Favorite Cakes

tasted. Do yourself a favor and hire Kathy!

ck to the drawing board in search of someone else to make our cupcakes. From the moment we met her for our tasting, my mind was immediately at ease. Kathy has the most warm, caring personality. It is very apparent that she genuinely cares about the couples she helps and is very passionate about her work and what she creates. And then we tasted her cupcakes - Let me just say, they were to die for! Her flavor choices are delightful and she offers fillings (sometimes even two types per cupcakes). I am pretty picky when it comes to frosting and Kathy's was amazing! Her cupcakes were super moist, the filling was phenomenal and the tops were each decorated with something special (raspberries, almond slivers, lemon curd, etc.) I have never had a better cupcake! When picking a wedding vendor, it was so important to us that not only did we love what they produced (cupcakes from our baker, images from our photographer, etc.) but we loved them as people as well. I had the utmost confidence In Kathy. She was so thoughtful down to every detail (such as tulle over our display as we were outside, cupcakes on her for our vendors, and an anniversary cutting cake for my fiancé and I free of charge as her gift to us). On the day of, her meticulous attention to detail was evident with her display - it was stunning and looked to be out of a magazine. Later that night, I found a gift box which she had packaged for us with some to take home. I could rave on and on about how wonderful she was and would highly recommend her. I think I was most grateful for her calmed assuredness in being able to provide us whatever our vision was and for that, we were so appreciative.

upcakes with cream cheese frosting yellow cake with chocolate buttercream, chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and vanilla buttercream, bride's white cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream, cream cheese pound cake with black raspberry filling, vanilla buttercream and lemon zest, gluten free chocolate cake with chocolate mousse and vanilla buttercream and a chocolate gluten free cutting cake with salted caramel frosting. Kathy was great to work with and we really appreciated all that she did for us! We would recommend Kathy to anyone having a wedding in the Charlottesville area!

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d a groom's cake), so we had a few tastings to make sure that 1) we had the right flavor combinations and 2) we had the right color combinations. Kathy knows flavor, but she also knows design! I kept her looped into what we were thinking for design, colors, flowers, etc, so that her work contributed to the overall aesthetic of the wedding. She also helped me orchestrate a surprise groom's cake for my husband that was comprised of several of his favorite things. Her attention to detail is amazing. She also provides a one year anniversary cake, and she also went one step further and provided a special custom carrot cake for my dad! That was such a nice surprise/treat. Our venue ended up messing up and not bringing out the third cake, which I was so disappointed about when I found out the next day - our guests really missed out on an amazing chocolate cake!!! - although the lavender and pumpkin cakes were delicious!

elicious and beautifully presented! We especially loved the hummingbird cake!

tos and ideas that day as well as the coming weeks, and what she came up with truly exceeded our expectations! Not only is she wonderfully artistic and creative with her cakes, but they taste simply amazing! They are light, moist, and airy. We had a hard time selecting which flavor and icing to go with. We highly recommend working with Kathy, you most certainly will not be disappointed!

ntly hooked! We chose to do cupcakes due to our venue cake cutting costs (her cakes are BEAUTIFUL). Kathy was extremely accommodating & the cupcakes were so fresh! Our personal favorite is Favorite Cake's carrot cake with delicious cream cheese frosting! All the cupcakes were stuffed with delicious homemade fruit jams or sweet filling. After we made our selection, Kathy shared the apple pie cake & carrot cake recipe with us. She gave us permission to place the recipes on our cupcake table for our guests to take home to bake. Our guests were so pleased! The sweetest part was when we got to our hotel room, there was a variety of cupcakes and our 1 year anniversary cake after the wedding. After a long day of dancing, it was wonderful to bite into the delicious cupcakes. 100% recommend Favorite Cakes. Thank you so much Kathy - you are so talented, we wish you the very best!

d the cake. Oh, the cake. I still dream about the cake. Every flavor we tried, we loved. We ended up doing three smaller cakes of varying flavors and fillings. Each one was beautifully decorated and set up with lovely decor. Kathy was so friendly and worked within our budget to make the perfect cakes for us. Thank you!

e shop - Kathy came so prepared! It was so much fun working with her. She is very detail oriented and offered suggestions when we got stuck. Kathy has a book you can flip through to see cakes she has made in the past which was really helpful. She even provides her clients with a mini cake already boxed up and ready to put in the freezer to enjoy a year later. Wonderful experience and our cake was delicious.

second meeting, I mentioned how delicious it was and she offered to experiment to determine if she could come up with something that would work for a cake (and it did!). We ended up with two flavors – lemon cake with blackberry filling and chocolate cake with chocolate ganache swirled with cream cheese – both with vanilla buttercream frosting. Overall, we have absolutely no regrets with our choice. Pros: 1) offered great suggestions (e.g., use of a colored tablecloth, where to put cake in venue), 2) extremely responsive to our own ideas, 3) the cake was beautiful AND delicious – the guests absolutely raved about it (my only disappointment is that I didn’t think to snag a piece of chocolate :)), 4) she provided cupcakes for the event staff and a separate top layer ready to freeze, 5) pricing was fair in comparison to others in the area. Cons: None.