About this vendor
Amy Beck Cake Design is a luxury, custom cake company based in Chicago. Amy Beck is passionate about creating couture works of art for weddings and special occasions. We continually introduce new designs displayed in our studio and frequently showcased in magazines. Our cakes are made of the finest, natural ingredients to ensure every client receives a delicious, visual work of art.
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Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Groom's Cakes
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
Awards and Affiliations
Reviews
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5
out of 5.0139 reviews
Our 4 cakes were AWFUL! We chose Amy because her cakes at the tasting were the best, by far, of any baker we tried. She listened to what we wanted however it didn’t translate to w...
hat we got. We were more interested in the taste of the cakes than what they looked like and that’s where Amy fell off her pedestal. The Almond cake was so dry it seemed as though it had been made a month earlier – so bad that no one would eat it and it had to be thrown away. We ordered 2 Devils Food cakes with chocolate mousse and ganache. Only 1 cake was delivered and it had no chocolate mousse. It too tasted nothing like what we had at the tasting – very dry and not something I’d try again. And lastly, the Elderflower cake with passionfruit curd was delivered with no passionfruit curd and in no way tasted like elderflower – it seemed that Amy was skimping on the elderflower syrup which is a premium flavor for which she charged extra. Because of Covid, I really didn’t want a refund, however I did want an acknowledgement and explanation from Amy. She couldn’t have been bothered to give me the time of day and that really angered me. So BEWARE – I see all these accolades for her cakes but she certainly didn’t deliver what was in our contract and she charged me premiums for everything. A little bit of ‘nice’ on her part would’ve gone a long way.
I wish I could get another cake from Amy. It was one of the best cakes I've ever had. We weren't able to have it the night of the wedding but the next day we had it. It was soo goo...
d. Not too sweet and the flavors we chose really came through. Hoping to visit Chicago soon so I can order some more cake since we weren't able to save it for our 1 year anniversary!!
Our cake was AWESOME! Pre-covid, my husband and I had a different idea for our cake that we worked on with Amy. When we had to change our plans from a 175 person wedding to a 35 pe...
rson wedding, Amy was super flexible and worked with us to design a new cake that was more fitting for our smaller wedding at our new venue. It was absolutely beautiful! It was perfect for our venue and was absolutely DELICIOUS! Our top layer was devil's food cake and the bottom layer was almond cake. Everyone was raving about how good it was for days after the wedding. We highly recommend Amy Beck Cake Designs, and hope to work with her again in the future because her cakes are seriously SO good!
Our wedding cake from Amy Beck was delicious and beautiful! It was an easy experience working with her and she was generous with the tasting (we got to try a lot of flavors!). She ...
gave helpful suggestions for flavor pairings, too. Thank you, Amy!
We loved our wedding cake from Amy Beck! She was recommended to us by our venue (The Ivy Room) and we were so glad we decided to work with her. She was amazing about helping us sca...
le back our plans based on our smaller size wedding and it turned out perfect - it was beautiful and one of the best wedding cakes we've had! We highly recommend her buttercream frostings :)
Amy was so great to work with! She worked with us to create a small cake for our COVID wedding last year and the larger cake for our reception this past weekend. Both cakes were ab...
solutely delicious on top of being beautiful! The cake tasting was such a fun experience and Amy was a joy to work with. All of our guests loved the cake and I cannot recommend her enough! My husbands grandmother told everyone about the cake in advance of this year because she loved it so much from the previous year!
Amy Beck is the best and so fun to work with! My husband and I got married at the Planetarium on the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon. Amy helped us to create the most g...
orgeous galactic unique wedding cake and OMG did it taste out of this world good!!! I would recommend her to anyone and everyone!
I have had Amy's cakes at my nieces weddings and they are so delicious I had to use Amy for my daughter's wedding. The flavors are so delicious! Amy is a pleasure to work with!!
