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Based in North Charleston, SC, Cakes by Kasarda is a boutique wedding bakery initially founded in 2007 by pastry Chef Tammy Kasarda-Pilch. After earning a degree in pastry arts from Johnson and Wales University, Tammy refined her baking and decorating skills at local cafés and hotels. She eventually opened her own bakery, bringing her delightful creations to couples on their wedding day.
Cakes by Kasarda boasts an impressive portfolio of cake designs, from hot wheels-themed cakes to elegantly frosted three-tier masterpieces. Tammy loves to create unique wedding cakes, combining her passion for design and baking. Couples can sample Tammy's work at private tasting appointments before landing on their final decision.
Cakes by Kasarda offers wedding cakes and dessert table treats to tantalize taste buds. The bakery can create alternative baked goods for diabetic and nut-free diets. Other delicious treats include cake pops, pastries, cookies, and cupcakes. The bakery can even supply couples with a cake stand and setup services.
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- Cake Tastings
- Groom's Cakes
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We loved our wedding cake! Tammy did a fabulous job! Not only did it look amazing, it also tasted great!! And the cake tasting was a lot of fun too! We highly recommend Cakes by Kasarda!
Tammy knocked it out of the park with our groom’s cake for our son’s wedding. She was so easy and pleasant to work with and made the whole experience truly enjoyable. We wanted to pay homage to our Baltimore roots with a Chesapeake Bay Steamed Crab- themed cake and the final result was PERFECT in every way. The cake was just as delicious tasting as it was amazing to look at too. I couldn’t have been more pleased with the creative process, delivery, final outcome and value of our cake.
Our wedding cake was EXACTLY what we wanted. So rustic and elegant, and perfect for our outdoor tented wedding. Tammy was so easy to work with, so personable, and really nailed our style and taste buds. Highly recommend if you are in the SC area! :)
Wow! We had some cake connoisseurs at our wedding and they unanimously agreed that this was the BEST cake they have ever tasted. I usually despise red velvet cake, but somehow I ended up falling in love with the red velvet cake with a cookies and cream filling. Just typing this review is making my mouth water. If you want the most beautiful and tasty cake in the world, you've found the right baker!
Cakes by Kasarda was a dream to work with! The cake was just as delicious at the tasting as it was on the wedding day and absolutely beautiful. Not to mention, Tammy is a delight to work with and a truly talented baker! Thank you for a wonderful experience. Highly recommend!
So delicious, quick response time and fair pricing. Guests favorite flavors were the chocolate and carrot cake. Thank you so much!
From our initial tasting, I knew Cakes by Kasarda would be a sweet addition to our special wedding day!!
All of her cake and icing flavors were absolutely delicious! There is truly a flavor for everyone! We chose your classic vanilla and chocolate for the base tier and the sweet potato for the top tier. The sweet potato and honey cinnamon filling was AMAZING!
Tammy is a pleasure to work with. She is extremely knowledgeable and talented. Her years of talent and cake skills are out of this world. You will not be disappointed.
I highly recommend Cakes by Kasarda for your wedding and special event needs! Yum!!
(Photo credit to Hope Taylor Photography)
My wife and I ordered two cakes from Cakes by Kasarda due for pickup at their bake shop within three days of each other. One of them was my birthday carrot cake and the other one was a Canada Day red and white velvet cake with an edible flag inside the cake. The presentation of both cakes were exquisite. Both of these cakes were the most scrumptious, creamy, and oh so appetizing desserts that we have had this year. Kudos to the pastry chef/owner, Tammy! You did an outstanding job! Last but most importantly not least during this COVID-19 Global Pandemic, Cakes by Kasarda follows CDC guidelines, i.e., wearing a face mask, practicing social distancing, and using hand sanitizer, regardless if it is a delivery or pickup.
Loved our wedding cake! She has great taste in decorating, elegant design and fabulous flavors! Was a big crowd pleaser, not to mention affordable and professional.
Tammy was absolutely wonderful to work with and baked/designed a delicious and beautiful wedding cake for us. From our initial inquiry, to tasting, to the wedding everything went smoothly and Tammy made the process extremely easy, especially considering we were planning our destination wedding from Florida. Tammy was able to do 2 layers of strawberry cake and a layer of lemon (because both were so delicious we couldn't decide) and the design was exactly what we wanted based off one single photo we showed her. Bravo!
Tammy did such an amazing job with our wedding cake. She was so easy to talk to and really brought my vision to life. I also had her help me with a surprise groom cake and it looked amazing! Everyone at the rehearsal dinner and wedding talked about how amazing the cakes tasted. I’m usually not fond of wedding cakes but this cake was so delicious! Tammy was also sweet enough to bring me cupcakes as a sweet addition to our wedding cake when she thought she had forgot to add in red velvet for the grooms cake layer. I would highly recommend her! Best cakes ever!
