About this vendor
EK Cakery is a wedding cake business located in Belvidere, IL. Owner Erica is committed to creating premium cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for your special occasion. Her baked goods are made from scratch and prepared with love and attention.
EK Cakery represents the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. From her youth, Erica dreamed of becoming a chef. She admits that her earliest efforts were not always successful, and she produced apple pies that even family members couldn’t bring themselves to love. Erica was not dismayed, however. She never gave up. She continued to practice and learn, and in the fullness of time, she earned a place at the French Pastry School in Chicago. Today, she is delighted to say that her family loves everything she bakes.
Erica feels honored to be part of some of life’s most precious events. Her passion for her work and her devotion to her clients is evident in everything she bakes. Erica prides herself on her attention to detail. Every item on her menu is prepared to the most exacting standards, and her cakes are specially designed with the customer’s needs in mind. Each cake is comprised of four layers of cake and three layers of filling. Couples are invited to enjoy a wide selection of delicious cakes. Options include double dark chocolate cake, strawberry vanilla cake, and red velvet cake, made with cocoa, vanilla bean cream cheese frosting, and white chocolate ganache. Cupcakes are available in all of Erica’s signature cake flavors, and decorated sugar cookies can be ordered in vanilla bean and chocolate.
EK Cakery would be delighted to help you design the wedding cake of your dreams. Erica offers consultations, private tastings, and more. Whatever your cake, cupcake, and cookie needs, Erica wants you to have beautiful, delicious treats to enjoy on your big day.
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Business Attributes
- Hispanic or Latinx-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
- Other Desserts
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
Awards and Affiliations
4-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2024.2023.2022.2021.
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We loved Erica! We ended up going with a dessert table for our wedding and I couldn’t wait for the day to eat all the desserts we ordered, which the guests loved! She was quick to ...
respond when I had questions and she worked with us to make a custom macaroon flavor which was delicious. She had samples ready quickly and helped make the day perfect.
Such a talented woman! Although we went the non-traditional route and had no cake, she was able to make us the best cupcakes and cookies! They were such a hit at the wedding! Also,...
our cookies were adorable! They were polaroids of our engagement photos. Highly recommend working with her. She is extremely easy to work with and the desserts were delicious.
Highly recommend EK Cakery! They were so easy to work with and we had a delicious dessert table at our wedding thanks to them.
EK Cakery was an EXCEPTIONAL baker for our wedding this past weekend. <3 We worked so closely with Erica to make sure that our dessert table and cake were executed perfectly. She ...
got samples of all of our requested dessert options ready for pickup as we were preparing for the wedding, and then executed the most beautiful dessert table with all the tasty cupcakes, bars, cookies and chocolate covered strawberries the day of the wedding! Truly everything looked and tasted better than I could have imagined. I would recommend anyone to EK Cakery for the BEST customer service, and tasty treats :)
Erica and her team at EK Cakery are INCREDIBLE. Our experience with them was nothing short of amazing. Our guests loved our dessert table, and our cake was so so special to us! We ...
can't recommend Erica enough!!
EK Cakery was amazing to work with for our wedding in May 2023. She put everything we wanted on the cake and it tasted delicious! When there was a mistake in billing and Erica was...
fair and very generous! Would love to go to them again for all our cake needs!
Thank you very much for creating such a special and beautiful cake for my wedding day. I look at pictures and still cannot believe how perfect it was. I received many compliments o...
n its beauty as well as delicious taste.
Erica was great! We had a great time at the cake tasting and she even let us try some cupcakes. Our wedding cake was perfect!
I highly recommend EK Cakery for any wedding cake/dessert needs if you are in the Rockford/Belvidere area! Easily the best bakery in the area.
EK Cakery did the decorated cookies...
for my bridal shower & the cutting cake for my wedding. Not only were both the cookies & cake beautifully decorated just like my inspiration photos, but they tasted delicious!
