Central Continental Bakery

se yellow cake with lemon and raspberry preserve filling. The staff was very easy to talk through ideas with and the design was executed perfectly. We didn't save our top tier for our one year wedding anniversary, we just ate it now it was so tasty!

m! It was the moistest cake I’ve ever tasted and we ordered vanilla and chocolate with raspberry and Bavarian filling. It was so delicious and our family and friends complimented us on it too! We are so happy to have our cake from this bakery and we will definitely go there again for other items.

ked for anything better.

did a yellow cake with vanilla buttercream and strawberry bavarian cream). We worked with Katie and Jeanie and they did an excellent job and were so friendly. Highly recommend!

on the cupcakes.

k with them. The process was quick and easy, and the cake was a crowd-pleaser!

tomized pink and white ombre buttercream frosting. The staff was accommodating to all our needs and answered any and all questions at our tasting. Can't wait to try out our top tier on our one year anniversary! *Flowers added by my florist Dagny and Lane Floral

had great ideas on how to cut costs including making a small show cake for the wedding and making sheet cakes for the kitchen to cut up for our guests. The price was great and the sales woman that helped us was fantastic too. The cake was to die for!!! We chose 2 different flavors- half yellow/half chocolate with raspberry and banana cake with fudge (by far our favorite!!!!). Our guests continue to rave about the delicious cakes! Central Continental is now our favorite bakery by far! We could never get a cake from another bakery ever!

for our first anniversary.

kery. The mini pies were delicious, and we received so many compliments. They also delivered everything to our wedding in the Rockford area. We are so thankful for Central Continental Bakery and their amazing work for our wedding!

ood. They made a pretty big mistake. We had asked them to make the flags of the countries we are from, and they made a mistake with one of the flags by using one from a different Country. I told them about their mistake afterward, because it was something that was a big deal and they never even responded. No apologies no anything! Just not good customer service on their part. I wouldnt recommend this bakery for that reason.

d fillings, and got exactly what we ordered! They were professional, prompt, and very caring. The cake was out of this world! Thank you!

ve to our ideas and the cake was stunning. I was able to work with them as well to include a surprise grooms cake! You will not regret this choice!

o take som me home. Couldn't have asked for a better cake and bakery!

ed up with white cake/raspberry filling! The cake was amazing. Ashley drew a photo of what we wanted and i dropped off the topper and some ribbon for the cake and it was perfect! Everyone commented on how delicious and beautiful it was - the photos of our wedding cake are fantastic. We cannot say enough great things about Central Continental! Thank you!

ited about! From the start, Katie was great! We set up our tasting and the cakes were so amazing!! She was so nice and was so helpful! The fresh strawberry filling-YUM!!! I provided a picture to Katie of how I wanted our cake to look and it was spot on! So many people commented on how great the cake looked and tasted!! I was sad I only had the one bite of the cake all night but we plan on getting a small one for our anniversary! We also got French macaroons for our candy table and many guests commented on how amazing they were! I had one and it was perfect! So happy with the service they provided and the quality of their products! We will definitely use this bakery in the future!!

bakery is the best of old world European baking and care! Our design consultation and tasting went wonderfully! We got to try a variety of their cakes and fillings! They have traditional flavors and some more non-traditional (their banana cake was quite tasty). Our wedding was in September and our initial consultation was in early March. Their designers seemed really on-top of their game. They were going to create a cake for us with frosting cherry blossoms. We initially did not want to use fondant. However, cut to the end of August. I was checking in to see where our cake topper needed to go and was told by a new designer they could not do the cherry blossoms in frosting. I was a bit upset, but we had enough wiggle room in our budget to upgrade to the fondant. I would have appreciated knowing sooner about the need to change the design. It turns out they had changed designers in the time between our consultation and wedding. Just a reminder to always check-in with your vendors! Besides that hiccup, I was pleased as can be with Central Continental! The cake was absolutely beautiful and tasted amazing! Really, the one negative I had was nothing compared to the positives! Highly recommend them!

our cake. All of it was delicious. The only downside is that they are so popular, it was hard to get a Saturday appointment to do our initial cake tasting. We had to schedule 1 month in advance. Totally worth the wait though!

, etc. It was such a fun experience and really stuck with me. In fact, for the last 29 years, I have had a CCB cake on every birthday. Naturally, when I got engaged one of my first thoughts was, "our wedding cake has to be from CCB!" I no longer live in Mt. Prospect, but my husband and I drove out to meet with Katie to do a tasting and order our wedding cake. She was professional, organized, and let us sample quite a bit before we made our final decision (red velvet cake- delicious). The cake was delivered to our venue in the Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport. They were on time, the cake looked stunning, and it tasted devine. While I won't be back for another wedding cake of course, I will certainly return for more birthday cakes, cookies, and other treats. Thank you, CCB!