Loved my wedding cake! I went with a 5 tier simple elegant cake with flowers added from my florist. Tammy was great to work with and coordinated with my florist as well. I received so many compliments on the taste and beauty of the cake. Tammys pricing was very reasonable on per slice and for extras compared to others I called. Highly recommend!! Thank you Tammy!!
Cakes by Kasarda did an amazing job! We ordered a small cake for my husband and I to cut, and then cupcakes for our guests. The flavor combinations were so delicious! We received a lot of compliments on the cupcake flavors. And the design of the small cake was exactly what I had pictured! My husband and I were blown away and would happily recommend Cakes by Kasarda!
Our cake turned out perfectly!! We were taken care of from setting up a meeting time, to our cake tastings to the day of! It was better than what we pictured, and tasted even better than it looked (which is impressive cause it looked good!)!
Thank you so much!!
Cakes by Kasarda is amazing! We are so happy that we picked them for our wedding. Tammy was so easy to work with and fast at communicating. She was super flexible with us too! The cake turned out SO well. It looked gorgeous and tasted even better. We have chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream and peanut butter ganache and it was everything I have ever dreamed of. And it wasn’t dry like most wedding cakes I’ve had! Super moist and delicious. Thank you Tammy for everything, it was a huge hit!
Inflight WiFi and still on cloud nine from last night so no better time to share how grateful I am for Tammy! She made the most delicious cakes for our rehearsal dinner and wedding! They were also gorgeous! My husband graduated from the Citadel and she made a perfect Citadel themed cake for our rehearsal dinner! The wedding cake was stunning! I will definitely recommend Tammy for anyone needing a baker! Every flavor we tried was amazing, but her red velvet is to die for!
Tammy baked and designed our wedding cake to perfection! We had three tiers with each tier a different flavor - Italian wedding cake, red velvet, and chocolate with vanilla and peanut butter frosting. The red velvet is devine! She perfectly designed the cake according to my inspiration photo as well. I would highly reccomend Tammy!
Our cake was beautifully simple with a nice arrangement of flowers on it- just what we wanted!! We also had 3 different flavors of mini cupcakes that were delicious! Very fair pricing.
Working with Tammy was absolutely wonderful! She has so many great cake flavors and icing flavors that it was hard to choose! We showed her a few pictures of what we were looking for and she delivered two perfect cakes, including a groom's cake that was so life like people didn't realize it was a cake at first (it was shaped like a bucket of beer)! We went with three flavors, almond cake with Italian buttercream, vanilla cake with fresh strawberries and cream, and the groom's cake was chocolate with cookies and cream icing. All three were delicious but the chocolate cake with cookies and cream icing really stole the show. I would highly recommend Cakes by Kasarda as Tammy is very easy to work with and delivers great cakes!
Tammy did our wedding cake in Sept 2013 and it was so beautiful and unique. She really brought our vision to life and the flavors were to die for. We moved to SC to Ga and since moving here we haven't been able to find a place to make and decorate cakes like Tammy does. So since moving we have come back to Tammy every year for our anniversary cake, our gender reveal cake, our baby shower cake, our daughter's 6 month bday cake and 1st bday cake as well as her baptism cake. She has brought every vision I had for each cake to life. She is a master at her craft. A jedi. Needless to say Tammy has our business for the future as long as she is in business. We already have standing June dates for our daughter's bdays for the next several years.
I was married on March 24, 2018 in Charleston, SC. Cakes by Kasarda was my THE BEST!. I honestly cannot say enough about Tammy. They were everything I could have asked for that day. The service I received was more than business, Tammy was so kind and honestly cared about making my day the best they could. There was not even one request that was not fulfilled to the highest standard. I would like to use a bigger and better statement than “I recommend highly Cakes by Kasarda”, because they far exceeded my expectations. Having spent more than six months planning every inch of my wedding, impressing me can be very difficult, but Tammy definitely did it!!! I can suggest if you have a wedding, party or even to book Cakes by Kasarda as soon as you can because once more people hear about them they will book up years in advance. Every person who attended commented on how amazing the cupcakes were. Thank You Thank You! I would hire you again in a second!!
