Elegant Cheesecakes LLC

Susan at Elegant Cheesecakes us OUTSTANDING! I have ordered 4 cakes from her, a baby shower cake for my sister, a birthday cake in the shape of a leather jacket for my husband, a congratulations cake for a co-​worker that was WSU themed and a Valentines Day Cake for good friends husband in the shape of a license plate of his jeep. Each cake was absolute perfection and shipped from California to other states. They have arrived in perfect condition, and were absolutely incredible in flavor. Susan is creative, and needs little direction in order to make what you are imagining come to life. She amazed me every time!
She most definitely has a customer for life in me, and I would recommend her cakes and customer service to anyone. I am looking forward to working with her more in the future.

Our wedding cake was absolutely amazing. We got so many compliments on our wedding cake. The decoration was everything we wanted and more. Simple, elegant but still had beautiful and intricate details. The cake tasted amazing. This is the first time we saw a 3-​flight cake. We choose 3 separate flavors and she was able to get them all in 1 slice of cake so all of our guests could have 3 different flavors. Our whole experience with Susan was absolutely amazing from our tasting to the design of our cake. She is so easy to work with and really listens to what your ideal wedding cake looks like and tastes. Her handmade flowers are absolutely gorgeous. We were so happy with our wedding cake– we will definitely use her for any other cake needs.

Extraordinarily delicious cake. Fun working with Susan. Free anniversary cake (a mini version of what you had for your wedding) all wonderful. I can recommend Elegant Cheesecakes without reservation. Have fun!

AFTER WAITING ALMOST 365 DAYS FOR A REPLY WE FIND IT NECESSARY TO SHARE THIS UNPROFESSIONALLY HANDLED MATTER
Regarding 11÷1÷14 purchase of tasteless Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake
We had hoped to get a cheesecake as wonderful as we’ve eaten. Attempting to follow a lead from the now closed Crab Landing since 12÷22÷12. Unfortunately the restaurant didn’t know your exact name or street number — but after 8 attempts we saw you outside. We were elated to see and speak directly to you. Per your recommendation we took the Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake directly from you on 11/​1, Since you are the owner and we explained our tastes to you, we thought your recommending the Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake would be tasty, Although $ 40 for a 5″ x 5″ cake, when most of the best. places in town offered divinely tasty cakes for an eighty of the price & twice the size. But that was our choice! What we expected from you is what we agreed to a Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake. The next morning, per our phone conversation on ¹¹⁄₂ you even said you thought you had given us the Raspberry. It’s unfortunate I hoped by contacting you on Saturday ¹¹⁄₂ while we were still in town that we could at worse get some of the raspberry gelee to drizzle on this tasteless cheesecake or our money back since unfortunately this was literally the worst cheesecake we have ever tasted and it was so easy to return all but a ¼″ piece. You are even open on Saturdays! You said you would take care of this problem and apologized for the lack of flavor. But no all we were given is 4 mini bite size pieces not even Raspberry sauce or our money back. Had we known you are not a person of honor we would never had driven to your business — where some woman handed us that 4 bite box shut the door and refused to answer when we knocked to get our money back.
Since we called you back plus sent you a message — neither you or anyone representing your company contacted us– we feel it necessary to warn others. Below gives a detailed account of what happened & what communication occurred BOTTOM LINE OWNER DOES NOT CARE ABOUT CUSTOMERS — ESPECIALLY WHEN HER BUSINESS MESSES UP. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY — THERE ARE TOO MANY OTHERS BUSINESSES WHO AIM TO PLEASE AND PREPARE THEIR OWN DELICIOUS FOOD INCLUDING THEIR CORRECTLY MADE & VERY TASTY DESSERTS,
This review summarizes what occurred and what communication was verbally agreed to. and sent requesting a solution to this problem is shared in this Unilocal review — if you ever fall for this make sure you try it before you buy it. Today is ¹¹⁄₆ — no attempts were made to correct this business’s mistake and the owner Susan has made it clear she is in business to make money not customers nor correct errors the business makes.
Susan, the pear cheesecake is tasty but as I told you, my husband prefers shortbread crust. As I told you on ¹¹⁄₂ we live in El Dorado Hills, So we only some out here every 5 – 6 months. We will be at Sanctuary Beach Resort until ¹¹⁄₅.
Per our conversation on ¹¹⁄₂ — We expected to return the terrible cake and get our cash back since you told us to come to your business with yesterday’s cake — we agreed to this with you once you stated no cheesecakes would be made on Saturday 11/​2, But when we arrived, some woman barely opened the door. Instead of getting our money back for an almost whole, minus 2 bites, tasteless cake from 11/​1, all we got was 4 bite size pieces that were probably freebies. After sticking the small box through a crack in the door she immediately shut the door. When we knocked on the door she refused to help us We should have paid by credit card — but we never expected this outcome.
Since you told me what went wrong — you know what happened — isn’t there something you are willing to do to correct what you clearly described and understand is an unacceptable barely eaten ¹¹⁄₁ tasteless Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake? Since you said you would not bake on Saturday ¹¹⁄₂ — then give us our money. Or exchange it for the pear on shortbread crust?
Susan, we certainly hope something can be worked out? Susan we were looking forward to enjoying one of you tasty cheesecakes either raspberry gelee (as ordered & as you said you gave us. I am glad you explained why it was so bad — that the baker did not use any raspberry thus a tasteless cheesecake). Lets go for the pear on shortbread.
Susan please call or message us at … or email me at … After all as you know this was a birthday gift to my husband — of course he drove since I am permanently in a wheelchair. Thank you

