About this vendor
Founded in 2005 by Paris-born owner Elfie Weiss, Hotcakes Bakes has been providing its West Side patrons with artisan desserts that combine French techniques with American tastes and sensibilities. After Hotcakes Bakes became the very first Cupcake Wars champions in 2009 and being featured in InStyle Weddings and Bridal Magazine, customers from all over Southern California have come to know them for beautiful cakes, cupcakes, and desserts that satisfy any and every sweet tooth. Countless weddings, birthdays, and life milestones later, Hotcakes Bakes is still an establishment customers come to for exceptional taste and artistic flair.
Details
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
- Other Desserts
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
Reviews
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3.9
out of 5.010 reviews
Hotcakes supplied us with a beautiful geod-inspired wedding cake for our big day. They were very communicative, affordable, and overall easy to work with. We personally loved their...
FunFetti flavor, but they have a wide range that includes vegan flavors as well. We highly recommend them for any wedding in the Los Angeles area!
We ordered the carrot cake for cutting, and it looked beautiful on the dessert table! Aaaand, it was super yummy and moist. Can't wait to eat it again on our one year anniversary...
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I had a great experience, as always, with HotCakes. We originally ordered cupcakes from here for our engagement party and instantly fell in love! They typically use cream cheese ba...
sed frostings on all of their cupcakes and cakes, which is my favorite. We ordered a small 6" cake with black & white stripes to match our colors. Then we ordered 100 of their strawberry champagne cupcakes for our guests. Our venue burned down 4 weeks prior to our wedding date, and everything had to be moved from Mid-City to Silver Lake! When we told them what had happened, they promptly told us not to worry and said our cupcakes and cake would be there at no additional charge. If I didn't already love this place before, they sealed the deal with their amazing customer service and delicious cupcakes/cake. Our guests were RAVING about how delicious they were!
I ordered a cake from here that was just as expensive as other high end bakeries in the area and an entire party of 50 people told me it tasted weird and that I should take it back...
. I was instructed that it was French buttercream and not American buttercream w crisco. I don't use crisco in my buttercream but I do use some sugar and a pinch of salt. This had nothing but butter in it. It was disgusting. My kids usually beg to eat cake after a party and no one touched half of this massive cake bc it was so gross. Then I was told I should've put cream cheese frosting on my child's chocolate cake. Um, that's even more disgusting as it belongs on carrot cake. I ordered a cake from Sweet Lady Jane the week before and it was awesome...if you need a rec.
My hubby and I had one place in mind for our wedding cake HOTCAKES!! lol. we have been coming here for a few years now I get my cupcakes and some friends cakes here they are awesom...
e!! The wedding consultant was awesome she was so friendly and very helpful in helping me design my cake. Our guests loved the cake and the cupcakes were AMAZEBALLS!!! Nothing but praise for the chocolate banana swirl cake omg! Thanks for helping our guests love the cake as much as we did everything was perfect and went very smoothly. thank you!
Hotcakes was pretty easy to work with, except for the fact that they lost our initial emails (due to a server issue on their end). They have great cake flavors and good dessert opt...
ions. For our wedding, we ordered macaron towers but the macarons melted off the towers pretty quickly, which was disappointing. The cake we ordered - tres leches with fruit - was pretty good.
So... I ordered some cupcakes and a small cake to cut for my wedding. I decided to just go with some of their basic flavors, and did not do anything custom so as to make my order a...
s simple as possible. My dad went to pick up the order as I was getting ready on the day of the wedding, and as I was getting my nails done I got a call from my husband telling me the order was completely wrong. Instead of getting a dozen each of three different flavors we got 36 cupcakes that we all different flavors and looks. I was not happy. My "Man of Honor" (my best friend is a guy) promptly called the bakery and said the order had been messed up and we needed the correct order, and that we'd be happy to even give this order back if needed. At which time they said my order didn't exist, and rudely hung up on my friend. We double checked the number, saw we called the right placed, and called back immediately. We spoke with a different person who re-checked and saw that yes, we did in fact get the wrong order, and that it was the baker's fault, who had apparently just seen a few boxes of cupcakes and handed them off to my dad without checking. They found our actual order, jumped in their car and immediately delivered them to us free of charge and even let us keep the other ones. I was so happy that they did that for us, and it absolutely helped redeem the bad experience I had thus far. Later on that night though, the one bad thing that happened was that the frosting on the cupcakes melted very easily and looked lopsided by the time everyone got to eat. Everything was still tasty, but it definitely did not make for great pictures of our cake and cupcakes. Hopefully they change the recipe or something to withstand a bit more heat (and this was in the evening when it was maybe 60 degrees outside and the sun was down).
This has always been one of my favorite places to get cup cakes. When I found out they did cakes I knew it was the place that I wanted to do my wedding cake. I was going to have ab...
out 200 people attending my wedding so I planned on having a 4 tier cake. When I looked at their menu/brochure I got extremely excited to see that they showed the prices of each layer of the cake according to size. When I calculated the price of the sizes I wanted it seemed very reasonable. The cost for 4 tiers was going to be approximately $400 according to their menu and their website. I was planning on having a plain cake (no designs) except on two layers I wanted some dots. Also, along the bottom of the cake I wanted ribbon, which I supplied myself. After the consultation I got an extimate for more than double what the cost showed on their menu and website. When I asked why there was a difference in cost they replied "becasue it's a wedding cake and thats how the owner prices wedding cakes." So, what I didn't understand is why they would have their prices displayed if it wasn't accurate for all the cakes they supply. My parents had already put a non-refundable deposit on the cake so I wasn't going to cancel but I was a bit upset with their response. When they delivered the cake the day of the wedding they assembled the cake and were about to leave when my wedding planner noticed that the way they put it together was not only tilted but was on the verge of falling apart. She called the people that dropped off the cake back and explained what was going on their frist reaction was that they had done their job already. When she showed them the cake they finally saw that the it was on the verge of falling apart. They reluctantly fixed it and left. When I arrived to my wedding reception and saw the cake it was not perfect. There were dents in the cake which made it look very unprofessional. All in all the cake was very tasty! But, with all the issues I had with the company I would not recomend them to anyone for a wedding cake.
Their cake was absolutely amazing! Everyone loved it - moist. After tasting cake at several places - there was no need to taste anymore once we stopped here. We continue to stop...
by and get cupcakes to this day!
The cake was not exactly like the picture I showed them but it was really close and it tasted AMAZING. I would go in every couple of weeks to make payments and the staff was always...
so nice and profressional. Great place and great cake I highly recommend.
Contact
4119 S Centinela Ave., Los Angeles, CA | Greater Los Angeles Area