We can't recommend Tammy enough! She was very easy to work with and responsive, but most importantly, our wedding cake was incredibly beautiful and tasted AMAZING. My husband really wanted to have strawberry cake with fresh strawberries worked into one of the tiers (many other bakeries/pastry chefs didn't offer strawberry cake) and Tammy's did not disappoint. We also had moist chocolate cake and raspberry jam filling for the other tier. I was dreaming about our cake in the months leading up to our wedding day and was ecstatic with the final result. On the day of, Tammy also arranged a variety of blooms provided by our florist onto the cake and it looked just like the photo inspiration we provided. We couldn't have been happier!
Absolutely amazing cake, frosting to die-for, and it was decorated to perfection! Tammy was professional throughout the entire process and a gem while we did our tasting. Everyone raved about how great our cake looked, but especially how it tasted! She was patient with us as we gave her “beach theme” but didn’t quite know how to go about giving her more direction. The cake decorations couldn’t have turned out better! We would definitely recommend her to our friends and family!
I highly recommend Cakes by Kasarda. Tammy is so sweet and helpful. She did a 3 tiered wedding cake with 3 different flavors and a scuba diver groom's cake. They were both beautifully done. And the best part was how wonderful they tasted! All of our guests were raving about the flavors and texture. It was exactly what we wanted - even better!
I found out about Cakes by Kasarda through a friend whose parents bought her 30th birthday cake from Tammy. This was a few years ago, and when we ultimately decided on Charleston for our wedding (we live in WA), I had to track her down because I remembered the cake she did for my friend that was both beautiful and tasted great.
I had a mullet (or peek-a-boo) cake idea, classy and formal in the front, and personalized in the back. When visiting with her, I mostly left the cake tasting to my mom and nephew, and we discussed the idea and how she could make the cake a reality.
I later sent her pictures of our dogs, which were to be included. Come wedding day, multiple things went wrong (as they do), and I managed to hold it together. When we arrived at the reception, and the DJ was calling us for our first dance, I noticed the cake and made a beeline for it. Not going to lie, the cake brought me to tears. The nerves, stress of the day, things that didn't turn out as I wanted it to, and then I saw the cake. It was that perfect. When I had to deal with curveballs and things not being delivered as planned, this cake made my day.
I wish I could add pictures here to show you the cake that she made. It was a beautiful square, three tier cake. Classy and elegant from the front, with our dogs holding back the "curtain" in the back to reveal our colleges, and our NFL teams.
On top of it all, the cake was delicious. All three flavors we chose. I tasted them all. No shame.
So amazing! Not only did our cake look amazing, but it tasted AMAZING! I would definitely recommend!! I did a fun grooms cake & also a small reception cake - both came out even better than I could have imagined. And our guests were raving at how delicious they both were!
I highly recommend Cakes by Kasarda, the tasting was so much fun and so much to taste, we narrowed it down to Red Velvet and Lemon cake. The frosting was a mix of butter cream and Italian cream so it was not too sweet, my guests thought the cake was beautiful and the best cake they had ever tasted!
Tammy was great to work with! She made two beautiful cakes for us and both tasted delicious. She was always on time and very good with communication.
I would hire Cakes by Kasarda over and over again! She is by far the best! She was great about responding to every email and planning our tasting. Our wedding cake was beautiful and exactly what we asked for! Our guest went crazy over the sweet potato cupcakes just like we did when we first tasted it!
Tammy is truly the best in the business! When we had our tasting, she answered all of our questions and made us feel so at home! There were so many options, and said we liked them all! It was so hard to choose the best one! Thank you again for everything! If you want an amazing tasting wedding cake, go see Tammy!!
Tammy was very friendly from the beginning and very helpful with coming up with ideas. She made both the groom's cake and wedding cake and both of them tasted amazing! They were the most moist and fresh tasting cakes I have had. She was able to create each of them to look absolutely beautiful and just like I imagined them! She was very reasonably priced as well.
Our cake was STUNNING and so delicious. I overheard so many people talking about it!! People refused to even put it down while breaking it down on the dance floor! Thank you!!!'
I had at least 10 people come up to me during the reception to ask where our cake came from! It not only looked exactly like I asked, it tasted better than I thought it would! She also has some of the best prices around!
HANDS DOWN best cake we have ever tasted! We were lucky enough to stumble across Kasarda just based on reviews and we couldn't have chosen a better company for our cake. Our wedding guests could not get enough - we went with chocolate and red velvet and they are still talking about how awesome it was! Do not look any further - You have found the perfect Bakery!
Tammy was recommended to us by our wedding planner (whose cake was also made by Cakes by Karsada). We are so happy with her recommendation! Tammy was amazing to work with, very responsive and patient with my changing ideas up front, helping us find a solution that was both cost effective and deliciously beautiful. Her tasting was also wonderful, although is more sweets than we could try. We also really liked her recommendations for pairing. All around, you cannot go wrong using Cake by Karsada. Highly recommend!
