Sweet Cheeks Baking

This is just for the consultation and tasting, for now :)
Anyway, if you’re looking for the best, look no further. Elaine met with my fiancé and I and we talked over the logistics/​design we wanted for our wedding. Working with her was so pleasant and she sketched out a beautiful design for our cake — loved the personalization and that it wasn’t just pick a design out of a book and we’ll do it.
On to the tasting: yum, yum, yum! We were already excited from the consultation, but the tasting really sealed the deal. I really love that we were able to assemble the cake, filling and icing flavors on our own to really come up with our own combo, rather than premade combinations. This definitely added to the experience and really made us feel like it is our cake.
Even email correspondence with them has been nothing but pleasant.
Seriously, this place is the best. And we haven’t even had our wedding yet! I’ll update once we do, but I suspect I won’t be adding much except to reiterate how great they are!

Amazing job on my daughter’s 20^th birthday cake. As soon as a called, they were attentive, listening for what I was hoping for and got an email sent back within a few hour with a sketch! I could not recommend them more. My daughter loved the cake, they were even able to accommodate the request for a vegan cake and with more flavor options than vanilla and chocolate! So impressed and was treated with such respect! I really feel
like these folks love what they do!

Sweet Cheeks is amazing! Tasting was so fun. You get to take home a box full of flavors of frosting and cake and get to mix and match yourself. Working the the staff was easy, no issues at all. All our guests loved our cake! Highly recommended for any event!

Sweet Cheeks is the BEST bakery!
Being a long distance bride from South Florida with a wedding at Estancia in La Jolla, CA on 3÷26÷16, I had to be confident in the bakery I chose due to the fact that I would not be able travel across the nation for a cake tasting prior to my wedding. After reading many positive reviews on Sweet Cheeks Bakery, I emailed a picture of two cakes I saw online along with detailed descriptions. Lauren R. was so wonderful to work with! She paid close attention to the little details to ensure my vision came to life. She also has a wonderful relationship with many of the vendors in SoCal. The extra touches she provided the night of our wedding (cake trays, lace, wood platter) made our cake table so beautiful.
We highly recommend the blackout chocolate cake and lemon cake with buttercream frosting!
Thank you Lauren for all your help!

We called Sweet Cheeks with a special request: to make a birthday cake that looked like camera. Not many cake shops do sculpted cakes, or if they do, they’re a bit like goofy caricatures. The «Leica» camera cake the SweetCheeks team created was absolutely out of this world– way beyond what we could have expected. It was clean, classy, and stylish. It looked just like a real camera, with an edible print of the San Diego downtown skyline in the digital display window. The guests’ reaction was beyond admiration; they literally wouldn’t stop photographing the cake for a full 10 minutes before I could retrieve it to slice and serve it! And… just as importantly, the cake itself was delicious. I work in the catering industry and have eaten way too much wedding cake over the years, and the quality of this cake was immediately on another level. We’re so glad we did this!

Elaine,
Thank you for creating our dream wedding cake!
And my parents 50tj anniversary cake
And «Bunny’s» birthday cake all in the same weekend!!!
They were all AMAZING!!!
Roz & Cal
P.S.
We will see you in a year for our anniversary cake

I ordered a small 7″ marbled cutting cake with salted caramel buttercream and 24 cupcakes for our small wedding ceremony (Red velvet with cream cheese, chocolate with salted caramel buttercream and banana with chocolate buttercream). Everything was phenomenal. I should also mention this was a destination wedding and we never had the ability to try samples beforehand but could not have been more pleased. Sweet cheeks made correspondence very easy and they were very helpful in their responses.

I recently attended an event at Sweet Cheeks Baking and the desserts and cakes were exquisite!

Sweet Cheeks helped me make my friend’s bridal shower a huge success! They were super quick on email to reply to anything and made the whole process such a breeze. Plus, not only were the sweets incredibly pretty, they were delicious as well! All the guests couldn’t stop talking about them! We had a marble cake with truffle filling, which was AMAZING! I’ll definitely be using them again and recommend them highly!

