frosting along the sides had come down and lay in a broken mess. The cake was delivered and placed in the proper spot and no one touched or moved the cake: the banquet captain, the coordinator, and all involved at our venue wouldn’t even attempt to fix the falling cake to uninvolve themselves from its collapse. The smaller groom’s cake turned out fine, but was not technically difficult as it was a flat, one layer cake.
As a result, it stressed out the bridesmaids and delayed our wedding reception. Worse, we have no cake cutting photos, and we never saw the wedding cake that took so much effort to design. Upon bringing the failure to Rosebud’s attention, the attitude of Alan, the manager and co-​owner, shocked us. He was rude, defensive, made innumerable excuses as to the condition of the cake, and constantly interrupted and spoke over me. Even after Rosebud reviewed the ruined cake photos and spoke with our florist and other witnesses, who confirmed that the cake was untouched prior to its falling apart, Alan and Elin continued to deny the faulty cake design and refused any refund, calling our witnesses «liars.» Imagine giving a bakery $ 1700 of business and being treated so poorly.
The only compensation they offered was a gift certificate for another cake. However, our wedding and the wedding cake cannot be «redone.» Another cake from Rosebud is the last thing we desire! This review would have been much different had Rosebud assumed responsibility and properly resolved the situation to our satisfaction. I give one star because the cake was good despite the service.
If you are planning a wedding in LA/​OC, check out my other reviews; I had some very good experiences with other vendors.