Cakes by Kasarda did an amazing job with my wedding cake! It was exactly what I asked for and was decorated beautifully. Tammy was professional, nice and did a beautiful job. Not only was my cake beautiful but it tasted great! I can't wait to eat my top layer on my one year anniversary. I highly recommend Cakes by Kasarda.
Cakes by Kasarda was AMAZING!!!! We had an amazing cake tasting and could not have gone wrong with any of the many many choices of cake and frosting that were provided. We ended up getting two cakes - a wedding cake for the big day and a second cake for the rehearsal dinner, which was also my sister's birthday (she approved the wedding date :-)). We told Tammy that we wanted something special for my sister's birthday, and, because my sister was working at a planetarium at the time, we wanted a space cake. We showed Tammy a couple of pictures of things we found online but gave her a lot of freedom on how to make it look. The cake was BEYOND what we were ever expecting. Tammy delivered the cake to the rehearsal dinner restaurant, so we did not get to see it before it was brought out, but it was, by far, the most amazing cake I have ever seen. Tammy and Cakes by Kasarda made an absolutely beautiful and delicious wedding cake and also helped us surprise my sister on her birthday!! Thank you for helping to make our entire weekend perfect!!
Tammy is so talented! I gave her a picture of what we wanted and she designed it even better! Her other dessert options were fabulous too! Everyone raved about the cakes for weeks! So delicious!
Our wedding cake was beautiful and exceeded our expectations. She was so nice and even offered a law enforcement discount! We would 100% recommend her cakes!!
Tammy did an absolutely amazing job on both our wedding cake and our grooms cake! My husband wanted the Iron Throne (from Game of Thrones) for his grooms cake, and Tammy's creation was so realistic people weren't aware it was a cake! Both cakes were delicious and we can't wait to eat our top layer later! We will definitely be coming back to Tammy for birthday cakes and other events!
Tammy did a beautiful job with our wedding cake and was BEYOND creative with the grooms cake I requested! Our tiered cake was equally stunning and delicious and the popcorn/bubblegum themed grooms cake was a true show stopper! Quite a few folks did not believe it was a real cake! Our cake tasting appointment was a true highlight of our planning process and I would recommend Tammy over and over again!
My cake was a dream come true. I had no vision for what I wanted and my Groom had very picky taste. Not only was the cake absolutely beautiful, it tasted incredible too!! Tammy was so professional and personable. We LOVED working with her and we would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a beautiful cake!!
I absolutely loved my wedding cake!! Hands down the best wedding cake I've ever tasted...gorgeous too.
Cake was perfect and exactly what I wanted! Everyone raved about how moist it was! I wasn't able to eat any at the wedding, but the venue packed us some to go. Even the next day, the cake was phenomenal! Great Job!
When my grandmother found out I was engaged, the first thing she told me was to find the best bakery for the cake because that's what she loved the most about her own wedding. Tammy made this daunting task an easy choice! The samples she gave us during the tasting were all so wonderful! We ended up with three different flavors for the wedding cake and another for the groomsman cake. She did a great dinosaur coming out of a Dallas Cowboy star for the groomsman cake and an ombre cake with the lyrics of our first dance song written on it. They both were so beautiful, and tasted amazing!
My wedding cake literally took my breath away when I first saw it. Tammy went above and beyond any and all expectation and I am so thankful to have chosen her to make our perfect delicious wedding cake. I wanted something original and quite different from the norm and she was so excited to make my vision my perfect reality. I had a navy cake with gold lace detailing that would knock your socks off. No flowers or cake topper needed to accent this cake. It was originally supposed to be a sugar stencil, however, when I saw the cake I quickly realized the stencil was gold piping gel hand piped gorgeously which must have taken hours for her. She never said a word about the issue she had and I know it must have been lots of time and a very steady hand. I am so grateful to you Tammy for all your hard work I know went into the design, which was better than I could ever imagined. I added some cake lighting which really made the cake look even more stunning in the evening light. Our tasting meeting was wonderful with so many cake and filling choices to choose from. We actually loved them all and trusted her entirely by going with a seasonal flavor we didn't taste that day; pumpkin spice with cream cheese frosting. It's our favorite and perfect for our fall wedding so we knew we couldn't go wrong and boy were we right! We received rave reviews about the taste and even though we gave everyone larger pieces of cake, it was wiped out at the end of the night. People were stealing other guests pieces it was so yummy! Thank you again Tammy. We ABSOLUTELY LOVED it! ~Monica & Dustin
Tammy,
Thank you so much for our beautiful wedding cake, the delicious flavors, and yummy oatmeal cookie sandwiches featuring the icings from our cake! The lace detail and monogram turned out more amazing than I ever could have imagined!
