About this vendor
We are a small, family-owned, specialty cake bakery that serves the Lehigh Valley area of PA. We specialize in wedding cakes and hand-made sugar flower art. All of our cakes are baked from scratch, using high-quality ingredients and our own family recipes.
We have won the The Morning Call's READERS' CHOICE AWARD 4 years in a row for Best Wedding Cakes - 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021; and, we are the preferred baker for many of the popular Lehigh Valley wedding venues.
Known for our hand-crafted sugar flowers and our extremely detailed work, we pay close attention to elements such as color matching, fine piping details, textures, and hyper-realistic floral art. Also, we are comfortable creating both buttercream and fondant cakes.
We know that planning a wedding involves scheduling lots of vendor meetings and appointments, and this can get overwhelming. Whether you are a local or an out-of-town couple, we make ordering your wedding cake an easy process. We offer "tasting boxes to go" (ordered via our website), so that you can sample our cakes on your own terms. And consultations can be conducted over the phone or via email, which enables us to be extremely flexible so that we can work with your schedule and find a time that works best for you.
We love working with couples to design their dream cake - we'll take all the inspiration you can give us and channel that into a custom design that is the centerpiece of your reception. And if you're not quite sure what you'd like - maybe you are a bit indecisive - we are happy to help you narrow down what works best for your specific style and budget.
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- Woman-owned Business
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- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
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We booked with Adele for our wedding on 10/19/2024 at Barn Swallow Far, Northampton PA. Adele is part of the “Dream Team” preferred vendor highly recommended through the venue. You do have the option to book any vendor for your cake and bakery items. After much research, social media stalking, and considering price we decided to go with Adele. What really had me drawn to Adele was her team talent, passion and commitment to make your day special.
You have the option to order cake tastings for a small fee which is delivered right to your home. It comes in a cute little package and you can tell much thought is put into making her clients happy. This helps you decide what you want to go with and there are a ton of flavors to choose from.
Once you book, you will meet with Adele to discuss your vision. You are able easily communicate via email or text and you can send her pictures of your ideas.
As it gets closer to your event date, you meet with Adele again to go over your cake to ensure your special day goes as planned. Adele takes the time to get to know you, to understand your expectations, discusses any special requests and answers any questions you have. She offers suggestions and guidance when perhaps you may not be too sure. It truly was a great experience and a plus to know and feel we were in good hands.
Adele turned my vision into reality and quite honestly she exceed my expectations. I could not believe my eyes when I saw my cake the day of my wedding. I was literally blown away by the color scheme and details of the edible flowers. We are very happy with our choice.
From start to finish Adele was amazing.
Delivery and set up went as expected. We highly recommend Cakes by Adele for your next event. Follow her on instagram. She truly has some amazing designs for all occasions and has an extremely talented team.
Depending on your order you also get a separate small version of your wedding cake that you can freeze and then eat on your one year anniversary. The little things truly do go a long way.
We would book Cakes by Adele again without hesitation. We are forever grateful to you for making our special day everything we could ever imagine.
Thank you,
Chrissy & Joey Balzano, 10/19/204
We loved our wedding cake that Adele designed! We were fortunate to have our cake included in our venue costs at Woodstone Country Club. The entire process was very seamless and stress free. Adele makes beautiful and delicious cakes, we had lots of compliments on it!
Custom Cakes by Adele did our wedding cake for this past weekend. Everything was absolutely amazing. Our guests absolutely loved the cake and were raving about how delicious it was. I was obsessed with the cake since we had our tasting box and was so looking forward to eating it again. I was so happy when we got it at the wedding and it tasted exactly the same as it did in the tasting box. They are consistent, professional and delicious!!! We were very excited to find some leftovers in the hotel room at the end of the night. We would absolutely use Adele for any future cake needs!
We loved the cake tasting package ahead of our wedding, everything was delicious! Our cake the day of our wedding was so beautiful, and our guests told us it was absolutely delicious!
Cakes by Adele made our wedding cake beautifully! It was wonderful to work with them for our wedding day. We absolutely loved the taste kit ahead of the wedding, everything they make is absolutely delicious!! They also made our cake look exactly how we requested and how we pictured it - we were so happy with how everything turned out and tasted!! Also, I cannot say enough great things about the beautiful sugar flowers! Definitely recommend Cakes by Adele for your wedding cake/sweetness needs :)
Our cake from Adele was not only beautiful but also incredibly delicious! Adele makes it easy to get a tasting sample before you make a decision, and after choosing our flavors, we had a planning call where Adele was considerate of our style and theme colors. Delivery was great! They were on time and worked with our venue to set it up.
