About this vendor
Bean Counter Bakery is an award-winning boutique bakery specializing in custom wedding cakes and exquisite desserts, proudly serving couples throughout Greater Boston, Cape Cod, Rhode Island, and all of New England.
Your wedding cake journey begins with a personal consultation and a custom design session with owner Alice Lombardi — master cake designer with over 20 years of experience crafting cakes as unforgettable as the moments they celebrate. Alice and her talented team bring your vision to life with artistry, care, and exceptional flavor.
Our wedding offerings include:
Custom wedding cakes — designed and created just for you
Ready-to-order wedding cakes — shop our most popular designs directly on our website
Cookies, cupcakes, and mini desserts — perfect for dessert tables and favors
Vegan and gluten-free options — so every guest can indulge
Delivery, setup and cake stands — full-service, start to finish
Bean Counter Bakery is renowned for cakes that are just as delicious as they are beautiful. Ready to start designing your dream cake? Order tasting samples directly from our website and experience the difference for yourself.
📍 Serving Greater Boston, Cape Cod, Rhode Island, and all of New England
🌐 beancounterbakery.com
Details
Business Attributes
- Asian-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Accessories
- Cake Stands
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
Awards and Affiliations
15-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2025.2024.2023.+12 more.
Best of Weddings
The Knot independently assesses vendors for this award—it’s never self-reported. We base it on firsthand experiences from real couples and guests, and they must have a 4.5-star average across 7+ reviews in the qualifying year.
Hall of Fame
Earned by winning 'Best of Weddings' four or more times.
Reviews
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4.9
out of 5.0238 reviews
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We got a gluten free vanilla and lemon cake from Bean Counter and all of our guests kept telling us how good it tasted. Easily one of the best gluten free cakes I've tasted (says t...
he groom with celiac disease), and the rest of our guests enjoyed it as they would a non-gluten-free delicious cake. We want to go to them for any future events we have--and we are really looking forward to our first anniversary so we can eat the top portion of our cake!
We love Bean Counter. My husband and I both went to WPI and Bean Counter was always a special treat during our years there. This past fall we got married and from the start of plan...
ning I knew that I wanted our cake to come from Bean Counter. We did side by side taste tests with some other well rated bakeries but Bean Counter came out on top. We were surprised how many cakes are dry or have an off flavor, but Bean Counter’s cake is perfect and flavorful. Their buttercream frosting is my absolute favorite as it is particularly creamy. Rather than a traditional wedding cake, we opted for one of their standard decorated cakes with a beautiful floral pattern that perfectly matched our aesthetic and a sheet cake with photos of the two of us. Both came out amazing and I can’t wait to enjoy the second tier of our cake on our anniversary!
Our wedding cake was absolutely perfect! I chose this bakery because they were able to accommodate my request for a gluten-free carrot cake, and they completely exceeded my expecta...
tions. It was beautifully made, incredibly moist, and so delicious that our guests couldn’t believe it was gluten free — several said it was the best wedding cake they’ve ever had! We’re so grateful for their attention to detail and for making something that was both stunning and safe for me to enjoy. Highly recommend!
Alice and Bean Counter Bakery were amazing to work with. We got a small personal wedding cake for us and shooter desserts for our guests. The shooters were such a hit and we got so...
many compliments on them. The cake was DELICIOUS. Neither of us are big cake people and totally had it in our head that we were just getting it for the photo op, but omg it was so amazing. Everything was so easy -- we made several changes throughout the planning process, adding more shooters, changing the writing on the cake, and Alice was always so pleasant and easy to work with. Highly recommend!!!
OMG our wedding cake was sinfully delicious! The Bean Counter was amazing in creating a beautiful and DELICIOUS cake that everyone raved about. 10/10 I highly recommend The Bean Co...
unter for any and all events.
Our cake was delicious! We also had an assortment of pastries, which almost a year later our guests are still raving about.
Our wedding cake and assorted desserts were such a big hit. They offer an assortment of gluten free and vegan options, which guests also raved about. Everything was delicious, high...
ly recommend.
