5 out of 5 stars and 194 reviews
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(194)Best of Weddings (12x).Monterey Bay: Capitola to Carmel /parts of Carmel Valley
About this vendor
Freedom Bakery (& Confections) is a family owned and managed, second-generation bakery in Watsonville, California. We are centrally located in heart of Monterey Bay and have been catering special occasions for more than 40 years! From cakes to cupcakes, desserts & favors, we’re here to make your special day as sweet as possible. We are a full retail bakery so our reliability and professionalism is unmatched. As a family business, we also understand the importance of details on special occasions, especially on wedding days. So we have a dedicated Wedding Team to assist all our couples with unique styles and budgets.
Services Offered
Our wedding cake is available for pick-up or set-up and delivery within our delivery area. We also offer Tasting Plates and Cake Consultations. Our cookie favors are shipped anywhere in the United States. For our out of town couples, our Wedding Team has experience in working remotely with you to finalize details easiest as possible.
Please note we are not affiliated with Salinas bakery.
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Business Attributes
- Asian-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
- Other Desserts
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
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The perfect wedding cake!! Freedom Bakery was fantastic to work with for our wedding. They executed our vision perfectly. Not only was the cake beautiful, but it was so delicious. We kept hearing compliments throughout the evening.
I'm lactose intolerant. I really appreciated that they accommodated the bottom layer of the cake, so it was dairy free. It was so tasty that no one even noticed the difference.
From the initial meeting with Paul and working with Tania along the way, the Freedom Bakery team was communicative and easy to work with. I highly recommend working with them for any event or even if you're visiting and craving a sweet dessert in the area.
Thank you so much for making our wedding cake dreams come true!
Our wedding cake was amazing. Beautiful and delicious. The staff was easy to work with and Paul was able to create the cake from my suggestions exactly the was I wanted. We will continue to use Freedom Bakery for all of our bakery needs.
We worked with Freedom Bakery for our wedding cake and everything was incredible! The planning process was so smooth and organized. We had a great design consultation with their head decorator and they executed on our vision perfectly. Freedom delivered the cake to our venue and the overall design/look was exactly what we wanted. Not to mention the cake was delicious! Could not recommend Freedom Bakery enough. Thank you Tania, Paul and the whole team.
Amazing! I picked this bakery based on a recommendation from my wedding venue, as I was planning my destination wedding from across the country. This was purely blind faith as we didn’t do a tasting beforehand or anything. We emailed back and forth, and between pictures and communicating back forth, they got my wedding cake exactly how I pictured it. The red velvet flavor was the BEST cake I have ever had! My mom still raves about it months later.
We can't say enough positive things about Freedom Bakery. We had them booked for our wedding and WOW they had the best cake! Not only the taste but the design of the cake. Everything about it was perfect! Our guests were obsessed and mentioned that it was the best wedding cake they had ever had. Freedom Bakery was so easy to work with, they were always so quick to respond to email as well. I gave Paul some inspiration and he did an even more stunning design than I imagined. They had everything delivered with ease at the wedding. I cannot recommend Freedom Bakery enough! We will definitely use them in the future for many different occasions!
Fabulous wedding cake! Easy to work with, communicative, provided exactly what we wanted, expertly delivered, beautiful and everything in between! Would use them time and time again!
Our experience with our bakery was amazing from beginning to end - we were able to order a cake tasting plate to try out 12 of their most popular flavors. It was so hard to choose which flavor we wanted, they were all so good!
Then the cake itself was just what we had dreamed of! We sent them a few photos for inspiration, and it was even better than expected! We ordered a smaller two tier round cake, and then got sheet cake for everyone else.
We had a special vision for our wedding, and Freedom Bakery did a great job helping us select the taste and look for it. We wanted a rainbow-themed cake for our wedding, and it looked amazing. They had a great tasting tray that organized well the different flavors, and they collaborated well with us looking over some inspirational images we had and coming up with the final look we wanted.
Freedom Bakery was incredible! Stayed in contact through all the details and questions we had. They have a very diverse selection of flavors and styles. Our butter cream salted caramel was absolutely tasty, and I don't really like cake. Would recommend to anyone!
