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Nancy was so wonderful to work with! The tasting box contained separate cakes and frostings/fillings so you can mix and match to your taste, and her prices can't be beat, especiall...
y for the quality she provides. It's been 6 weeks and I still have guests raving about all three of our cake flavors, but the chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting stole the show!
Nancy was fantastic to work with! She made the process so easy and her cake is fantastic! She made our wedding cake and some delicious treats for my bridal shower. Highly recommend...
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As a wedding vendor, the choice in our vendors made it event that much more special and I knew Nancy would be the best choice for us when it came to our desserts! She is the sweete...
st person and made the process so easy for us. She makes the most delicious, beautiful looking treats and I'm so happy she was able to be a part of our special day! Everyone raved about all of our desserts! Thank you again Nancy!
As a wedding planner, I eat a lot of cake.
First world problems, I know.
But Nancy makes that part of our jobs, 10x sweeter. We look forward to a weekend we get to eat 'Nancy ca...
ke', and our families know to buy us one every year for our birthdays!!
She makes every part of the process easy and delicious. From her tasting boxes (so many tasty samples!!), to the design, logistics, delivery and set up. Oftentimes we are managing 20+ vendors on a wedding weekend, and having one as solid as Nancy on the team is one less headache and such a gift.
We truly cannot recommend her enough!!
When I say her carrot cake will change your life, I am not exaggerating! :)
Nancy created the vintage wedding cake of our dreams! She was professional, quick to respond, and passionate about her work. Everything from the initial tasting to approving the fi...
nal cake design was simple as pie- or in this case, cake! She had also worked with our venue, Loose Mansion, many times in the past so her communication with the coordinators went seamlessly. The cake we received was the crown jewel of our vintage-inspired wedding.
Nancy was very communicate and able to make the cutest vintage heart cake - exactly what we wanted! Not to mention it was sooooo delicious. Super easy to work with! Thank you Nancy...
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If you want delicious and gorgeous desserts, Nancy is who you are looking for! We utilized her baking talent’s for both shower and wedding day desserts and we equally enjoyed both...
. Her tasting box offering to pick your wedding cake is fantastic and gives you so many options to personalize just what you would dream of. She also has a wonderful selection of additional desserts outside of cakes to accompany. One of our favorites were her macarons! Her quality, price and customer service are unmatched and she her ability to design and make beautiful desserts is second to none!
Nancy does amazing work!! She made a simple 2-tier wedding cake and 2 sheet cakes for our wedding in May and everyone loved it! We taste-tested several different bakeries in the KC...
area that were all wonderful but after we had Nancy's taste box we knew she was the winner, it was just a matter of deciding what flavors! We chose 2 - strawberry cake with chocolate ganache filling and lemon cake with raspberry filling - both delicious! Nancy is not only a talented baker (and chef) but is also so easy to work with and has very reasonable pricing. She also has a plethora of cake stands you can rent and generously baked a separate smaller 1-year anniversary cake for us to freeze, free of charge. Overall a wonderful experience!
Nancy was amazing to work with and the dessert table we had at our wedding was a big hit! There was nothing left at the end of the night because everyone loved it. She was kind, re...
sponsive, the tasting box prior to the wedding was a fun treat (everything was amazing) and our anniversary cake she made us was so special and unexpected! Would definitely recommend!
I loved having Nancy make our cake and desserts! We were delighted to see such a good variety of options and the flexibility to pick and choose exactly what we wanted. After our ta...
sting, we knew we had to go with Nancy! The mini desserts were a big hit, and the cake itself was both beautiful and delicious!
Everything was amazing, from start to finish! We got a cake tasting box, so we could take it home and mix and match the cakes and icings, which was SO FUN. The cake turned out beau...
tifully and so delicious (white cake with raspberry filling and white buttercream frosting!). And the small sweets were delicious too. Absolutely recommend!