We had our wedding at Auberge du Soleil in Napa in early October. The cake was an an important feature of the wedding. It was gorgeous and every bite was delicious. Our guests raved about it. Susan was fantastic to work with and everything went so smoothly. We are looking forward to receiving our anniversary cake too!

We traveled for 2 ½ hours to pick up our cake and enjoy the view of HMB. Then bought several Cheesecake Pops (Delicious) to pass out to friends and family. The best part of the experience in HMB was meeting Susan. What a great personality, warm and welcoming. Incredibly fun person, A kick in the pants. The second best part of the trip was returning to Lodi’s Wine and Roses Resort and eating that fabulously delicious Flight of Flavors Cake. It was so classy that many of the staff even commented on it. A big hit with everyone in attendance as well. Thank you so very much Susan and staff.

Susan was a joy to work with and created a delicious and beautiful cake for our 60 person wedding. Throughout the planning process, she was very willing to listen to our zany ideas and then incorporate them into sketches. As our theme evolved, Susan’s ideas evolved with us. Best part was Elegant Cheesecakes never gave us anything to worry about. They delivered right on time and set up perfectly. I highly recommend using Elegant Cheesecakes.

My wife surprised me with a 50^th birthday party and had custom cake made here. It was over the top incredible, both in taste and design. They worked to create a cake that highlighted a few of my interests — mini, starbucks, disney, and more. Each panel of the cake highlighted logos or images from them and it was super creative and well done.

We have purchased Susan’s cakes on several occasions and they have a WOW factor that thrills all our guests. See the below birthday cake for my husband’s 60^th birthday.

1 year later…
One of my most memorable moments during our wedding was our magnificent cake by Susan. We attempted to save some cake for our anniversary but failed… We couldn’t wait a full year to reminisce our delicious cake. Luckily, Susan takes care of that with an anniversary cake! Her cakes are memorably delicious, creative in flavoring and artistry, and she was amazingly available despite her high demand. Choosing Elegant Cheesecakes was the easiest decision we made for our wedding!

We ordered our wedding cake and our last three anniversary cakes (all three shipped across the country) from Elegant Cheesecakes. The cakes are beautiful and delicious.
We get a different flavor every year, and can’t decide which one to get. All around great — it is remarkable that they are not only so amazing to look at but also so tasty. In fact, we still talk about how great our cake tasting was, more than 10 years ago. It was that good.

Best.Wedding.Cake.Ever…Best.Cake.Ever! Seriously, Susan makes the most delicious wedding cakes! I work in the wedding industry and unfortunately (or fortunately) get to taste several (like a lot) of cakes each year. When I started planning my personal wedding, I knew I wanted Elegant Cheesecakes to make our cake! Their flight cake is something unlike any other wedding cake… who wouldn’t want pistachio cake, cheesecake, orangesicle crème fraîche, fresh strawberries and raspberries and a peanut brittle crunch all in one slice of cake!!! When couples say «no one eats the wedding cake»…well that’s simply because they’ve never tried Susan’s cakes. If you’re looking for a cake that people will eat and rave about, look no further!

I hate updates, but after that first smashing success, they have been difficult to work with and the taste of the cakes — well a bit sawdusty. I ordered 3 more cakes from them and when you spend 700 – 900 dollars for a cake that you ordered 2 months in advance, you expect A+ care. This last cake the owner said (four days before our event date) that she was going to deliver it the day before because they were going out of town. Where the heck am I going to refrigerate a huge cake for 36 hours? She suggested using a neighbor’s refrigerator, since I told her there was no way it would fit in mine. Crazy. Finally she hired somebody to deliver to me and then tried to charge me the extra delivery fee. Mind you, I ordered this cake on this particular date months prior. The worst part though, was the cake tasted terrible. It was beautiful, but the absolute hassle for delivery, extra charges at the last minute, lack of customer care, and then on top of all that not tasting good, I’m done. It was a stupid amount to spend for cake anyway, blame that part on me.