Freedom Bakery was AMAZING! From the communication/response time, to the tasting samples and the presentation on our wedding day, everything was outstanding! We chose to have a large variety for our dessert table and every item we chose was a crowd-pleaser! We chose the Blondies & Brownies, Cream Puffs, Shooters and Tartlets - in many flavors, and each one was a hit! We were so thrilled to have Freedom Bakery be a part of our wedding day!
Tania was so responsive and a pleasure to work with. We used them for our September wedding at the Perry House. Boston Cream Pie for one tier and chocolate with raspberry amaretto for the 2nd tier. The cake was DELICIOUS, and I don't usually have a sweet tooth. I would recommend Freedom Bakery, without reservation, to anyone.
Freedom Bakery was the yummiest addition to our dream wedding! We postponed twice, and they graciously accommodated the date changes. We had white cupcakes with raspberry lemon, chocolate cupcakes with mint chocolate chip, white cupcakes with ganache and chocolate buttercream, and a carrot cake for the next day :) All cupcake flavors were crowd pleasers, and guests definitely went back for seconds. We also loved the carrot cake (the bride's favorite) in the days following the wedding. Working with the Freedom Bakery team was an absolute joy, and we can't recommend them more!
We absolutely LOVE Freedom Bakery! We got our main wedding cake decorated even more beautifully than we could imagine and had three separate sheet cakes for our wedding guests. We picked up our cake sampler and had such a hard time narrowing down what we wanted because there were so many great flavors. Paul was our baker and really helped us with communicating with our venue and making sure our cakes arrived on time. We were also in contact with Tania a lot and she was super informative and great about responding to all our questions. We had at least a dozen guests contact us to find out where our cakes were from because they loved them so much! Highly recommend them!
Freedom Bakery provided the wedding cake and dessert cupcakes for my daughter's wedding at the Barns venue in Monterey last September. Everything was beautiful and delicious. I would highly recommend them.
We used Freedom Bakery for our wedding and had the best experience and cake! We did the cake sampler to find our flavor and had a lot of fun doing that. The cake sampler plate was then deducted from our final order price. The cake at our wedding was delicious and beautifully frosted. They even added a small bite out of the cake with our dog figurine we provided. We can’t wait to order another cake for our anniversary later this year!
Freedom Bakery was easy to work with and their cakes are delicious!
Freedom Bakery is amazing! Their website made it super easy to order a cake tasting plate, put down a deposit, and place our order. Tania was professional and outstanding to work with as we shared our inspiration pictures and made order + delivery to our venue a breeze. We got endless compliments about how delicious our wedding cake was (One tier was raspberry lemon and another was boston cream pie with chocolate ganache.) I'd recommend Freedom Bakery for any event: Weddings, Birthdays, they can do it all!
Freedom bakery surpassed my expectations for our wedding cake and pastries. The whole process was super easy to do on their website, and Tania was very helpful and professional. I sent inspiration pictures for our cake decoration and the cake turned out so much better than I had imagined! Everything was delicious!! I also wanted Mexican wedding cookies as a pastry and although it wasn't part of the menu they made it happen. I'd definitely recommend for any occasion.
The tasting of 9 cakes was perfect and helped the bride and groom choose. They were all so good it was hard to decide! We chose red velvet and my daughter gave them a photo of how it should look. They nailed it! We had our florist place greenery and a few flowers - simple elegance! Delivered on time with no problem and the ordering, payment process, and interaction with staff was flawless. Thank you for helping to make my daughters wedding just perfect in every way.
First off, my family has been using Freedom Bakery for over 30 years. This is our go to place for any special occasion, thus of course they had to be a part of our wedding.
We did a take home cake tasting sheet and all the flavors were delicious. My husband had his favorites (raspberry) and I had mine (caramel), but we both decided on the oreo filling which surprised us.
Once we found a photo of a cake design that we wanted, it was very easy to send them that photo and change the colors of it to our wedding colors. We got a discount on the cake for having a family member pick it up ourselves. The process was really easy and as far as wedding planning goes, it may have been the easiest part of the entire process.
We also were able to order the same cake for our 2 month anniversary (as there were no left overs) and it was just as special and delicious. Planning to order again for our 1 year anniversary!