OMG. Sweet Cheeks did our wedding cake… the tasting process alone allowed my husband and I to select every part of the cake and Lauren was so patient and professional in the process! We really** enjoyed that experience, so this was why we chose to go with SCBC.
As far as the wedding day cake: that was just as much fun! We chose to alternate the tiers of our cake with different flavors and fillings, which provided our guests different options to enjoy. Traditionally, you save your top tier, freeze it– and eat it for your 1 year anniversary. My husband and I loved*** our cake so much, that when we got home at the end of the night — we dove right in and ate the top tier ourselves before going to bed… and then topping it off the following morning! I guess we will just have to go back to Sweet Cheeks next year and order a custom 1 year anniversary cake! :)

So I ordered my sons cake from here since they do also make Vegan. Ordered a small cake for my sons birthday and also 24 cupcakes. Pick up was easy but it is kinda hidden. The Unilocal offer for free cupcakes isn’t available. Just for you Unilocalers. For me this place was pricey. Especially for just an individual cake was over $ 200 but they did a very good job on how everything came out. Very nice detail on the dinosaur and Very tasty too for being vegan. My son loved it.
The cupcakes were really good got the vanilla and chocolate. The only thing the that the texture on the cake the next day was very hard. Don’t know if it was because it was vegan or what. But overall great outcome for a first timer. Once I walked in got greeted by two very nice ladies. That helped me put it in my car. Left with a great impression loved the cake. Dinosaur theme

We chose Sweet Cheeks to make our cake and cupcakes for our wedding at the Catamaran Resort in November. The Catamaran has a package that includes a top tier and cupcakes from several bakeries, but we chose Sweet Cheeks for their many flavor options. We worked with Lauren Rennie who spent an hour explaining to us the different options that would fit within our package and choosing a design for our top tier. We chose sunshine raspberry swirl for our top tier with raspberry crème inside and 4 flavors of mini-​cupcakes — chocolate with salted caramel buttercream (my favorite!), pumpkin with cream cheese, citrus with lemon buttercream, and tiramisu with chocolate buttercream. They were so delicious people started sneaking cupcakes before we even cut the cake!

We got married in September and Elaine helped us through the process of creating our dream come true cake display. We went with three smaller cake display ad chose rustic style. The process was very easy and everyone is so sweet and helpful at Sweet Cheeks Baking. We did our tasting at home and i have to say it wasn’t easy to pick a flavor because all of them were amazing! We went with blueberry-​lavander with champagne buttercream for one of the cakes, vanilla pistachio for the second and chocolate hazelnut for the third. Not only the flavors but the display, decoration and the props were fenomenal! I can’t wait for an occasion to order the blueberry lavander cake again as it was my absolute favorite!

We had Sweet Cheeks for our wedding at Paradise Point who we used through our venue package. Through our package we got a free tasting and wow every single bite was delicious! It was really cool because instead of choosing a few different flavors in advance they brought all types of frostings, cakes, and fillings and you could mix and match how you pleased. I loved the variety they offered and the cake just melted in my mouth. We couldn’t believe our package included such an amazing cake! When we started talking about designs they were really open to having fun and trying different things and making it personal. They said we could have a hand painted design and we loved the idea. We live in Hawaii but the wedding was in San Diego so we were having a very tropical and Hawaiian wedding still. Lauren showed us pictures of a cake they did with hand painted hibiscus flowers and it was perfect! They changed the colors for us to match our theme and then did an excellent job. We also loved having a coconut flavor cake with coconut and passion fruit filling to really bring out the Hawaiian taste. We also did red velvet with hazelnut and white chocolate mousse which was also amazing. Our guests loved the cake, we didn’t get to have any until after we got back to our honeymoon suite and man we really savored it. Looking forward to our top tier on our anniversary (it may be sooner now that I’m thinking about it)! We also really appreciated being able to rent a cake stand with just a deposit that we got back upon returning the stand. They also offered to place flowers on our cake, but our florist said she could do it, but it was nice to know either way we were well taken care of. I highly recommend using them, they are creative with the design and absolutely delicious.
I’d also like to say that our venue gave us the option of using Sweet Cheeks or Flour Power. And while the cakes at Flour Power were good and tasty, we felt like we could have a much more personalized cake with Sweet Cheeks and they seemed a lot more excited about our ideas. Flour Power felt a little more like just a wedding cake factory where they make delicious cakes, but didn’t seem as interested in making something unique and elaborate. Lauren at Sweet Cheeks was much more open to our ideas and helped us come up with something that was better than we could have imagined! Plus we could customize flavors much more and the taste was so amazing! I know it was included in my overall price, but if I had to pay for my cake, I definitely would have gone here again. I wish I lived in San Diego so we could go back for future celebrations!