I chose Amy Beck Cake Designs for my wedding cake. They were so easy to work with and the cake was absolutely beautiful. I found them on The Knot, along with several other bakeri...
es, and they were by far the most responsive, creative and easy-going. I had pulled a few photos of cakes I like the look of on Pinterest and sent to Amy. My husband lives out of town and they were incredibly accommodating in letting us do our cake tasting on a Saturday (in July, during their busiest time with weddings). We sat at the table in the front of the shop and had a wonderful time tasting and chatting with everyone as they made the final preparations for the day's deliveries. Based on my interactions with Amy Beck and her team, I didn't give the cake a second thought on my wedding day. I knew it would be exactly as we had discussed...and it was! Amy Beck Cake Designs has a very talented, customer-focused team that is lovely to work with!
Amy Beck is WILDLY talented. There are many, many bakers out there who can give you a beautiful cake. Amy stands apart from them in that her cakes are both beautiful and delicious....
Moist, full of flavor, and light - not dense or greasy at all.
As an aside - I know this won't be for everyone, but she is also terrific at unique, less-commonplace flavors. Her passionfruit curd is amazing. She made us a red current preserves as a filling, and we were blown away by her lemon-rosemary buttercream. If you want a touch of something different for your wedding, she is perfect. But even if you just want a wonderful basic vanilla, she will deliver.
Amy is a force of nature and was so fun to work with! She has interesting flavor combinations and delivered exactly what we wanted in a wedding cake! We also thought she was priced...
well for the talent she brought to the cake!
Our cake was amazing and we still had people coming to us after our wedding asking us about our cake. We went with an awesome naked cake that was beautiful and had 2 different fla...
vors. The tasting was lots of fun and showed us all the different types of options that were available. There was a good amount of options and overall we were very happy with how everything turned out.
Amy BeckCake Design provided an amazing and beautiful cake for our wedding day. We were blown away at the overall appearance and deliciousness of our cake. As the centerpiece of ou...
r reception we were ecstatic to present the cake and show off it’s elegance and decadent appearance. Amy Beck Cake Design worked with us during the wedding planning process and provided the exact vision we had at an affordable price and great taste! We would highly recommend this company for any wedding or special event that you may have.
Amy Beck gave me my dream cake. From day one, she was very professional, she is vey passionate about what she does and was always responsive and very sweet. The cake was both very ...
beautiful and very delicious. Cant wait to go back. Thank you Amy!!
Working with Amy was one of my favorite parts of my wedding. She completely custom designed our cake by combining ideas from a million different inspiration photos and we could not...
be happier. Amy gets to know you as a couple so that she really knows your vibe/style before suggesting design ideas. She is available every step of the way to tweak her ideas, work on options to keep cost down, and sends you detailed plans with hand sketched mock-ups. During our tasting she whipped up a completely new type of cake filling on the spot at our request. We cant thank her enough!
Amy Beck 👏🏼 cakes 👏🏼 are 👏🏼 fabulous. If you want the feel of a small family owned bakery, the creativity of an artist, and the taste of a French bakery you must get a weddin...
g cake from Amy.
We came to her with our big gay design concept: simple, timeless, fresh and modern. Going in for a tasting here was one of my most fond experiences because you don’t do it in a waiting room, you are in the bakery where the magic happens - sitting next to giant mixers!
We had a design inspiration to include some Keith Haring inspired art. (Fabulous 80s nyc artist lost to hiv)
She totally nailed it with a beautiful buttercream frosted cake with the Haring art on top. We even had my husbands moms jam baked inside which made it all the more special. We got the jam shipped from NC and Amy included it as filling.
She was pleasant, flexible and wonderful. Yassss Amy Beck cakes.
Amy Beck is AMAZING! Our cake was butterfly themed. Not only was our cake stunningly beautiful, but tasted amazing as well. Amy was a pleasure to work with!
Amy was amazing to work with. She was organized, kind and fun! She took the time to look at what we wanted our cake to look like and even was able to incorporate a little fondant v...
ersion of our dog! It made us smile so big when we saw that while cutting our cake on our wedding day. In addition to all those wonderful things-the cake was delicious!!! We received so many compliments on how good it was. I would recommend working with Amy to everyone!
Amy was such a pleasure to work with the cake was AMAZING. So many compliments on how delicious it was - and I'm a cake snob! Highly recommend using her bakery for any of your even...
ts!
Amy Beck Cake Design was a pleasure to work with. We had a vague idea of what we would like, simple. Not much to give a person to go on. But Amy and her team did an amazing job put...
ting together a beautiful cake that went with our relaxed vibe.