They are amazing! We had two cakes for our wedding. One for us to cut, and one for the guests. The decorations were exactly what we wanted. We did different flavors for each cake a...
nd our little cutting cake was SO good. Flavor, texture, filling ratio were perfect. We missed out on having some of the cake we got for the guests, but we did sample it prior to placing the order and it was the favorite. Some of the guests ended up not being able to make it, so there was extra cake. A lot of the guests helped themselves to a 2nd piece because they enjoyed it so much!
Our wedding was a couple years ago now (October 2022) and we are still dreaming about our amazing wedding cake made by the Bean Counter Bakery! Alice and the entire team were so lo...
vely to work with and helped make our dream wedding cake a reality! What was particularly amazing was that the cake was gluten-free (as the bride has Celiac) and it was so delicious that none of our guests could tell. We received so much amazing feedback from our family and friends about how delicious the wedding cake was! It was a gluten-free carrot cake without nuts with a cream cheese frosting layer and buttercream outer frosting to hold the structure of the design better. We are truly so grateful to the Bean Counter for helping make our wedding cake dreams come true!
BCB made my gluten free wedding cake, a simple 8” one tier cake and a few gluten free cupcakes to supplement our gluten-full cupcake tower. The cake and cupcakes were lovely and ab...
solutely delicious. Unfortunately the wedding industry hikes prices like crazy, and the order cost us over $500.
We chose a simple vanilla with vanilla buttercream cake to have on the cake table for the purpose of cutting the cake for a photo, it was a simple two tier cake that served 28 peop...
le. In addition we purchased sheet cakes that were also vanilla with vanilla buttercream and a second one that was chocolate with vanilla buttercream and it was a HUGE cost savings- about half the price of a traditional wedding cake.
Bean Counter made us the most incredible cake. Not only was it the most beautiful wedding cake I've ever seen, it was also delicious. All our guests were raving about it, and what ...
made it even more special was that it was gluten free. Everyone was amazed that a gluten free cake could be so good. They were also very communicative throughout the whole process and accommodated all our wants and needs. Definitely get your wedding cake here!
Alice was great to work with and customized our order just the way we wanted it to be! We were able to increase the size of our cake according to our wishes as well.
I make weddin...
g cakes and it was really important to me that our cake was delicious as well as being beautiful. The Bean Counter 100% came through! We went with vanilla cake with raspberry buttercream. It was smooth, sweet and delicious!!!
One hiccup was that you need to talk to the owner directly - the branch stores cannot help with wedding cake orders. However, since we worked with her directly, everything was perfect!
The cake was delivered and set up at the venue before our reception. From my perspective, it was seamless!
People are still talking about the wedding cake! It was scrumptious as were the dozens of mini desserts and the dozens of chocolate covered strawberries. The couple only wanted a ...
very small 2 tier cake - but as the mother of the bride - I knew people would remember the cake so we also ordered a double layer specialty sheet cake so that every slice served was the same. These cakes along with the other desserts were all devoured. Lombardi and her team were attentive, very detail oriented, excellent communicators, timely and very professional. Bean Counter Bakery is now our go to bakery and I highly recommend them.
You will not find a better cake in Massachusetts than at the Bean Counter! Alice is great to work with and professional. You and your guests will LOVE the cakes at Bean Counter, ...
and it will be a highlight of your wedding. Cannot recommend enough. Thanks Alice!
Alice was very quick to respond to me emails, very easy to work with, and adjusted our cake tasting at the last minute due to unforseen circumstances on my end! They were very prof...
essional as well.
As far as the cake, it was absolutely beautiful and all of my guests complimented us on our cake!
Working with the Bean Counter was a pleasure. Their service was excellent in every way and the final wedding cake a real treat. Highly recommend.
The Bean Counter Bakery is absolutely the place to get your wedding cake! Alice, the owner and cake designer, made my daughter the most beautiful, and delicious cake we could have...
ever asked for. She is highly skilled and all four different layers of the wedding cake were simply fantastic. I've never had more compliments on a cake! Everyone at the wedding loved the cake, which was our only dessert served. I would order from her bakery again and again. Thank you again, Alice, for your part in making my daughter's wedding day a tremendous success!
