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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!
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, responsive, 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 tasting, 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 beautifully 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 with 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. Nancy 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 outstanding. 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 desserts 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 thoughtful. 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 perfectly 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 you 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 superbly 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 smaller 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 everything 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 Shop! 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 mention 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, detailed, 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 friends 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 schedule 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 not 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 create 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 everyone 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 wedding. 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 suggestions 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 wedding. 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 beautifully. 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 talented - 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 flavor, 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 very 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 top 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 delicious, 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 presentation, 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.
Nancy did our cake and desserts for our wedding reception and they were all delicious! We had cake, cupcakes, cookies, and other bars and they were all amazing. She delivered everything and set it all up and made sure it looked great too! I would definitely recommend her for any type of desserts you need!
Excellent Cake! Nancy is the best, very easy to work with, prices are good and most importantly her cake was delicious.
Nancy is the best! She made hundreds of individual pies for us in a variety of delicious flavors. They looked amazing and tasted even better, and our guests raved about them. Nancy also made us a small cutting cake and kitchen cake for us, which were also terrific. She was easy to work with, very accommodating and very reasonably priced. We could not have been happier with the desserts at our wedding, thanks to Nancy.
Nancy has the best desserts. We had a small cake and a sweets table, and everything was so good. She worked with me to make a custom cake filling using jam, and it was delicious! She made some recommendations that I was on the fence about, but I'm so glad we went with them. You can't go wrong with Nancy!
Nancy makes the best wedding cakes we’ve ever tasted! We had three different cakes, each decorated differently and beautifully. Nancy also made awesome macarons for our gluten free (and gluten loving) guests. Everything was delicious and looked so beautiful. Nancy is such a lovely person and we really enjoyed meeting her and are grateful for her talent and unique ideas. Our guests raved about the desserts and we couldn’t recommend Nancy highly enough.
Nancy is amazing!! She created a fun fiesta inspired four tier cake with bright summer colors for my June wedding. The cake was gorgeous and I couldn't keep track of all the amazing compliments I received. The cake not only looked wonderful, but tasted amazing. We had three different flavors: strawberry cake with cream cheese filling, lemon cake with strawberry filling and white cake with white chocolate filling. It was really hard not to choose every flavor we tired, because they were all delicious. Nancy was so easy to work with. She delivered the cake and set it up beautifully. She really does have a talent for making amazing cakes and has a design for everyone's theme. If you want a delicious and beautiful cake, then contact Nancy, because she won't disappoint.
My husband and I got married on May 20th, 2017 at The Legacy of Greehills and used Nancy as our cake baker. She is such a nice person to work with. Our cake was absolutely beautiful. We had a big 5 tiered cake with floral accents from our florist Found in Nature. Our cake was carot cake with cream cheese filling and french silk buttercream frosting with our other flavor being white cake with raspberry mouse filling and french silk butter cream frosting. It was so moist with so much flavor! Everyone said it was the best cake they have ever had. Thank you for helping make our wedding day dreams come true! We definitely plan to use Nancy for future events!
Okay, YUM. Seriously, Nancy has got this cake thing down! We had three flavors for our wedding cake and all of them were SO delicious! Everyone loved the variety and were so impressed with the flavors. On top of how truly tasty they are, the cake was gorgeous! A intricate design that appeared flawless!
Nancy Stark’s cakes are flawless. For our wedding, we ordered a five-layer cake with her signature buttercream frosting and had layers of white, chocolate, and Italian flavors to give our guests options. They devoured the entire thing! The flavors were balanced, the consistency was perfect, and each layer had just the right amount of frosting. The cake was also gorgeous; she channeled the earthy, elegant look we had wanted and decorated the layers with simple olive leaves and a wood/bark cake stand. We made sure it was the first thing guests saw at the center of the room when they walked in!
Nancy is excellent at her craft. We threw her some ideas that were out of the norm, and she embraced them, delivering beyond what I could have imagined! In addition to her artistry, her icings, fillings and cake are absolutely delicious! The tasting was a lot of fun because she allowed us to mix and match in bite size samples, but it made the flavor decision SO much harder because everything we tried was so amazing. Nancy was responsive to emails, flexible with requests, and, in my opinion, underpriced for the quality of cake and service that we received. She had the display set up on time and exactly as discussed. She was also willing to pick up the cake stands so that my family did not have to worry about returning them. I highly recommend Nancy for your event, whether it be a wedding, birthday, or other special event!