OK SO BEST CAKE WE HAVE EVER EATEN. We just needed a small cake for our intimate wedding. We popped in elegant cheesecake as we were driving by (definitely make an appointment first! We just got lucky). Lucky for us, it was their tasting day (usually only 1x/​month) but honestly everything is so good you can’t go wrong.
We went with a traditional cake (as opposed to cheesecake). We got the «flight» cake which meant we could get multiple flavors.
Our cake:
champagne with fresh strawberries in mousse… malted milk chocolate cake with malted milk butter cream… chocolate decadence with Italian meringue chocolate butter cream finish!
It was SO GOOD. Also Susan hates using fondant (which I also hate) so everything just tastes better!
We will order a cake each year to celebrate our anniversary and indulge in decadence :)

Most delicious cake I’ve ever had in my life ! Susan offers many different flavors and we couldn’t choose between just one so we got about 4 and different creams between as well. Everyone at our wedding told us how delicious it was. She was also one of the few venders I didn’t have to check up on and new the exact time to set the cake out so it wouldn’t taste soggy or too cold. Thank you Susan, can’t wait for my annv cake. You better bet I’ll be contacting you multiple times a year for my cake fix as well. Cheers!

We hired Elegant Cheese Cakes to do our wedding cake. Things got off to a good start even before we decided to use them.
They were flexible in arranging a last minute tasting where we got presented a full suite of cake flavors and creams. We couldn’t finish everything and took some home. The cakes were all devoured within a day. Yes, it is that good.
The design phase was fun as well — we gave Susan a couple of ideas and she emailed us paper sketches of what she was thinking. The final result was just beautiful.

My most recent experience with them was not good. I completed the requested forms in order to arrange the tasting, left multiple messages and even followed up via email after getting no response. Months after originally sending in the requested forms to arrange the tasting I got an email that said simply, «So what are you doing for cake… do you still want to chat»
No. I don’t.

A MUST HAVE! Our wedding cake from Elegant Cheese Cakes was outstanding!
Simply put it was beautifully designed to my taste and wedding colors and the flavors in my cake
(4 different flavors in each slice «flight») WAS SO DELICIOUS, my guests still rave about it… months after my wedding reception!

The best thing to put in your mouth is a bite of cake made by Elegant Cheese Cakes.
A client sent us the December cakes as thank you to our two offices in Portland, Oregon. During this time of year our fabulous clients send us things from all over the nation but the best has been these cakes. The Bourbon Vanilla disappeared in record time but the Chocolate Peppermint went nearly as fast. Since I’m partial to Chocolate and Mint, this was fine with me since I was able to sneak a last amazing bite onto my plate.
All cakes should taste like these! A single bite is like sinking into a world of silk decadence. A slice isn’t needed, just a sliver will send shivers up and down your spine and the second bite will send tingles all the way down to your toes. Rich, decadent, with the perfect balance of flavor. Of course these cakes are sweet, but not too sweet. Super rich, but not too rich. Decadent? You bet! If I was told that I could have one slice of these cakes a year or eat cake anytime I wanted, I would choose the one slice.
I do believe that I will be sending these cakes and nothing else to my family for the holidays. I’m not sure if they will love me more or absolutely hate me for turning them on to the best cakes ever!

Susan made our wedding cake, and it was the talk of the party! It was beautiful and absolutely delicious. We chose the flight of Pistachio butter cake with orange-​sickle cream and fresh strawberries… white chocolate butter cake with fresh raspberries mousse… malted milk chocolate cake with malted milk shake butter cream. It was to die for. I seriously think that my guests will be talking about how delicious the cake was for years to come. I never expected the cake to be such a great memory for all of our guests. I loved it so much that I ate 2 pieces at the reception! I also love that she uses chocolate to decorate, rather than fondant, which means the whole thing is edible! Her design was top notch, particularly given that we worked on the design together only over email and phone. It was really impressive.
I was unable to do a tasting since we did a destination wedding, so I was happy with the flavor choices that Susan guided us towards. Living in Chicago, all of my communication with Susan was via email or phone. She’s clearly very busy, so sometimes her emails were quite short with just a couple words, or perhaps one sentence. That added a layer of complexity to the communication, although a week before the wedding we had a longer phone call which was helpful. Additionally, the icing wasn’t exactly the shade of purple I had anticipated from the photos I gave her for inspiration and guidance. The shade still worked with our wedding décor, and looked good, but it wasn’t exactly what I expected. I only bring up the communication and icing color due to the price of the cake ($ 1500+). Normally, I’d never think twice about anything like that.