They delivered our cutting cake to our wedding venue for us & it was so low-stress & easy.
Erica is so friendly & makes the experience so lovely. 10/10 would recommend!
From the cake tasting to the wedding day, Erica and team were amazing! You will not be disappointed by choosing EK Cakery for your special day. Everyone loved the cupcakes, and we...
LOVED our cake! Not to mention, they were beautiful looking. We enjoyed the cake tasting and cupcake sampling to help in making our choices. The rental stands were beautiful as well.
I cannot say enough wonderful things about Erica and her cakes. The cake for both my daughters wedding and her bridal shower were absolutely delicious as well as her macaroons and ...
sweets table items. Our guests raved about everything! Thank you, Erica!
Erica and her team are the best! Erica was able to take all of my ideas and put them into the perfect wedding cake and grooms cake. She was even able to keep the grooms cake a surp...
rise from my soon to be husband until he saw it at the wedding. Not only were the cakes picture perfect, but it was hands down the best cake we have eaten. We had a different flavor of cake for each tier and for the grooms cake. We also had cookies made for the dessert table and they were equally as phenomenal. Erica and her team had the desserts all setup and delivered promptly the morning of the wedding so they were ready for the big day. She handled everything from the designs to delivery and she nailed it. We got so many complements from our guests the day of the wedding and the months following the wedding on our desserts. We have also frequented the bakery post wedding for baked holiday goods and desserts. 1000/10 recommend EK Cakery!!!
LOOK NO FURTHER FOR YOUR WEDDING PASTRY NEEDS! I cannot say enough good things about Erica and EK Cakery. Her customer service is spectacular, and she really goes above and beyond ...
to make you feel like your wants/needs are her only focus (despite the fact that she is most likely working on MULTIPLE events at any given time). She was very patient with us and really helped us form our vision for our big day. And we can't forget about the quality of her baked goods. My husband and I ordered our wedding cake and cupcakes from EK Cakery and they were an absolute hit (pictures attached). Honestly, Erica made a huge positive impact on us and is an important part to our story. We love you Erica!!
Honest to goodness, cannot recommend EK Cakery enough. We booked our wedding with Erica in early 2020. She was incredibly understanding when we had to move our wedding date due to ...
COVID.
This worked out great because it allowed us two additional years to try a wide variety of the cakerie's offerings, as we would stop by on their Saturday hours to try purchase some treats. Our favorites are by far the macaroons and cupcakes.
The day of the wedding Erica and her team were fantastic! They were super timely, rocked out set-up, and the decor options selected were perfect. We also ended up ordering a tres leche for a non-wedding event which also tasted AMAZING!!!
Also, their s'mores-flavored marshmallows? I could go on and on.
We couldn’t have been happier with choosing EK Cakery! Erica made all of our dreams come true (mine mostly) as far as what I had envisioned. Our wedding cake was small, we chose to...
have it only for us and our bridal party/immediate family, but it was stunning! I’m addition, we had a sweets table adorned with 3 of our favorite flavors for cupcakes (2 of which mimicked our cake blueberry maple and lemon raspberry) as well as an assortment of bars and cookies. People are still telling us how amazing it all was!
We would recommend EK Cakery above all others for your wedding cake needs. Not only was the cake absolutely gorgeous, it was also one of the best I have tasted. We opted for a 3-la...
yer cake and were allowed a unique flavor for each layer. All were fantastic! Erica and her husband are very kind and good people, and it was an honor doing business with them.
Erica is absolutely wonderful! I wish I could give her more than 5 stars because she is the sweetest and made us the most beautiful, delicious wedding cake that exceeded our expect...
ations in every way!! Everything from the cake tasting, to capturing the details was seamless and she made the process so enjoyable. Our guests could not stop raving about how delicious the almond cake was!! She even made accommodations for guests with allergies and they were equally as pleased with their scrumptious cupcakes. I will forever be loyal to EK Cakery!!