Highly recommended! The tasting and cake design process was easy, and Tania did a great job staying in touch during the entire wedding planning process. We ordered both a cake and smaller deserts for our desert bar, and with her recommendations, we were able to order just the right amount for our guests, without having too many leftovers. They communicated very well with our wedding day coordinator, and delivered exactly as scheduled. Would definitely work with again if returning to Monterey for another party.
Freedom Bakery was perfect! The cake was so delicious and decorated beautifully for my daughter's wedding. We added some cupcakes at the end and they were decorated exactly as we envisioned to coordinate with the cake. Communication was excellent from the very beginning to the end. You will be very happy with your cake with this bakery.
Our wedding cake from Freedom Bakery was delicious and beautiful! They nailed our vision. We had a tough time choosing which flavors to select because they were all so yummy :) Tania and her team were also super easy to communicate with. 10/10 would recommend!
Freedom Bakery did such an amazing job on our cake, it was absolutely exquisite! We are from out of town, but Paul did such a great job of coordinating and working with us on every little detail, he is very knowledgeable and made sure everything worked smoothly. We had a phone call with him as well as many many emails, and he really answered all our questions. We were picking up the cake and driving it through windy hills to get to our venue, but he made sure everything was packed very well, with ice sheets and non-slide sheets, and the cake was fine. We wanted a very specific pillar cake, and gave him a reference picture, and he delivered above our expectations. So many of our guests let us know how sublime they thought the cake looked. Very much recommend Freedom Bakery!
Freedom Bakery is amazing and I highly recommend having them as your wedding cake vendor! Our cake was beautiful AND delicious. They worked with us to customize our cake to exactly what we wanted. They were also able to modify our cake size since we wanted to use a specific cake platter. Thank you for our perfect wedding cake, Freedom Bakery!
My husband and I were set to get married in June 2020, but we postponed to June 2021. In April 2021, we reached out to all of our vendors. However, our original bakery had unfortunately gone out of business. Our caterer recommended Freedom to us. We reached out to them, and Freedom got back to us right away. The owner talked to us on the phone with us for over an hour, putting us at ease and helping our vision come to life. They were so reliable and made our dessert dream a reality. We didn't even have the opportunity to taste any of the desserts, so we put all of our faith into them.
Our wedding cake was so beautiful and was absolutely delicious. MANY of our guests raved about how delicious the cake was. We also had small desserts passed around, which were all huge hits.
We couldn't recommend Freedom any more! We can't wait to eat the top of our cake on our one year anniversary.
Freedom Bakery was able to accommodate us last minute (~3wks) and was a great value for our intimate wedding in Carmel. Pick Up and storage was very straight forward.
We had to postpone several times due to the pandemic. This bakery was so workable and was speedy in responding to all questions. They exceeded our expectations and the cake and desserts were delicious.
Freedom Bakery was incredibly easy to work with and made a hectic time in our lives a little bit easier. Great with communication to go along with great prices and a cake that everybody at the wedding couldn't stop talking about. We picked up one of their convenient sample boxes and loved the raspberry preserve with Italian lemon mousse. We told them the date, the guest count, and sent over a few pictures of what we wanted it to look like and they took it from there. It was a smooth, simple process, and they brought to life exactly what my wife and I had envisioned for our cake. Going through Freedom Bakery for our wedding cake was a great experience and my wife and I would love to visit again sometime in the near future to grab another slice of that amazing Italian lemon!
One of the BEST decisions we made - ordering our wedding cake from Freedom Bakery & Confections. IT WAS AMAZING!! Expertly executed and delivered during the exact time frame given- and it was absolutely stunning! Our guests RAVED about the fresh, moist cake with it's Raspberry and Italian lemon layers!
Freedom Bakery EXCEEDED our expectations and made the most beautiful (and tasty) wedding cake! The team was super responsive and flexible, which was especially helpful during covid times. They took our ideas and turned it into reality, the cake looked almost too pretty to eat! So impressed by their service! Don't hesitate to use them for your wedding or party!
