Beauty and The BAKER — Restaurant in Illinois

Martha baked the cake for our May 6th wedding. We met with Martha several months before our wedding, and she gave us a thorough taste testing. All of their cake and fillings are amazing, and you can't go wrong with any options! In the end, we could. It decide, and Martha was flexible with us- allowing us to do two flavors for just a small price addition. We had vanilla cake with chocolate and strawberries for one filling and cream cheese and lemon for the second filling. We had a 5 tier cake for 250 guests, so each tier alternated with those two filling options. The cake was fluffy and moist, and the buttercream outside so smooth and professionally done with our design choice. When we chose our cake, Martha explained how she uses real butter for the buttercream outside. I love that it is natural, and she mentioned that it can tend to be a bit yellow because of that. Honestly, while we weren't torn apart about not having a true white cake, the cake did turn out much more white than I was imagining. It was not yellow at all, I would say it was even more white than my ivory wedding dress. We purchased a gold wedding topper with our name on it, and Martha placed this perfectly. The cake was beautiful, and I couldn't have imagined any other cake. What a great, local business. I loved being able to do my cake tasting, and especially being that it was with owner Martha. Truly an authentic experience with beautiful follow- through on the...

Last Sunday August 20th I had my baby shower and was looking forward of picking up my cake for the shower. When my husband and I walked in I told the owner Mikayla I was picking up my baby shower cake and she had to look in her tablet to find my order. Right then I knew something was wrong. She had to go in the back and didn’t say a word to me. This was definitely a red flag. We were waiting for almost 10 minutes before her co owner/husband came out to let my husband and I know that they didn’t have my cake ready or even started it. We couldn’t believe this! This was such an important day and they had ruined it. I planned and talked with Mikayla since April for this cake and I even had to remind her about the invoice in June because I had not heard from her. I should have seen this coming when I had to remind her of the contract and payment but I didn’t think I would have to worry about this. Her husband was trying to make things right but couldn’t even make a cake in time for my shower because they only had hour and half before it started. Then he was asking if we wanted a cake a different day. Why would we want that when we wanted it for our Baby shower. I was heart broken and crying. I would not even give one star for this bakery. I hope the owner Mikayla understand the scope of disappointment she had brought on by her lack of doing her job that she was paid to do. This should be an eye opening experience of poor...

I found this place about a year ago and was amazed. Martha - owner and baker is like fairy god mother who grounds all your sweet wishes, she is always open to suggestions and works with you to make our sweet tooth happy. She even started selling slices of tres letches so I can try first. Tell me that's not word class service. SWEETS... I can't even decide what to buy every time I go there, everything is just too good. But try flouless chocolate cake it's so rich and chocolaty and if you chocolate lover like me you would not be disappointed. Every piece is really great and what I like the most sweets not over sweeten like a lot of places so you can really enjoy every bite and don't feel like you just ate a...