Thank you, Adele!!
We booked Adele through our wedding at Woodstone Country Club. From the many delicious tasting options and having them in the comfort of our own home, to designing the most beautiful wedding cake fit for a fairytale. A huge recommendation for Adele! Try the almond cake with maple icing -- you won't regret it! I will be reordering cakes for birthdays and gatherings in the future!
Adele is wonderful! Extremely professional and easy to communicate with. Our guests LOVED our cake, cupcakes and cannolis! Everyone had such positive things to say about our dessert options :)
Adele made exactly what we wanted and was completely professional. We loved the at home cake tasting option and opted for a unique orange Creamsicle flavor we doubt would be found anywhere else. When we were ready to order Adele carved out time for a phone call and multiple emails back-and-forth with questions and answers and even caught a date error before the big day to ensure our cake and cupcakes made it on time. The cake was absolutely gorgeous and was punctual on arrival.
Beautiful and delicious cake! Adele was easy to work with and very talented. We first signed up for a tasting box. We picked a variety of cake, filling, and frosting flavors- which were all packages beautifully- and were able to taste different combinations at home. Once we decided on flavors, we set up a phone call to discuss size and design. She has a large collection of photos from prior cakes to look over and is able to combine different looks to customize to you! I also love that she provided freezing/thawing instructions for our anniversary cake. And instructions to make our sugar flowers into a commemorative decoration.
We absolutely loved our wedding cake by Adele. It was exactly what we wanted and tasted delicious. The sugar flowers were so realistic, and the cake was absolutely stunning. It tasted amazing, and our guests are still raving about how delicious it was. It was so easy to work with Adele! We are so happy with our decision to use Custom Cakes by Adele for our wedding!
Adele made us the most amazing, romantic wedding cake. She is so talented with how she makes her cakes. I brought her a design from an Italian bakery that was out of state and she replicated it to perfection. We did a strawberry champagne cake and it was so much fun cutting into a pink cake, it actually surprised me how pink it was! The cake was so delicious and we all couldn’t stop eating it for the rest of night! We also had plenty of leftovers and I’m beyond happy I splurged a little extra to get exactly what I wanted.
We loved working with Adele on our wedding cake! She has so many fun flavors and fillings that we wanted to use them all! Our cake was absolutely delicious and our guests are still talking about how good it was. Not only did our wedding cake taste incredible, but it was so gorgeous! We are in love with the sugar flowers that Adele creates. They look so life-like and matched our wedding colors perfectly. We were even able to save our sugar flowers and now have them presented in a shadowbox. Adele made it very easy to create our cake and even sent us a sketch with what it would look like. The whole process was very easy and fun! Thank you so much for such an incredible cake - you made our day even more special!
Our wedding cake was so beautiful and delicious! Adele was so great to work with and truly an artist with baking the cake! I was so impressed with the designs and how big the actual cake was. I cannot wait to eat our leftovers and anniversary cake!
Our wedding cake was the best cake I have ever had! It was elegantly decorated and the flavors were incredible, I HIGHLY recommend Custom Cakes by Adele for any sweet treats you need!
My wedding venue posted a picture of another couple's cake that was done by Custom Cakes by Adele and I knew immediately that I wanted to book with her! Our cake was not only beautiful and perfect but it tasted amazing! We got so many compliments from our guests! Adele was easy to work with and accommodating- highly recommend to all!
I found out about Custom Cakes by Adele after tasting their cake at a friend's wedding a few years ago. When we were researching vendors, Adele quickly won our hearts (and stomachs) over by her organization, quality of her cakes, and fantastic customer service.
The cake tasting box was a phenomenal idea that Custom Cakes by Adele offers! It was nice and relaxing being able to enjoy the cake and fillings/icings at home and being able to do it slowly over the day. The box itself was super cute and we loved the added details of plates and utensils.
We had a 6 inch wedding cake (marble with strawberry jam filling), 72 Vanilla with Strawberry Jam cupcakes, and 72 Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcakes at our wedding. Adele beautifully arranged the cupcakes on the tiers I had provided. She also placed our cake topper which was super helpful for us! Her prices were very reasonable and comparable to other vendors we researched.
Our guests LOVED the cupcakes and are still talking about them!!
Cake, icing, presentation was amazing. The amount of guests that thought it was fake simply based off the attention to detail on the cake.
Our cake was everything we imagined it would be. The tasting box was very sophisticated and everything we tried was delicious! We are considering ordering a tasting box every year just to keep trying new flavor combinations. The design was exactly what I imagined it would be and people are still talking about how good it was 5 days after our wedding! Adele was great to communicate with and I would highly recommend using Custom Cakes by Adele for any event!
