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King's Hawaiian Bakery, based in Torrance California, offers various flavors and styles of wedding cakes. We are most popular for our light and fluffy chiffon cakes, especially the delicious 3 -layer Paradise Cake (passion, guava, lime). Guests also love our Lilikoi Crunch and Chocolate Dobash flavors!
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Our three tiered rainbow cake with fresh strawberries from King's Hawaiian was one of the highlights / talk amongst our wedding guests. The bright, tropical florals chosen were also perfection and really made this delicious and light cake sing. The price was reasonable given other quotes we were given and the attention to detail and communicativeness of the staff was exceptional. 10/10 recommend!
We probably went to 3 cake places before landing on King's Hawaiian. Other places had dry cake for WAY too much money. As soon as we went to King's they gave us a fresh serving of cake and we honestly couldn't make a decision on which one we loved more.
When it came down to it, they were the cheapest and tastiest option out of every place we went to (including the famous Hansen's). Every guest complimented the cake and most people had multiple slices. If anything, we should have bought more and let people take it home. We'll be headed here for our one year anniversary to grab some more cake to celebrate next year.
I heard so many stories of wasted cake, but that’s not the case with King’s Hawaiian. I ran out of cake! I ordered a 2 tiered wedding cake, sheet cake (hello budget friendly option), and mini desserts for my dessert bar here. All devoured!! From the cake tasting to the delivery, all super professional. The paradise cake never disappoints. Drooling just thinking about it.
We were so lucky to stumble upon this bakery. We got married at the Redondo Beach Historic Library and a wedding cake came with our wedding package from King's Hawaiian Bakery. To be honest I only knew about the King Hawaiian rolls so I was a little skeptical but I was so pleasantly surprised by the whole experience. We had our tasting and each flavor we tried was seriously amazing - I figured when they made a larger cake there was no way it would be as good but I was 100% wrong. We ended up going with a white butter sponge cake with fresh strawberry filling and a chocolate chiffon cake with the wonder filling. We decided to upgrade what came standard with our venue and added a fourth tier to the cake and chose a design we liked. We bought some ribbon and brought it to the bakery and they were able to add that to the cake design. We also ended up renting one of their gold cake stands for only $40 and it really made the cake gorgeous and added so much elegance to it. When we had our first bite of cake at the wedding I was so surprised because it was just as good as the cake we tried at our tasting. The cake was seriously one of the highlights of the wedding. I cannot tell you how many people told me they went back for seconds, thirds, etc. because it was so good. We saved the top of our cake to eat on our one year anniversary but every night my husband asks if we can cut into it early :) On top of the cake being so delicious and exactly what I envisioned, it was a joy to work with Natalie and the team at King Hawaiian. They are so professional, kind and responsive. Highly recommend.
Professional with the best customer service! We had the paradise cake for our wedding. You have my business for all occasions thank you Giovana!!!
We got our wedding cake from King's Hawaiian and was absolutely thrilled with the cake! The cake tasting process was great and we booked our cake right away (we tasted cake from another bakery of this town's namesake but liked the taste and consistency of King's Hawaiian SO MUCH BETTER). We showed a picture of a cake design that we saw online and they were able to replicate it for our cake. Initially we thought we would order a white cake, but when they shows us all the colors that the outside of the cake could be - we went with another color and loved it! For our cakes, we went with the chocolate dobash cake, paradise cake, and lilikoi. Be warned though - many of our guests liked the cake so much they treated themselves to second servings! On the day-of, our cake was beautiful, light and fluffy, and delicious - exactly as expected from tasting day. I should also mention that the cost of this cake was a lot LESS than other bakeries in the area! One of the best decisions we made for our wedding!
After I got engaged there was one thing I knew for certain: that our wedding cake was going to be the paradise cake from King's Hawaiian. I dreadfully and patiently waited until 2 months before the wedding for our cake tasting and it was exactly what I hoped for. Our cake coordinator was Natalie and she was so sweet and responsive to everything. We had an initial hiccup with the delivery time and she was able to promise that even with a 15 minute delivery window they would be able to get the cake to the venue (and they did!). I initially wanted a rustic three tiered cake with undefined horizontal lines which is the current trend, but Natalie showed us a few designs on her phone and we actually changed our minds and went with a totally different design for the cake. I am so happy we did since my original idea had been done by a million other brides. The paradise cake definitely fit our asian palette more as it is not as dense and heavy as traditional buttercream cakes. It has a light flavor with non dairy whip cream and strawberries between the layer that gave it an extra blast of fruitiness. Our guests absolutely loved it! The cherry on top is that their cakes are not outrageously priced. We got our three tiered cake plus an extra quarter sheet for under $700 including delivery fee. I was so busy on our wedding day that I didn't eat much of it, but my husband was able to pick up a slice for me when he went back to return the cake stand the next day. Happy wife makes a happy life!