What a great job Freedom bakery did! We got married during a Covid pandemic year 11/8/20. They were able to offer a to go cake tasting of all the standard flavors they offer for wedding cakes. We LOVED the raspberry ameretto flavor that combines the best of chocolate and white cake as well. They did such a great job with communication over the phone setting up a consultation and allowing me to send them photos via email. They delivered the cake to my venue on time and it was a great statement piece at our reception! Such a great place. They won't disappoint.
Cake was decorated exactly how I asked! The cake itself was also extremely delicious - the guests were all complimenting it! Extremely pleased with my cake. The vendor was also very communicative and helpful in all parts of the process.
Everyone we interacted with was great to work with, fantastic communication, and the cake was unbelievably delicious!
Like a lot of 2020 couples, we ended up having a micro-wedding - 7 guests - in our backyard and postponed the larger celebration for 2021. After all the stress and headaches surrounding that circumstance, we made this decision 3 weeks before the day to go ahead with our union. Freedom Bakery was responsive, available, and they didn’t have any inconvenient restrictions like other bakeries we inquired about (e.g., closed on Sunday - our wedding was on a Sunday). The cake was ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS! The price was fair, and the payment/pickup was simple. We highly recommend. They can expect our business again, for sure!
I highly recommend Freedom Bakery and Confections, they are the BEST. Trying to plan for a wedding during a pandemic was a very difficult job. The one thing I didn't have to worry about was the cake and wedding favors. Freedom Bakery was extremely easy to work with, just tell them what you want and they will make it happen. They got our order right, delivered it on time, the cake and cookies were nicely on display and very delicious. Our guests provided lots of compliments.
The Freedom Bakery Team were very professional and asked many questions about our wedding theme. They captured the elegant rustic chic fabulously Our guests commented all evening on the design and were amazed on the flavors. We will certainly use them again!
Freedom Bakery & Confections is where you need to go if you want an amazing wedding cake, as well as an amazing design experience. From beginning to end, Freedom Bakery was easy to work with and get in touch with. They designed a beautiful wedding cake for us and were able to seamlessly incorporate pillars from my mother-in-laws wedding. They are not close to us geographically, but that won't stop us from getting cakes and pastries from them in the future.
Many thanks for the beautiful pastries you provided at our Rehearsal Dinner at Mission Ranch. Our guests were truly treated to a wide selection of sweets that evening. The dessert bar looked amazing, and we got a lot of compliments on the desserts.
I've been planning weddings for fifteen years and have worked with Freedom Bakery for most of those years. They've always been great to my clients and so I knew I wanted to work with them for our own wedding. My husband and I didn't always agree on wedding items. He was a bit apathetic on most things...but not the cake. All he knew of wedding cakes was that they weren't ever anything memorable and he didn't understand why we needed one (insert *eye roll*). But me, being a planner, told him he at least had to try some cakes and then make the decision. Well, we got Freedom's tasting sample and had a blind test in which we both voted for our favorites. They ALL were so good but amazingly enough we both voted for the same one (raspberry preserve and amaretto mousse). I converted him! Okay, Freedom really did but I took it for a win! In terms of design, I wanted simple but with a little something extra. I found a photo of a cake with edible glitter on it and I have to say, the execution was perfect. It was simple, elegant and just the right amount of "extra". All of our guests LOVED the cake and to this day, comment on how good it was. I can't wait for our one year anniversary so we can order a small cake to share. Thank you so much for being so amazing!
Everyone at Freedom Bakery is a joy to work with. From the first tasting to our final wedding cake and desserts, Freedom Bakery went above and beyond to provide us with the highest level of quality and service. We chose to have both a wedding cake and cookies served at our wedding and countless guests commented on the fact that the Mango/Coconut cream flavored cake was the best wedding cake they had ever tasted. The cookies were such a hit that instead of having 10-15 extras we were short several. Everything Freedom Bakery makes is outstanding. I cannot recommend them enough.
Freedom Bakery did an amazing job with my wedding cake and the surprise duck hunting groomsmen cake! They transformed my cake dreams into two beautiful cakes that I couldn't be more happy with. The cake was also delicious and we received tons of compliments on the flavor of the cake. I highly recommend the salted caramel flavor, it is amazing! They really went above and way beyond my expectations. Thank you Freedom!