First off I’m really late on this review! I was going through old pictures and remembered how amazing the cakes tasted. I’ve had two amazing experiences with Sweet Cheeks!
On my 21^st birthday (a few years ago) I wanted a really good cake. So I came across Sweet Cheeks on Unilocal.I contacted them about a week before my birthday. It was definitely a time crunch for them but they easily bent over backwards for what I wanted regarding my budget. I forgot what exact flavor I got but it was something tropical. I had sweet cream frosting. My cake was really simple but it tasted amazing! The cake and buttercream just went together. I had my entire friends and family raving about it since then.
So graduation was coming up (another special occasion) and my mother ordered from Sweet Cheeks as a surprise because she knows my love for them! My mother ordered a Coconut island cake, with strawberries preserve, & butter cream frosting. I loved the decoration of the cap, diploma, SDSU logo, and ribbons. It was a big cake that fed 20 people and we still had left overs. Everyone kept raving about how amazing the cake was. The cake just melted in your mouth and it wasn’t too rich. It was perfect and full of flavor.
I recommended Sweet Cheeks Baking to my friends for any special occasion! (Baby shower, graduation, birthdays, weddings, etc). If I get married, I know I will be having my wedding cake from Sweet Cheeks.

We spared no expense for our wedding cakes, and went with what everyone told us was «the best». In my opinion, you don’t gamble on anything anyone is going to be eating at your wedding! Worth every penny. We had a 3 tier cake for 65 guests, as well as a grooms cake I ordered as a surprise for my husband.
Our inquiry online was answered promptly, and our tasting scheduled just after New Years. The tasting was fun, and there are so many choices (all delicious). The staff stayed in touch with us, and was incredibly flexible on payments, etc. Our cakes were GORGEOUS and DELICIOUS. Everything I could have dreamed of. The grooms cake was so big that we had some the day after our wedding with a bunch of family members, my husband took half of the leftover to work with him, and we still have enough for 20 people in the fridge :) And we are still eating it ;)