Best cake EVER! We chose Chef Shop Bakery for our wedding and received so many compliments on the wedding cake that was as elegant as it was delicious. Nancy was so kind to work wi...
th us on providing gluten free red velvet mini cupcakes and dairy free macarons so that all of our guests could enjoy a sweet treat. The macarons were amazing, I’ll definitely be ordering more from Chef Shop Bakery any chance I get. Nancy was so great to work with, very communicative and thoughtful throughout the entire process. I am so appreciative of Nancy’s ability to flawlessly carry out the vision for our special day. I can’t recommend Chef Shop Bakery enough!
Our cakes were beautiful and most importantly, delicious! We got many compliments on both the vanilla with almond filling and our chocolate with espresso filling groom's cake. Nanc...
y was great to work with, and she did a great job designing the Whataburger cake of my Texan husband's dreams! We would recommend Chef Stark to anyone planning a wedding in the KC area.
Chef Stark was SO GOOD. We loved all of the desserts, and more importantly, our guests loved them too. We had a number of individual bite-size desserts in addition to our cake and ...
everything turned out spectacularly. Highly recommended!!
oh my goodness.
nancy created the wedding cake of our dreams.
NOT ONLY was it BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! It tasted incredible. Often times you have tastings, and it doesn’t quite measure ...
up when you get to the final product. But this was not the case with Chef Nancy’s work. It was delicious!!! she is so kind, honest, professional, and a true creative.
WE WERE SO HAPPY when we saw our cake. genuinely we were giddy with excitement. It was a beautiful and yummy addition to our day.
We are going to have to order some anniversary cakes for the future:)
It was SO GOOD. We would definitely recommend this baker to others in the Kansas City area. We loved it, our guests loved it. The design was beautiful and the cake flavors were out...
standing. They followed my design notes perfectly and we got exactly what we wanted.
So happy our venue recommended Nancy to us. We decided to go with small bite-size desserts and they were a huge hit with our guests. Everything was displayed beautifully and the de...
sserts were delicious.
Nancy at Chef Shop Baking is a true artist! Her cake was also moist and delicious! She is very kind and took us on at the last minute. The cake was beautiful as well as delicious!
Nancy is incredible- ABSOLUTELY recommend! Her pricing was very similar to that of larger, more commercial groups but her service and communication were incredibly personal and tho...
ughtful. She was very communicative throughout the whole process. We had some guests who were gluten free, nut free, AND dairy free, and she was very helpful in creating an alternative cake for those loved ones. We so appreciated how thoughtful she was and our guests all raved about the look and taste of the cake. Would absolutely recommend her- she's amazing!
Nancy will be our go to baker for all events going forward! Her cake and desserts were easily the best we tasted. Our guests loved them too as we had no leftovers! She also perfect...
ly executed our vision and was sweet enough to include a free anniversary cake tier. She was very patient when we changed our mind on our cake design and always responded quickly to our messages. Her prices were also very reasonable for the amazing service she provides! We cannot recommend Nancy enough!
We HIGHLY recommend Chef Shop Stark for your wedding cake and baking needs. Chef Nancy’s cake will have you looking past the wedding and forward to your one-year anniversary so yo...
u can pull out her one-year anniversary cake tier–it’s that good. Chef Nancy also operates so seamlessly and professionally: When we did our tasting, the icings and cakes were perfectly packaged in individual containers so we could mix and match to find the perfect combination of flavors. Because of the personalization, we were able to customize our wedding cake to taste exactly the way we wanted. Nancy was incredibly open to and receptive of all of our design inspiration as well.
Chef Stark was one of the best vendors we worked with for our wedding--responsive, flexible, friendly, reasonably priced, professional from first to last, and (not least) a superbl...
y talented pastry chef! We favored a dessert bar with a dozen different treats rather than a wedding cake, and she offered several tantalizing options to choose among, from tarts and cookies to cupcakes and mignardises, including some Gluten Free options.
All were delicious, without exception. She was prompt with delivery, communicative at all stages, and a breeze to work with. Her policy on COVID delays was compassionate, her advanced tasting was generous and also reasonable, and her end-products were fantastic. My wife and I cannot endorse her strongly enough. Thank you, Nancy!