Erica was such a blessinng in our wedding planning! She made every step simple and joyful, our cake was gorgeous, and our guests loved the variety of cupcakes we had. She even work...
ed with us to use raspberries I had picked for our filling and it was so delicious and special to have that. Highly recommend
Erica did an amazing job on our Carmel Apple wedding cake on 10/8/22. We got a lot of compliments on it and our guests loved it! It was beautiful and made my vision come to life! H...
ighly recommend!
Erica made the process so easy, from understanding our ideas and how much we'd need, to picking up beautiful samples, to making sure the desserts tasted wonderful. Our almond wedd...
ing cake was even better than the sample. Plus they happen to make the most delicious cupcakes in the area for a little post-wedding treat!
We are so happy that we chose EK Cakery to make our wedding cake and wedding desserts! Everything was delicious and beautiful! The cake tasting was one of the most fun parts of the...
wedding planning, with a really cute set up and 4 beautiful cakes for us to try. There were so many great and unique flavors. Erica was so kind and attentive in helping us make our final wedding dessert selections. She also went above and beyond to create the look of the wedding cake that we absolutely loved. We were also able to rent gold dessert tiers from EK Cakery for our wedding, which left our dessert table looking beautiful and classy. We couldn't be happier with how our desserts turned out and we highly recommend using EK Cakery for your wedding!
Can I give EK Cakery more stars than 5? From the very beginning with our initial meeting and tasting with Erica - we knew she was the person we wanted to work with! Our cake decora...
tion needs weren't extreme - our wedding theme was simple and elegant - but the flavors! OMG! It was so hard to choose so we chose four! Top knotch in everything! So easy to work with and definitely the best cake I've ever had. Everyone at the wedding (including the woman who crashed the wedding) raved about it. Thank you for making our day just "that much better!"
EK Cakery absolutely made our cake and cupcake dreams come true for our wedding! Not only were they flavorful and super cute, but we had extras so we ate them that night AND the ne...
xt morning for breakfast! I will be getting in touch with EK Cakery for any baked goods I need in the future!
Erica was amazing throughout this whole process and I can not explain in a review how amazing her cake and cupcakes were. We had so many compliments from our guests! Some said it w...
as the best wedding cake they had ever had! I am so excited to go back to her bakery so we can keep getting enjoying our wedding cake flavors!
From the cake testing to the actual wedding day, Erica nailed it. Her trial cakes are amazing and actually super large we were able to box them home and have other family members t...
ry it! We knew that after trying one cake we wanted to book with Erica. My husband and I actually were really set on doing a “naked cake” because we are not big frosting/buttercream frosting type people. But oh my lord, after trying Erica’s homemade buttercream frosting we changed our minds really fast. We told her to frost that whole cake and even add more, because that’s how good it was!! She was able to envision exactly what we wanted design wise and our wedding cake was absolutely breath taking, I didn’t even want to cut into it. The cake was delicious, I couldn’t have asked for anything better. Thank you Erica! You truly are talented.
From the beginning, Erica has been absolutely amazing. The tasting was great - even though it was a tasting, Erica took the time to make the presentation beautiful. We were blown a...
way by both the flavors and the looks.
For our wedding, we ended up getting a display cake for cutting which was AMAZING, four flavors of cupcakes for the guests, a variety of dessert bars, and gourmet marshmallows. All were delicious!
Erica helped us plan out the proper number of desserts so we didn't get too much and have a lot of leftovers - we only ended up with a small box of cupcakes leftover because the numbers were perfect. We also rented display stands from Erica, and the way it was set up was flawless!
Throughout the process, working with Erica was the easiest thing to do. We highly recommend Erica and EK Cakery for any of your cake and dessert needs!
This small business feels like family from the first inquiry through the tasting and finally to the wedding. Erica is the sweetest person. She delivered EXACTLY what was promised. ...