Alice is friendly and extremely talented. She created my dream wedding cake. The cake was perfect, elegant and absolutely delicious with three different flavors. I recommend having...
Alice make everyone’s wedding cake.
We absolutely loved our wedding cake and could not recommend Alice and her team at the Bean Counter enough. The Bean Counter had BY FAR the best cakes we sampled during our cake ta...
stings with different bakeries. We had several guests specifically comment that the cake was superb and try to get second slices!!
Absolutely beautiful display- we did a cupcake tower with a 6 inch round cake on the top to make it still look like a cake. Our guests raves about all the different cupcakes and h...
ow delicious they all were! We had a lovely experience with the Bean Counter Cafe from planning our tastings to the execution of what we wanted. Everything was so perfect! Highly recommend!
I recently had the pleasure of working with a Bean Counter Bakery and I must say, I was blown away by the quality of their cakes. The cake tasting could be done from home with a pr...
eset box of options, which I thought was a cute and convenient idea. Alice was able to take our vision and turn it into a stunning design that was not only beautiful and simple but also delicious. The flavors were also amazing (a delicious chocolate on chocolate) - our guests couldn't stop raving about how delicious it was.
We used The Bean Counter for our wedding cake and were so happy with how it turned out. There are beautiful wedding cakes, and there are delicious wedding cakes - and you don’t of...
ten get both … but you will with Alice. Her cakes taste incredible and our biggest problem was picking which flavor we wanted - try them all! They have many flavors, and they were all delicious and rich. They have many designs to choose from, and they made us a beautiful cake that included figurines of our three dogs. We had The Bean Counter on our radar based on an earlier tasting event we had attended, and then we found out they had made the cake for one of our friends years earlier which we specifically remembered loving, so it was a no-brainer that we'd use them for our wedding, and we were not disappointed. Great cake design, incredible flavor, and on-time delivery; we'd highly recommend them!
Delicious! Ate it in my hotel room and 3am and it was even better!
Alice is the absolute best out there! Not only are all her cakes unbelievably delicious, she is an incredibly kind and wonderful person to work with! I had a lot of questions and w...
as a bit frazzled by wedding planning in general, and she was able to answer all my questions and help me through the process which made my whole experience so much more fun and relaxing. I cannot thank her enough and will go back again for all my cake needs!
We have always loved Bean Counter Bakery for desserts and knew we had to order our wedding cake from Alice. Everything was so smooth and easy, from the tasting experience to the d...
elivery on the day. Bean Counter cakes are the best in our area (we've tried a lot), and our wedding day cake was one that everyone raved about. The design was exactly as we discussed, and the taste was everything we'd expect from our favorite bakery. Highly recommend working with Alice and the Bean Counter for any of your wedding dessert needs!
Alice was so nice to work with leading up to the wedding! She was very responsive, detail-oriented, and helpful with our food allergies. We had so many guests comment at our weddin...
g that the cake was the best wedding cake they've ever eaten! I highly recommend them!
I cannot possibly express how much we were OBSESSED with our wedding cake from Bean Counter!!!!! Alice was not only an expert in delicious cake and design, but friendly, helpful, a...
nd communicative. We have many allergies in our family to gluten and tree nuts including myself and most of our wedding party. Alice made us feel so safe in having our completely gluten and tree nut free cake for our wedding, along with our incredible cannolis and eclairs. My old school Italian family was RAVING about how delicious it all was! I barely wanted a wedding cake before going to our original cake tasting because I was convinced that there was no way that a gluten free wedding cake would be good. I was SO wrong! After eating the first bite, I was literally more excited about our cake than I have ever been about any dessert in my entire life (which, believe me, says a lot). We fell in love with not only our cake flavors (one layer lemon/raspberry, one layer apple pie filling, and one layer chocolate chip cannoli), but Alice worked with us to get the perfect design that we wanted. Our cake was GORGEOUS and we can't wait to get photos back from our photographer so we can keep reminiscing about our beautiful AND delicious cake! We cannot say enough good things about Alice and her unbelievable talent. Hire this bakery!!!!!