Great flavors, beautiful design and easy delivery.
I wanted a Hawaiian and tropical themed wedding so who better to make our cake than King's Hawaiian! From the tasting to the final product, they provided excellent customer service, delicious cake, and the final product was so beautiful! I wish I'd eaten more on the big day! Highly recommend.
Our venue contracts exclusively with King's Hawaiian for their cakes, so we did not have a choice or do any comparison shopping.
However, we were very happy with the cake selection, design, taste, and quality at King's Hawaiian. They had unique flavors (if one is so inclined to stray from the chocolate / vanilla path) and every single flavor we tried was amazing.
Ultimately we chose a flavor we hadn't originally considered that staff insisted we try. They know their stuff. They also gave good advise on what flavors should be stacked on top of one another so that the cake would not loose structural integrity. They also let us know potential issues with certain design elements (e.g. dark on light frosting designs may bleed) so that we were able to make fully informed decisions.
Cake was delivered on time, intact, and it looked how we expected. And it tasted INCREDIBLE. Om nom nom.
Best cake ever! Our venue, La Canada Flintridge Country Club, recommended we use King's Hawaiian Bakery for our wedding cake. I am familiar with the bakery, but never thought that they would deliver all the way to La Canada Flintridge and for less of a fee than bakeries that are closer to the venue! They are so laid back there and the whole experience was stress free. We had to change our tasting time last minute, but they accommodated us with several other options and fit us in. After tasting their cake, you can't choose any other bakery. Definitely go with the chocolate chiffon cake with mocha buttercream, guests were in love!
Kings Hawaiian did an AMAZING job on our wedding cake. They were very flexible with different changes that took place with planning. They were always easy to get a hold of especially since I live in San Diego, they made communication very easy!!! The cake was not only beautiful on our special day it tasted better then it looked!! We had three different flavors Dobash, Paradise, and Peach Buvarian. Each of our wedding guest ate atleast 2 slices each because it was so good!! Would definitely recommend Kings Hawaiian for a wedding!! Not only are their prices affordable, the cake looked beautiful, and tasted amazing!
I loved my wedding day cake from King's Hawaiian. Especially the chocolate chiffon cake with chocolate dobash (pudding) filling. This works well for me since I don't like icing. The chiffon cakes are so light and airy; I think I could've eaten 3 slices on my wedding day. I think my husband and I will order a mini cake for each anniversary since we enjoyed our cake so much!
We decided on King's Hawaiian for our wedding cake because we had heard they are reasonably priced and we did not want an overly sweet cake. When we scheduled the tasting, we had a difficult time choosing between the orange chiffon cake and the paradise cake because they were both delicious! The other two we tried (yellow cake and chocolate chiffon) were okay. In the end, we decided on the paradise cake and added fresh strawberries. Delivery for the cake was around 25% of the cost, but that was worth it because I wouldn't even want to try deliver a 3-tier cake on a Saturday afternoon in So Cal traffic! The cake arrived on time and looked beautiful. My husband's family is from the midwest and his Mom loved the different flavors the paradise cake provided. Next time they come to visit, we're going to take them to the bakery so she can pick up another slice of paradise cake.
King's Hawaiian Bakery was able to schedule a wedding cake tasting only a week in advance; it is a very bustling bakery and restaurant (means the food and cake are good!) - we were seated in a more private corner and presented with our four choices of cake (their most popular flavors). We went with the guava chiffon cake with fresh strawberries and cream - none of the flavors were overly sweet at all (we wanted to avoid the sugary-sweet “normal” cakes, we had been to two cake tastings already where we could barely finish more than two bites because of the sweetness) and with a subtle guava flavor in the fluffy cake and delicious taste of cream with strawberries. These didn’t leave you feeling heavy and the guava has a cute pink cake color that worked well with our garden wedding. We simply sent over a Pinterest photo of our cake icing design, we wanted a very simple, uneven icing all around the cake layers and they were able to do this easily and perfectly, very classy. It was delicious and was delivered on time with no hassle. Perfect.
we use them for our wedding, when we went to our tasking we ended up loving there paradise cake which is there top seller, but when we tasted the cake on our wedding day it was not the same it didn't taste the same and it was very dry, it was very disappointed
I had the Paradise Delight sheet cake ordered to distribute among our guests and it tasted delicious. It was a little more than I had intended to spend but it was worth every penny since it was the best wedding cake I had tasted by far.
