Lovely Cakes

ding!! Renata understood our vision and vibe and created something unique, elegant and fun !! Thank you for being the perfect fit for us and for being so amazing to work with !! we cannot wait to order future anniversary cakes to recreate our magical wedding day for years to come!!

a huge hit!) and everyone raved about the dessert bar as well. We will definitely recommend to anyone looking for a unique, special wedding cake.

or our cake and cupcake tower, and the final product was perfect. Delicious and beautiful, exactly what you want in a wedding cake. Guest loved the cupcakes and we got to take home the whole 6-inch cake at the top of the tower. :) Thanks Lovely Cakes!

e to our guests, and it was certainly loved by all! I highly recommend Lovely Cakes to achieve your dream wedding cake. Renata will make it happen!

vanilla cake with salted caramel and Nutella filling and vanilla buttercream outside. We were blown away at our tasting and our guests still talk about how incredible the cake was. We can't wait to work with Renata in the future. She is a wonderful person and a very gifted baker.

amel, but she brought it out for us to taste anyway. It ended up being our favorite and chose it as one of our flavors. The presentation of the cake and cupcakes were beautiful and our guests loved them! I would highly recommend Renata for any occasion. Our guests are still raving about the salted caramel, nutella, and cannoli frosting with vanilla cupcakes!

working with Renata was such a joy! She is really a wonderful person! I visited her shop and loved her ideas, then I was bowled over by how good it tasted. I knew I had to get my cake from her. It wasn't until I went home and googled her to brag to friends that I learned she won Cake Wars -- in the only episode where the judges had no criticisms of the cakes taste! Even Lebron James loves her cakes. But she is such a warm, humble person that she told me none of that and let her cake speak for itself. Getting my cake from her was one of the very best decisions I made for my wedding!

uldn’t have dreamed of a more perfect cake. We will be back! Everyone else- if you haven’t tried a cake from Lovely Cakes, order now! You won’t be disappointed. The communication with the florist and delivery was seamless. Oh, and our cake was alternating layers of vanilla cake with strawberry filling, and vanilla cake with both Nutella and salted caramel filling. YUM!!

e been the first wedding that guest actually finished the cake and wanted seconds and thirds. I highly suggest that everyone use Lovely Cakes for their wedding, you will be blown away!

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ll talk about how delicious it was. I would absolutely recommend Lovely Cakes. Great service, so professional and we ended up with the perfect wedding cake.

nd create an amazing combination. Our cake was delicious perfection!

ked out what we wanted and she handled everything else. I wish everyone was as competient and talented as she was. Thank you, Renata. Well done.

uldn't stop talking about it. Renata was a pleasure to work with and guided us in the direction that fit with the overall feel and style of our wedding. We knew we wanted a "naked cake" and the end result was a beautiful vanilla cake with salted caramel buttercream frosting. Truly perfection for an early fall wedding! We'll certainly be using Renata again for special occasions down the line.

future cakes and recommend her to family and friends.

Renata definitely knows how real buttercream should taste. All my guests loved it. I couldn't have been more pleased with the results.

talked about items at our wedding! We had a unique Halloween wedding so we had asked for a Tim Burton tilted cake and it just came out perfect! Not to mention the cake is DELICIOUS!!! Lovely cakes was so welcoming I recommend her 100% any bride looking for a wedding cake you won't be disappointed!

alted caramel cake, it was love at first "bite"! It was the best I have tasted. I Would highly recommend Renata for any occasion :) Fabulous work for my July wedding!

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e a tasting - we had our minds made up after the first bite! The flavor options are both classic and creative, and so delicious. One of our layers was a red velvet, but not the garish red you're used to seeing - Renata makes her red velvet the real way, using natural coloring. Typically I'm not a huge fan of cake because of the thick fondant, but this fondant was so thin and delicate while still keeping the shape of a beautiful cake. What more could you want!

