About this vendor
Bisnonna Bakeshop is a Italian artisan bakery serving Northern Virginia and the DMV. Bisnonna, which translates to great grandmother in Italian, is an ode to our family matriarchs who celebrated togetherness with flour, sugar, and butter. Our recipes are passed down from generation to generation and always made from scratch and by hand.
We specialize in classic Italian pastry, offering dessert bars full of your favorite cannoli, cookies, and pastries. Most beloved are our classic and pistachio cannoli, tiramisu shooters, and signature cookies like Italian rainbow, pignoli, and biscotti. Everything is made in-house and to-order just for your celebration, so you can customize your dessert bar any way you want! From the Pittsburg cookie table tradition to a 400-piece cannoli bar, our Italian classics are the perfect dessert centerpiece to evoke family tradition, nostalgic flavors, and a good time! Our desserts can easily be held in one hand so your guests can continue to mix and mingle throughout the night without having to sit down or stand still so you, and them, can make the very most of your celebration.
We offer both tiered packages and a la carte selections so you can find exactly what you're looking for, as well as custom packaging, display rentals, and set-up so you don't have to worry about a thing. We love working with your venue and coordinators to ensure a flawless delivery!
Looking for a wedding cake to compliment your dessert bar? We're proud to collaborate with renowned, woman-owned wedding cake companies Liberty Baking Co. and Jisoo Cake Design. We run a collective shop together in Fairfax, VA!
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- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Accessories
- Cake Stands
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Other Desserts
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
- Vegetarian
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Bisnonna Bakeshop was the first vendor we booked for our wedding. As an Italian-American from NYC living in northern Virginia, I was beyond excited to find Nicole's business. Nicole was a joy to work with. I loved that we were able to buy a sample box of cookies before placing our final order. Our guests RAVED about the cookies. These were hands down the best pignoli cookies I have ever had--there were even pignolis on BOTH sides of the cookies (if you know, you know).
I wanted to add a display of Italian cookies and cannoli for my daughter's wedding and happily sampled goodies from the area when I found Bisnonna Bakeshop on-line. They had all the cookies I remembered from my childhood in the Philadelphia area and the samples were delicious. The Italian Flag cookies had the right combo of sweetness and dark chocolate and the Pignoli had great almond flavor. The Lemon Ricotta cookies were a real find, not seen since my childhood. Best of all were the cannoli in classic flavors (my favorite has to be the ones dipped in pistachios), but the baker also adds a modern touch with flavors that are definitely new to the cannoli world. Try the Nutella cannoli. The baker arrived at the wedding venue and set up everything in a display that was like a magnet for the guests after dinner. Great service and great cookies.
Had the best experience working with Bisnonna's for a wedding I planned! My clients LOVED their desserts and their guests raved as well. They made it so easy to order and refine details ahead of time and were amazing on site. Totally recommend!
Nicole was AMAZING! Everything was perfect! We had biscotti, cookies, tiramisu, cannolis, and a variety of other tasty deserts. We had so many people ask us for the Bisnonna information so they could order their own desserts for their events/just to enjoy. She was on time, set everything up beautifully, and was responsive to any and all questions we had. We can't wait to get some more treats from her again!
On our first date, my now husband and I had cannolis so we knew we had to include them on our wedding day. We discovered Bisnonna and Nicole was so accommodating to our requests and let us have multiple rounds of tastings (which included flavors that weren’t in season), the cost of which were deducted from the total bill, which was appreciated. We ordered the original, triple chocolate, pistachio, Thai coffee, and chocolate pecan cannoli along with anisette biscotti and orange cranberry biscotti. My very Italian family is *extremely* picky about cannolis, considering they’re usually overly sweet. Nicole’s family recipe is perfection: just the right amount of sweetness without losing the ricotta flavor. A testament to how good these cannolis were: we were originally going to get the cannolis and biscotti in addition to a cake, but after our tastings, we nixed the cake in favor of more cannolis. Needless to say, they were a hit and a major highlight for our guests that night. I can’t remember how many compliments we received on the cannolis. Nicole was so easy to work with, from helping us decide on flavors (she convinced us to try Thai coffee and it’s now our favorite flavor) down to coordinating display tray drop off after the wedding. We highly, highly recommend Bisnonna for any event!
Nicole’s little bakery is an absolute hidden gem! My groom and I both come from Italian families and knew we wanted Italian pastries at our wedding in Orange, VA, but we were doubtful that we would find anything in the area. A friend discovered Bisnonna on Instagram and we were so excited when we saw all our favorite Italian pastries we ate growing up on her website. We were then absolutely elated when Nicole said they would deliver to Orange, VA on our wedding weekend, which happened to be Easter weekend! The pastries were beyond a huge hit! Not only were they absolutely delicious but they were beautifully displayed. So many of our family and friends ran over to tell us how amazing the pastries were and wanted to know where we found these outside of New York. We could not recommend Bisnonna more and we definitely plan on making Bisnonna an anniversary tradition (if not much more!). Thank you again Bisnonna for helping to make our wedding day so special and so personalized to us!!
Nicole was extremely helpful and professional throughout the planning and ordering process. Bisnonna bakery delivered and provided delicious and fresh cannoli that every wedding guest thoroughly enjoyed. Nicole and Bisnonna Bakery are highly recommended to provide a great cannoli and a beautiful presentation.
Working with Bisnonna Bakeshop was such a treat (both literally and figuratively). We hired Bisnonna as a vendor for our wedding and we were so thrilled to have a full Italian sweets bar in addition to our cake. They were timely with their delivery and all the desserts were so delicious. I especially loved the sfogliatelle (which I hadn’t had since I was a kid in NY) and the pistachio cannolis.
Nicole is AMAZING. She is incredibly responsive, accommodating, and helpful. We chose to forego a wedding cake and instead did mini cannoli and Italian cookies and they were a HUGE hit. We were able to do a tasting and pick our favorite flavors and the flavor choices are so fun (our guests particularly loved the Thai Coffee and Pistachio cannoli and the pignoli cookies) and so delicious. I would absolutely recommend Nicole & Bisnonna!
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10782 Fairfax Boulevard, Fairfax, VA | Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC
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