Cakes by Design

I was so glad that someone at our church suggested checking out Cakes by Design for our wedding. I had looked at several other bakeries in the area and they all had that gritty taste to them (I know you know what I mean). Debbie’s cakes are AMAZING! She has a tasting once a month where she bakes about 8 sample cakes with all different flavors and icing types. Check out her website for all the different flavors she offers — quite extensive!
Debbie is great, I pretty much had her one on one for my first tasting, a few other brides showed up close to when I was leaving (she does an open house style). She has photo albums full of different cakes shes done to give you ideas for what you want (and also so you can see what an awesome decorating job she does!). I love spice cake and her assistant suggested since we were having a fall wedding that an apple filling would be good, so she at the next months open house she made one just so I could try it! If you have specific flavors you want to try, just let her know before hand and she’s great about having them for you.
I had a small three tiered (well, small is relative I guess) «cherry blossom» cake. She used butter cream frosting to cover, had ribbons around each level and then had fondant to create branches and blossoms of the cherry blossom, it was beautiful. Each layer was different flavors and because my cake was «odd» shaped (octagonal) and didn’t have a true anniversary tier, she made us a separate 6″ round — completely different flavor too! — on the house.
The cake is moist and the frosting and fillings are delicious. She uses fresh ingredients whenever possible. My bottom layer was wedding white cake with strawberry filling and there was real strawberries. The second tier was spice cake with the yummy apple filling and then the top was a red velvet with cream cheese.
She worked with me every step of the way to make sure that the cake was just perfect. I recommend her to everyone, for wedding, for special occasions, JUST BECAUSE! I wish I lived closer to her so I could have her cake at least once a year. As for now, I’m looking forward to the anniversary tier, which she gives specific instructions for to make sure it keeps!