Amazing experience! Our cake was so beautiful, exactly what I envisioned! And it was DELICIOUS!! Everyone loved it! Highly recommend!!
We met with Freedom for a tasting and every single flavor was amazing! They have a ton of beautiful designs to choose from as well as lots of different dessert options if you want a dessert table. Best part was that the tastings were free - not every place offers that we soon found out! Can't wait to see the final product and scarf it down!!
We had a small cake and a dessert display. Everything looked beautiful and tasted amazing!! Our guests raved about the desserts.
I absolutely loved my wedding cake from Freedom Bakery! My husband and I picked up one of their tasting plates and immediately fell in love with their lemon raspberry flavor. Nina was great to work with as a decorator and helped bring our vision to life with beautiful handcrafted sugar flowers. We got many compliments not only on how pretty the cake was, but also on how delicious!
Amazing experience! Our cake was so beautiful, exactly what I envisioned! And it was DELICIOUS!! Everyone loved it! Highly recommend!!
Our experience working with Freedom Bakery couldn't have been easier or more enjoyable.
First, we gave the time and day we would be free to pick up samples, and they had them ready and waiting for us to grab and go. This allowed us to sample the cakes in the comfort of our own home and on our own schedule. This ended up being a huge bonus, since some of our friends were over and we got to share the cake tasting process with a couple also planning their wedding, as well as get their (a third party's) honest feedback!
Second, the cakes were.... INCREDIBLE. Every last flavor was amazing. We had such a hard time picking just the three we did simply because they were all so freaking good.
Third, and finally, while I was in my own world day of the wedding, I heard after-the-fact that the cake arrived with zero problems, snafus, issues... nothing. Apparently it was the smoothest, easiest cake delivery process. It also looked gorgeous and tasted exactly how we remembered and hoped.
I've recommended Freedom to everyone I know, including my own brother. Do yourself a favor and hire them. They really are the best.
Freedom bakery was amazing every step of the way, from cake tasting to delivering it to our reception location. The cake was absolutely beautiful and tasted as amazing as it looked. I highly recommend Freedom Bakery!
Amazing wedding cake
Our cake was perfect! It was beautiful and super tasty! We got two different flavors for the cake tiers. The cookies and cream cake flavor was gone within minutes. This company was super easy to work with and made our dream cake reality. I highly recommend them!
We used Freedom Bakery and Confections for our wedding cake a couple weekends ago, and everyone absolutely loved it!
We ordered our two tier cake back in January after seeing them at the Monterey Bridal Expo. The top tier was red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese filling, and the bottom tier was their "Santa Cruz" special (white cake with mango mousse filling). It's really hard to pick a favorite for me, but my husband loved the Santa Cruz. We had the cake covered in butter cream and decorated with white chocolate shells (which were amazing as well).
They were able to deliver the cake to the restaurant we were having our reception at, and was perfectly set up on the restaurant's cake table waiting for us when we got there!
I would highly recommend them for their wedding cakes!
Everyone I have dealt with at Freedom Bakery was super professional, helpful, and made our wedding day that much better. Not only with an AMAZING cake, but by giving us one less thing to worry about. Nina helped answer all our questions when picking out design and size and even recommended flavors. Excellent service, definitely would recommend and utilize again. Thank you again!!
I was the maid of honor for my sister’s wedding and Freedom Bakery did her cake. My sister is pretty indecisive when it comes to food so she was unsure of what to do with her wedding cake. The team at Freedom Bakery was amazing to work with. They were responsive, patient and knowledgeable. I could tell they were always pretty busy but their attention to detail was on point. The head decorator, Nina, was great to work with. She provided feedback on any issues and made everything so easy to understand. The Raspberry and Amaretto Mousse cake was just so yummy! I’m glad they kept the top tier so we can steal a slice when their anniversary comes around. Thank you so much Freedom Bakery!
My wife and I used Freedom Bakery for our wedding and we are so glad we did! Not only were they easy to work with, communicative, AND knowledgeable but the flavors we tried at the tasting were exactly what we never knew we wanted! To top it off our cake looked as good as it tasted. We got two flavors (the mango coconut & the raspberry with amaretto mousse), not a crumb was left at the end of the night. Luckily we saved our top tier for our anniversary and opted to enjoy it the next day instead of waiting the year. Thank you Nina and the team at Freedom Bakery!