The tasting was adorable and over the top with FOUR mini cakes and milk. The attention to detail is beyond. Excellent communication as well. But the cake? Oh. My. Goodness. Our guests literally stole extra cupcakes that had been packaged for us and were seen hiding them on the shuttle!
Amazing flavors, moist and beautifully decorated. Do not pass up the chance to have EK Cakery be a part of your wedding.
We used Erica and EK Cakery for our wedding cake and desserts and we are so glad we did! Communicating with Erica was easy and everything went smooth. We had cake, cookies, and cup...
cakes, all of which were beautiful and delicious! Would highly recommend!
Erika was one of our favorite vendors to work with. She put us at ease and was a consummate professional throughout the entire planning process. We ordered two different flavors of...
cake and some specialty sugar cookies for our May 2022 wedding. So many guests told us they thought it was the best cake they had ever had. The cookies were equally delicious and decorated to PERFECTION. If you choose EK Cakery as your wedding sweets vendor, you will not be disappointed.
Erica baked our wedding cake, and it was absolutely perfect! In addition to being delicious, it was absolutely stunning and exactly what I had in mind. She was wonderful to work wi...
th, and we couldn’t have been happier with her outstanding work. We would highly recommend booking with her for any event you have coming up!
Erica was fantastic to work with. From the tasting to delivery of our cake. She made sure she had our disign matched our vision. For our wedding we got a small Mapple Blueberry cak...
e delicious! And cupcakes for our guest. We also got a chance to rent cupcake display. We highly recommend her bakery! We looking forward to ordering again!
To start, we set up an initial appointment with Erica to discuss our ideas and also try four flavors of our choice of cake. We were blown away by the size of these cakes she made ...
for us to try as we got to go home with them afterwards. So delicious!! She listened to all of the ideas and small details we wanted to incorporate and she made exactly that. EK Cakery did such an amazing job making our wedding cake, cupcakes, and the set up was flawless. I cannot recommend her enough!!!
Erica’s cakes were all amazing. I wish I had one right now! From our amazing display when we did our tasting to our selection of cupcakes at our wedding, everything was so deliciou...
s. We have already decided to order a cake from her every year for our anniversary. Loved it all!
Erica was not only very easy to work with, but she is the sweetest person that you will ever meet! She truly wants the best for the couples that she works with. Our day was so effo...
rtless and when we arrived at our venue, both the cake and cupcakes were set up beautifully! Not to mention how we still have guests talking about how delicious the cupcakes and cake were! We could not have asked for a better baker. Thank you x1000 Erica for making our day memorable!
The EK Cakery produces some of the finest cakes available. The taste could not have been any better. My husband and I ordered a pumpkin chocolate chip cake for our wedding and it w...
as wonderful.
Wow just incredible! I showed Erika a Pintrest photo of what we wanted and she delivered! The cake was gorgeous and EXACTLY like the inspiration photo. It was almost too pretty to ...
eat, but I am glad we did because we got so many compliments on how delicious the cake was. The icing is like nothing I've ever had before. Just amazing!
AMAZING! From start to finish EK Cakery is absolutely the best. We got SO many compliments on how delicious everything was. We can't wait to eat our wedding cake each month when we...
celebrate and also can't wait to order again for our future kids birthday parties. THANK YOU!!
Erica brought my cake dreams to life! One of the only things I REALLY wanted for my wedding was a geode cake. I found an inspiration photo on Pinterest and started reaching out to ...
bakeries. The few responses I received didn't "wow" me, and then my mom found Erica.
My mom, husband (fiancé at the time), and I went to see Erica to talk out our ideas and have a cake tasting. Erica assured us she could create the cake of our dreams. She was extremely kind and informative, and we had a great time chatting with her.
I'm not a huge cake-lover, but MAN—were her cakes delicious! We ended up getting 4 different sheet cake flavors and they were all delicious. We also had an absolutely gorgeous 3-tier geode cake with turquoise and gold. And, the cake was even prettier than the inspiration photo I originally found.
