Cakes By JoAnn

I wasn’t planning on getting a cake since I’m not much of a cake person. I was leaning towards cupcakes for my guests to enjoy. However, it was becoming apparent how important cake cutting is on the big day so I decided to go with it. I was purely interested in the aesthetics of the cake for pictures and the cake cutting part of the wedding. I was disappointed when I saw the cake come out. I was expecting a bright glittery gold cake and I got a flat tanish colored cake. I only ate one bite for the cake cutting ceremony and from what I remember it tasted good and my guests seemed to enjoy it but it fell flat for the sole reason I wanted it for which was for looks.

I couldn’t be happier about our choice to use Cakes By JoAnn! I love my sweets so you can imagine how important a tasty cake would be for us. Most of the time you order a cake that looks better than what it tastes. For me, it had to taste better than it looked. But guess what? Not only did it look beautiful it tasted amazing! I ordered the strawberry cream with whipped frosting. If you order anything other than whipped frosted it will taste artificial so I knew that whipped frosting was a must. My guests absolutely loved the cake! It looked great, survived the heat and it disappeared in a hurry once it was served. I had three pieces myself because it was so magnificent!
Thank you JoAnn!
Mahalo,
Rebecca and Ryan

I had only been to Maui once before (for 2 days), so was planning our Maui destination wedding was mostly based on online reviews and recommendations of others. I told our wedding planner food was important to us, and for the wedding cake the look of the cake wasn’t as important as the taste for me; I love a good cake! She recommended Cakes by JoAnn.
I found a picture online, and asked for a quote for the same cake… and was given the price– which seemed quite expensive for such a small cake, but was told that JoAnn uses high quality ingredients and also figured it was the normal mark-​up for Maui. The flavors we chose were white cake with lilikoi mousse, and strawberries and cream with white cake for the top layer. On our wedding day I was excited to try both layer and had a bite of both. To my dissappointment they were ok, but not that great. The white chocolate candy molds had a weird waxy taste, the cake was ok, and the buttercream was heavy. The fact that I didn’t even finish a small thin slice of cake says a lot.
Maybe I’ve been lucky enough to have experienced great bakeries in Seattle, I’m just putting this review out there since there might be others like me looking for a cake vendor. On a day trip, we had a slice of cake at Stillwell’s bakery in Maui that I really liked, and that is what I’d recommend to a friend (if they do special occassion cakes).