Freedom bakery has to be the best place for wedding cakes ever! My husband and I are very picky about cake and to have been able to try an assortment of flavors was just great! And it's not just the cake that was good but the staff too! Nina the decorator was wonderful with communicating with us and working with the ideas we had for our cake! With all the stresses that come with planning a wedding it was good to know that when it came to the cake , I definitely did not need to worry!
Freedom Bakery did an amazing job on our wedding cake from start to finish! Both my husband and I loved that we could pick up the 9 different cake samples and try them in the comfort of our own home. They were not only extremely responsive (usually responding in less than 24 hours) but designed the cake specifically to what we had in mind. We presented them with one photo as a guide and it literally fit our vision perfectly! Would highly recommend!!
The cake was a true showstopper at our wedding. The decorations were spectacular! The level of service and feedback we received from Paul and Nina were outstanding, even with my spouse asking for last minute changes. The taste of the cake was a whole new level of deliciousness. Our guests went back for more until there was nothing left! For our first anniversary, I’m going to order a whole new cake from them.
Thank you Freedom Bakery & Confections! You made our dream day come true with your beautiful creation!
Freedom Bakery did an amazing job for our Carmel wedding! Our vision was realized on the cake in every way. Everyone is still talking about how it looked AND how it tasted. And the price was also perfect.
Freedom Bakery made my wedding day dessert table dreams come true! We had cake, blondies, brownies, cream puffs, fruit tarts and shooters. Every single item came out beautifully and they were all delicious! The bakery was so easy to work with, and it was an all around perfect experience!
I'm so happy I went with Freedom Bakery. It was the easiest part of planning my wedding. I went in for the tasting, showed a few Pinterest pictures, and they were able to negotiate a price and style that worked for me. Everyone loves the cake it was delicious!
Freedom Bakery was wonderful!! The tasting was fun & stress free, everyone was very helpful & accommodating, and, most importantly, the cake was delicious! We didn't want anything too fancy, anything fondant, or anything too sweet. Freedom crushed it. They were on time with delivery, put on our own provided cake topper for us, and left a box so that transfer home was easy. They were reasonably priced as well, so I fully recommend them!
Our wedding cake was so good! And it looked pretty too! We are so happy we went with Paul and Freedom Bakery & Confections. It was so easy to work with Paul. We had a ton of questions and he took the time to answer them all without getting short or irritated. We highly recommend Freedom Bakery & Confections!
Freedom Bakery provided the cake for our wedding in Carmel/Monterey on 8/26/17. We were familiar with Freedom Bakery’s cakes from other family parties and weddings, so we didn’t think twice about choosing them for our wedding. Their cakes look great AND taste great, and we were very pleased with their customer service and responsiveness. We’ll definitely continue to use Freedom Bakery for our events.
We couldn’t have been happier with our wedding cake from Freedom Bakery! Working with Freedom Bakery was so easy and everyone we interacted with was kind and knowledgeable about all things wedding cake. Every cake flavor we tested was incredible and we ended up choosing the raspberry/lemon white cake and the chocolate cake with chocolate ganache. The cake was beautifully decorated and all of our guests loved it! Easily the best cake we’ve ever had. Thank you, Freedom Bakery, for helping make our wedding day a success!
Paul was very friendly and accommodating. He did such an amazing job on our wedding cake. It was everything I had pictured and definitely exceeded my expectations. He also had a really good selection of flavors. We chose mango and raspberry amaretto which our guests including ourselves loved and enjoyed!
Paul is incredible! From the moment we communicated to delivery he was so awesome. My family and I loved the cake tasting! I never knew wedding cakes can taste that good! It took us a while to even come to the conclusion of what flavor we wanted because everything was so so good! At the end we went for raspberry amaretto cake and everyone loved it! On the day of I was happy that the cake came out to look exactly how we wanted it to. Thanks again Paul!