Nancy did a fabulous job! 10/10 would recommend. Easy to work with and a good communicator, but most importantly an excellent baker! We had a cake but had more emphasis on the smal...
ler treats and they were an absolute hit! They were all gone within minutes. If I were to do it again I’d order less cake and more treats. Everything was delicious and beautiful! Thank you, Nancy!
We tried quite a few cakes before finding Nancy and what she baked was by far the best cake we tried! The flavor options were excellent and we loved customizing our cake. The cake ...
was perfectly moist and flavorful along with being perfectly decorated we could have asked for a better wedding cake! We highly recommend Nancy Stark!!
Nancy was amazing. We loved everything about our desserts! We wanted our guests to be able to grab and eat the dessert without having to sit down, so we opted for a small tier cake...
, cupcakes and cookies. We had so many amazing flavors and options! We wanted to include our animals in the big day somehow, so Nancy created the most amazing and adorable cookie cakes based off of photos I sent her. Everything was so beautifully presented and so yummy.
Huge thank you to Nancy for making the most delicious dessert bar and wedding cake! Everything was so yummy and guests raved about all of it! Our cake was also so beautiful and eve...
rything we were hoping for. Nancy is also just so incredible to work with. She is responsive and truly cares about helping to make your day special.
Thank you so much Nancy!! First off, the cake you made was beautiful, not to mention delicious. But more than that, you were such a joy to work with!!
I highly recommend Chef Sho...
p! Our wedding was in Lake Ozark, MO, and she was able to pack up our (fake) cake, the real one, and plenty of deserts safely for our wedding planner to transport by car 2.5 hours away, that's no small feat! On top of that, she's a ton of fun to hang out with in her awesome kitchen for your tasting!
I was referred to Nancy through a best friend who used her on her wedding day and she was awesome to work with! She is so kind and knows how to make your vision a reality. Not to m...
ention HER CAKE IS DELICIOUS - especially the almond flavor!!! We went for a tasting and it was hard to narrow down which flavors we wanted and were lucky enough to have quite a few on our wedding day. I only had a bite of our cake cutting because the day goes so fast, so make sure you make time to get a slice of her cake. Thank you Nancy!
Nancy Stark is a true artist and an absolute delight to work with. Her bake shop is the coolest place ever, and our tasting experience was absolutely divine. She was so kind, detai...
led, committed to our vision, communicative, creative and most important: baked and delivered the best darn cake we could have imagined. She made the process easy (as cake?) and her prices are absolutely reasonable, given what you get in return. We cannot speak highly enough about her. Don’t look elsewhere!
Let’s start by saying that desserts are VERY important to me, so I knew from day one that I wanted an amazing dessert bar at my wedding. Nancy came recommended by a couple of frien...
ds and family members who had used her, and she delivered tenfold! I didn’t care about having some extravagantly designed multitier cake, I just wanted a simple cutting cake, with a lot of treats to back it up! We had three different flavors of her “kitchen cake” (carrot/caramel filling, chocolate/espresso filling, and red velvet/white chocolate filling), sea salt chocolate chip cookies (TO DIE FOR), and per my special request as they’re my all-time favorite… cinnamon rolls! On top of all of that we also had donuts, and I’m not exaggerating when I say there wasn’t a crumb of any of it left. We received a ton of compliments on how delicious it all was. She also was so sweet and accommodating with providing us a separate anniversary cake, and even some dairy-free cupcakes for my lactose-intolerant MOH free of charge. Highly highly recommend Nancy!