The cake matched our theme perfectly and was stunning. We had so many compliments about how beautiful is was and how delicious the sheet cakes were. I would 1000% recommend Erica to any bride or someone just wanting a fun cake. Thank you Erica!
Erica did an amazing job on our wedding cake and cupcakes. Everything looked elegant and tasted delicious. She was very easy to work with and would definitely recommend her!
Truly the best of the best! Erica was so sweet and absolutely fantastic to work with. I’m so thankful our coordinator recommended her to us! Our cake(s) turned out better than I ...
could’ve ever imagined!
LOVED my cake! Erica created a beautiful cake that looked exactly how I dreamed it would. Not only did the cake look great, it also tasted amazing!
I loved being able to taste so...
me of the cakes before deciding on which flavor I wanted.
Not only was Erica and her husband some of the sweetest people we have met, their sweet treats were simply AMAZING! We got a individual cake to cut, various flavors of cupcakes, co...
okies, and dessert bars! You cannot go wrong with desserts from EK Cakery for any special occasion!
Erica is such a beautiful spirit!! You can tell she puts love in her sweets. She does it all and we are so excited that we get the opportunity to work with her for our special day....
I'm so grateful we found her and get to support each other working toward the same goal♡ Our first and only tasting, we truly don't care to look anywhere else.
It was great working with Erica on our wedding cake!! She was super sweet (no pun intended) and the cake was both delicious and beautiful - her cake tastings was also THE CUTEST an...
d she made us feel so comfortable while still following COVID precautions. I really appreciate the way she adapted our plans to the ever-changing guest list and made our cake concept come to life just from a conversation. This is a hidden gem in the northern Illinois area. Her other treats are also amazing - try the macaroons!!
Erica is amazing and so great to work with..
Her cakes not only look beautiful but taste delicious too.
I will be using her for all my future cake needs.
Erica and her husband were amazing at our outdoor wedding! It took place during September 2020 and i was very impressed by everything! First off all the cupcakes arrived flawlessly...
, even after traveling out to our country farm location! the cake we ordered was beautifully done and just incredible flavor. We tried several venders before we decided on Erica Koren Cakery from Belvidere but I truly believe that we could not have done better then her.
I definitely encourage everyone to check her out!
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Erica is absolutely amazing! From the moment we scheduled a tasting through to our wedding day, she was there for us and super helpful. The tasting was an extremely enjoyable expe...
rience with four small (but actually pretty large) cakes made just for us with the flavors we chose. The back and forth to finalize the design was seamless, and she was extremely accommodating as we had to make a number of changes (wedding date, size, etc.) due to COVID-19. Highly recommend!
When our 2020 wedding plans abruptly changed we needed to rethink dessert. A family member recommended Erica and I couldn't have been happier. She was very accommodating when we co...
uldn't decide on flavors and worked wonders with very limited guidance. We wanted something simple and understated using our wedding colors, and Erica created both a beautiful two-tiered cake and frosted sugar cookies to match. And everything was delicious - our guests were fighting over the leftovers! (When you go in to pick up your cake, be sure to grab a few chocolate chip cookies too - yum!)
We loved working with Erica! During this hectic time Erica and her team were so accommodating and helpful. They really help relieve some stress that comes with planning during an p...
andemic.
We were able to talk about price point, the amount of cake we wanted, and just the cake testing alone was a real treat! And they were in the perfect price point for our budget. It truly was an easy and fun experience!
Erica and her husband helped us create the yummiest array of deserts that our guest loved so much nothing was left at the end of the night. They are the sweetest and kindest couple...
! They really care about the customers vision. The tasting was my favorite experience with a vendor and we will forever remember it. The showed up and did everything their self and made it look amazing. During this stressful time they made us feel secure and accommodated as the number of guest changed closer to the wedding.
Contact
107 Buchanan St, Belvidere, IL