Our tasting was a fantastic experience as well as got to taste a wide variety of cake flavors and frosting options. Tammy was very easy to work with and even did 2 custom flavor combinations.
We did 2 other tastings in Charleston and eventually chose Cakes by Kasarda based on the taste and texture of her cakes/frostings (homemade and light/fluffy) and military discount.
Our cupcakes were amazing! We did a few tastings at other places and the cupcakes were all too sweet and too heavy. Every place also only had certain cupcakes on certain days and that's what you needed to choose from. When we met with Tammy, in her wonderful little yellow house, she had a bunch of cake flavors, many frostings, and some other toppings (fruit drizzles & such). She gave us some pointers and advice on which cake goes with which frosting but then let us get crazy to mix & match flavors. We then got to choose which flavors we liked best. We did 200 cupcakes (50 each of 4 different flavors) and we got a cutting cake with another flavor. The cupcakes were so amazing! We even took a box of them with us on the plane when we left so we could eat more the next day. We definitely recommend Cakes by Kasarda.
My wedding cake wasn't a top priority to me. I was actually just going to get a cake from publix, but that would cost me a lot for poor quality. Therefore, the cake tasting began. I tried a lot of cakes in a 2 day period. Cakes by Kasarda was by far the best tasting cake and the best price. Another very reputable baker was twice as much with cakes that did not taste even close to as good as her's. Seriously, I didn't even think she was going to be as good as she was. She was amazing. Great design and great taste for an unbelievable great price
Tammy exceeded mine and my fiancés expectations- at every turn!
The customer service was exceptional, and the cake was delicious!
Much Love,
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Colucci
The dessert table was a favorite! Hands down the best sweets in town!
Chef Kasarda executed our cake vision to a T! She was extremely easy to work with and offers some delicious cake flavors :)
The cake was perfect. It was exactly what I wanted. I couldn't be more pleased. Thank you Cakes by Kasarda.
We used Cakes by Kasarda for both the groom's cake and our wedding cake. The cakes came out gorgeous and tasted exactly how they did in the tasting. We did 4 different tastings and this cake was by far the best. The cake was moist, plenty of flavors as well as fillings and frosting to choose from. Our guests were raving about how good it was. It is taking a lot of self control to not cut into the cake top we saved for our anniversary!
I had a destination wedding in Charleston and had to plan everything through email and phone call. During a visit to Charleston we were unfortunately late and missed our tasting, but Tammy was great and packed up the cake, icing, and fillings to-go so that we were still able to taste and make our choices. We had chocolate cake with peanut butter filling and lemon cake with raspberry filling and both were heaven! Our cake was absolutely gorgeous as well, simple, clean, and exactly what I had in mind! Tammy was great in terms of communication and answering all my crazy questions!
Tammy made over 200 mini cupcakes for our wedding in 6 different flavors, which we custom selected during our tasting. She also made a small wedding cake for my groom and I. The taste and presentation of our cupcakes and cake were amazing. Our guests were RAVING, and I honestly wish I'd purchased 200 more! They were flying off of the display faster than any wedding dessert I'd ever seen.
Tammy is also very professional and easy to work with - I highly recommend her for your baking needs - wedding or otherwise!
There is a reason by Cakes by Kasarda has won all of the awards it has in the past few years!!! My wedding cake was the most beautiful piece of artwork;; I didnt even want to eat it!
When I walked into the cutest yellow house to meet with Tammy I saw the exact design of cake I wanted and we went from there;; ended up with 3 different cake and frosting types because they were all so good I couldnt choose!
My husband also got a Red Sox grooms cake that all the other guests and even other vendors were taking pictures of because it was so cool!
I highly HIGHLY recommend Cakes by Kasarda! Sooo delicious!
Both the wedding came and grooms cakes were a hit with our guests! Tammy is a Johnson and Wales grad who really knows her stuff!
I went with a small 8" round cake and an assortment of cupcakes for my wedding. The cake was beautiful, Tammy is very creative and helpful. Highly recommend!
Tammy was a wonderul consultant and was able to meet all of my requests, specifically the extra tier made of foam, to give the illusion of a larger cake. Many of our guests commented at how moist and delicious the cake was, and we couldnt agree more. The combination of American buttercream and Italian buttercream was perfect. I would definitely recommend Cakes by Kasarda for any future events. Thank you!
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3414 Rivers Avenue, Charleston, SC
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