Not only did the cake look lovely it tasted GREAT too! Our guests couldn't stop raving.....and still are.
Thank you Amy Beck Cake Design for being a part of our day and making extra sweet. ;)
If you are looking for the perfect wedding cake look no further than Amy Beck! Amy was so easy to work with. We were having a smaller wedding and did not need anything elaborate or...
large but from the beginning Amy never treated us like it was not as important (like a few other bakeries did). Our cake was one of the lowest on our priority lists and man were we wrong! We fell in love with her passionfruit cake from first bite and our cake quickly became one of our favorite things about our wedding. We are counting down the days until we get to have our anniversary cake. Not to mention the cake was beautiful! Work with Amy you will not regret it!
Our wedding cake was beautiful and delicious. We ended up with two different flavor cakes and everyone love both of them. Amy Beck was so easy to work with. We highly recommend ...
the cake tasting.
Beyond satisfied with our experience from start to finish! The cake was absolutely perfect, and delicious. Amy was a pleasure to work with, and made our experience seamless. Thank ...
you for helping make our wedding perfect.
Amy Beck's masterpiece of a wedding cake was a beautiful accent on our special night! Collaborating with Amy on our dream wedding cake was an absolute joy. She hand sketched our id...
ea during our tasting and the idea came to life even more beautiful that we hoped. The cake tasted as deliciously as it looked, it was absolutely succulent!
We are extra grateful that Amy took the effort to add the honeycomb, honey from our father's hive and created beautiful sugar bees. We would highly recommend Amy for any occasion that requires a special cake!
We loved working with Amy to design the wedding cake of our dreams! From the initial tasting/meeting to the day of, Amy made the whole process so easy and enjoyable. Plus not only ...
did it look amazing it also tasted incredible. All of our guests were raving about the cake and we can't wait to unfreeze our top tier to eat it again on our one year:)
Amy designed me the most beautiful, amazing cake ever!!!!! And, it tasted as good as it look!!! Amy is absolutely amazing!!! Thanks again for making our wedding so special!!!
I have nothing but amazing things to say about Amy and the cakes she made for our wedding. We wanted something different and non-traditional and she took our vision and executed i...
t perfectly, better than all my expectations. She was also very accommodating and flexible in schedule our tasting and any appointments and was very helpful with ideas and suggestions. I hope we have the chance to work together again!
Amy was absolutely awesome to work with, from the tasting to day of wedding! She was very responsive and even made a last minute change for us. The cake was delicious and we rece...
ived so many compliments on it throughout the night. I would highly recommend reaching out to Amy for your wedding cake.
Amy Beck was amazing to work with! We loved our wedding cake and cake pop guest favors! I would recommend Amy Beck Cakes to anyone looking for a delicious wedding cake and a talent...
ed and professional baker.
My wedding cake from Amy from Amy Beck Cake Design was PHENOMENAL! I cannot say enough wonderful things about my wedding cake! Working with Amy was a delight, and she helped brin...
g my dream come true! I came across Amy’s cakes during a Chicago bridal walk, and I instantly knew I had to have her design my cake. She based my cake off of the intricate lace designs on my dress, and they couldn’t have matched any better! It was even more beautiful than I ever could have imagined! The tasting was a blast where my husband, mom, and I got to match different frostings to different cakes! Our cake that we saved for a year later truly tasted just as delicious as it did for our wedding! I loved Amy’s cakes so much that she designed for me a Chief Illiniwek cake for my husband as a surprise for our rehearsal dinner! Her work is pure perfection and art, and I absolutely cannot wait to have her design and create cakes for future special occasions!!
Amy was such a delight to work with. She was so hospitable and assured me my wedding cake was going to turn out amazing, and it did. Our cake was so beautiful and also delicious.
Everything about working with Amy and her team was fabulous! When I originally went looking for cakes for our wedding, my main goal was to get something that tasted as good as it l...
ooked and Amy and her team definitely achieved that! My husband was blown away by the design (it was a surprise) and it was so delicious that we had almost no cake left left.