Nancy was AWESOME to work with. After doing our consultation/tasting with her, we canceled the multiple other consultations we had scheduled. She was so helpful in helping us mix and match frostings and cake flavors to create a four tier cake that looked EXACTLY like the reference picture we gave her. Her prices are BEYOND reasonable -- way more affordable than many other vendors -- and her cake is out of this world. Highly highly recommend.
Nancy Stark is a cake artist! We tried a lot of cake… I mean A LOT of cake while trying to make the decision for our wedding. Nancy’s wedding cake was extremely well made, beautifully designed, absolutely delicious and twice the quality of all the other (exorbitantly priced) cake designers in KC. If you are lucky enough to work with her, DO IT! We have been to so many weddings where the cake was obviously an overpriced afterthought. Nancy’s cake was one of the highlights of our menu!
Nancy was AMAZING to work with. She created a beautiful three tier wedding cake for us in addition to a adorable grooms cake, and I thought her prices were very reasonable! The best thing is her cakes are soooo delicious, I've never tasted better wedding cake. Received lots of compliments about our cake from our guests! We will definitely be asking Nancy to make us sweets for other special events :)
Nancy Stark was so wonderful to work with for our wedding cake. Her cake tasted so yummy and we had so many compliments from our wedding guests. Nancy created a beautiful 4-tier wedding cake of strawberry and white cake, along with a delicious 1-tier chocolate cake. She was able to make my vision come to life with each of the cakes. Her cakes taste so amazing, but the chocolate icing is probably the best thing I've ever had!
Chef Stark was great to work with and we ended up with unique, delicious, BEAUTIFUL cakes! She saw our vision immediately during our tasting (a fun morning) and helped us decide on a variety of smaller cakes rather than the traditional single tiered cake. She was also extremely responsive and accommodating. I knew the cakes would be delicious but I was blown away at their beauty when they arrived on our wedding day - I wish The Knot would let you post pictures! Our selection included traditional white, almond with raspberry mousse, lemon, rum cake, and carrot cake - not your usual line up and our guests loved it! People always say you have a lot of cake left over - we had NONE. If you want your cakes to stand out in both appearance and flavor look no further!
Nancy Stark was an absolute joy to work with! It has been over a month since our wedding and my husband and I are still receiving compliments and rave reviews of the sweet treats and cake designed by Nancy! My parents also fell in love with Nancy, and asked her to create sweet treats and a custom cake for my bridal shower and our rehearsal dinner! Nancy provides her customers with many cake and dessert options and also the time necessary to plan and create beautiful, personalized desserts. She is available to answer questions and her treats are delicious every time. We will use Nancy for all future baking/dessert needs! We recommend her to all in need of lovely cakes and small treats!
W.O.W. I am so impressed by Nancy Stark. She is a hidden gem! We got our first impression of Nancy when we visited her cute little chef's kitchen off the side of her house for our cake tasting. Many cake places will make you choose around 3 flavors to taste - she let us choose... oh, wow, I lost count... around 8 cake flavors, and the same number of frosting types too. And then she sent us home with the leftovers. We fell in love with so many flavors. She let us do a different flavor for each tier so we chose 1) Chocolate on chocolate, 2) White cake with raspberry and 3) (my personal favorite) Italian cream cake. I described to Nancy the style of cake I was drawn to and she made it a reality! I had a white-to-pink ombre cake with texture on the buttercream. A few months after selecting Nancy as our cake person, I had an idea to add a little something personal to the cake as a surprise to my husband - a little "golden snitch" from Harry Potter. I reached out to Nancy just to float the idea of making edible "snitches," and she jumped right on board (for a very minimal additional fee - almost not even worth mentioning). When I saw them in person they were PERFECT. They were so ornate and crafted perfectly. She obviously did her research because they looked just like they look in the movies. And the one thing I didn't even mention yet about Nancy is how affordable she was. I got away with a steal! Nancy was a pleasure to work with and made my day absolutely special. I can't thank her enough!