Best wedding cake and a great price. I would highly recommend!
The Bean Counter Bakery did an amazing job with our wedding cake. We had great communication with Alice from our initial meeting to the wedding day. Our wedding date in 2020 was ca...
nceled and pushed back a year and we had no issues rescheduling with them. At the initial meeting they gave us all the details we needed to know about choosing a cake. We saw numerous photos of previous customers’ cake designs and were able to try several flavors. We ended up with a three tier cake with each tier a different flavor and filling. It was delicious and beautiful! Would highly recommend using Bean Counter Bakery for your wedding cake.
Couldn't have asked for a better cake or experience with Alice. We planned a quick wedding so even on short notice she was pleasant, easy to work with, and got our cake PERFECT. Sh...
e listened to every little detail we wanted, she handled the flowers that I had delivered to the bakery, and the cake topper and the cake came out better than ever. It was EXACTLY how I had imagined it and tasted wonderfully, too. I can't say enough good things about Bean Counter Bakery and recommend them to everyone!
Even before we met Alice, I knew she was the person I wanted make my wedding cake. I work night shift so it was a little difficult to find a good time that worked for the both of...
us and she did all she could to gives an appointment that accommodate my needs. Our wedding cake it was JUST AMAZING, everything we asked for she made sure we had it. I couldn't be more happy with our decision to get our cake here.
The Bean Counter is amazing! Cake was delicious, there wasn't any left. Alice was wonderful to work with and she brought our vision to reality. She even has options for those ...
with special dietary needs and they taste great too.
If you are looking for a bakery for your special day, look no further, you won't be disappointed.
BUY THE CAKE YOU LOVE! At first, we had hoped to spend as LOW as possible for cake/cupcakes (esp. since my husband doesn’t really like cake) & we found some places that were a lot ...
lower than our budget but after doing tastings of 3 different spots- Bean Counter Bakery was the only one were the leftovers got demolished!! After the wedding we had sooo many people ask us where we got our cupcakes from. Family that live further away said they’d make a day trip just for some cupcakes! I’m so happy that we went with Alice! OH and the cupcakes were so good… it made my HUSBAND GRAB MORE. AND HE DOESNT EVEN LIKE CAKE LOL 😂 (also we went back a month later for my bday cake lol) I will say was a bit more than we hoped to spend originally and prices increased right before our wedding which wasn’t great, but I had budgeted more than we needed so luckily it wasn’t a problem for us.
Bean Counter Bakery was the cake sponsor for our wedding venue. Alice and her staff worked amazingly to satisfy our taste, cake style, and flavors. We got her signature cake for ou...
r wedding and it was PERFECT!
Insider: My step-daughter left her table to take some pictures and when she returned her cake was gone. I found out that this happened to a couple of people. LOL
We traveled from VA to my daughter's WPI graduation, and she specifically requested a Bean Counter Bakery cake for her celebration. I ordered it 2 or 3 months ahead but forgot to ...
pay online two week prior to our arrival. I contacted Alice after hours when I realized my mistake, and she went to the trouble to call me. Ultimately she saved the day by providing us with one of her delicious cakes- even though they were swamped with orders! Highly recommend Alice and BCB for the best cake in town and the best service!!
Alice was great to work with. She was great about staying on top of things and walking us through the process. The cake was amazing -- our only regret was that we didn't ask for le...
ftovers from the venue. So good!
One of the highlights of wedding planning is the cake tasting, and if you choose Bean Counter Bakery, you’re really in for a treat! We chose Bean Counter Bakery because not only di...
d their flavors blow us away, but we were also excited to support a local, woman-owned business. We chose a spice cake with an apple caramel filling and buttercream frosting and, oh man, just remembering it is making me hungry! The cake was beautiful and absolutely divine. Our guests couldn’t stop talking about how delicious the cake was: delicately moist, not overwhelmingly sweet, and perfectly fitting for a New England fall wedding. The Bean Counter team was a joy to work with and our wedding day delivery was seamless. I’m still thinking about the cake 🤤. I highly recommend trying this bakery for your dessert needs.
Beautiful and delicious wedding cake!