Nancy was recommended to us during our planning process over a year ago. We were ahead of schedule in terms of choosing a cake vendor but she was willing to be flexible with our s...
chedule and offer a cake tasting. I loved that we were able to choose multiple cake flavors and icings to try at the tasting. She even allowed us to bring our parents along to try her cakes, which other vendors did not. At the tasting she did not pressure us to make any decisions and really allowed us to mix and match all of the flavors and icings. She even had my dad's approval, which is hard to come by! We chose Nancy because she was genuine, willing to draw our cake design on the spot, and her cakes tasted ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! We all left the tasting feeling good about her being our cake vendor. Her cake was the most anticipated thing about our wedding! A few months before the wedding, I changed the design of our cake. She was patient with us as we wanted the 5-tier cake to have flowers in between each tier. She truly listened to our request for the design and worked with our floral vendor Hitched. On the day of the wedding, I couldn't have been more happy with how the cake turned out. It was better than I imagined and she really made the cake of my dreams. Guests were in awe of the design and how awesome it tasted. We purchased personalized cake boxes for guests to take slices home. However, I'm happy to report that they were not used because there wasn't a single slice left! Nancy truly knocked it out of the park with her professionalism, design, and expertise!
Nancy and her cakes are truly amazing! The tasting was so friendly and fun. To be able to sample as well as mix and match flavors helped our decisions so much! Since the groom is n...
ot a big cake fan, she created mini pumpkin pies for us to serve as well! Not one little pie was left! Visually stunning and the taste simply beyond words! Thank you Nancy for making the day special!
Nancy exceeded my expectations in regard to our wedding cakeS. I had a different idea of doing 6 cakes, all different sizes and designs and Nancy made it happen! She was so patient...
with me with my endless emails and questions lol. She knew I wanted the cakes to look just right and she did an INCREDIBLE job. They not only looked amazing but tasted sooo so so good. I can't wait to dig into our anniversary cake in the freezer :). I would highly recommend hiring Nancy! She goes above and beyond!
Nancy is A-MA-ZING! She met with us a couple of times to make decisions about flavors & design, which she helped guide us through beautifully. The end result was a stunning tiered ...
cake that perfectly captured our vision and made such a statement at our wedding! She was very easy to work with, organized, and such a great communicator. The tasting she hosted for us was a wonderful experience -- so professional & well put-together but also very personal. She has a ton of beautiful cake stands to rent for a reasonable price. She set up our cake table at our venue thoughtfully, and it looked beautiful. She gives her couples an extra anniversary cake-topper for free, packaged up in a neat little box for us to keep in our freezer. We cannot recommend Nancy more highly! She's incredible! We'll absolutely using her services for events we host in the future!
Nancy did an amazing job with our wedding cake! It looked so beautiful and exceeded our expectations! Our tasting with her was informative and delicious, and really helped us creat...
e the vision we had for our cake. All of our guests LOVED the cake, there wasn't a piece left at the end of the night! We also had some macarons for our gluten-free guests which were delicious!
We found Chef Shop toward the end of our search and it was an easy decision. Our tasting was wonderful and Nancy, the owner, provided lots of options. The cake was beautiful and ...
exactly what we envisioned. We chose 3 different flavors and the guests loved them all. There was no cake left at the end of the night! Nancy is great to work with as well and is very talented. You will love her work.
Highly recommend Nancy- her cakes taste amazing, and her pricing is very reasonable. We ended up doing one tiered white cake, and then 3 smaller cakes of various flavors. Despite e...
veryone being extremely full from the meal, everyone went for the cake because it was so delicious!
Go to Nancy, you will NOT regret it. We had so many compliments on our cake and desserts. Well done.
Nancy Stark was wonderful to work with. We had so much fun at the tasting. She made several kinds of small desserts for our rehearsal dinner, and a beautiful 4 tier cake for the we...
dding. Everything was delicious!
We loved working with Nancy to select our sweet treats for our wedding. We didn't want a big cake, just something that was enough to cut for the photos. Nancy had excellent suggest...
ions and lots of flavors to choose from.
After we had the cake figured out she gave us so many great options for small tart size treats to supplement the cake and complement a homemade cookie table our mom's were creating. Everything she offered was excellent.
We picked the tiramisu, caramel tarts, mini cheese cakes and apple tarts, and everything was excellent. Our guests raved about every single one, but my groom and I didn't even see the apple tarts they were gone so fast! Very few of the other treats were left at the end of the nights as well, and we got so many compliments.
We highly recommend working with Nancy! She made everything so easy, not to mention delicious. If you're looking for the perfect Cake/Sweets baker, Nancy is your gal!