We recently had our wedding at Carmel Valley Ranch and Freedom Bakery & Confections made our wedding cake. It was beautiful, classic and just how we envisioned it. Their customer service and attention to detail was outstanding. Loved our wedding cake!
Freedom Bakery did a great job on a chocolate naked cake for our wedding. They were able to drop off the cake at the venue for the florist to add some succulents. Even though our order was simple and small, the customer service was fantastic throughout the entire process. The cake was truly beautiful and SO delicious! We can't wait to eat the top layer on our one year anniversary!
The cake was absolutely beautiful and just what I imagined it to be. We had a beach theme and got married on the beach and Freedom Bakery created the perfect cake from my many detialed colors and designs. We got so many compliments on not only the look but the taste of our wedding cake. I would highly recommend freedom bakery for any event!
Freedom bakery did an amazing job on my wedding cake. They did exactly as I asked and delivered it to my venue.
I love our wedding cake! Everything from the planning to the execution was just perfect! They worked with my request to mimic a Monet painting on our wedding cake!
They have a variety of options for the flavors. I wish I remember the flavor that we picked. I wouldn't mind ordering it again. :D
Overall, I had a good experience working with them. Thanks for making my dream wedding cake a reality.
We had a blast tasting the cake samples, and LOVED working with the knowledgeable and professional staff, bakers and cake artists at Freedom Bakery. We are so grateful to them for helping us create a custom cake that was DELICIOUS!
I would recommend them to you, and everyone I love and care about. We had a wonderful experience working with them.
Not only was the cake beautiful but it was the best tasting cake I've ever had!! We didn't wait until our first anniversary to eat the top. We ate it immediately!!! I highly recommend Freedom!!
Not an ordinary wedding cake! I hear most people saying how they do not enjoy wedding cakes, but that's not the case with the ones from Freedom bakery. There's a variety of flavors and fillings to choose from and Paul is very knowledgeable on every aspect regarding the flavors, design, transportation to the venue, cake topper, cake stand etc...
We chose a lemon pistachio/ chocolate raspberry cake for our wedding in Santa Cruz and it was insanely delicious!! Guests were obsessed with it. On top of all, the design was so beautifully performed! Lastly, Paul is so polite, accommodating and professional. Thanks so much Paul!!
Delicious cakes. Great selection of flavors. Willing to work with you on your design.
Loved their cakes. We ordered a 2-tier cake for our wedding. Paul was great, we met with him when we did our cake tasting. We brought family members with us to help determine the best cake for our wedding. The experience was fun, and the cakes were all delicious. In the end we went with a lemon cake, and a mango cake.
Our guests loved these cakes! The cake itself was designed beautifully. We added a few flowers of our own to match our theme.
They dropped the cake off promptly for us, and there were no worries at all.
I really enjoyed the cake tasting experience with Freedom Bakery! Paul and his team were very fun to work with. They did an amazing job with my wedding cake. It looked just how I envisioned it and it tasted amazing! My guests loved the black and white cake we chose with Raspberry Preserve with Amaretto mousse filling and buttercream frosting!
My husband and I both love Paul! He provided a cake and dessert bar for our March 11 wedding at Holman Ranch. He spent over an hour with us in our consultation, letting us taste all of his yummy treats and giving us excellent and thorough advice. He is really passionate about cake and desserts and has a ton of knowledge. He is also super friendly and not at all pushy. We thought it was really cool that he asked us what flavors we liked and made up a new dessert shot incorporating the coffee flavor we both love. He also has unique options for cake filling--we went with cookies and cream and loved it! All of our guests were raving about how delicious everything was. In addition, Paul was really quick responding to any questions we had and he has a convenient online payment system. He worked really well with our caterer and her staff to keep the dessert bar replenished throughout the entire event. We highly recommend him to anyone for any event!
Had an amazing experience with Freedom Bakery! Our guests raved about our cake, it was so delicious and beautiful. Paul was a pleasure to work with and so accommodating. My husband and I are so happy we went with Freedom Bakery for our wedding cake. Highly recommend!!!
Freedom bakery was great to work with - one of the easiest and fastest decision and process in our wedding planning! I loved that they had everything online so we could view prices and options ahead of time. Scheduling was a breeze, cake tasting was, of course, fun, and we got a ton of compliments on our cake! (White cake with mango mousse filling). Just as Paul described to us when we met with him, they do a perfect balance of filling to cake to icing so nothing is too overwhelming.