Working with Alice and Crystal was easy and effortless. We chose a variety of cupcakes for our wedding day and they did not disappoint! As a girl who loves her sweets, I so enjoyed...
this part of the wedding planning process. Every sample my husband and I tasted was delicious! I would recommend Bean Counter Bakery to anyone for the wedding dessert needs.
Absolutely delicious wedding cake. We did a few different tastings and the one from bean counter had by far the most generous portions and were also the most delicious. In the end,...
it was an easy decision.
We got to choose two different flavors for our 3-tier cake, and at the event it completely disappeared! Our guests couldn't stop talking about it! I absolutely would recommend Bean Counter to others organizing a wedding.
Alice is a truly talented baker. From the day we had our cake tasting, we knew that her cakes were top quality and would be loved by all of our wedding guests. Alice was very profe...
ssional and had a plan in place even as we postponed our wedding and changed the number of guests. She was flexible in changing the cake size and making a plan for getting flowers onto the cake. The cake was so tasty, we still stop by her shop from time to time for treats!
I highly recommend going here for your wedding cake. The staff that work here are absolutely amazing. I was always in contact with Alice and she was just absolutely amazing. She al...
ways got back to me right away with any questions or concerns I had. She also met with me for my cake tasting which really made everything more personable. She got to try so many types of cake ans they were all amazing. We chose Bean Counter Bakery as our cake vendor and I am absolutely so happy we made that decision. Everyone at our wedding this past weekend complmented alot on how good the cake tasted and how beautiful it looked. I highly recommend booking with them!
Alice and team did an incredible job with our wedding cake! From the moment we met Alice she was professional and so organized. We enjoyed trying all of the flavors with her at the...
tasting and she even invited us back to try more, if needed! Alice and her husband transported our cake all the way to Kennebunk, ME too. I was blown away at how gorgeous the cake was - it looked exactly like the photo I had showed her for by vision! Best of all, Alice's cake flavors and taste are unlike any other. We got the vanilla cake with lemon filling and vanilla buttercream frosting and it was just perfect (our guests are still telling us how delicious the cake was). Even those guests who didn't like lemon LOVED this flavor. The cake looked great on Alice's cake stand as well. I would recommend Alice to any other Bride!
Alice did an incredible job with our cakes. We selected the Tutti Frutti and White Chocolate Strawberry flavors and they were so light, airy, and delicious. Couldn’t have asked for...
better- HIGHLY recommend!
Our wedding cake was absolutely stunning!! We had tastings at a few other vendors in the Boston area but Alice’s cake far surpassed everyone else’s. She was always available to ans...
wer any questions that we had and provided a wedding cake for us that was even better than we ever could have imagined! The cake was delicious and fresh and we got so many compliments from our guests on how amazing it was! If she is available for your wedding, hire her!
Incredibly delicious cake!!!!
Our cake was everything we dreamed of and more! Not to mention, how tasty it truly was. They are the real deal, and everyone in Central MA knows their dedication to the craft. Lead...
ing up to it was also seamless, you can tell they are professionals and did a great job with coordinating with the venue directly.
Alice and the Bean Counter Bakery are wonderful! Alice is a delight to work with and the cake was AMAZING! It was beautiful and absolutely delicious. We got lots of compliments ...
from our guests on our wedding cake. We enjoyed working with Alice who is creative, flexible, professional, and incredibly talented. Our experience was positive from start to finish! We would highly recommend the Bean Counter Bakery.
We had a very stressful wedding planning, as many people do. Our original baker backed out last minute. I can’t tell you how much of a blessing this was, given how amazing Bean Cou...
nter Bakery was. They were so empathetic and Alice sat with us for a long time, working over details. I was desperate to have a peeling birch cake, simple but beautiful, without any fondant. Well, Alice worked major magic. Thé cake was absolutely stunning. It was also TO DIE for, we went with different flavors for each tier. It’s about a 2 hour drive for us, and it’s totally worth it. Heading there for our anniversary cake this week. Will be ordering for my daughter’s first birthday as well!
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270 Grove Street, Worcester, MA | New England
Bean Counter Bakery