I live 2 hours away from Adele’s shop so doing a tasting was not possible for us because we were just too busy to drive up- so I was def worried about not being able to taste the cake before ordering but it came out not only beautiful but sooo yummy. When we got home from the wedding and I was finally able to really take on the too tier which we saved to take home, I literally couldn’t even believe that flowers were sugar and handmade. They looked SO real and so detailed. The cake was sooo tasty too and everyone loved it. At one point I looked around the ballroom and saw almost every table filled with guests just chowing down and smiling ahah. Their team was super communicative as well. We loved everything about it!! Thst vanilla bean icing is NO joke I still think about it ahha
Adele & Team made our wedding cake. It turned out absolutely gorgeous!! It beyond exceeded our expectations and everyone RAVED about the taste. It can be scary ordering a cake for a big day and not knowing what it will look like until the day of. I truly didn’t know it was possible to make a cake as beautiful as ours was. Can’t wait to eat it again in a year 💗
Love LOVE Custom Cakes by Adele. They were able to last minute come through with a beautiful cutting cake for my husband and I when we last minute had to downsize our wedding plans due to COVID in May 2020. I spoke to the owner on the phone to describe the cake I wanted. She was kind accommodating, and ordering & pick up were so smooth! As for the cake, my husband and I still say hands down best cake we ever had!!! The chocolate chip cake is par none. We filled it with peanut butter mousse and the outside was iced with vanilla buttercream and decorated with a beautiful sunflower sugar flower. We loved it so much, we got the same cake for our reception we rescheduled a year later, and we were thrilled Adele could make it for us!
Our wedding cupcakes were absolutely beautiful! I got a Packers groom’s cake for the rehearsal dinner in carrot cake (my husbands favorite flavor) and it was a huge hit!! We got so many compliments on not only the taste of the cupcakes, but the beautiful decorations as well. Adele was very helpful and easily reached through email throughout the entire planning process. Delivery the day of the wedding was on time and our cake table looked awesome! I could not recommend Adele’s enough!
Adele made the most delicious and beautiful cake for our wedding! It was covered in tiny wildflowers and each one is its own work of art. I am so happy we got to keep the sugar flowers! The cake was so delicious and I am already excited for our first wedding anniversary so we can eat the additional tier she includes when you order the cake. Highly recommend!!!
We tasted several different cakes by different bakers and Adele's was by far the best! Her cakes are super moist and delicious. They are absolutely gorgeous as well! I would highly recommend her. We will definitely be ordering from her in the future. She also provides you with an anniversary cake that is already sealed so you don't have to worry about saving a portion of your cake. I thought this was a really nice touch!
Adele was wonderful to work with! We got married at Woodstone Country Club, and Adele works closely with our venue. Due to COVID, we had a virtual tasting. Everything was prepared for us to pick up and try at home. We received 9 cupcakes (3 of each flavor we selected), and it was a very tough decision! We heard nothing but great things about our cake from guests, and we loved it as well!
Adele was so great to work with. She was able to give my husband and I our dream cake. Even though we weren’t able to have our big wedding like we originally planned, Adele was able to create a miniature version of it. The cake itself was by far the best cake I’ve ever had and I’m not a cake person. The sugar flowers look porcelain and we even saved them in an air tight container for memory. I highly recommend this bakery.
Adele was absolutely amazing to work with! She executed our vision perfectly and stayed in close communication to ensure everything was exactly the way we wanted it. Not to mention, SHE MAKES THE MOST DELICIOUS CAKE!!!!!!
obsessed with our wedding cake! the design was exactly what we wanted and more!! and the pumpkin cake was to die for
I got married on 11/16 and all I can say is that the cake was absolutely amazing!!!! It tasted absolutely delicious and it was GORGEOUS!!!!! Adele was really nice to work with too; her enthusiasm about our cake was so nice to see! If you're looking for a wedding cake; I would definitely recommend Custom Cakes by Adele!
cake was what we wanted! everyone kept commenting on the beauty an taste!
The cake was amazing and she was so easy to work with. I showed her a picture of a cake I want and she was able to recreate the exact thing! The tasting was great and the wedding cake was even better!
One of our biggest wedding wishes was to have a cake that tasted amazing... and that's what we got from Adele! We were blown away from our first taste through the holiday cupcake sale and even ended up choosing one of the flavors in our cake. Both of our choices, coconut with fluffy coconut filling and chocolate with peanut butter chocolate chip filling, were big hits with the guests. We can't wait to fall in love with the cake all over again when we get to enjoy the first anniversary tier.