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iful as well as tasty. She also created a special birthday cake for my husband who is an avid runner, hiker and amateur tennis player. She was able to incorporate all these hobbies plus our newborn baby into a cake which looked like a piece of art. Guests couldn't believe it was an actual cake. We kept the cake in tact for a couple days then our 7 yr old couldn't resist any longer and dove into the cake mouth and all. Thank you Renata!

ake. Our tiered cake with rough buttercream was gorgeous and delicious on its own, and Renata did a beautiful job placing fresh flowers and our custom topper to make it feel truly personal. Though she probably doesn't need our endorsement since winning "Cake Wars" (!!), we would enthusiastically recommend Renata and Lovely Cakes to anyone!

offered to give recommendations for other vendors in the area, and since I wasn't local, this proved to be very helpful! Highly recommended.

oks/ adding our own touches, and Renata executed the cake absolutely beautifully. The cake was also delicious and unique. I have nothing but great things to say about Renata and her work and absolutely, completely recommend her to anyone.

for the wonderful eatable art that was our cake!

sent Renata a image of Big Tex and she sent me 3 different designs at different price points so I could choose something that I liked as well as something that could work with our budget. The grooms cake was a surprise for my husband who loved it. The cakes were so good we took leftovers with us on our honeymoon. We highly recommend Lovely Cakes!

ious part of the day the easiest! I would absolutely use her again for future parties. Thank you Renata!

traditional Brazilian fillings. After our tasting-the only wedding cake tasting we had- we knew right away our cake was going to be amazing and didn't have to look further. I never expected a wedding cake could be that moist and delicious. We decided to go with white brigadeiro and walnuts and it was to DIE FOR!!! Renata is lovely, very responsive, extremely detail oriented, and very talented! I could not thank you enough for all the love you have put towards our cake! The day after the wedding, all our guests were talking about was how they have never had a wedding cake as good as ours :)

! From the lovely presentation (so much attention to detail) and the delicious taste - we could not have been more pleased. Our guests continue to compliment us on our wedding cake & this too contributed to a perfect wedding for my husband & I along with our entire day. We would recommend Renata (owner) of Lovely cakes to any bride & groom looking for top quality from start to finish! Good luck & congrats. Robin & George - Married 10/14

l!! And tasted even better! I would highly recommend Lovely Cakes to any bride!

harder. My daughter wanted cupcakes and a topper cake with fall theme marzipan decorations. We chose 3 flavor combinations ( chocolate, white and my favorite carrot cake) which the guests raved about, especially the Salted Caramel icing. Sarah also chose the topper cake in a fourth flavor -almond. The arrangement was beautiful, 100 cupcakes were displayed on a square tiered stand with the topper cake. As Renata suggested the bride and groom sliced the topper cake on the the towered stand which gave the same effect of a tiered wedding cake People noted that the pumpkin and leaf decorations also tasted delicious. The remaining extra cupcakes were kept in boxes so the caterers could serve them easily during desert. We ordered a total of 200 cupcakes (half decorated and half undecorated) for a wedding of 140 people . It was not less expensive than ordering an entire cake. However,one benefit was that we didn't have to order desert plates and forks. My daughter loves cupcakes and the guests seemed to enjoy the novelty of them. When the event was over the bride repeated asked if the prized cake and leftover cupcakes had been retrieved from the refrigerator at the venue. Lovely cakes creations were part of what made it a perfect day.

filling. We chose cream cheese filling, which was divine. As for the look, I went with a simple but classy all white four tier design with quilting pattern and cascading natural flowers from top to bottom. Renata delivered exactly what I wanted, the cake was moist and delicious; the design was right on .

continue to talk about that cake. I had about half the wedding party from Australia and half from the US including a handful of Europeans and they all loved it. All guest were very much about the food and the cake and caterer are still being talked about five months later.

ta was a pleasure to work with, and I could not be any happier with the way that our wedding cake turned out.

thrilled with everything:) Lovely Cakes is the cake shop to go when looking for the perfect wedding cake!

at Artisan Southport, who could not say enough good things about Lovely Cakes. Wow! Was Sherry ever right!! Working with Renata was such a pleasant experience! From conceptualization to construction through to delivering the magnificent work of art to our reception venue, Renata thought of everything. No detail was too small to be overlooked and the final product was absolutely stunning and above all else tasted as decadently delicious as it looked. Our guests couldn't stop talking about how beautiful the cake was and how delicious it tasted. We saw many of them taking pictures of it before we cut it. We definitely hit a home run when we discovered Lovely Cakes and Renata Papadopoulos! She is an artist and her cakes are beautiful custom creations and works of art. Would absolutely, without reservation, recommend Lovely Cakes to anybody looking to get the absolute best! Thank you Renata for making our special day that much sweeter!

ade easier by the preparation.We decided right there on the cake.This proved to be the right and Best Choice.Our Wedding Cake was delivered in time and Delicious - and was the only desert we offered,we had a baker in our group who gave high complements to the choice which was btw - Lovely in Design. Thank you Renata !