I can honestly say I would 100% recommend, they were the only ones who made my vision come true! Before meeting for our consultation I ordered a real flower cake topper thinking the cake would need something extra. Once we got to our consultation and looked through there "Look Books" I was amazed! I had about ten cakes I was in love with, absolutely beautiful! We only met once with the bakery and I had specific requests as to how I wanted the cake to look, and they completely nailed it! It was so stress free working with Central Continental, they were very attentive, professional, and talented! When I saw the cake the day of the wedding I was thrilled. We received so many compliments as to how beautiful the cake was and how delicious it was as well! I myself am not a huge cake lover and I can honestly say all five flavors we choose were absolutely delicious; delicious to the point were we couldn't help ourselves but to share our top tier with our family the following morning, following the wedding! It was just too tempting having it in the freezer for a day, let alone a year!! We decided that we would just order a small replica for our One Year Anniversary! As being the first to get married in my family, my husband being the first in his, and one of the first out of my friends, I will (and have already), insisted everyone order their cake from Central Continental Bakery! My Husband and I decided the second we left the bakery, after our first consultation, that this is the bakery we will be getting all of our cakes from; for our important events/parties including our future children's birthday, baptisms, graduations etc. I also feel that I should add we do not live close to the bakery either, but it is definitely worth the drive! I already told my husband I'm hoping for a birthday cake for my birthday in October! :)

she always has an amazing Saturday brunch!). I already knew I loved their donuts and their breads - but the cake was the centerpiece of the event!! Katie was amazing. We had such a fun cake tasting appointment and they had tons of cakes to choose from. The cake we chose had fondant in the picture, which is something we didn't want - so they iced it just the same. At my appointment, I said "I just want the whole thing to sparkle" and the lady, without missing a beat, said "We can add shimmer to the frosting so it's all pearlescent!" They totally understood my ideas!! I was so happy with it!

could've imagined. We received so many compliments on how delicious it was, too! Highly recommend!

l (and delicious) it was!

sultation as well as the final product. Katie was very responsive and helpful in the consultation process. I was very pleased with everything.

ook like. We were able to get exactly what we wanted and the cake turned out beautifully and tasted great! The number of options they were willing to work with was great. I also really appreciated that they put the silk flowers I bought around the cake for me and arranged them exactly how I pictured. I would recommend this bakery for wedding cakes.

my wedding cake. I had my reception at Medinah Banquets in Addison, IL and the cake was included in the package. Although I was still considering purchasing one from CCB, we decided it wouldn’t be in the budget since it is already included. We then asked our reception hall what color cake, designs, flavors, etc are available and they said to ask CCB where they get their cakes! How amazing was that!? It was meant to be! My reception hall purchased their cakes from CCB – my dream come true! CCB was very professional and quick to reply to emails coordinating a cake testing. They were very nice and patient as we worked through the details. They went above and beyond the customer service that was expected of them. They made dropping off ribbon, having florist add flowers, and reception hall add cake topper so easy! They are very well organized and I couldn’t have asked for a better bakery to work with! The cake was AMAZING! I cannot wait to enjoy the top tier of cake in about a year! The bakery is very talented! The cake looked GORGEOUS and the buttercream frosting was designed PERFECTLY. The taste was beyond anything you could imagine! I had SO many compliments on the cake. Both design and taste blew my guests away. If you are looking for a place to get your cake, please look no further because CCB is just the absolute best. The quality is unbelievable and the service is friendly, professional, and personal. They are very talented. If I had to do it all over again, I would choose them regardless if they were included in my package or not. It was wonderful that they were, but I would pick them right away every time. I can’t wait to ask them to make anniversary cakes down the road. They are customer-orientated bakery that has been around for years, and I look forward to having them around for years to come. Their quality and service cannot be beat!! Thank you Central Continental Bakery for making the cake of my dreams! I am still in awe when I see pictures of it. It was amazing! I am so glad you were able to make my wish as a young girl come true on my wedding day. You are all absolutely wonderful!

n the day of our wedding, we were astonished by how beautiful our cake looked! It was everything we had asked for and so much more! I highly recommend this bakery!

ave never seen or tasted a better cake. I highly recommend this bakery for your wedding cake.

t only looked beautiful, but it tasted even better! Thanks for helping make our day absolutely perfect!

ow they would be able to fill all of the orders coming up for Easter and wedding season. Even though this massive fire required them to move locations, you would never know anything this horrible happened! They had staff contacting us to reschedule our tasting and even got personal calls to our cell phones from their staff's cell phones after they were still organizing all of the chaos that comes with moving locations. We chose a four-tier cake that included a blue ribbon and two simple broaches. We met with the bakery to go over all of our choices and again to have the tasting and drop off our cake accessories. The day of our cake arrived on time and exactly as requested. We think they may have upgraded our frosting just to make it exactly how we wanted it! The cake tasted great, looked great, and they were extremely accommodating and helpful! Thanks again! We also have a FREE one-year anniversary cake that came with our package so we don't have to let a cake sit in our freezer for a year! A+++++++. Will do business with again.

and allowed to chose the flavors and design of the cake which I was not expecting. The flavors of cakes and fillings we tried at our tasting were all delicious and it made our decision really hard. The day of the wedding our cake was even more delicious than I remembered from our tasting and my groom and I had pieces wrapped and took home with us. One more benefit to this bakery is they sell small (6") sample wedding cakes that you can take home. Just in case our frozen cake isn't good on our first anniversary or if we want to relive our wedding cake on any anniversary, we can always purchase a sample cake!

rned out fine. I cannot speak to price, since it was included in our venue (Chandler's), but it was delicious!

on hall, Concorde Banquets. The whole experience working with Central Continental was fabulous. My mom and I went in for a cake testing and had the best time. The cake of course was delicious (as expected) and the head baker came out to talk to us about the decoration for the cake. Everything we wanted was included (butter cream icing, raspberry Bavarian filling) and she even piped on a complicated swirl design to match our stationary. When it came to the day of our wedding, our cake looked beautiful and tasted even better. I'm sad I was so busy that I could only eat half of my slice, but all of my guests complimented me on the cake choice and said it was they best they've ever had at a wedding. Very moist and flavorful. I highly, highly, highly recommend Central Continental Bakery for your wedding cake or any other family/party needs. They are just the best!