Adele and Mike were a dream to work with as they are so genuine and love what they are doing. Every step of the process was easy with them and the cake never became something we stressed about. We couldn't have made a better choice!
Our cake came out better than we could have imagined! Adele totally nailed the design we wanted and the color was perfect. After our cake tasting, we knew it would taste good, and of course it was, people are still talking about how delicious it was!
After trying two other local bakeries and walking away disappointed, we had friends suggest Adele. We were blown away! From the moment we walked into the tasting, we were sold. She and Mike were extremely helpful, easy to talk to, and full of ideas. Not only that, their cake is amazing! They worked with us to create a totally custom design (after I showed her probably 30 pictures that were completely different) and Adele even helped me to surprise my now-husband with a hidden Star Wars grooms cake on the back of our cake. We are still having guests reach out to us to talk about how wonderful the cake was. We will absolutely recommend Adele to anyone who will listen!
Adele and Mike were wonderful to work with. Our meeting beforehand and tasting were so fun and they were very helpful in creating exactly what we wanted...simple, elegant, and delicious. It was more than perfect and exceeded our expectations!! We knew it was delicious from our tasting, but I swear the cake itself tasted even better!!! Highly recommend their signature vanilla cake with vanilla bean buttercream-SO DELICIOUS!!! I can’t even count how many complements we received for both the taste and design. Thank you again!
Adele was great to work with! Our cake was beautiful and it tasted amazing. We got so many compliments and all of the cake plates were empty. We also love and appreciate the complimentary mini cake they offer that my husband and I can share for our anniversary. It’s such a nice touch and you don’t have to worry about the venue saving the top of the actual wedding cake. Will definitely be using them in the future for any other cakes!
Adele was wonderful to work with and her cakes taste just as amazing as they look. Our guests could not stop raving about how beautiful the cake was and how great it tasted. I could not recommend Adele more and I know I will be ordering custom cakes from her in the future. Well worth the cost!
Adele was wonderful to work with from the moment we decided to have her bake our cake and cupcakes for our wedding! Her cake is the BEST! I can be super indecisive and she was so helpful throughout the entire process! We decided on a cutting cake and cupcakes for our guests with multiple flavors! We received so many compliments on how delicious the cupcakes were! She also does custom sugar flowers and let me tell you it is seriously ART! THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for baking the perfect cake and cupcakes for our big day! Book with Adele and you will not be disappointed!
From the moment we met Adele, she was amazing. From the tasting to the big day - everything was beyond perfect. First off - the taste of the cakes were DELICIOUS! So moist, so tasty, so everything you could ever want. My now husband and I literally made noises at how tasty they were at our meeting. We had a budget and a unique vision, and she was more than willing to work with all of it. We had 6 different cakes and flavors (1 2-tier wedding cake, 1 groom's cake, and 4 other guest cakes), and our guests raved about each one. (The butter vanilla was my favorite!) The presentation was beautiful - her sugar fall leaves were absolutely stunning and so well done. It's over a month later, and we're still hearing great reviews from our guests. We inhaled our leftover cake within a week after our wedding. She was great with communication, helping explain everything, coming up with ideas, payments... just absolutely one of our favorite vendors of the day. You won't find better in the LHV! She included directions with our top tier for preservation/freezing also. We will definitely go back to her for future cake needs!
Adele baked our cake and cupcakes for our wedding a few weeks ago and everything was so beautiful and tasty! The detail in the flowers on the cake were amazing and people couldn't keep talking about how beautiful and unique everything was, almost too beautiful to eat! I've been to many weddings where the dessert table is hardly looked at or eaten because everyone is too busy dancing and drinking, but this wasn't the case at our wedding! Everything was gone and people couldn't stop commenting and taking pictures of the dessert table! Adele and her husband are very nice to work with, they get back to you right away and are very helpful with all your needs. Thank you to Adele and Mike for our beautiful wedding desserts!
Hands down the absolute best tasting cake I’ve ever had! We chose the Almond cake with Tahitian vanilla buttercream icing. Not only were our guests raving about the flavor but it turned out even prettier in person. From the moment we met with Adele we knew we wanted her to create our wedding cake! She was honest and upfront about what worked and what would be the best options for our price point and guest count. She allowed us to bring our dream cake to life. Matching the different tiers to the different aspects of my dress and wedding theme, Adele made sure we were truly happy with every aspect of the process and end result. Her sugar flowers are incredibly life like and were perfectly hand crafted. (With the exception of our venue throwing them away during the cake cutting, we were amazed at the details included). We can’t wait to eat the top tier on our first anniversary! Highly recommend Custom Cakes by Adele!!
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4823 Main Street, Whitehall, PA | Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
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