ave us a cake that was not only BEAUTIFUL (and complimented the decor and theme) but was DELICIOUS! Every single person loved it! My best friend (who never even really eats cake) ate her entire piece! Thank you SO, SO much for everything! It really made our wedding day extra special! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!

e opted to add a second differently flavored cake. Communication was fast and everything was very easy. We live in New York so our face to face time after the tasting was limited, but with Renata we were able to coordinate everything after the tasting via email. The cakes were gorgeous, delicious, and exactly what we wanted.

re to give you money! Renata was very happy to take my business- she was the first person to actually give me attention! I wanted a special recipe made called Hummingbird Cake. (Google it- so yummy!) Renata was agreeable to easy recipes, and custom made these cakes. We had our tasting on my husband's birthday, and she gave us the leftover cupcakes to take home. Was very sweet! We ordered cupcakes for the wedding, and she got special cake liners, and made our cake EXACTLY how we wanted! It was SO pretty! We were so pleased. This was the most seamless transaction of the entire wedding.

to use, so Renata worked with us and allowed us to choose the three fillings we were stuck between (we opted for strawberry preserves, pineapple buttercream, and cookies and cream buttercream). And I will say, we had a lot of cake which we brought home left over from the wedding the night before. The cake remained delicious and moist for the few days after the wedding which it took us to eat it (and believe me, not a crumb was left). Moreover, the cakes are absolutely stunning. Lovely Cakes did our wedding cake and a groom's cake, which I surprised my husband with. We came up with designs during our consultation, and I can tell you, the cakes are ten times more beautiful and stunning in person than on paper. She incorporated every color from our wedding (black, white, and purple), and even stenciled on the demask pattern which was a theme throughout our wedding. More importantly though, the groom's cake was to die for. It has been two weeks since the wedding and people are still talking about it. My brother-in-law even told us to find a way to preserve it and display it (but that is silly and it was too delicious not to eat). I gave Renata a crazy idea of a golf cart (my husband works on a golf course), with our dog (who goes to work with him everyday), and other little details. Somehow, she incorporated all of these ideas and pulled it off perfectly. The club car looked like an exact replica, as well as the chocolate mold of our dog sitting on the cart (even the dimensions looked perfectly life-like). The details were perfect, down to the treads on the tires to the towel on the seat, and the hose in the bed. Overall, her cakes are absolutely beautiful and delicious. Highly recommended.

accommodating to our tastes and preferences. She offered helpful opinions and was more than patient with me and my indecisiveness. She helped me make my vision a reality and I can't stress enough how lucky we feel to have found her quaint little shop! Her cake helped to make our wedding day so special. We had a 10 piece topper and then two different flavored cupcakes. The entire display she created for us was exactly what we were hoping for- elegant but fun! Every one of our guests absolutely loved the cupcakes- I should have double the order because I never even got to try one! Someone literally stole ours off our plates... but we did get to taste the top layer of the cake which was outa this world! Sooo delish! So to sum it up- we got an amazingly beautiful and delicious wedding cake/cupcake tower for a beyond reasonable price- what more could a bride possibly ask for?? I can't recommend this cake shop enough! We will definitely be using Lovely Cakes for future events.

os she took of it. We got a ton of compliments on the cake. Delicious. Lovely Cakes was also about the same price as the other ones we tried around the state. Definitely recommend!

ayer and a chocolate hazlenut layer. Both were fantastic, moist, and totally delicious on the wedding day!! Renata doesn't use a box-mix for her cake, she does it all from scratch, which is such a huge difference from other vendors. Our guests were super thrilled with the cake. She was able to follow our design well - our cake was perfect!! We also had Renata make us sugar cookies which we then put in a bag for guests as their "thank you." She made us sailboats, sperry top-siders, anchors, and lighthouses for our nautical themed wedding. They were delicious and super-cute. What else can I say? Renata was the perfect vendor to work with. Thanks!!!

e were going for while staying within our target budget. We got to taste 2 mini-cakes baked especially for us to take home. Yum! We went with the chocolate and vanilla tuxedo cake with the chocolate hazelnut filling. Renata was happily available for us to talk to and make any changes throughout the entire wedding planning process. The cake was delivered on time and looked so beautiful with our decor. I highly recommend Lovely Cakes. You will not be disappointed!

bites of cake to try, she actually made 2 mini-cakes, complete with decoration and flavor choices, so that we would know exactly what it would taste like on the day of the wedding. The cake was delicious, and the design was simple, elegant, and beautiful. Renata does wonderful work and I look forward to using her services again the next time I need a special cake!