The wedding cake of my dreams!! I've always loved the paradise cake from King's Hawaiian and thankfully they make beautiful wedding cakes!! I had them add fresh strawberries in between the layers, so this cake was even more delicious and moist. They created a two-tier cake and a sheet cake and used their unique white non-dairy frosting to decorate it. They put Swiss dots on one layer and a swirl/paisley design on the other layer for free. It was beautiful. It was also delicious and all of my guests loved it. My husband and I enjoyed the leftover pieces too. The cost of this beautiful, moist, sweet cake was very low considering the quality. They delivered it from Torrance to Newport Beach for a reasonable fee. I would definitely recommend King's Hawaiian for wedding cakes and for any other occasion!!
We ordered Apricot and they gave us Ivory and told us it faded 3 shades overnight. The decorator argued with us and told us they cannot guarantee colors and it says so in the contract. We ordered one of their colors so we would get what we wanted. She was so rude and obviously completely lazy. Luckily we ordered the cake the cake for pickup the day before the wedding. After speaking to the manager, he agreed to re-frost it and deliver it to our venue between 1 and 3. It showed up at 4:30 as our guests were arriving and was pink, not apricot. thank god we did not let them decorate it, who knows what we would have gotten.
We ordered the paradise cake with extra guava and passion fruit glaze. The cake was delicious, and went perfectly with our Hawaiian BBQ themed menu. We picked a design from their book and it came out fine, and the simple design was free of charge (you can get some more complicated ones for extra fees)I'd recommend picking something that isn't such a precise design, as design doesn't seem to be their forte at this place. Simple and uncomplicated is ideal!
Pricing was AMAZING. The delivery fee can be a bit steep (It was about 20 percent of the price of the cake), but the price, even with delivery charge, was well worth it.
So why the 4 star instead of 5 stars? Organization is a bit off at this place, as there seems to be "too many cooks in the kitchen" when it comes to their wedding cakes. This resulted in a small mix-up in the colors of my wedding cake. It still came out fine and nobody knew except for me and my planner. I was fine with it, but I know some brides may not be so I figured it was worth mentioning. For the record, you aren't assigned a single consultant, whoever happens to answer the phone on any given day is whoever is helping you with your order.
We did a three layer cake (with an extra sheet) and by the end of the night it was all gone! (My husband and I only had A BITE.) A lot of people suggested that we get less than the amount of guests coming-- but we actually did 50 servings more than our guest count--- and we were thankful! The cake was very light and delicious! Each tier was a different flavor so I'm guessing some went for second or thirds even. We didn't save the top tier so we'll have to go back for our one year.
Also, I really liked the decorations. It was simple and elegant.
I titled this "Yum x 5" because we literally tasted 5 cakes before deciding on ordering two for our reception. King's Hawaiian offers FREE Tastings (up to 4 types. each additional variety is $1 each). They have plenty of designs to choose from or you can provide them with your own cake design. They will let you know right away if there are any concerns (they do not do fondant). This is what we did. I brought in a colored photo of the 3 tiered round cake I wanted. The finished product was perfect. We ordered a chocolate dobash tiered cake, and then an additional Paradise Rainbow sheet cake with the gel filling because they cannot add the gel to tiered cakes. The prices are among the cheapest you will encounter when pricing out wedding cakes. We ordered enough for 230 guests. I think our total was around $500. Delivery charges vary. It cost us ~$80 to have our cakes delivered to Pasadena, but the total amount spent was still way below what the reception venue and several other bakeries we had contacted would have charged.
Hi All! My now husband and I chose King's Hawaiian after doing a couple tastings elsewhere. We ended up LOVING them during and after the tasting for the following reasons:
* taste. UGH OH SO GOOD* detail oriented consultation. LOVE
* cost. Sorry people but we didn't have a thousand bucks for our cake LOL. Thank goodness for King's!
* delivery. Even with delivery it was still reasonable.
* flavors. All the flavors we tried were DELISH!
We had guava cake with fresh strawberries, chocolate chiffon with dobosh, and butter sponge cake with hazelnut. I only had a bite of the guava cake with fresh strawberries at the wedding since it was a crazy day but thankfully I had a ton at the tasting (with their hawaiian coffee of course) and also all my guests RAVED about it!!!