Look no further than Chef Shop Stark. Chef Nancy is absolutely amazing and a genius in the kitchen! Chef Nancy did our wedding cake, two groom’s cakes and the desserts for our wedd...
ing. We did cake tastings with 3 other prominent KC bakers, Nancy was the best… no one came close. We challenged Nancy with our cake design and she exceeded all our expectations. The wedding cake had the KC skyline and art deco designs. One of the groom’s cakes was the Starship Enterprise and the other groom’s cake was a humpback whale. They were almost too perfect to cut, but once we did, the cakes were delicious! We would recommend Chef Nancy to anyone and everyone with dessert needs.
Loved Nancy's cakes and pastries. Delicious and she is so nice to work with and accomodating in all areas. Wish we would of ordered more pastries! Everyone loved them.
Nancy is an extremely talented baker and cake designer. She did our wedding cake, additional cakes and mini desserts. Not only was everything delicious but it was displayed beautif...
ully. I had an idea of how I wanted the cakes to look and they looked even better than I could have imagined. Her sugar art is wonderful. Her banana cake with caramel frosting and her vanilla cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream were my favorite. She is amazing and a delight to work with.
Our cake was delicious and beautiful! Nancy was professional and fun. She took our ideas for a groom's cake and turned it in a work of art! She is a pleasure to work with and ta...
lented - both cakes were perfect!
The best! I have celiac (I’m seriously allergic to gluten), and am low key obsessed with baking. So when it came to my wedding cake, I wanted a gluten free cake that had a great fl...
avor, texture, and design…which seemed impossible to find until my florist told me about Nancy. She was great to work with. She was responsive to all my requests and questions about my allergen, set up a cake tasting that was a highlight of our wedding planning, and delivered a gorgeous, sinfully delicious cake (not to mention blueberry and key lime tarts that I still dream about). My guests (who regularly eat gluten) were blown away that all of my desserts were free of gluten, and they ate every last crumb.
My husband and I absolutely loved working with Nancy at Chef Shop! We were able to have a private cake tasting in her shop and our wedding cake was absolutely beautiful. She was ve...
ry easy to communicate with and did an amazing job!
We loooooved Chef Shop Stark! From the day we met Nancy at her awesome bakery on her property we knew it was a perfect match! Our cake was fabulous and I’m so excited to eat the to...
p of our cake in a year. Nancy also made us some very special cookies that look like our 2 dogs! We were so happy to be able to include them on our special day. Nancy was a dream to work with and I would highly recommend her! Prices are great and cake is even better! Thank you Nancy!!!!!!
You will not regret for one second going with Nancy! We did a pie and ice cream bar for our wedding and had Nancy make mini pies for us. I remember them announcing the dessert, and...
my husband and I made our way around the guests to say hi, and we weren't even halfway through and I looked at the dessert bar and they were all gone!! Luckily someone had saved some for us. We had about 240 guests and had ordered 350 pies. So my only regret was not ordering more! She was so easy to work with and I will probably only order all my future cakes/desserts from her from now on. Love, love, love. Thanks Nancy!
I have nothing but great things to say about Chef Shop Baking. We knew as soon as we left our tasting that this was the vendor for us. All of her cakes and frosting were so delicio...
us, we had a hard time narrowing it down. She was able to give us the cake of our dreams for a good price and our guests loved it!
Nancy at Chef Shop Stark was truly a pleasure to work with from beginning to end for our October 14th wedding. From the cake tasting, design process, pricing, delivery and presenta...
tion, she exceeded our expectations. The wedding day activities had me busy at the venue. We came by the cake table and saw that she had delivered the cake and cut and arranged the loose flowers I'd left for her. I only provided one picture of what we hoped for and it was just what we'd discussed and more. Though we ordered enough for our guest count, we actually ran out of cake because so many had seconds! It was not only beautiful but delicious. No one seems to remember the cake at weddings, but we are still hearing from our guests how great it was. Nancy, thanks again for helping to make this part of our special day perfect.
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