I can not say enough about the amazing experience I had working with Amy! We worked with her on creating a "groom's cake" for my now husband that was Cubs themed. It turned out bea...
utiful and it was the talk of the wedding! The detail she included was impeccable and she worked with me to add elements to it that was unique for us.
Every aspect of the process with her was fantastic. The tasting was so fun and everything was delicious! She listed to our ideas on both what the cake should look like and different flavor combinations and created the perfect end product.
I would 100% work with Amy again and highly recommend her for anything you are thinking of!
Working with Amy Beck was one of our favorite experiences of our wedding year. We loved the process and had an amazing time choosing our flavors. The cake was absolutely stunning a...
nd completely aligned with our vision. Thank you, Amy!
AMAZING, book her now!!! Amy made my cake come to life, it was completely gorgeous and tasted delicious. I was so attentive to detail for my entire wedding so my vendors had to mat...
ch my own attention to detail. Amy Beck Cake Design is the easiest, most beautiful delicious decision you will make. She is completely professional and more importantly personable. As a client she makes you feel comfortable and allows for you to ask questions as many times as you want. I told her my vision once and she ran with it and made my dream come to life. She is amazing and I look forward to using her for future major events. Thanks again to you and your team Amy!!
Amy made our cake for our September 2017 wedding, and we couldn't be happier with the results. The design and taste were exactly what I was looking for, and for a very reasonable ...
price! Amy's team executed perfectly, and I'd highly recommend her for your wedding cake needs.
I was referred to Amy Beck Cake design and from the moment we started our cake tasting appointment I knew she was the one to do our wedding cake. Not only do her cakes look beauti...
ful but they taste amazing! We were able to select a few of her previous designs and customize for the look we were wanting to do. We loved how you could mix and match different flavors and when we inquired about a flavor she didn't have-
she took the time to see if she had it and brought it out. She was patient with us during the cake tasting process as we asked questions to determine our final selections. We received so many compliments at the wedding on the beautiful look but also how great the cake tasted. Our flavor combination of devils food cake with salted caramel and chocolate buttercream was a big hit!
Can't say enough great things about my experience with Amy! My husband and I just loved our delicious and beautiful cake! It was very unique, with a light passion fruit flavor (tru...
st me, amazing). Our guests are still talking about the cake--there were no leftovers because so many people asked for seconds! It also was beautiful and unique, with live flowers and rose gold decor. To top it all off, Amy is just a lovely, kind person who really added to our wedding experience.
We had an amazing experience working with Amy Beck Cake Design for our wedding. Vanessa was so helpful in guiding us through the tasting process, and we loved that we were able to ...
use two flavor/filling combinations (which I enjoyed both of at our reception)! They even allowed us to ship our custom cake topper directly to the bakery for safe keeping and to eliminate any need for us to make an extra trip. The finished product matched our vision (and venue) perfectly! We highly recommend Amy Beck to everyone!
I purchased the fabulous "Chicago Sports Fan" cake from Amy Beck Cake Designs for my June, 2017 wedding. This was a surprise for my groom. Well not only did my groom enjoy the gi...
ft but the cake was definitely one of the stars of the wedding! The cake has gone viral since posting and was yummy as well! If you are looking for a top notch baker for a Chicago area wedding - Amy Beck Cake Designs will not disappoint.
Amy helped me surprise my husband with a 3-D airplane-shaped groom's cake for our wedding. She was very responsive and worked with me to make my vision a reality (and within my bu...
dget). The design was perfect and the cake was absolutely delicious!
It has been a week since our wedding, and I am still getting texts about how amazing our cake was, people who were at the wedding are still mentioning it, and I am still rememberin...
g it. We came to Amy Beck with a very specific idea--we are nerds, and wanted a nerdy wedding cake. Amy Beck rose to the challenge, making a show stopping cake that helped make our wedding memorable. Finally, the cake itself was amazing--it was so difficult to choose flavors because there were so many that were great! It's the kind of dilemma I didn't mind having.
The cake Amy did for our baby's gender reveal party, a 3-tiered cake with superheroes and princesses, was AMAZING!!! We only told her our favorite characters, and let her come up w...
ith the best artistic style. The cake perfectly tied into our theme, and the guests were raving about it. Not to mention the taste. Lots of people had multiple slices. I had enough to take home as well, which made my preggo self very happy!! I still get happy thinking about the chocolate devil’s food cake with Salted Caramel buttercream...mmmmm!!!