Nancy Stark of Chef Shop LLC was amazing! She's the sweetest thing! Listened to what we wanted and made it perfectly! The cake was gorgeous and absolutely delicious! We'll be going back for our 1 year for a fresh cake!
Nancy's cakes are absolutely amazing! We loved every flavor we tried at the tasting and had such a hard time choosing. She's also an amazing artist - I requested a groom's cake in the shape of a 3D black bear and it was absolutely perfect! We also mentioned during the tasting that I really loved the lemon cake from Café Europa, and Nancy suggested that she could bake that same cake for our tasting cake for the wedding. She is very creative and easy to work with, and her cakes are so delicious. We are so happy we found her!
Nancy is amazing! She created exactly what I wanted for our wedding based off of only a few pinterest pictures I had shown her. She is truly an artist when it comes to baking. Everybody at our wedding raved about what a beautiful cake it was and how great it tasted! We plan to have Nancy make us a 1 year mini cake!
“Gorgeous, delicious, best carrot cake I’ve ever had!” These were all comments I heard from our wedding guests about our cake. I absolutely loved how our cake turned out and it was exactly what I had always envisioned! It was simple yet SO beautiful, elegant, and classic! For our design we had a Dotted Swiss texture, ribbons, flowers provided by our florist, and a cake topper. The result was an elegant and timeless design, I couldn’t stop looking at it! At our initial meeting and cake testing, Nancy provided several flavors to choose from and all of them were excellent! She was great about listening to my ideas and she offered her expertise on how she would make it happen. She even did a mock-up drawing of the cake right there so I could get a visual of what all the details would look like together. For our wedding, my husband and I decided on a combination of white cake and carrot cake and it was fabulous, absolutely amazing! I loved working with Nancy and would recommend her in a heartbeat to anyone looking for a wedding cake designer. After our initial meeting and all of our email exchanges in the months leading up to our wedding day, I had no doubt that she would make us an incredible cake that was both delicious and beautiful, and she did! Thank you for everything Nancy!!!
Nancy was the first vendor we chose for our wedding-we didn't want her to get booked!!
She made our initial cake tasting so fun and looked at our inspiration pictures and created the most beautiful cakes for us!
We had red velvet, white, and marble-they all tasted as good as they looked.
She even made an extremely detailed Pitt State grooms cake for us-she is so talented!
We would definitely recommend Nancy for any dessert or wedding cake needs!
The cake tasting was the funnest part of our wedding planning! Nancy was the first baker we tried and we didn't care to look anywhere else. Her cake tasted wonderful! We went with Almond cake with strawberry buttercream (her suggestion!) but she had tons of flavor combinations for us to try.
Her cake was GORGEOUS, thanks in part to our Florist, and so, so tasty. My cousin, who hates cake, loved ours so much that he and his fiance ended up using Nancy for their wedding cake, too.
I also found her to be incredibly affordable for the taste and look of our cake. I wish I could upload a picture! It was stunning. I want our one year anniversary to hurry up and get here so we can have more of that almond cake!
If you are a bride who wants a cake that actually tastes as good as it looks, go with Nancy Stark! She is trained as both an artist and a pastry chef, and her work shows her skill! She created a layer cake buffet for our wedding, 8 flavors total, and it was a huge hit! Not only did each cake look like a piece of art, but the taste is surreal. She is easy to work with, and somehow knew exactly what we wanted, even though we were vague at describing our vision for the cakes. The caterer for our wedding dinner (who did not do the cakes) was so impressed they asked for our baker's name. They raved on and on, as did everyone else!
Oh my goodness! Nancy Stark is an amazing pastry chef. She created three different flavors of cupcakes for my wedding and decorated them to match my wedding colors. At one point in the evening people had the table surrounded--they wanted to try all three flavors! Nancy made sure there was plenty of cake there so we had leftovers to take home which was lovely. Nancy has such a calm personality which is perfect when you are planning a wedding. She listened to what my husband and I wanted and stayed in contact with us throughout the process. I honestly cannot recommend Nancy enough!!!
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