Only reason I'm not giving them 5 stars is because the bow they put on the cake (ribbon they used) was orange rather than gold and I felt like it totally threw off the cake. Our colors were blush, ivory, and gold so the orange looked totally out of place.
Other than that we loved everything about them. The design came out great. I provided some rows of bling I wanted added to the tiers and a brooch for the center of the bow which they did end up doing for me at no additional charge.
I ordered a couple small cakes for the dessert bar too which were wonderful and well priced.
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Unique guava, passion fruit and pineapple rainbow cake from heaven - moist and delicious. Very reasonably priced. We actually had this cake at our rehearsal dinner and it was perfect. (went with homemade cupcakes for the wedding.)
King's Hawaiian Bakery is my favorite store for our birthday cakes, so I always wanted to have them for my wedding cake. The wedding cake was fabulous and it was so tasty! The service, quality and cost were pretty good to so I was really happy with this vendor. I totally recommend them.
I'm rating King's Hawaiian for their cake not their service because the staff is unprofessional since it seems like it's being ran by a whole bunch of teenagers. The service obviously was not the seller, but the cake definitely was!!! I know the overall rating on this place is low, but the cake was absolutely delicious!!!
We got the three-tier paradise delight round cake and it was absolutely phenomenal!!! The paradise delight is a paradise chiffon cake (guava, passion fruit and lime) with whipped cream, fresh strawberry and peach filling, topped with guava, lime, passion fruit glaze, with a fruit border of sliced peaches, fresh strawberry and kiwi.
The cake looked exactly like the picture that I provided for their cake artist Eli and she did a great job accomplishing that!
Overall, the service not so great, but the cake was absolutely amazingly delicious!!! If you are looking for a delicious cake, King's Hawaiian is worth every penny.
Cake was not only beautiful but absolutely delicious. Highly recommend the paradise hawaiian cake and the chocolate dobash. It was a big hit with our guests, they loved the flavors! Leading up to the wedding, the customer service was great as well. Our cake tasting and meeting with the cake specialist at King's Hawaiian was a lot of fun, and we really enjoyed the whole process. Also, cakes were very reasonably priced and a great value too.
They have excellent cake :)
We didn't end up using this bakery for our wedding because a different bakery ended up being included in our package. However, we did a tasting here, and I think they would have been a great choice for a wedding cake too. The cake was so good, and they had some pretty designs.
We got the paradise cake and chocolate dobash cake. so delicious!
Their cakes are delicious! Everyone loved the cake and they are reasonable priced. Good value and quality
King's Hawaiian Bakery has the BEST cakes!! They are super affordable and they serve a good size portion during the cake tasting (always a bonus). Unlike other cake vendors we met with, the customer service is friendly and professional. Our wedding cake was beautiful and everyone loved our flavors. I have already recommended King's Hawaiian to many of my friends and will continue to do so.
If you have never experienced a King's Hawaiian cake I suggest you check them out! They are amazing and good for any occassion.
We got our 3 tier cake from King's Hawaiian and it was delicious! We ordered the Red Velet cake and got a lot of compliments on it. They delivery was on time and my cake look wonderful!
We had a 3 tier, chocolate dobash cake with the traditional chocolate pudding frosting and chocolate crumbles, decorated with blue sugar orchids. The pudding frosting definitely makes it hard to stack because it's so jiggly but they made it work! We also had a sheet and a half in the kitchen to help supplement the smaller tiered cake. It was vanilla sponge cake with
fresh strawberries. Very light and not too sweet. Everyone loved the cakes!
We have had King's Hawaiian Paradise, Chocolate Dobash, and Vanilla Chiffon with custard filling -- really good! I had friends who had used this vendor before and they recommend to have the hawaiian paradise cake on a sheet cake (so you get the glaze) so that's we we did. But we also ordered a tiered cake with all the flavors in there as well. It is very reasonably priced and I feel that there is less of a "wedding premium" charge that you may find at other bakeries that specialize in wedding cakes.
The had a variety of designs, the cake tasting was really easy and you get huge portions to try the cake. It was very easy to set things up and they are organized in how they handle your order.
This is the best wedding cake. We got their paradise cake and everyone loved it. I don't usually like wedding cake, but this was the best. They make beautiful cakes
King's Hawaiian really listened. I told them I was on a tight budget but wanted a beautiful cake. They went above & beyond!
The cakes were very good; not too sweet. Most importantly the price was very reasonable and they were able to deliver (our reception site was about 40 miles away).
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2808 W. Sepulveda Blvd, Torrance, CA
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