Deliver and all went perfectly and there were no issues along the way. I highly recommend!
Freedom Bakery did an amazing job for our wedding at Monterey Tides Resort. They were able to get creative and share a similar vision as me and my husband. Very happy with the end result and recommend them to anyone looking for a fantastic cake in the Monterey area for any occasion.
Paul and his team were amazing to work with. When no other Bakery would attempt our design he took on the challenge and created our dream cake. Him and Nina did it all for us they even made sure we got a custom topper that we were able to keep! The design was exactly what we wanted and the cake was absolutely DELICIOUS everyone loved it including my husband and I.
We absolutely loved our wedding cake it was not only beautiful but also delicious. We will be ordering from them in the future.
Since the very beginning Paul and his staff at Freedom Bakery were professional and easy to work with. My husband and I were from out of town but that never made it a problem. Freedom Bakery carried out our wedding cake vision perfectly! Our cake was exactly what we imagined it to be, and it was very tasty! We got many compliments on how beautiful and delicious it was.
Freedom Bakery was the best! They were easy to work with, competitively priced and by far the best cake we tried in Santa Cruz. Our guests were raving about our cake. I would definitely recommend Freedom Bakery.
Paul and his team at Freedom Bakery are amazing! They made our cutting cake and wonderful dessert bar for our wedding at the Monterey Plaza hotel this summer. Everything was delicious and so beautiful. I was worried about there being too much, but my guests devoured it all! Thank you!!
We LOVED our cake from FB&C!! With all of the other stressful details that come with planning a wedding, this is one area that I did not have to worry about. Once we made our arrangements with this company, I never had to look back. Paul was very easy to get in touch with and make an appointment for tastings.
We chose the Mango Mousse filling for our cake. We purposely did not reveal the flavor of our cake out cake until after it was consumed by our guests. We did this because many people already have predetermined whether they like mango or not. Many of our guests who admitted that they do not like mango, stated that the cake was really good!
Thank you FB&C for making this part of my wedding stress-free and delicious!!
Paul and his crew were fantastic! We got exactly what he had promised with our wedding cake. It came on time and without issue. We would highly recommend Paul and Freedom Bakery to anyone in the area.
Freedom bakery does excellent work with wedding cakes and makes the deliveries when promised. We were satisfied with the help to design the cake and the taste of the cake.
We were really happy with the cake Freedom Bakery and Confections made for us. Paul, Anna, and staff responded promptly to our emails as we worked out the details of our cake. Everyone was professional and friendly. In choosing the cake flavors, the tasting took place in a separate room with a relaxed and unhurried atmosphere. Anna and Paul were very helpful with the design of our cake. MOST IMPORTANTLY the cake was DELICIOUS and FABULOUS! A large number of guests were exclaiming over how delicious and good the cake was.
The whole experience was truly fun, stress free, and easy.
Both Anna and Paul do amazing cakes. We could not have been happier with them as our choice. We looked at, and tasted at several places, and found them almost at last minute. It was without a doubt the best.
Freedom Bakery did an OUTSTANDING job on our wedding cake. Not only was it beautiful, it was the most delicious wedding cake we've ever tasted. As the bride, I didn't have a chance to have a piece the night of the wedding. After hearing from our guests how tasty it was, my husband and I sat down the next day and devoured a giant slice. I miss that cake, and cannot recommend Freedom Bakery highly enough (customer service was outstanding, as well). Cannot wait to use them for my next wedding (just kidding! But I'd use them for another party in a heartbeat).
Freedom Bakery did our wedding cake, an ice cream groom's cake, and a beautiful dessert bar at Gardener Ranch. Paul was so easy to work with. He really listened to what we wanted, which was not yet that specific, and offered great suggestions to make our ideas into exactly what we wanted and within budget. Everything turned out beautifully (and delicious) and we received many compliments from our guests. I even managed to eat two pieces of our wedding cake, and my husband LOVED his special groom's cake! We could not have been happier with Freedom Bakery and would recommend them hands down.