OH. MY. WORD. Deliciousness. Okay, so I dreamed of the day when my husband would just let me splurge and get a cake from here. My first experience with Sweet Cheeks was when I was a nanny for this lovely family in Kensington and the little boy I watched was having a birthday and they ordered a cake from here. Not only did it look amazing, but it tasted amazing, too. (Seems you can’t have both very often!) So fast forward to when I have my own children — birthdays pass and I always contact Sweet Cheeks, get a quote, etc. and my husband always talks me out of spending too much money when it’s «just a cake.» So this year, we’re having somewhat of a smaller celebration for our third child, who’s turning 2 this weekend. I basically just said, «I’m ordering a cake from Sweet Cheeks.» He just says, «Really? Fine.» :-)
Kayla was amazing. Just amazing. She was very quick to respond and helped me in the whole process of choosing what I wanted as far as the design and the flavor (s). She was very patient with my questions, too (and I thought I had a lot!). So during this exchange, we found out that our friends were leaving earlier than planned and I decided to plan a surprise (last minute) going away party for them. I decided since we’re having Sweet Cheeks do our son’s cake, we might as well have them do a cake for the going away party, too. So I placed a somewhat last minute order with them and picked up the cake today… it was nothing short of fabulous.
Not only was it beautiful and so classy, just how I imagined it to be, but it was amazingly delicious. We got the vanilla bean sour cream cake with the fresh strawberry cream filling and the italian buttercream frosting and it was so delicious! I couldn’t stop raving about it along with everyone else who was asking where the cake was from! Before we cut it, I couldn’t believe how nice it was. I kept sneaking to the box to look at it cause it was so perfect! I have a lot of friends who aren’t cake fans because they complain that the frosting is too sweet or that it isn’t moist enough. But this one was simply amazing and I am so happy that we’re going through them to get my son’s cake, which will be a fresh banana cake with a peanut butter/​fudge swirl frosting. (Oh, and after my husband tried this cake — he said he feels good about ordering our son’s cake with them and had no complaints!) YES, they’re worth every penny, even if it’s «just» a cake. :-) Their attention to detail was so evident and you can taste the quality of the ingredients in the first bite.
So thank you, Sweet Cheeks, for making today such a special day for my friends. We sent many home with leftover cake (at their request!) and we also saved some up for ourselves to enjoy tomorrow. :-)
I don’t know that I could ever go through another bakery for any other celebration — I’m a bit of a fan now. :-)

BRIDES BEWARE!!! So I am bummed that I have to write this review but I feel that I have to warn future brides. I went to Sweet Cheeks based on a preferred vendor list and their designs were prefect for what I was looking for. I showed them pictures from their books/​website of decorations that I wanted on my cake. Since they had done those designs before the last thing I expected was to have the design of the cake look almost nothing like we discussed.
~ I showed them a picture from their website of the blue cake with the orange star fish (I posted the pictures for reference) and they said you would make one star fish for the bottom and one for the top. What I got was a thin piece if fondant cut out in the shape of a star fish that looks nothing like the picture its not even the same color. The whole coloring of the cake just looked sun belched version of what I asked.
~ The «waves» at the bottom of the ask is just a thin line they look nothing like the picture.
~ I also ask to add the sugar coral to the bottom and on the top which the cake didn’t have at all. Again I showed them a picture off of their website. (I posted a picture.)
~ I showed them a picture of the fish from a different company which looked cute and cartoon like and they were supposed to have edible glitter on them and they were just black cut outs of fondant. Super boring and ugly.
~ The cake was baby blue when I asked for turquoise
Thank god I added the flowers because there would have been basically nothing on this cake. The last thing is the box that we were given for the topper wasn’t tall enough to close so it stayed open all night and all day and the drive back to LA and it basically just fell apart. There was no wrapping or anything included.
BRIDES BEWARE!!! There are no do overs for weddings so I was completely disappointed with the result I got. Even when the pictures came from Sweet Cheeks. I posted the pictures of my cake verses what I got for you to see.

They have some deeeelish gluten free cupcakes that I have eaten from a terrible coffeeshop that I will no longer frequent. :P
The red velvet with pistachio buttercream is life changing.
My only complaint is I feel they need a pinch more salt in the cake. Every cupcake I’ve gotten from here is a just a littttle bit too sweet.

Sweet Cheeks has done it again!
Wishing to say a sweet thank you to my partners of 8 years before I start my new assignment, I contacted the bakery for some custom cookies (My Favorite Food) with the Superman insignia (Just look at my profile pics lol). Once again it couldn’t have been simpler to work out the particulars and the cookies were delivered right on time with a smile. $ 25 fee for a custom butterscotch shortbread recipe that was well worth it. The cookies are stunners with the flavor to match.
Food Network Cupcake Wars winners and real darlings. This bakery has a great heart.
Sincerely,
Justin :0)