I never imagined that tasting and creating a wedding cake could be so much fun, but Vanessa at Amy Beck Cake Design did it! The shop is beautiful; full of all kinds of sample cake...
s and designs. My daughter came with some ideas, but the examples in the shop helped her and her fiancé visualize their concept. Every flavor of cake and frosting we tried were wonderful. It was really hard to decide, but Vanessa helped us through that part of the decision as well sketching-out the final design. Since Amy Beck Cake Design is a preferred supplier with our venue, I did not have to think about the cake again after we completed the contract. The venue even posted a picture of our beautiful cake through Instagram right after the wedding! I highly recommend Amy Beck Cake Design for a wedding cake or any other celebration where you want a tasty, custom-designed cake.
We had the pleasure of meeting Amy Beck today and man were we impressed! Amy has a fantastic personality and made it a fun experience through and through. I must admit I am not the...
biggest cake lover, but if all cakes tasted and looked as beautiful as these it is safe to say I'd probably be eating cake A LOT. We will absolutely recommend Amy Beck Cake Design to all of our friends and family. Thanks Amy, you (and your cakes) are amazing!
We had the most delicious wedding cake ever from Amy Beck! The cake tasting and selection was a highlight of our planning. The ordering process was simple and they staff was great ...
to work with. There was a great selection of flavors. On the day of our wedding, the cake arrived with no issues and we enjoyed it so much! We definitely recommend Amy Beck Cake Design for your wedding day. (Married Oct 2016)
OUTSTANDING!! Second cake they have done for our family. We would not use anyone else ! Not only a gorgeous cake on the outside, but a wonderful tasting cake! Which is so unusua...
l for wedding cake. These cakes make you want to go back for seconds. There are such a variety of flavors too. It is a really fun tasting!
Amy created hand painted watercolor flowers and leaves that where on the cake which surrounded the custom monogram we had made, the cake was accented with fresh flowers which Amy coordinated with the florist. Who else would go to such detail? Only Amy Beck Cake Design! The watercolor flowers Amy created for the cake was so beautiful, and my daughter loved it SO MUCH, it was used for the church programs and the table menus! A true artist!
The Grooms mother and many of our guests had gluten allergies, and Amy Beck was able to have gluten free cake for that those who needed it they were raving about!
There was a storm the night of my daughters wedding and in the rush to leave the planner never took the top of the cake, my husband never tried it, I felt awful! I called Amy Beck Cake Design and they were so wonderful to us and gave us a small cake for our family to have when my daughter and new son in law came home from their honeymoon. How many businesses would do that?
I can't say enough about our experience with Amy Beck personally, her staff, and Amy Beck Cake Design. If you want to be sure you are getting an outstanding, memorable, great tasting, and beautiful cake use Amy Beck.
Once we picked flavors, set the design and ordered, we didn't have to give it a second thought. They are the best!
Amy Beck Cake Design is Chicago's BEST!
Amazing cake! Amazing process and attention to detail! I even ordered a special birthday cake from them months after the wedding... our friends and family are still raving about ou...
r cakes!
As soon as we did our tasting with Vanessa, we knew Amy Beck was going to be the ones to design our cake. I came to Vanessa with a specific design in mind and Vanessa assured me th...
e cake would be the vision I had dreamed of. Throughout the entire process, Vanessa offered suggestions such as our cake topper to make sure it fit the look I wanted & was extremely easy to work with! When I saw my wedding cake on the day of the wedding, I instantly ran to my photographer to make sure they took tons of pictures & looked for my husband to tell him how perfect it looked! They had put my precise vision into something absolutely perfect! I should also mention besides the design it was absolutely delicious! My friends are still telling me how awesome my cake is. I would HIGHLY recommend Amy Beck & Vanessa for an incredible wedding or special occasion cake!
Amy designed my cake according to my vision and it couldn't have been more perfect. She was so easy to work with. The tasting was such a great experience and she had so many delici...
ous options. I highly recommend!
Contact
636 N. Racine Ave., Chicago, IL
Amy Beck Cake Design