Desserts By Dana — Restaurant in Delaware

From a moral standpoint I would not recommend this business. In the summer of 2020, an email was sent out to colleges for a cooking contest hosted/created by Chef Dana for students in minority Greek organizations to win a scholarship, laptop and line jacket. The format of the contest was for the students to purchase all of their own ingredients for recipes selected by Chef Dana, follow instructions and submit photos to be chosen as a winner. I entered into the contest which was originally supposed to be held in July. After buying ingredients a few days before the event, it was rescheduled to August, and the same patterned continued. I purchased ingredients for new contest date to have the date pushed back again and again. Eventually the contest occurred November 7th 2020. I attended the virtually instruction session for the dishes, submitted my photos for judging and was notified on November 17th that I was the winner of the contest yet this information was not to be announced publicly yet. I reached out multiple times to Chef Dana via email & Instagram direct message to coordinate the collection of my prizes. February 2021 I received a scholarship send to my school yet not my laptop and line jacket. Multiple times again I emailed, called, wrote letters and asked other people to help me on my behalf to get my other two items yet I received no response. I filed a complaint this summer with the Better Business Bureau in order to help with this matter and received no contact from Chef Dana or his staff. Today I checked my PO Box and found a box with a laptop in poor condition (scratched, sticky residue, outdated, not working camera, Chromebook therefore limited functions for academic work) in a reusable grocery bag and a filthy laptop charger and no line jacket. In conclusion, I am unsure how the items from this location taste. Yet as a nutritional sciences student who was hoping for support from a community leader, I have been let down and disappointed by this organization and would not recommend it due to their lack of morals with how they treat...

My brother and his wife ordered a cake from here for us. It was a gluten free one because of one of the dietary constraints of one of the people we were serving it to. He ate it and did not react to it, so I must give credit to them for that. But both my wife and I were sorely disappointed by the quality of the cake. It looked good. But the taste and texture were bad. Now, I'm a baker myself. I've worked at a commercial bakery AND had many more years of hobbyist baking at home. I get that gluten free baking is hard. It took me years to master it. But this place's gluten free game is weak. Like 0/10 weak. I want to extend an offer, please reach out to me. I will share some of my tricks with you. I use 100% whole ingredients. All whole grain. No xanthan gum, no refined flours, no cornstarch or tapioca starch. I use unorthodox ingredients like bean flours, coconut flour, almond flour, and millets. Not boring stuff like chickpea and pearl millet. Esoteric stuff you haven't heard of like urad and moth bean, foxtail and kodo millet. Ragi. Teff. Whey concentrate. Ground flaxseed. Chia. I use tricks like wild-fermenting flours overnight to alter their texture. I have a ton of stuff in my toolbox. It makes baked goods that taste good, have great textures, and are healthy. I can even make stuff that is both gluten-free and diabetic-friendly, to where it tastes normal but you eat it and your blood sugar doesn't spike, and without artificial sweetener. I will show you how to take your gluten-free baking to the next level. Not your pathetic game you displayed here. We threw the cake out. It was awful. There is no excuse for an award-winning baker like the one who owns this bakery to bake and sell stuff as...

I really want to give this place more stars, but I can't, and it boils down to customer service! I've been hooked on "Death by Chocolate" for about 7 years now, generally only having it at a local Wilmington restaurant, as they offer multiple desserts by the bakery.... This was the second time I went into the actual bakery to purchase. Both times I waited more than 2 minutes for any greet, even though we were the only couple in there and I could clearly see the employees from my stance in front of the display case. And both times I was made to feel VERY uncomfortable about being waited on when they finally did come out of the office--- as if me wanting to give their business money was a huge inconvenience. After every selection I made, I was rudely asked if "is that all?" (I'm sorry for wanting to spend $40 on 5 things, shame on me, LOL). Generally, I would have just shaken it off everyone has bad days( I'm in the industry too, but BOTH times I'm been here? And from the same lady?? Come on!),but my husband, who NEVER says anything/stays neutral stated we weren't going to be spending our money here again after the worker decided to correct my pronunciation of "Macarons/Macaroons" when deciding to add some to our order at the end. If you want to feel ridiculed & silly for wanting some local baked goods, be sure to stop by...